Other than having gobs of money, being a celebrity can't be easy. Sometimes, people might be out to get you, or you might just want to vanish and stay gone. We don't know why, but these celebrities disappeared and are still missing today.
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00:00Other than having gobs of money, being a celebrity can't be easy. Sometimes,
00:04people might be out to get you, or you might just want to vanish and stay gone.
00:08We don't know why, but these celebrities disappeared and are still missing today.
00:13At the time he went missing, Hale Boggs was one of the most famous politicians in America.
00:17A Democrat from New Orleans, Boggs had sat on the Warren Commission investigating JFK's
00:22assassination before becoming House Majority Leader during the Nixon years. Even though he
00:27looks black and white here, he had a personality that you could call colorful.
00:31He verbally attacked J. Edgar Hoover in Congress, he was thought to be an alcoholic,
00:35and he became famous for doubting the lone gunman theory of the JFK shooting.
00:40So yeah, Hale Boggs? Kind of a big deal in 1972. Hence the nationwide shock when he disappeared.
00:47On October 16th that year, Boggs was in Alaska helping a fellow congressman's re-election bid.
00:52The two got on a light aircraft heading for remote Juneau. According to Medium,
00:56they were never seen again. The weather was terrible that day. As soon as Boggs failed
01:01to show in Juneau, everyone guessed what had probably happened. What was then the biggest
01:06search operation in U.S. history was launched, with 90 planes searching 325,000 square miles
01:12of Alaska. But no trace of the missing aircraft or its occupants was ever found.
01:18To this day, there are some out there who think Boggs was killed for his work
01:21investigating the JFK assassination. It's not like there could be any other
01:26explanation for a small airplane vanishing over water in bad weather, right?
01:30Man, it's a mystery! It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma!"
01:36Were he anybody else, Michael Rockefeller's disappearance in 1961 would not have been
01:40big news. But he wasn't anybody else. He was Michael freaking Rockefeller,
01:45son of the famous Nelson Rockefeller. It may have only been because of his name,
01:49but when Michael Rockefeller vanished off the coast of what was then Netherlands,
01:53New Guinea, the world sat up and paid attention.
01:56The whole story is more strange and twisted than you can imagine. After a privileged upbringing,
02:01Michael decided to take a trip way out into the Pacific to both collect primitive art and maybe
02:06find himself. He wound up boating around New Guinea, the island today split between Indonesia
02:11and Papua New Guinea, and even made some friends among the local tribes. At least, he thought he
02:17did. On November 19, 1961, Michael's boat overturned near the Asmat region of the island.
02:23The boy swam to shore to look for help, and that's it. Nobody ever saw him again. While
02:28it's widely assumed he drowned, at least some members of local tribes have told stories
02:33indicating he was killed on reaching shore. If you don't know the name Daniel Lynn Lagerlof,
02:39that's because you didn't spend the formative years of your life living in the land of gritty,
02:42Swedish noir fiction. A writer and director, Lagerlof was the mind behind multiple Swedish
02:47classics. In 2011, Lagerlof was scouting locations for an upcoming thriller project
02:53in southern Sweden, inside a nature reserve known as Sjöpanen. A wild and remote island
02:58just off the mainland, Sjöpanen is bleak, windswept, and not the sort of place you'd
03:03expect to easily get lost, all of which is why Lagerlof's fate is so puzzling.
03:08According to Sweden's news website Local, Lagerlof split off from his friends to investigate
03:12the island alone. He was never seen again. Sjöpanen is surrounded by water, so it's
03:18entirely possible the director slipped and fell in and simply vanished beneath the waves.
03:22He's presumed dead, but no body has been found, and no one can say for certain what happened.
03:27Officially, he remains missing.
03:29In a certain place at a certain point in time, Zahir Rehan's name was known to millions.
03:34He shot to international fame in 1971 with his 20-minute documentary Stop Genocide.
03:40Depicting the plight of Bangladeshi refugees fleeing the country's liberation war with
03:44Pakistan, it shone a spotlight on those suffering under a military regime that
03:49may have killed up to three million people. It also shone a spotlight on Rehan himself.
03:54In January 1972, barely a month after the war had ended with Bangladesh declaring independence,
04:00Rehan went missing. It's thought he was abducted by Pakistani security forces.
04:05After that? Well, you can probably guess. The tragic part is that Rehan was only in
04:10a position to be kidnapped because he was looking for his missing brother.
04:13The Dhaka Tribune claims Rehan's brother was abducted off the streets of Bangladesh two days
04:18before the end of the war. When the dust of the conflict had settled, Rehan went looking for him,
04:23only to vanish himself.
04:25In another universe, Welding Keyes is one of those names you got sick of studying in
04:29American Lit class.
04:39A poet who tried to bridge the divide between Jazz Age experimentation and New Age madness,
04:44Keyes was someone who was always on the verge of making it big. Living in New York,
04:49he attended literary parties alongside people like the novelist Graham Greene.
04:54But Keyes never became famous, exactly. The sad part was, he disappeared too soon for that.
05:00Keyes spent decades failing to break into the literary scene, and by 1955,
05:05he was gloomily talking about vanishing off to Mexico and never returning. In July of that year,
05:10he told his friend Janet Richards, things are pretty bad, and mentioned going away.
05:15After that, he up and vanished into legend.
05:18The next day, July 19, 1955, Keyes' car was discovered by the Golden Gate Bridge.
05:24His wallet, sleeping bag, and account savings book went missing along with him.
05:28Who knows, maybe Keyes managed to forge a new life down south,
05:31away from all the pressures of literature.