Weird places people were found

Few things are as enigmatic and unnerving as a person going missing. Even more perplexing are the circumstances in which some missing individuals reappear. Join us as we investigate some of the most improbable places where people have been found.

**Steven Kubacki:** On May 5th, 1979, Steven Kubacki, a 23-year-old man, woke up on a grassy knoll in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Dressed in a marathon participant t-shirt, he discovered a backpack filled with maps and hitchhiking signs for various cities across the country. What baffled Steven was that he had been missing for over a year, with no recollection of the past 14 months. Steven had vanished during a solo ski trip around Lake Michigan on February 20th, 1978, more than 700 miles away from Pittsfield. The only clue to his disappearance was a trail of footprints in the snow that led to the edge of the lake. Some attributed his vanishing to the mysterious Michigan Triangle, known for strange cases of boats and planes disappearing. Strangely, Steven never shared his findings about his disappearance, maintaining silence to this day.

**Sweeping Suspects:** Keys often vanish mysteriously, but a peculiar incident occurred in Tucson, Arizona, in October 2016. Firefighters responded to cries emanating from a home's chimney. To their astonishment, they found the cries were coming from inside the chimney, and they extracted the homeowner covered in soot. In another case, police in Silver Spring, Maryland, responded to strange rustling sounds in a house. After finding nothing suspicious on their first visit, they returned an hour later to discover moans coming from a wall above the fireplace. To their shock, they found a person wedged inside who had been trying to break into the house.

**Finding Fritz:** In 1965, Suzanne Peika saw a man resembling her long-deceased Uncle Larry Bader aiming a bow at an archery booth at a sports convention. Her uncle had vanished in 1957 during a boating trip on Lake Erie. The man, claiming to be John Fritz Johnson, had no recollection of being Larry Bader. However, fingerprint analysis revealed a match between Johnson's prints and those found in Bader's military records, leaving everyone perplexed. Johnson had constructed an entirely new life as Fritz Johnson, with fabricated memories of growing up in an orphanage and no memory of his past life.

**Drain Discoveries:** In 2011, Christine Nieves heard screams in the early hours and found a man stuck headfirst in a storm drain in California. He had been trying to retrieve his dropped phone. Similarly, a man got stuck in a public bathroom's open hole atop a tank in Norway while attempting to retrieve a lost phone.

**Dr. Bates:** Dr. William Horatio Bates disappeared in 1902, leaving behind his wife and career in New York City. Over 20 years later, he was discovered working as a medical assistant in London under the alias John Fritz Johnson, with no memory of his former life. He exhibited signs of dissociative fugue, a form of amnesia.

**Cavegirl:** Explorers in the Ape Caves of Mount St. Helens found a young girl deep within the dark tunnels. She didn't speak English, and her presence in such a remote location remained a mystery.

**Toddler Teleportation:** Anna Thorpe, known as the teleporting toddler, vanished from her yard in 1950. She was miraculously found miles away, seemingly impossible for a two-year-old to traverse. The circumstances of her disappearance remain shrouded in mystery.

**Cliffside Calamity:** R. Babu was found wedged in a cliff crevice while climbing Cherad Hill in India in 2022. His fall had miraculously been broken by a dip in the rock, leaving him stranded halfway up the steep cliff.

**Without A Paddle:** In 2021, a group of tourists in Austin, Texas, found themselves teetering on the edge of a reservoir spillway in a small boat. Emergency services managed to save them from plunging over the edge.

**Wych Elm Bella:** In 1943, teenagers discovered a human skull in a wych elm tree in Worcestershire, England. Subsequent investigations uncovered a full skeleton, clothing, and personal items. The mysterious graffiti "who put Bella down the wych elm" added to the intrigue.

**Stumped in the Trunk:** In 2011, a man in California got himself lodged inside a tree trunk while attempting to prove he could fit. Firefighters had to rescue him after 90 minutes of effort.