Recently 5 cars were discovered in the Cooper river near me in NJ. Some had been there for decades. This was near a busy highway. Apparently the drivers had lost control and plunged into the water unnoticed. This discovery solved a number of missing persons cases.
A couple of years ago a body of water was drained in Florida and something like 3 dozen or more cars were found in there. I don't remember the details but I believe there were bodies in several of them.
I remember one where a car was in an accident, ended up in the long grass next to the highway, and wasn't discovered for like 30 years. Have they checked under the house? Sometimes that's where cats end up
A car ending up in a body of water, often quite close to where the occupants were last know to have been, is such a common way for people to die and disappear in the United States that there's a RUclips channel that has nothing but videos about finding such cars and rediscovering the people who died in them. And sometimes they find more than one car lost in a lake or river. The circumstances that lead to cars ending up in lakes and rivers often, like the OP's instance, often involve geography favorable to it.
Reminds me of Mothman prophecies where the Mothman sits by the side of the road and uses the paralysis caused by his red eye flash to make the cars crash.
Obligatory: "A poor woman had two sons. One went away to sea. The other became Vice President of the United States. And neither of them was ever heard of again." -- Thomas Marshall (Woodrow Wilson's VP) Edit: Marshall was also the fellow who said that "Death had to take [Teddy Roosevelt] in his sleep, for if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight."
What's odd is that he probably had the right to ascend to the presidency, with Wilson being near death for the last 18 months or so of his presidency (cross-reference another episode of THG!)
" The vice president has the easiest job in the country; all he has to do is get up in the morning and ask 'how's the president feeling today?' " Will Rogers
@@goodun2974 He is also the president of the senate and its tie breaking vote. But yeah the VP for such a high official actually has very few actual duties. He's more an official pair of hands for the president.
I used to work as a Senior Claims Specialist for a large Life insurance company here in the USA decades ago. I was astonished on how many people seem to disappear and are never seen again! One case the insured had a lot of debt from his business failing and left everything behind including his wallet. We did discover he had taken out 1/2 dozen life insurance policies totaling $5 million dollars that would be made payable upon him being declared dead after 7 years. We found evidence he entered Costa Rica on a travel Visa and I guess hid out until that day finally came for the insurance to be paid to his spouse! Another insured disappeared while checking oil well equipment as part of his job. His truck was found at the site of one of the wells but no trace of him. The local law enforcement felt there was foul play. My feeling is Congressman Creely met his end by foul play. Enjoyed the episode!
Just curious -- in your first example, after the 7 year period, were you allowed to continue investigating? And did you? Was it ever worth it to re-open an investigation years later under the thought that maybe the "deceased" lowered his guard once he through he got away with it?
I personally believe insurance causes inflation, continually encourages the government to keep healthcare costs high, and is a net negative towards society. What do you say to this?
@@poetryflynn3712 Life insurance and Health Insurance are two different things. One provides closer to the family and the other one drives up health care costs.
There’s a term for families of people who go missing - “ambiguous loss.” They often don’t allow themselves to grieve in regular fashion, keeping the possibility alive in their minds that they will at least find out what happened.
I have only two theories, first he was killed and the body dumped into the Potomac and carried out to sea, or secondly, he decided to start a new life. However, to start a new life, he would have needed cash, so, the accusation of bond theft by the widow may be true. Perhaps he went west to the Colorado, Nevada, California and Arizona gold fields where he died. In a book titled 'Sixteen Months in the California Goldfields", the author wrote of often finding the remains of unidentified men along the trail between camps, with no id on the body. The Tombstone newspaper of the time would frequently publish photos of unknown corpses, in the hope someone would recognize them. People died of diseases that today are treatable. In her book "Posie", the wife of an US Army officer described the deaths of settlers, townspeople and travelers by Apache in 1881. The possibilities are endless.
Every country has their own history of medicinal herbs. Being new to the country, tgey would rely on the alive Americans to help them if they were not enemies. You are right about finding unidentified bodies. It was rough back then.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I would love to see your Clarity applied to the subject of the Democrat and Republican Party's agendas swap. Clearly President Lincoln would have been a Democrat, 100 years later, Theodore Roosevelt would not run as a Republican even 50 years later, and Woodrow Wilson and his Federal Reserve Act, absolutely does not fit the Democrat Party. Wasn't it Washington that felt a "2 Party" System, wouldn't serve the greater good, but could lead to deadlock and lack the middle ground necessary to achieve Harmony. Appreciate your History Works. . Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian
While the charges were leveled at him, there was never any proof offered in court for any wrong doing. The allegations could have been made up to crush his reelection bid by the Senator and former Congressman. Just saying, especially since the man went missing during his campaign.
That's like a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming a disappeared American - every year. You'd be better off gambling on life insurances on random people you know than playing the sweepstakes!
Thank you, THG, for a fascinating tale of Congressional disappearance. This is an excellent example of how people could disappear completely in earlier times. This is much harder, but not impossible in the modern era.
One of two possibilities will always remain, first someone wanted to make him disappear Without a Trace or second he wanted never to be found again. No one will ever know the answer and too bad as family never had any answers. I'm sure they went to their graves, wanting to know what befell their brother and son
One of my nieces disappeared for awhile. It was horrifying to look at both children and adult missing web sites.z (Oh, she and her new boyfriend were found by police, shoplifting.)
It’s interesting how many people simply disappear. ‘The United States has the highest number of missing persons, with 521,705 people reported missing in 2021.’ That’s an astounding number. Worldwide, it must be millions but very few countries keep accurate data.
To be fair though, missing numbers can be misleading. The US doesn't have perfect records either, for instance amending reports can generate a new one that adds to the total, and the same kids can run away from home multiple times a year. Around 400,000 children go missing a year but 81% are found within 24 hours, 91% are found within two days. The amount of people in the US that go missing and stay missing is around 1%, which is still a lot of people. The US is also the third highest population country, and as you said about accurate data I doubt India and China count missing persons in a similar fashion the US or if that data would be as highly available.
@@thatsnotoneofmeatsmanyuses1970 Indeed, although of course you never know how accurate the numbers are or what metrics they are using. I saw a statistic recently from 2012, I think it was like of the 575,000 or so missing person reports generated in 2012 only 2000 were still active/missing at the end of the year.
Well, hello there! It's been a while since your videos appeared on my feed. I've been deep diving into health related research, so the algorithm has been inundating me with related content. Anyway it's great to watch the History Guy again!
There's a couple of disappearments from Australia, one was a British cabinet minister, John Stonehouse and an Australian PM, both disappearing from beaches. The stories, could make a comparison between both, a good fit for your channel
The aussie PM was Harold Holt, vanished going for a swim. Naturally we named a swimming pool after him. And the conspiracy theory was that he was picked up by a Chinese submarine, showing that idiots have and always will walk amongst us.
John Stonehouse's disappearance is actually more complicated and lurid than that. He disappeared, but it was part of a scheme to fake his own death after credible accusations that he was a spy of Czechoslovakia saw his cabinet ministry end abruptly and the failure of multiple businesses under fraudulent circumstances. He was caught and eventually arrested in Australia, then sentenced to seven years, but served only two due to ill health and died about a decade later, rather ironically while recuperating at home after collapsing on the set of a TV show about missing persons. Rather oddly, John actually went missing around the same time as John Bingham, aka Lord Lucan, a British aristocrat who vanished after being accused of murdering his children's nanny and an attempt to murder his wife. When he was arrested, Australian police thought he was Lucan in disguise, which led to the rather embarrassing situation of having to drop his trousers in front of Scotland Yard to show he didn't have a distinctive scar Lord Lucan had.
Hey, History Guy, Thanks for more interesting History that deserves to be remembered. Under the tag-line "Utterly Disappeared" may I suggest an episode on Judge Joseph Force Crater? When I was a kid in the '50s it was still possible to hear the joke, "Did you hear? They found Judge Crater." The British equivalent was, "They found Lord Lucan." Have a great day. 👍😎
Cameron had a reputation for dishonesty, and when fellow Pennsylvanian, Congressman Thaddeus Stevens learned that Lincoln was considering Cameron for a cabinet position, he expressed his disapproval. “You don’t mean to say you think Cameron would steal?” asked Lincoln, when told of Stevens’ reservations. “No,” replied Stevens. “I don’t think he would steal a red-hot stove.” With a PA Party Boss like that? Putting my money on a corrupt man meeting a corrupt end. That or he crossed the Masons, they were huge at the time especially, and in 1825 they murdered that printer in Western New York. Maybe little from category A, a little from category B, since Freemasons and politicians of the late 19th century have a lot of overlap.
A local congressman was sitting in his office when the phone rang. He picked it up, said little, smiled widely, said "Thank you," and hung up the phone. He picked the phone back up to call his mother. "Mom, it’s me,"he said. "I won the election!" "Honestly?" she said in response to the news. "Does it really matter how I did it?" he replied.
great story on disappearing without a trace. Difficult to an exponential degree to do today with all the technology that is part of our every day routine as well as an absolute dependence upon.
I had a tenant that disappeared back in the early 2000's. Not like skipping out on rent, but disappeared into thin air. All his stuff was in the unit, groceries in the fridge, car parked out back, keys by the door, dirty clothes in the basket, etc. No sign whatsoever of struggle or him. Family was upset and confused, cops did a basic investigation and as I understand it, they really couldn't do all that much since there was no signs of foul play or anything criminal. I tried looking online for him not long ago but really couldn't find anything.
He had an "accident" the day the last person saw him. There were a lot of places to hide a dead body 150 years ago, and no way to figure out who it was if enough time had gone by.
Look up the official music video of Soul Asylum Runaway Train re missing people. When one of their pictured persons is found, they change that picture to another missing person.
Have the properties of O'Neil been searched for the body? Also while the widow's complaint about the theft of her bonds and then the sudden appearance of numerous creditors could most likely be explained by the creditors, learning of his possible financial problems all rushing to be the first to present their bills in an effort to get paid, it also seems possible that the widow and creditors were a put up job to give a reason for his disappearance. I seem to remember the Tammany Hall machine pulling something like that in NY. His good name wrecked the candidate lost, only to have all the complainants against him disappear after the election. If there was some skullduggery, O'Neil would be the foremost suspect.
In the wikipedia article (standard disclaimer) it says he took part in a small handful of other votes as reported in newspapers. I'm not sure why some votes were recorded in the congressional record and some weren't? He was never recorded in either as voting in his committee.
So… he went to Washington, was sick, and disappeared, with people accusing him of not paying debts/not returning what was held in trust (was this before or after he disappeared?). Isn’t it possible that rather than anything exciting like murder or running away from debts, he just… never fully recovered from that illness? Perhaps he was starting to feel a little better, went out, but then either had an accident due to not paying attention or just collapsed again. In a place as large as DC, with him new to it, probably looking rough due to recent illness, and no one immediately looking for him - couldn’t he easily just be an unidentified body in a pauper’s grave?
Nowadays people can die/disappear, or just attempt it, with every trace available and it's still a big mystery... Idk to end that with a "lol" or a "smh" tbh 😅 Great video though!
There appear to be no known photographs or paintings of John V. Creely, so we wouldn't even know who to look for in a potential search for this man's remains (which probably haven't been preserved at all).
A couple of possibilities come to mind: Creely could have died or been killed and his body found without identification. If so, he likely would have been buried as a "John Doe." Or he may have simply become a different person somewhere and lived a full life.
I remember cleaning up parts of the Potomac River, during the first, or second "Earth Day", as part of the C&O Canal. My goodness, the things we found near a small island situated to the west of Key Bridge, just under the water; cars, old wringer washing machines, monitor refrigerator, ice boxes, pieces of factory machinery, baby carriage skeletons, baby cribs, old bikes, and just about anything you might imagine in the way of metal cabinets, or desks. We could barely get most things out. I'm not sure about roads outside the city, but the man had to have had transportation, from Pennsylvania. It's conceivable he may have met his end in the Potomac.
If I had to guess, it's a replica based on an old globe from at the latest the early 1800's. I base this mostly off of how Mexico looks. I'm also fairly certain it's French, but I could be mistaken about that.
I had three friends in college who disappeared. One was a small-time drug dealer who was dealing inside the turf of a Mafia family other than the family to which his father belonged. He showed up on my doorstep twenty years later, then disappeared again. The other had worked his way up to international drug wholesaling; the last we heard he was wanted by the FBI, Scotland Yard, Interpol, and a cast of thousands. The third vanished from my life until her face appeared on the front cover of "Life" magazine, and then for decades was on the wall every time I went to the Post Office. After college, an ex-girlfriend of mine became the girlfriend of the murderer known as The Beltway Bomber; she disappeared utterly.
I would opine when one steals an old ladies fortune and their family investigated and figured out the scoundrel... It would invariably easy to go missing in the Potomac river 😎
That opening statistic is an intriguing one for a few reasons. Not the least of which is that it would appear that it points to the fact that many of those so called disappearances were very likely intentional. That would seem to be the most reasonable explanation of that statistic, but I'd certainly enjoy hearing any other theories.
The Nordsen they were flying in was the victim of a "bomb dump" by a Lancaster bomber returning to England with a full load after falling to complete it's mission.
A coworker of mine, in his early 60s, disappeared about a decade ago. The police did an investigation and everything. He worked in a neighboring department at the time. No one knows what happened to him, at least as far as I know?
This doesn't matter unless you live here.. "Lan-Kester" is in PA. "Lan-Caster" is in OH. -An unwilling PA resident who's had to learn whether he wanted to know or not.
Politics repeats itself those that know this manipulate it to their advantage the only difference now is politicians won't disappear, we can't get rid of them.
Just prior to his disappearance Senator Creely visited a local tavern where he was heard to say "Arrrr It's a pirates life for me!" And then stumbled out into the night 🏴☠️
Well this is a interesting never heard of story. I don't think there is anything in Philadelphia named for him? I wonder if Central High has anything? My Sister is a grad there...
A skeleton was found in 1928 under some rocks in the Potomac river. But they were lost to ttime and were never forsenically studied. Many believe it was Mr. Creely's remains from the three prominent gold teeth in the skull, but I guess we will never know.
@@maynardcarmer3148 Autocorrect spelled out Amanda Bearse. (Marcy of Married with Children) 🤪🤫 Now that's a whole different History That needs to be Remembered! Have a great week and the remainder of the year filled with love 💘
Recently 5 cars were discovered in the Cooper river near me in NJ. Some had been there for decades. This was near a busy highway. Apparently the drivers had lost control and plunged into the water unnoticed. This discovery solved a number of missing persons cases.
A couple of years ago a body of water was drained in Florida and something like 3 dozen or more cars were found in there. I don't remember the details but I believe there were bodies in several of them.
I remember one where a car was in an accident, ended up in the long grass next to the highway, and wasn't discovered for like 30 years. Have they checked under the house? Sometimes that's where cats end up
A car ending up in a body of water, often quite close to where the occupants were last know to have been, is such a common way for people to die and disappear in the United States that there's a RUclips channel that has nothing but videos about finding such cars and rediscovering the people who died in them. And sometimes they find more than one car lost in a lake or river. The circumstances that lead to cars ending up in lakes and rivers often, like the OP's instance, often involve geography favorable to it.
Reminds me of Mothman prophecies where the Mothman sits by the side of the road and uses the paralysis caused by his red eye flash to make the cars crash.
In fairness, it was a lot easier to disappear in the 19th century than it is today.
Obligatory: "A poor woman had two sons. One went away to sea. The other became Vice President of the United States. And neither of them was ever heard of again." -- Thomas Marshall (Woodrow Wilson's VP)
Edit: Marshall was also the fellow who said that "Death had to take [Teddy Roosevelt] in his sleep, for if Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight."
That's awesome. I'll have to look that guy up.
Guy was just full of badass lines
What's odd is that he probably had the right to ascend to the presidency, with Wilson being near death for the last 18 months or so of his presidency (cross-reference another episode of THG!)
" The vice president has the easiest job in the country; all he has to do is get up in the morning and ask 'how's the president feeling today?' " Will Rogers
@@goodun2974 He is also the president of the senate and its tie breaking vote. But yeah the VP for such a high official actually has very few actual duties. He's more an official pair of hands for the president.
I used to work as a Senior Claims Specialist for a large Life insurance company here in the USA decades ago. I was astonished on how many people seem to disappear and are never seen again! One case the insured had a lot of debt from his business failing and left everything behind including his wallet. We did discover he had taken out 1/2 dozen life insurance policies totaling $5 million dollars that would be made payable upon him being declared dead after 7 years. We found evidence he entered Costa Rica on a travel Visa and I guess hid out until that day finally came for the insurance to be paid to his spouse! Another insured disappeared while checking oil well equipment as part of his job. His truck was found at the site of one of the wells but no trace of him. The local law enforcement felt there was foul play. My feeling is Congressman Creely met his end by foul play. Enjoyed the episode!
Just curious -- in your first example, after the 7 year period, were you allowed to continue investigating? And did you? Was it ever worth it to re-open an investigation years later under the thought that maybe the "deceased" lowered his guard once he through he got away with it?
I personally believe insurance causes inflation, continually encourages the government to keep healthcare costs high, and is a net negative towards society.
What do you say to this?
@@dugroz After 7 years and the insurer (Company) pays there is little incentive by the authorities to prosecute the fraud.
@@poetryflynn3712 Life insurance and Health Insurance are two different things. One provides closer to the family and the other one drives up health care costs.
@@poetryflynn3712How is this even relevant to life insurance?
There’s a term for families of people who go missing - “ambiguous loss.” They often don’t allow themselves to grieve in regular fashion, keeping the possibility alive in their minds that they will at least find out what happened.
sad.
"Hope is always the last thing to die." Not knowing must be absolutely torturous!
I have only two theories, first he was killed and the body dumped into the Potomac and carried out to sea, or secondly, he decided to start a new life. However, to start a new life, he would have needed cash, so, the accusation of bond theft by the widow may be true. Perhaps he went west to the Colorado, Nevada, California and Arizona gold fields where he died. In a book titled 'Sixteen Months in the California Goldfields", the author wrote of often finding the remains of unidentified men along the trail between camps, with no id on the body. The Tombstone newspaper of the time would frequently publish photos of unknown corpses, in the hope someone would recognize them. People died of diseases that today are treatable. In her book "Posie", the wife of an US Army officer described the deaths of settlers, townspeople and travelers by Apache in 1881. The possibilities are endless.
Every country has their own history of medicinal herbs. Being new to the country, tgey would rely on the alive Americans to help them if they were not enemies.
You are right about finding unidentified bodies. It was rough back then.
Good morning History Guy and everyone watching...Happy Hump Day.
The Most logical answer : Creely got killed and His Body was got dumped where it never was found.
Or committed suicide knowing he couldn't pay back the creditors and would probably be charged with fraud or something.
: Quite possibly courtesy of Mr. O'Neil or some in his cohort. Politics back then was way wilder than today.
Sleeps with the fishes
He either escaped his debts, or they caught him. Although it was remarkably easy to start again in those days.
I thought same
I halfway expected at the end you would reveal that he ran off and became a pirate--because all good stories involve pirates.
Maybe thar’s what happened…
Don't you mean that he continued being a pirate...😉😆🤣😹
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel
I would love to see your Clarity applied to the subject of the Democrat and Republican Party's agendas swap. Clearly President Lincoln would have been a Democrat, 100 years later, Theodore Roosevelt would not run as a Republican even 50 years later, and Woodrow Wilson and his Federal Reserve Act, absolutely does not fit the Democrat Party.
Wasn't it Washington that felt a "2 Party" System, wouldn't serve the greater good, but could lead to deadlock and lack the middle ground necessary to achieve Harmony.
Appreciate your History Works.
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Sociologist/Behavioralist
and Historian
Well, he was a politician...
How about a show about the mysterious disappearance of Judge Crater, who was caught up in the NYC Jimmy Walker/Tammany Hall scandal?
The real tragedy is that more corrupt politicians dont disapear without a trace
If I was gay I'd run away too
If something doesn’t change soon, it may become more common… 🤔
they seem to be ,on tv more now and screaming that they are criminal , and they are proud to be that!
While the charges were leveled at him, there was never any proof offered in court for any wrong doing. The allegations could have been made up to crush his reelection bid by the Senator and former Congressman. Just saying, especially since the man went missing during his campaign.
Riotous! Please do not make jokes that funny. I may have gotten injured. But that was darn funny and I thank you.
36 THOUSAND people just vanished in 2021? That's crazy.
wonder how many of the 36,000 were children
@@naturetrails8357 We ALL might be surprised by that answer!!
That's like a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming a disappeared American - every year. You'd be better off gambling on life insurances on random people you know than playing the sweepstakes!
I think the number is wrong - the FBI's data for 2021 shows only 4,107 unsolved missing persons for 2021.
@@naturetrails83573172 were kidnapped. 40% turned up dead…
I have never been admitted to the Bar. But I have been rejected and ejected from some.
Thank you, THG, for a fascinating tale of Congressional disappearance. This is an excellent example of how people could disappear completely in earlier times. This is much harder, but not impossible in the modern era.
And yet, as was stated, in 2021 36,000 people in the U.S. were reported missing and never found. That is a much larger number than I expected.
So fascinating….so heartbreaking for his family!! Thank you for sharing this interesting episode!
Sure enjoyed this timely story.
One of two possibilities will always remain, first someone wanted to make him disappear Without a Trace or second he wanted never to be found again. No one will ever know the answer and too bad as family never had any answers. I'm sure they went to their graves, wanting to know what befell their brother and son
I tell you sir, you sure do have a knack for imparting a story. You keep me riveted just like Paul Harvey.
Paul Harvey was riveted?
@@bobbybooshay8641 "riviting"!
One of my nieces disappeared for awhile. It was horrifying to look at both children and adult missing web sites.z
(Oh, she and her new boyfriend were found by police, shoplifting.)
I wonder what % of disappeared people "want" to disappear?
Thank you History Guy
It’s interesting how many people simply disappear. ‘The United States has the highest number of missing persons, with 521,705 people reported missing in 2021.’ That’s an astounding number. Worldwide, it must be millions but very few countries keep accurate data.
To be fair though, missing numbers can be misleading. The US doesn't have perfect records either, for instance amending reports can generate a new one that adds to the total, and the same kids can run away from home multiple times a year. Around 400,000 children go missing a year but 81% are found within 24 hours, 91% are found within two days. The amount of people in the US that go missing and stay missing is around 1%, which is still a lot of people.
The US is also the third highest population country, and as you said about accurate data I doubt India and China count missing persons in a similar fashion the US or if that data would be as highly available.
(set the scene in 1942)
Germany looking at Russia: "ACT... NATURAL!..."
@HikuroMishiro
1% of the annual reported missing?
they found a few of them in lake Mead awhile back !
@@thatsnotoneofmeatsmanyuses1970 Indeed, although of course you never know how accurate the numbers are or what metrics they are using. I saw a statistic recently from 2012, I think it was like of the 575,000 or so missing person reports generated in 2012 only 2000 were still active/missing at the end of the year.
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
Old saying. "Wear earplugs if you are working for Congresspeople!" 😂
Or wear a wire....
Well, hello there! It's been a while since your videos appeared on my feed. I've been deep diving into health related research, so the algorithm has been inundating me with related content. Anyway it's great to watch the History Guy again!
Thank you, Lance & Co.
Interesting story and not one I've heard before. Thank you.
There's a couple of disappearments from Australia, one was a British cabinet minister, John Stonehouse and an Australian PM, both disappearing from beaches. The stories, could make a comparison between both, a good fit for your channel
The aussie PM was Harold Holt, vanished going for a swim. Naturally we named a swimming pool after him.
And the conspiracy theory was that he was picked up by a Chinese submarine, showing that idiots have and always will walk amongst us.
^ What if Harold Holt is the captain of the sub in Fallout 4
@@j.f.christ8421 Like I said, an excellent compare and contrast between Stonehouse and Holt. Sorry my brain wasn't retrieving Mr. Holt's name.
@@RobKaiser_SQuest ROTFFLMFAO!
John Stonehouse's disappearance is actually more complicated and lurid than that. He disappeared, but it was part of a scheme to fake his own death after credible accusations that he was a spy of Czechoslovakia saw his cabinet ministry end abruptly and the failure of multiple businesses under fraudulent circumstances. He was caught and eventually arrested in Australia, then sentenced to seven years, but served only two due to ill health and died about a decade later, rather ironically while recuperating at home after collapsing on the set of a TV show about missing persons.
Rather oddly, John actually went missing around the same time as John Bingham, aka Lord Lucan, a British aristocrat who vanished after being accused of murdering his children's nanny and an attempt to murder his wife. When he was arrested, Australian police thought he was Lucan in disguise, which led to the rather embarrassing situation of having to drop his trousers in front of Scotland Yard to show he didn't have a distinctive scar Lord Lucan had.
That was quite the interesting tale. Thank you for this video.
Sleeping with the fishes or double bunking in a graveyard somewhere.
Great episode, Mr. L.
Hey, History Guy, Thanks for more interesting History that deserves to be remembered. Under the tag-line "Utterly Disappeared" may I suggest an episode on Judge Joseph Force Crater? When I was a kid in the '50s it was still possible to hear the joke, "Did you hear? They found Judge Crater." The British equivalent was, "They found Lord Lucan." Have a great day. 👍😎
"They found Jimmy Hoffa" for my generation.
I thought they named Crater Lake after him. It's 2,148 feet deep.
When people go missing like he did, it is always mysterious.
Cameron had a reputation for dishonesty, and when fellow Pennsylvanian, Congressman Thaddeus Stevens learned that Lincoln was considering Cameron for a cabinet position, he expressed his disapproval.
“You don’t mean to say you think Cameron would steal?” asked Lincoln, when told of Stevens’ reservations.
“No,” replied Stevens. “I don’t think he would steal a red-hot stove.”
With a PA Party Boss like that? Putting my money on a corrupt man meeting a corrupt end.
That or he crossed the Masons, they were huge at the time especially, and in 1825 they murdered that printer in Western New York.
Maybe little from category A, a little from category B, since Freemasons and politicians of the late 19th century have a lot of overlap.
A local congressman was sitting in his office when the phone rang.
He picked it up, said little, smiled widely, said "Thank you," and hung up the phone.
He picked the phone back up to call his mother. "Mom, it’s me,"he said. "I won the election!"
"Honestly?" she said in response to the news.
"Does it really matter how I did it?" he replied.
I'm gay too buddy
Definitely a Hudson County guy.
HA...Love it!😅
@@rentslave smugness gay
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great story on disappearing without a trace. Difficult to an exponential degree to do today with all the technology that is part of our every day routine as well as an absolute dependence upon.
Good one
I had a tenant that disappeared back in the early 2000's. Not like skipping out on rent, but disappeared into thin air. All his stuff was in the unit, groceries in the fridge, car parked out back, keys by the door, dirty clothes in the basket, etc. No sign whatsoever of struggle or him. Family was upset and confused, cops did a basic investigation and as I understand it, they really couldn't do all that much since there was no signs of foul play or anything criminal. I tried looking online for him not long ago but really couldn't find anything.
Thanks for today’s lesson. 😎
He had an "accident" the day the last person saw him. There were a lot of places to hide a dead body 150 years ago, and no way to figure out who it was if enough time had gone by.
It''s mysteries like this that make me wish I had a temporal viewer, even though I might be disturbed by some of what I see.
Look up the official music video of Soul Asylum Runaway Train re missing people. When one of their pictured persons is found, they change that picture to another missing person.
Have the properties of O'Neil been searched for the body? Also while the widow's complaint about the theft of her bonds and then the sudden appearance of numerous creditors could most likely be explained by the creditors, learning of his possible financial problems all rushing to be the first to present their bills in an effort to get paid, it also seems possible that the widow and creditors were a put up job to give a reason for his disappearance. I seem to remember the Tammany Hall machine pulling something like that in NY. His good name wrecked the candidate lost, only to have all the complainants against him disappear after the election. If there was some skullduggery, O'Neil would be the foremost suspect.
He voted once, and there is no record of his presence at any meetings, and he got paid?
In the wikipedia article (standard disclaimer) it says he took part in a small handful of other votes as reported in newspapers. I'm not sure why some votes were recorded in the congressional record and some weren't? He was never recorded in either as voting in his committee.
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So… he went to Washington, was sick, and disappeared, with people accusing him of not paying debts/not returning what was held in trust (was this before or after he disappeared?). Isn’t it possible that rather than anything exciting like murder or running away from debts, he just… never fully recovered from that illness? Perhaps he was starting to feel a little better, went out, but then either had an accident due to not paying attention or just collapsed again. In a place as large as DC, with him new to it, probably looking rough due to recent illness, and no one immediately looking for him - couldn’t he easily just be an unidentified body in a pauper’s grave?
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He's probably hiding in the Federal Reserve. He knows there will never be an audit.
I heard he has a room inside fort Knox. Apparently since the vault is empty. He has a very large suite to live in.
What are you talking about? Here's last year's. www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/files/combinedfinstmt2023.pdf
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Anyone other than me concerned about how closely we are being tracked?
Nowadays people can die/disappear, or just attempt it, with every trace available and it's still a big mystery...
Idk to end that with a "lol" or a "smh" tbh 😅
Great video though!
Maybe Ambrose Bierce went looking for him.
Followed by Amelia Earhart....
@@goodun2974and Judge Crater...
There appear to be no known photographs or paintings of John V. Creely, so we wouldn't even know who to look for in a potential search for this man's remains (which probably haven't been preserved at all).
Well, he must be somewhere in the photos of the Keystone battery…
A couple of possibilities come to mind: Creely could have died or been killed and his body found without identification. If so, he likely would have been buried as a "John Doe." Or he may have simply become a different person somewhere and lived a full life.
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I remember cleaning up parts of the Potomac River, during the first, or second "Earth Day", as part of the C&O Canal. My goodness, the things we found near a small island situated to the west of Key Bridge, just under the water; cars, old wringer washing machines, monitor refrigerator, ice boxes, pieces of factory machinery, baby carriage skeletons, baby cribs, old bikes, and just about anything you might imagine in the way of metal cabinets, or desks. We could barely get most things out.
I'm not sure about roads outside the city, but the man had to have had transportation, from Pennsylvania. It's conceivable he may have met his end in the Potomac.
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I'm sorry you are unwell or grieving.
Around the 13 minute mark there is a globe. I noticed how stubby Florida is on it. And I was wondering what year that globe is from?
If I had to guess, it's a replica based on an old globe from at the latest the early 1800's. I base this mostly off of how Mexico looks. I'm also fairly certain it's French, but I could be mistaken about that.
I had three friends in college who disappeared. One was a small-time drug dealer who was dealing inside the turf of a Mafia family other than the family to which his father belonged. He showed up on my doorstep twenty years later, then disappeared again. The other had worked his way up to international drug wholesaling; the last we heard he was wanted by the FBI, Scotland Yard, Interpol, and a cast of thousands. The third vanished from my life until her face appeared on the front cover of "Life" magazine, and then for decades was on the wall every time I went to the Post Office. After college, an ex-girlfriend of mine became the girlfriend of the murderer known as The Beltway Bomber; she disappeared utterly.
I would opine when one steals an old ladies fortune and their family investigated and figured out the scoundrel...
It would invariably easy to go missing in the Potomac river 😎
Back then it was still possible for someone so prominent to just vanish without a trace. Would be really hard to do nowadays.
That's an interesting story. I hope you're doing well.
Probably off playing cards with Judge Crater.
He was kidnapped by the Dread Pirate Roberts.
Then he became the dread pirate Roberts
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Great episode
Have you done Hale Boggs?
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Can we lose about 535 more?
yes an activity that definitely needs emulating.
laughed for 10 minutes, thanks
Just goes to show you, doesn’t matter what side of the aisle you are on…most people/ politicians are evil, absolutely no morals.
That opening statistic is an intriguing one for a few reasons. Not the least of which is that it would appear that it points to the fact that many of those so called disappearances were very likely intentional. That would seem to be the most reasonable explanation of that statistic, but I'd certainly enjoy hearing any other theories.
Have you done a video on Glenn Miller? He disappeared over the English channel
The Nordsen they were flying in was the victim of a "bomb dump" by a Lancaster bomber returning to England with a full load after falling to complete it's mission.
@@davidcarr7436I think that’s been debunked.
@Sheltowee1775 maybe, but it makes more sense than most of the others.
Although the theory he was abducted by aliens always gives me a chuckle.
Very interesting. Good presentation. Only 1 of 12 videos shown after the end screen are of the same creator. (The History Guy)
A coworker of mine, in his early 60s, disappeared about a decade ago. The police did an investigation and everything. He worked in a neighboring department at the time. No one knows what happened to him, at least as far as I know?
Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt went swimming one day in December 1967 and was never seen again.
Emus hired Jaws.
Didn't they name a pool after him later?
Let's go back to the old school version of Radical Republican!
This doesn't matter unless you live here..
"Lan-Kester" is in PA.
"Lan-Caster" is in OH.
-An unwilling PA resident who's had to learn whether he wanted to know or not.
That's LANK-uster, PA. Why, I don't know. Maybe that's how the Brits pronounce it?
6:19 "Tempting fate for $1000". (Hits a Daily Double)
The case of missing Judge Crater in NY in 1930 was another missing persons case for years.
Did a Judge Crater ?
Look him up .
Walked around the coach and he didn't come out on the other side .
Politics repeats itself those that know this manipulate it to their advantage the only difference now is politicians won't disappear, we can't get rid of them.
I thought this was going to be about the Alaskan Congressman whose airplane disappeared. Discovering that I was wrong is a pleasant surprised.
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I know of a few congressmen and senators that could disappear and nobody would miss them.
You may want to do an episode on Harold Holt, the man who went for the swim that needs no towel
I wonder if it would be possible to trace his family ancestry through DNA. That could bring about some leads if had children after he disappeared.
When you tell your creditors you have no plans to pay them back that is a death wish.
Two, Majority Ldr Boggs & another, never found in Alaska in plane crash. I think still MIA.
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Maybe he was in one of those barrels that appeared as Lake Mead receded?
It was extremely easy to disappear in the 1800's.🤔
Just prior to his disappearance Senator Creely visited a local tavern where he was heard to say "Arrrr It's a pirates life for me!" And then stumbled out into the night 🏴☠️
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When you descend the ‘Missing 411’ rabbit hole, you eventually realize inexplicable disappearances happen all the time, to this day…
Well this is a interesting never heard of story. I don't think there is anything in Philadelphia named for him? I wonder if Central High has anything? My Sister is a grad there...
"Why don't he write?"
Thanks for making an attempt to pronounce "Lancaster" as we do here in Lancaster, PA. :) Believe it or not, it is much appreciated!
A skeleton was found in 1928 under some rocks in the Potomac river. But they were lost to ttime and were never forsenically studied. Many believe it was Mr. Creely's remains from the three prominent gold teeth in the skull, but I guess we will never know.
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He's went with Ambrose Bearse!
Ambrose Bierce
@@maynardcarmer3148 Autocorrect spelled out Amanda Bearse. (Marcy of Married with Children) 🤪🤫 Now that's a whole different History That needs to be Remembered! Have a great week and the remainder of the year filled with love 💘
Yeah; auto-correct is the bane of my existence.
Philadelphia politics - something you cannot do with all the tag they have on you today ...
Paul Wellstone HG
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