5 Most UNEXPLAINED & CREEPY DISAPPEARANCES EVER
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Scary Mysteries
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🗓️ 27 December 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When people disappear, the standard questions are often, what happened to them and where did they go? |
| 0:12.0 | But sometimes there are |
| 0:13.7 | disappearances that go way beyond that and the stories behind them can be |
| 0:17.8 | scary and even seem outright impossible. These are the five most unexplained and creepy disappearances ever. |
| 0:25.0 | Number five, Frederick McDonald. |
| 0:31.0 | During the 1920s, Frederick McDonald was a prominent Australian politician. |
| 0:39.2 | Initially a teacher, he rose to prominence and soon ended up becoming the representative for the Barton |
| 0:44.3 | Labor Party in 1922, winning against the Nationalist Party candidate. |
| 0:51.0 | McDonnell was part of the parliament for three years until he was defeated by a small margin in 1925 by nationalist candidate Thomas Lae. |
| 0:59.0 | He contested the results, admitting that Lae even tried to bribe him into quitting by offering him $2,000. |
| 1:07.0 | On April 15, 1926, McDonald was on his way to a meeting with the New South Wales Premier Jack Lang. |
| 1:15.0 | The meeting was to discuss McDonald's proposal of having the results of the election |
| 1:18.9 | void on grounds of bribery, but he never made it. |
| 1:24.0 | That morning, while he was headed to the meeting, he inexplicably vanished. |
| 1:28.3 | An extensive search was conducted, but the body, along with the attache case he was carrying disappeared without a trace |
| 1:36.7 | People of course speculate that his rival Thomas Lay had something to do with it |
| 1:41.6 | The suspicious deaths of Lay's various political rivals |
| 1:45.2 | hint at the possibility that this is in fact true. One supposedly committed suicide and the other was |
| 1:52.0 | murdered. |
| 1:53.0 | Lay was also charged with murdering his mistress's lover after suspecting she was having an affair with a barman named John Muddy. |
| 2:01.0 | Lay had muddy strangled and his body thrown in a chockpit. Thomas was later |
| 2:06.4 | admitted to a mental institution where he eventually died. He however never |
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