I am your host Ketown and you're listening to seven disturbing chronicle stories of scary, paranormal and horror tales. Sometimes things happen that seem completely unexplainable.

Life is normal and routine one moment and then forever changed the next.

Just take the case of the mother who let her son go to the movie theater by himself, not only to have him disappear, but to have a complete imposter returned in his stead.

This bizarre event, which is just one of many cases inspired the 2008 film The Changeling.

In folklore, fairies were said to snatch children from the cradle and replace them with

duplicates called changelings. According to this myth, parents would tuck their kids in at night, then wake up in the morning

to find a similar but strangely altered child.

They knew that something was different, but they couldn't quite place what it was.

While not all of the disappeared returned, the legend of the Changeling could serve as an analogy for every one of the strange, tragic, and mysterious cases presented.

The lives of everyone involved in these events were somehow altered in ways they never could have conceived.

One moment their lives were completely normal, but in the next that sense of normalcy had vanished forever,

alonged with their dearly departed loved ones.

Here are a few of those cases. Harold Holt, December

1967 in Melbourne, Australia. Many of the tales of mysterious disappearances floating around the internet are shrouded in mystery

that's difficult to be sure if they ever happened at all.

But if you would like to hear about a vanishing act that no one can deny.

Look no further than former Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt.

When Prime Minister Holt vanished without a trace, you better believe that every printing press, television station, and radio

broadcast in the world took note. The simple but perplexing headline Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt is missing

raced across the globe after he failed to report the work on December 17th, 1967.

Prime Minister Holt had assumed the office two years prior,

and in that relatively short time,

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