Tragic disappearances haunt the news headlines every day.

But the strangest cases follow people who somehow reappear against all odds.

From stone cold trails to forgotten identities,

let's investigate some of the most unbelievable cases of people who disappeared and reappeared in strange and mysterious ways.

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On a chilly day near the shore of Lake Michigan in February, 1978, student Stephen Kubaki set out on a solo cross-country skiing trip.

An avid outdoorsman, Kubaki had been cross-country skiing around Lake Michigan many times before.

The trip wasn't unusual, but the rest of the story is.

On February 21, snowmobilers found a set of abandoned cross-country skis and a backpack next to a 200-yard trail of footprints that led to the edge of the frozen lake.

But there was no returning trail.

Afraid that Stephen had somehow fallen through the thick ice, a desperate air and land investigation was launched, but not a single trace of him was found.

Then 15 months later, Stephen woke up.

He was lying in a field enclosed he didn't recognize with a bag full of maps and signs he didn't

remember. He slowly made his way to his father's house where he was amazingly reunited with his family,

seemingly unharmed. He had woken up in Pittsfield over 1,000 kilometers away from

where he had originally disappeared, but he was never flagged traveling on any public transport.

How had he managed to end up so far away without any of his original belongings?

He claims to have absolutely no memory of those missing 15 months and retreated from public

life entirely refusing to speak of the incident. Despite the questions it could answer,

it seems to be a time he'd rather forget. Very intriguing. I wonder if he was abducted by aliens.

Sometimes that's better than being abducted by some humans who are very real monsters, like this next story.

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