I've had this file cabinet for years.

It's an old beat up thing that's moved from place to place with me so many times I've

lost track of everywhere it's been. I'm not even sure where it came from but I've had it for a

long time now. As for his contents, well, they're a little strange. They'd even be considered by

most people to be pretty disturbing. I mean, if they didn't know what I do for a living. The cabinet

contains records and remnants of the vanished. People who walked away one day or were taken and

never returned, they just disappeared with out of trace and they're simply gone. I've been

obsessed with unsolved disappearances for as long as I can remember because, I mean, we all love

a mystery, right? But what about those mysteries that can never be solved? When you start searching

for traces of the vanished, you soon realize that real life is not like a work of fiction. A

detective isn't going to step in and solve the case in the final pages of the book or in the

last reel of the film. Real life is much messier. Some mysteries may never be solved like those of

people who disappear without a trace. It's been said that in America alone as many as 10 million

people are reported missing every year. Most of them return home within hours or days but

there's a small percentage of them that go missing forever. It seems like this wouldn't be an

easy thing to do in this modern age, but it occurs more often than we'd like to think.

The accounts of those vanishings have all the ingredients of a mystery story, except for the ending,

of course, with these stories were left to speculate, to wonder and well to lose sleep over.

Many of the circumstances around unsolved disappearances are often bizarre, sometimes ridiculous,

but in the end, always inexplicable, even when it seems the event should be impossible.

How can someone just vanish and leave no clues behind? In some cases, people vanished into

uncharted wilderness and fell victim to places for which no maps exist, or perhaps the weather played a

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