The Disappearance of Lars Mittank

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In 2014, a young German man walked into an airport in Bulgaria with a flight booked, then suddenly ran out leaving all his posessions behind, never to be heard from again. This is the story of Lars Mittank.

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0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.7	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there and there's Jerry and this
0:47.3	is Stuff You Should Know, at another True Life Mystery Edition.
0:55.0	A True Life Mystery?
0:56.8	Yeah.
0:57.8	Okay.
0:58.8	I don't want to say crime because I'm not 100% sure crime was involved.
1:03.4	I'm sure it still falls under the umbrella of true crime but it's a mystery, a disappearance.
1:08.9	How about that?
1:09.9	Yeah and this one is, this can be frustrating to research and this is our caveat in that
1:17.0	this situation as you will learn happened in Bulgaria to a German man and that's part
1:23.9	of the reason it's hard to get great information.
1:27.3	There are plenty of people on the internet telling this story with different details and
1:33.4	it's just sort of one of those cases where like we can't get our hands on Bulgarian case
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