2,300 people go missing every day in the U.S.

[Orbital-Fetus]

that's 839,500 people a year.

Missing Persons Statistics and Facts — 2,300 a Day — Crime Library on truTV.com


FBI — NCIC Missing Person and Unidentified Person Statistics for 2010


when i first heard this statistic i literally busted out in a heavy giggle

then i looked it up and was like
that's pushing up on like a million people a year in America alone.

 

[superunknown23]

only pretty white girls get media attention though

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

only pretty white girls get media attention though

either way, that's a staggering statistic.
basically the population of a large city goes missing every year.

 

[the mechanic]

Most get found alive tho..thats the total number of reports

its a huge number but the bulk of it is old people with dementia and kids and special needs people who have wandered

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Most get found alive tho..thats the total number of reports

its a huge number but the bulk of it is old people with dementia and kids and special needs people who have wandered

nah, none of them have ever been found.
these people are being taken into underground bases like under Dulce, New Mexico.

 

[daze23]

a lot are runaways and such. I thought it was funny when I was in SF, and all these 'homeless' kids were begging for money, talking about "I'm stranded". it's like you know damn well you probably voluntarily left a nice home to come out here and eat mushrooms in the park. that's fine, but don't flip it around like you're the victim of bad luck

when I worked in hotels in Miami Beach, people were always 'losing' their friend (at the club), and calling the police and all that. I would usually tell them in so many words, "are you sure your friend didn't meet someone?"

the answer was usually, "my friend would never do that"

and then their friend would stumble through the door with some guy

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

you guys are ruining my fear monger thread with all this "facts".

 

[the next guy]

a lot are runaways and such. I thought it was funny when I was in SF, and all these 'homeless' kids were begging for money, talking about "I'm stranded". it's like you know damn well you probably voluntarily left a nice home to come out here and eat mushrooms in the park. that's fine, but don't flip it around like you're the victim of bad luck

when I worked in hotels in Miami Beach, people were always 'losing' their friend (at the club), and calling the police and all that. I would usually tell them in so many words, "are you sure your friend didn't meet someone?"

the answer was usually, "my friend would never do that"

and then their friend would stumble through the door with some guy

You have an interesting life story.

 

[ROFL_GUY]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton_abduction is an American logger who claims to have been abducted by a UFO on November 5, 1975, while working with a logging crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest[2] in Arizona. Walton could not be found, but reappeared after a five-day search.

one of the very few alien abduction cases with corroborative eyewitnesses, and one of few abduction cases where the time allegedly spent in the custody of aliens plays a rather minor role in the overall account.

UFO researchers Jenny Randles and Peter Houghe write that "Neither before or since has an abduction story begun in the manner related by Walton and his coworkers. Furthermore, the Walton case is singular in that the victim vanished for days on end with police squads out searching … it is an atypical 'Close Encounter: Fourth Kind' (CE4) … which bucks the trend so much that it worried some investigators; others defend it staunchly.


they made a move about it 18yrs later

 

[IrishBrother]

A lot of people dont want to be found for a variety of reasons - afraid of coming out, depression, feeling suffocated by their family etc.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

its the aliens

 

[Kings County]

FIRE In The SKY trailer 1993 - YouTube

 

[daze23]

A lot of people dont want to be found for a variety of reasons - afraid of coming out, depression, feeling suffocated by their family etc.

I always think about the crazy stories behind those "have you seen me? last seen with..." flyers

 

[Steezy]

 

[IrishBrother]

I always think about the crazy stories behind those "have you seen me? last seen with..." flyers

Absolutely. One old gal hands out flyers looking for info about her missing son every Saturday afternoon in the city centre here.

Dudes been missing since 2001. Poor woman.