The wreckage of Steve Fossett ’s planer was located last month , but it ’s still too other to say with inviolable certainty that Fossett ’s body has been receive . ( fond remain are currently undergo DNA analysis . ) Here are five bodies we still have n’t stumbled across , even after all these years .
1. Ambrose Bierce (1842"“1914?)
He was wounded during the Civil War , drank with fellow diary keeper Mark Twain and H. L. Mencken , and kept a human skull on his desk . Bierce was also a fiendishly fine author who lampooned and skewer just about everyone in the American public eye during the last half of the nineteenth century . One matter he was n’t , however , was found .
In late 1913 , Bierce went to Mexico to brood the country ’s rotation . What happened to him when he got there is a closed book . Theories include : he was killed at the Battle of Ojinaga ; he was executed by the rotatory loss leader Pancho Villa ; he shot himself at the Grand Canyon . Any of those close would have undoubtedly suitable Bierce . decease by smoke , he wrote before pass on for Mexico , " beat old years , disease , or settle down the cellar stairs . “
2. Joseph F. Crater (1889”“????)
3. Amelia Earhart (1897"“1937?)
4. Glenn Miller (1904"“1944?)
5. Harold Holt (1908"“1967?)
But in 2004 , a change in Australian law prompted a conventional inquiry to formally conclude the case of the leave out PM . The ruling ? A lacklustre finding of fact to say the least : death by drown .
See also:6 Unsolved disappearance
This article was excerpted fromForbidden Knowledge : A Wickedly Smart Guide to History ’s Naughtiest Bits . you may pick up a copy inthe mental_floss store .
