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To those who are condemning the Fashola govt I wan u all to know one gov can't fix the whole problem even in America they have their ugly side. This is not the time to condemned but thank op for bringing this and let collectively see how with the power of social media we can bring change to this stricture either by using it as our dp, paste on Facebook and tweet on Twitter.

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1 PEZ Dispensers Were Created To Attract Smokers

The famous PEZ candies were created in Vienna, Austria, in 1927. Originally, they didn’t have the sweet, fruity flavors that we know today. They used to be peppermint flavored. In fact, their name comes from pfefferminz, the German word for “peppermint.” Packaged in tins, the candies were popular for a time. They were supposed to be used as an alternative to smoking because their creator, Eduard Haas III, disliked smoking. In 1949, new PEZ dispensers designed by Oscar Uxa were introduced as a way to hygienically share the candies without touching all of them. The dispensers were also designed to draw in smokers. Flicking open the top of a PEZ dispenser was meant to be like flicking a lighter. For a time, Haas even used the slogan “No Smoking, PEZing Allowed.” In the transition to American markets, PEZ changed to their iconic fruity flavors, and the dispensers acquired their character tops . Whether PEZ have actually discouraged smoking is debatable. But PEZ still exist today as beloved combinations of candies and toys.

3 Necco Wafers Were Brought To The South Pole
By The Ton

These chalklike candies were invented in 1847
when Oliver Chase made the first lozenge
cutter. It became the machine that launched
the candy industry, and it wasn’t long before its
first creation, Necco Wafers, made it big.

The military commissioned a major portion of
Necco Wafers’ production during World War II
because the candies were easy to transport
without melting . They were also cheap enough
during the Great Depression to become a
popular civilian treat.

Famous Arctic explorer Donald MacMillan gave
out these candies to native Canadians on his
journeys, but that was nothing in comparison to
Admiral Richard Byrd. For a two-year journey to
the South Pole, Byrd packed 2.5 tons of Necco
Wafers. That was about 0.5 kilograms (1 lb) of
candy per week for every man on the crew for
the entire trip.

There is no record as to whether the entire
amount was consumed. Still, the eight original
flavors that Admiral Byrd carried with him can
be enjoyed today. Except for the price, not
much about Necco Wafers has changed since
they were invented.


2 Dubble Bubble Gum Was An Accident


Ancient people chewed on bits of tree bark tar.
The Maya and Aztecs also chewed on chicle
from sapodilla trees. Then, in the 1840s, John
Curtis used spruce tree resin to make gum to
chew on and later created the first chewing
gum factory.

It wasn’t until 1928, however, that our modern
idea of chewing gum was created. Accountant
Walter E. Diemer created it by accident. He
liked to experiment in his spare time. After
expanding on a failed recipe, he found a way to
make chewing gum that was easier to chew
and more resistant to breakage in packaging.
Interestingly, the iconic pink color was chosen
simply because that was the only color
available. After a successful trial run, the new
gum was packaged and marketed as Dubble
Bubble Gum. Eventually, the packages included
comics that featured Dub, Bub, and the iconic
Pud.

This only helped the popularity of the new
chewing gum. At the beginning of World War II,
it was even shipped to the military before the
scarcity of products forced the factories to stop
production. These factories reopened soon after
the war ended and still cater to our bubble-
blowing, cud-chewing needs today.

5 Circus Peanuts Inspired Lucky Charms


Fondly remembered as one of the original penny
candies , Circus Peanuts have been around since
the 1800s. The banana-flavored marshmallows
are notorious for their love-it-or-hate-it
reputation.
Maybe that’s why no one has admitted to
inventing them, much less tried to brand them.
Since we don’t know who the creator is, we
also have no idea why these peanut-shaped
candies have a banana flavor.
Either way, these little gum stickers are the
reason why we have marshmallow cereals.
General Mills product developer John Holahan
found that the mixture of Cheerios and cut bits
of Circus Peanuts was good enough to sell,
which led to the development of the ever-
popular Lucky Charms cereal .
So maybe, even if you’re not fond of Circus
Peanuts, you might want to thank whoever
made them if you love marshmallows in cereal.


4 M&M’S Lost A Color In Cancer Panic

Forrest Mars Sr., son of Frank and Ethel Mars
of Mars, Inc., was inspired by the candy-shelled
chocolates in military rations to make the
famous M&M’S candies. Named for Forrest
Mars Sr. and Hershey executive William Murrie,
these candies were patented and put into
production in 1941.
Eventually, they were sold only to the military.
But when the war ended, their popularity
continued with civilians. The candies were sold
in cardboard tubes, and the original colors were
brown, red, violet, yellow, and green. However,
in 1979, one of these colors faded from the mix
due to FDA test results.
The dye called FD&C Red No. 2 was linked to
tumors in female rats in a 1971 Russian test.
However, this test was later found to have been
incorrectly performed. The tested dye wasn’t
the food coloring that was used in M&M’S
anyway.
But the damage had already been done. Mars
had to deal with a public that was panicked
over the possible effects of FD&C Red No. 2.
Used to color several popular foods like soda,
hot dogs, ice cream, and candy, the public
demanded that the controversial dye be
removed.
Although M&M’S were colored with Red No. 40,
Mars replaced red M&M’S with orange M&M’S
to ease public anxiety. In 1987, the red color
was reintroduced for M&M’S and has been
popular ever since.

6 Snickers Also Has Strange Name Origins

The Snickers bar has an interesting story
behind its name as well. Although the Snickers
bar was not the first peanut, caramel, and
nougat candy bar, it was one of the most
popular and most enduring of its time.
Frank and Ethel Mars, founders of Mars, Inc.,
had great success with the Milky Way bar and
were open to developing new candies . After
three years of development, the Snickers bar
was released in 1930.

Just months before the release of their new
candy bar, Ethel’s favorite horse, Snickers, died.
This was a hard loss for her as she adored her
horse. So she and her husband named the new
candy bar “Snickers” in the horse’s honor.
Interestingly, the farm where Snickers had lived
was called the Milky Way Farm , just like their
other famous candy bar. Regardless of this
name theme, Snickers candy bars live on as
one of the best-selling candies in the world.

8 Pop Rocks Caused Urban Legend And Widespread Panic.
The fizzing candies Pop Rocks were developed in 1956 by General Foods research scientist William A. Mitchell. Originally sold for 15 cents a packet in the early 1970s, they came in orange, cherry, and grape flavors. Pop Rocks are small, crystallized pieces of sugar with air pockets of carbonation that “pop” and “crackle” when the candy melts in your mouth or in water. This popping sound led to an urban legend. As early as 1979, there were rumors about a child who had exploded after eating Pop Rocks with soda. At one point, the Food and Drug Administration even set up a hotline to field any questions from parents concerned about their children eating the candy. After a large marketing effort to combat the rumors that were gripping the imagination of the public, Pop Rocks eventually disappeared from market shelves in 1983. They have since popped back up and had a resurgence in popularity. But the crazy rumors still linger and were even featured on MythBusters. Don’t worry about busting your gut , though. The most that Pop Rocks and soda will do to your stomach is to make it upset.
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7 Lollipops Have Strange Name Origins Since ancient times, candies and sugary sweets have often been put on the ends of sticks for easy eating. It became popular in the 17th century to enjoy boiled sugar treats that were pressed onto sticks to eat. This treat was soft candy rather than hard, but it was one of the forerunners of the modern lollipop. In the 20th century, the owner of McAviney Candy Company often brought home for his children the leftover sticks used to stir batches of candy. He began selling these sticks in 1908, which coincided with the invention of the first automated machine that put sticks in hard candy. Samuel Born, the inventor of the candy machine, was even awarded a key to the city of San Francisco for his invention. In 1908, George Smith began marketing the modern version of a lollipop through his confection company, Bradley Smith Company. He coined the term “lollipop” in 1931 after a famous racehorse of the time called Lolly Pop . When lollipops stopped being produced during the Great Depression, the name fell into the public domain. The name also meant something like “tongue slapper” because “lolly” was Old English slang for “tongue” and “pop” meant “to slap.” Some linguists have even linked the name to the Roman phrase loli phaba (“red apple”), supposedly referring to the traditional Roman toffee apple treat . So the famous name originates from a horse, Old English slang, or ancient Rome. Or it could be made-up. Whatever the truth, it’s a unique way of looking at lollipops.

Everyone has a favorite candy. Some people like
the powdery sugar in Pixy Sticks. Others prefer
classics like lemon drops and root beer barrels.
Some like chewy candy like licorice, and some
like to suck on candy like jawbreakers.

Anyone who has a sweet tooth knows that
candy is the best way to sate it. However, you
may not know everything about your favorite
candy—like where it got its name, how it was
first made, or even why.


10 Saltwater Taffy Was Probably Named As A Joke
Although nobody knows who made it first,
saltwater taffy got its start either on the
boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, or at
Midwestern county fairs in the 19th century.
Taffy is made with sugar, salt, flavorings, corn
syrup, and other ingredients that vary between
recipes. It is then pulled and molded to aerate
the mixture so that it becomes soft and chewy.
Regardless of its name, this soft taffy does not
have saltwater in it, although some brands do
add extra salt.
According to rumor, saltwater taffy got its name
from candymaker David Bradley. During an
1883 storm, his taffy stock became soaked with
saltwater from the Atlantic Ocean. But even
though his store was flooded, customers still
came in to ask for his taffy. He jokingly called it
“saltwater taffy,” and the name stuck.
In 1923, John Edmiston trademarked the name
and tried to get a cut of the profits from anyone
selling “saltwater taffy.” But the Supreme Court
decided that the name had already been used
too often for candy and ruled against him. As a
result, Edmiston did not receive any royalties .
The term became common again and is now
the accepted way to market nearly any taffy,
salty or not.


9 Cotton Candy Was Promoted By Dentists
Originally called fairy floss, cotton candy has
gone by many monikers, such as candy floss or
spun sugar. John C. Wharton and William J.
Morrison patented their version of a cotton
candy machine in 1899. Then they introduced
the machine and their new candy concoction at
the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. They sold
nearly 70,000 boxes of candy at that fair.
As cotton candy is made entirely from
caramelized sugar, most people realize that
such a sweet overload will probably send you
to a dentist sooner rather than later.
Interestingly, Morrison was a dentist. To be
fair, he was also a lawyer, an author, and a
civic leader. But still, a dentist creating cotton
candy has to raise some eyebrows.
In 1900, cotton candy was introduced to the
Ringling Brothers by Thomas Patton, who had
invented a more modern version of the cotton
candy machine. Even later, Josef Lascaux,
another dentist , created another version of the
machine that he never officially patented. He
did, however, coin the name “cotton candy.”
As to why more than one dentist had a hand in
the rise of cotton candy’s popularity, we can
only guess that it has to do with the
consequential rise of cavities.

Naija sha every way na way...another means to siphon money from the HND victim. @op while will I spend this much when I can obtained the bsc with less amount?

well na naija we dey na I kno som ppu will still fall victim.

Nothing happen just like that...

I pray the Lord protect them and let them be found.. I just op its not another case of camping with their boyfriends and before u know they will appear from know where after they have been declared missing by families; meanwhile putting families and friends under pressure and making the good Nigerian offering prayers in vain.

Perilous time association...

prisiluv:
Realy Interesting History...those men seated above newyork,#epic...Good job op

Thank u..

Why IBO or Hausa man no dey the list of committee... tomorrow som ppu wl be shouting Lagos na no mans land.

May God protect him as he Olamide..

2 The Tourist In The Reagan Red Square Photo

In 1988, Ronald Reagan made a trip to
Moscow. As part of his visit, he took to Red
Square to meet local Russians. While shaking
hands with a young boy, the president had his
picture snapped by a White House
photographer. Nothing unusual about that. But
then you look at the blond, slightly geeky
tourist watching the encounter. According to
several sources, that man may well be a young
Vladimir Putin .
The link was first suggested in 2009, and it was
immediately shot down by Russia. However, it
has since persisted for several reasons. The
first is that we now know the KGB dressed
some of their agents up as ordinary Russians
and got them to ask Reagan difficult questions .
Putin was a member of the KGB at the time, so
his appearance there wouldn’t be unlikely. The
second reason is that it really does look like a
younger version of the current leader of Russia.
Pete Souza, who took the picture, today insists
that the blond man is a young Putin. For his
part, Putin’s spokespeople have strenuously
denied the encounter, saying he was working in
Dresden at the time. What do you think?


1 The Nameless KhmerRouge Victims

The Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot’s
Khmer Rouge threw up its fair share of horror
stories. None are quite as horrifying as that of
S-21. A former school converted into an
interrogation center, S-21 held as many as
17,000 people during the four years of Pol Pot’s
reign. Less than 10 of them survived . Inmates
were tortured for days on end then driven out
to the countryside, beaten to death, and thrown
in mass graves. The saddest part is we still
don’t know who most of them were.
The guards at S-21 did keep records.
Thousands of photographs have since surfaced
of the prisoners, with more coming in all the
time. Many are now known only by their
pictures. When S-21 was finally abandoned,
nearly every photo was separated from its
folder. Of the 6,000 pictures currently known,
the vast majority feature people who are
unidentified .
Ranging from frightened dissidents, to somber
old men, and young children with tears in their
eyes, the faces are all anonymous. Their
names, their stories, and their lives were all
wiped out. Today, we can only look at their
images and wonder who they were and how the
Khmer Rouge could feel they needed to be
erased from history.

4 The Grim Sleeper Women

A vicious serial killer who preyed on mostly
black women in the Los Angeles area, the Grim
Sleeper is thought to have murdered at least 11
people in 25 years. However, some say the
number is much higher. When current suspect
Lonnie Franklin Jr. (due to be tried this
summer) was arrested, police found over 180
photos of women in his home. Most had
obviously been taken in Franklin’s house or car.
A number appeared to be asleep, or
unconscious, or worse. Chillingly, the Grim
Sleeper’s only known survivor claims she was
photographed in his car right after being shot
and sexually assaulted.
Since the photos were first released in 2010,
police have identified nearly all of the women
shown. However question marks linger over
several them. The LAPD’s official website still
carries a graphic slideshow of 38 unknown
people taken from Franklin’s collection. Some
are ordinary pictures taken in bright daylight
outside his house. Others are far darker. At
least four of the photographed women appear
to be unconscious at best. Another looks like
she’s reacting in stark terror to something
unseen. Not only are these women unknown—
we don’t even know if they’re still alive.

3 The Truth Behind The
Falling Soldier Photo
An image of a Republican soldier falling from a
gunshot wound in the Spanish Civil War, Robert
Capa’s photo is one of the most iconic pictures
of war. It’s also one of the most fiercely
debated. To this day, we have no idea whether
it’s a genuine image or if Capa faked the whole
thing .
The arguments for both sides are compelling. A
2009 analysis by the Spanish daily El Periodico
seemed to pinpoint the location of the photo to
outside the town of Espejo. While Espejo did
receive its fair share of fighting, it wasn’t drawn
into the war until three weeks after the photo
appeared in the press. In addition, a collection
of Capa’s negatives discovered in the mid-’90s
appeared to show other staged pictures taken
at the same time, suggesting his most famous
image may have been staged, too.
On the other hand, experts at the International
Center of Photography still believe the picture
to be genuine. One school of thought claims it
shows a staged photograph that suddenly
turned real when a sniper picked off the posing
soldier. However, this claim contradicts Capa’s
account that the soldier died under machine
gun fire. Until definitive proof emerges either
way, the story behind the war’s most famous
photograph will remain a myst

6 The CSS Georgia Hoax

An ironclad Confederate warship launched in
1863 and scuttled 20 months later to prevent
capture, the CSS Georgia was long thought to
have never been photographed. Then, in the
mid-1980s, John Potter came across what
appeared to be a genuine picture of the Georgia
at a yard sale. Unable to afford the asking
price, he snapped a picture of the photo and
sent it to historian friends. They all agreed it
had to be the real deal. At this point, the
original photo vanished.
According to Potter, the man who owned it
moved away and disappeared off the face of
the Earth. Over the next few years, the picture
became legendary. With no blueprints or
accurate likenesses of the Georgia known to
exist, the photo would be utterly unique. The
Army Corps of Engineers even launched a drive
in 2014 to help locate it. Then, in April 2015,
Potter admitted to the Associated Press that
he’d faked the whole thing. It was a hoax
image, a way for him to get attention. The CSS
Georgia photo had never existed .
Or had it? In their report, the AP claimed Potter
suggested he might be pulling an elaborate
double hoax. A friend of Potter’s also claimed
Potter had the real photo and was intending to
sell it at a high price. It’s a mystery wrapped in
a mystery, and we may never get a straight
answer.


5 The Mysterious Margate
Family
The unknown Margate family are one of
Britain’s most charming recent mysteries. In
2015, the National Museum of Scotland
acquired a collection of Victorian-era
photographs. Most were random shots of men
in suits and women with stern expressions, but
a small number stood out. Running through the
collection were repeated images of the same
family on vacation in the Kent town of Margate.
As the photographs progressed, they grew older,
the children getting taller and a baby sister
suddenly appearing. It was like flicking through
the story of an entire family—one we know
absolutely nothing about.
The pictures themselves carry no formal
identification, and nothing to give us any clue
as to the people inside them. All we know is
they were taken by a professional photographer
called W. Colder, whose name appears in the
background of one shot. Beyond that, we’re
clueless.
It’s a shame, as the photos really let us into
the lives of this small family. We see them
posed, at rest and at play. We watch their joys,
their lives, and their children’s growth, until
suddenly they stop. Who were they? Why did
they stop going to Margate?

6 The CSS Georgia Hoax
An ironclad Confederate warship launched in 1863 and scuttled 20 months later to prevent capture, the CSS Georgia was long thought to have never been photographed. Then, in the mid-1980s, John Potter came across what appeared to be a genuine picture of the Georgia at a yard sale. Unable to afford the asking price, he snapped a picture of the photo and sent it to historian friends. They all agreed it had to be the real deal. At this point, the original photo vanished. According to Potter, the man who owned it moved away and disappeared off the face of the Earth. Over the next few years, the picture became legendary. With no blueprints or accurate likenesses of the Georgia known to exist, the photo would be utterly unique. The Army Corps of Engineers even launched a drive in 2014 to help locate it. Then, in April 2015, Potter admitted to the Associated Press that he’d faked the whole thing. It was a hoax image, a way for him to get attention. The CSS Georgia photo had never existed . Or had it? In their report, the AP claimed Potter suggested he might be pulling an elaborate double hoax. A friend of Potter’s also claimed Potter had the real photo and was intending to sell it at a high price. It’s a mystery wrapped in a mystery, and we may never get a straight answer.

7 What Happened To Alex Gardner’s Civil War Photos
The Civil War the first widely photographed conflict in history. It forever changed the way we viewed war, reporting, and images of death. A lot of this is thanks to one man: Alex Gardner. Even if you don’t know Gardner’s name, you know his work. It was Gardner who took the shots of the dead at Antietam, the shots of the Lincoln conspirators being hanged, and the iconic portrait of a pre-assassination Lincoln. He took more and better pictures than anyone else on the battlefields, even as credit for the images went to his employer. When he died, many of his original negatives went missing. They could have even been lost forever had another photographer not tracked them down in 1893. The rediscovered photos were hailed as one of the most important photographic finds in history. Then they promptly vanished again . To this day, we still have no idea where they went. A few may have made their way into museum collections, but the vast majority seem to have vanished into the ether. Some of the most valuable 19th-century negatives are still out there somewhere, now waiting to be rediscovered for the second time.

8 When The First Color Photograph Was Taken

In 1861, Thomas Sutton and James Clerk
Maxwell took three shots of a tartan ribbon
through green, red, and blue filters. They then
combined them to create a single image. Color
photography was born. Unless, that is, it had
already begun a decade earlier.
In winter 1851, the Daguerreian Journal, the
world’s first professional photography
magazine, received a letter. Written by the Rev.
Levi Hill, it claimed a breakthrough with color
pictures. Using a device known as a hillotype,
the reverend had already captured 45 color
specimens. The letter ended with a promise
that Hill would unveil his prototype soon, along
with an exhibition of his work.
Daguerreotype experts went nuts. It was the
equivalent of hearing that some hick had just
perfected virtual reality in his basement. But
then a funny thing happened. Hill kept pushing
back the date for his big reveal. He kept
pushing it and pushing it until everyone gave up
and called him a faker. Then he vanished into
seclusion and was never heard from again. For
decades after, everyone assumed he was simply
a hoaxer.
Only, it might not be so simple. In the early
21st century, a group of experts analyzed the
Smithsonian’s collection of hillotypes and found
faint traces of color . They also found evidence
that some of the slides had been altered by
hand but maybe not all of them. It’s now
impossible to say for certain whether Hill really
did fake the lot or whether he honestly took the
first color photographs. Maybe we will never
know.

9 The Identity Of The First Man Photographed
In 1838, a resident of Paris stopped to have his shoes shined on the Boulevard du Temple and accidentally made history. At that precise moment, Louis Daguerre was experimenting with his daguerreotype on a nearby rooftop and snapped a picture of the street. It took seven minutes to complete the exposure, which was so long that all the traffic became invisible. But our Parisian man just happened to spend those seven minutes standing still. As a result, he became the first photographed human in history. Beyond that, we know nothing about him. Literally nothing. Regarding his life, looks, occupation, income, ideals, family life, and origins, we’re completely in the dark. We don’t even know for certain that he was a Parisian or that he was having his shoes shined. Some have suggested the image actually shows a man standing at a water pump . There’s even a school of thought that says he isn’t alone in the photograph. While the supposed shoeshine boy moved too quick to be captured, a blurred image at a window might indicate that the customer shared his unwitting honor with another unknown soul.

It’s estimated we humans take around one
trillion photos every single year. While the
majority of them are likely either selfies or
pornography (or some pleasing combination of
the two), not every picture is so easily
classified. Some are even deeply mysterious.
Here are 10 photographic mysteries that have
left the whole world baffled.


10 The Identities Of The Skyscraper Men
It’s one of the most iconic images in history. A
group of men sit on a steel girder, hundreds of
feet above New York, calmly eating their lunch.
It’s been reproduced more times than every
single other image on this list
combined . . . and we don’t know anything
about it.
This lack of knowledge includes the answer to
seemingly simple questions like “who took it? ”
Though the picture’s a modern icon, its
author’s identity remains unknown. For years,
the shot was credited to Lewis Hine, but recent
research says there’s no way Hine could have
been responsible. The most likely candidate is
the Rockefeller Center’s old photographic
director, Charles C. Ebbets, but it could just
have easily been PR men Thomas Kelley or
William Leftwich or somebody else altogether.
But even if we’ve solved that mystery, there’s
still the question of its subjects’ identities. Like
the photographer, most of the men are
completely anonymous . It wasn’t until 2012
that two were named definitively as Joseph
Eckner and Joe Curtis, with another two
tentatively identified as Matty O’Shaughnessy
and Patrick “Sonny” Glynn. That still leaves
seven guys who never bothered to tell anyone
they were in one of the 20th century’s greatest
pictures. As more time passes, it’s becoming
less and less likely that their names will ever be
known.

raayah:
She is dressed very badly and should be advised by HR to leave but MEN should have self control too, they are not babies. Afterall, we women see men without shirt and short knickers all the time and we don't harrass them.

U ar so on point...but my dear body exposure by men is not the same compare to that of ladies. Na God do am so.

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Let him dance to the music If he follow them chop naija money...

3 Mitchel Weiser & Bonita Bickwit

On July 27, 1973, 16-year old Mitchell Weiser
met his 15-year old girlfriend Bonita Bickwit at
her workplace in Narrowsburg, New York. They
planned to hitchhike to a concert festival 75
miles away in Watkins Glen. They were given a
short ride by a truck driver and were last seen
hitchhiking on State Route 97, but after that,
they disappeared and it’s unknown whether
they even made it to the concert. Authorities
initially suspected that the young couple ran
away together, but their families did not believe
this.
The case took an interesting turn in 2000 when
a witness named Allyn Smith came forward and
claimed that after the concert, he hitched a ride
on a Volkswagen bus and interacted with two
teenagers who may have been Mitchel and
Bonita. Smith said that when they stopped to
go swimming in a river, Bonita got into trouble
in the water and Mitchel dived in to save her.
After they were both swept away, the bus driver
apparently told Smith he would call the police
at the next available phone, but there is no
record of any call being made. While authorities
don’t discount Smith’s story, they do find it
strange that he made no attempt to help the
couple and waited 26 years to come forward.
Since there is no evidence to confirm if Smith’s
story is true, Mitchel and Bonita are still
officially considered missing.

2 Conor & Sheila Dwyer

One of the most baffling missing persons cases
in the history of Ireland occurred in 1991 when
an elderly couple named Conor and Sheila
Dwyer mysteriously vanished from the town of
Fermoy. The last confirmed sighting of them
was when they attended Mass at St. Patrick’s
church on April 30. After not hearing from them
for weeks, Sheila’s sister decided to visit the
couple’s home on May 18. When nobody
answered, she decided to notify the police.
They arrived and broke down the door, but
could find no sign of the Dwyers inside.
The Dwyers’ Toyota Cressida was nowhere to
be found, but their home was otherwise
completely normal. There were no signs of
struggle, robbery or forced entry. The house
was secure and all their personal items,
including their clothing and glasses, were still
there. The couples’ passports and over £1000
in cash were stashed in a tin. Curiously enough,
investigators found out that Conor Dwyer had
previously gone missing for a couple of years
sometime in the 1980s. He eventually returned,
but never provided any explanation about where
he had been. Unfortunately, history would not
repeat itself and Conor didn’t return this time
around. Authorities have not found any
evidence to suggest what might have happened
to the couple and 20 years later, this remains
one of Ireland’s strangest unsolved mysteries.

1 William & Margaret
Patterson
Sometime after the evening of March 5, 1957,
52-year old William Patterson and his 42-year
old wife, Margaret, vanished from their home in
El Paso, Texas. The couple’s vehicles had been
left behind, along with their cat and the house
seemed to be in disarray. It was initially
believed that they had left for Florida on an
extended vacation, but a neighbor finally
reported the Pattersons missing five months
later. The neighbor had been at the Patterson
home on the night of their disappearance and
said they seemed very upset.
A mysterious letter from William soon appeared,
providing specific instructions about how his
businesses and properties were to be
distributed to three of his employees.
Authorities suspected the note was not actually
written by William and one of these employees
was seen working on William’s boat at the
Patterson home right before they vanished. In
1984, a man who had been hired to clean the
Patterson home after their disappearance
claimed he found some blood under the water
heater and a piece of human scalp on the
boat’s propeller. He also saw one of the
aforementioned employees removing bloody
sheets and putting them in the trunk of his car,
but waited 27 years to tell police since he was
an illegal immigrant at the time. While there are
still no answers in the Pattersons’
disappearance, their old house still remains…
and is rumored to be haunted by their ghosts!

so my ppu as we celebrate this valentine let not throw caution in the air.

4 Hue Pham & Hue Tran
In May 2005, Hue Pham and Hue Tran , a retired Vietnamese-American couple who had been together 49 years, embarked on a seven-day Caribbean cruise on the Carnival Cruise Line ship, “Destiny”. They took their daughter, Sharon, and granddaughter along with them. At around midnight on May 8, Sharon received a phone call in her cabin, asking her to retrieve some items from the reception desk. They turned out to be her parents’ flip-flops and her mother’s purse. They had been found on a deck the couple liked to frequent, but there was no sign of them anywhere. Sharon immediately searched for her parents and informed the crew about their disappearance, but it took them hours to make an official announcement and inform the Coast Guard. The deck where the couple went missing overlooked a 70-foot drop into the ocean, but the ship continued on course and did not turn around to search the area where they could have fallen overboard. The cruise line suggested that they may have committed suicide, but their family did not believe that at all. Days later, the FBI finally conducted an investigation and while they ruled out suicide, they could also find no evidence of foul play. The Pham children have been highly critical of how Carnival Cruise Line has handled the disappearance and even testified before Congress about improving safety measures on cruise ships. However, they have yet to receive any answers about what really happened to their parents.

6 Claude & Martha Sue Shelton
37-year old Claude Shelton and his 27-year old
wife, Martha Sue, lived with their three children
at a residence in a trailer park in Corbin,
Kentucky. On the evening of May 21, 1971, the
couple put their children to bed and then left
the trailer park in their Ford Galaxie. Neither the
Sheltons nor their car has ever been seen
again. No one believed that the couple would
have willingly abandoned their children, so
authorities were completely baffled about what
might have compelled them to drive away and
leave their kids alone in the middle of the night.
One of the Shelton children claimed they
overheard Claude asking Sue, “Are you going
with me or are you going to stay here?” before
hinting that they were going to drive to King’s
Truck Stop, which was five miles away.
However, authorities could not find anyone from
the truck stop who remembered seeing them
there that night. The Sheltons had also saved
up over $600, which they kept in a bowl in the
kitchen, but that money disappeared along with
them. Two months after the couple went
missing, the body of an unidentified woman
was found in Oregon which resembled Sue and
in 2009, DNA tests were performed to check for
a possible match. However, the body turned out
not to be her, so the fate of the Sheltons
remains a mystery.

5 Danielle Imbo & Richard Petrone
Danielle Imbo & Richard Petrone , a Philadelphia
couple in their mid-thirties, spent the evening of
February 19, 2005 having drinks with friends. At
around 11:30 PM, they left the establishment in
Richard’s Dodge Dakota pickup truck. After
that, they just seemed to vanish off the face of
the Earth. Since then, there has been no activity
on their bank accounts or credit cards and their
cell phones have remained turned off. Danielle
and Richard each had a child from a previous
relationship and it seemed unlikely that they
would just abandon them.
It was suspected that the couple might have
accidentally driven into the nearby Delaware
River, but while a search of the water turned up
several submerged vehicles, none of them were
Richard’s pickup truck. Authorities soon
investigated Danielle’s estranged husband, Joe
Imbo, who had allegedly exchanged threats
with Richard over the phone. In fact, Danielle
had also reportedly told Richard she wanted to
break up with him, though she still agreed to go
out with him on the night they disappeared. All
these suspicions have caused a lot of tension
between Danielle and Richard’s separate
families, though there is no evidence to suggest
foul play on anyone’s part. However, after eight
years, there is still no trace of Danielle Imbo,
Richard Petrone or their vehicle.