Name: How People Disappear
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T09:32:46.000Z
Duration: 13 min 23 s
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in Minneapolis an angry dad stormed into the retail store

had been receiving coupons in the mail from the store for things like cribs

and diapers. Was Target encouraging his daughter,

a minor, to go out and get pregnant? well

Well, the store apologized but a few days later they heard back from the father. He

"a few things have been going on in my household

in August. I owe you an apology." You see,

Target's internal algorithms have been tracking

and processing his daughter's purchases and recently

she'd started buying different items than usual.

Things like certain vitamin supplements and scent-free soaps and lotions.

she could be pregnant, thus they her sent the coupons.

We are tracked and followed digitally now more than

ever before. We live in a world of 24/7 CCTV,

browser cookies, trackable debit cards and cell phones and GPS,

fingerprinting and DNA analysis. But despite

in the United States alone more than 2,000 people

Where do missing people go? How did they disappear?

disappeared? In many cases, missing persons are the victims

They may have suffered accidents or taken their own lives

and their bodies were never found. Or they may be perfectly fine and have simply

escaped their old life, old friends and family, old debt and obligations to start

somewhere else, possibly as someone else.

How long would it take for people to notice

if you disappeared? Well, think about it. I mean,

it sort of depends on who you are, how you live

and how you disappeared. In most jurisdictions after about five to seven

if no one has heard anything from you at all,

This is what happened to French astronomer

Guillaume Le Gentil. In the 18th century hundreds of people traveled far and wide

to observe the transit of Venus from different locations

on earth. They knew that by comparing their measurements they could calculate

more accurately than ever before just how far away

in India. But after a storm blew him off course

and the British occupied Pondicherry, he was forced to spend the day

of the transit on a boat at sea, which rocked

too much for accurate measurements to be taken. Now, the next

transit would happen in 8 years. But after that, the next

next transit wouldn't happen for another 100 years.

So, he stuck around. He didn't return to Paris. Instead, he built an observatory

to Paris, 11 years after leaving, he found that he had been declared

his family had plundered  his belongings and his position

at the Royal Academy of Sciences had been given to someone else.

by the way. On the day that it happened, the sky above him

Population figures and counters are only estimations.

Individuals are best accounted for by real people

in their real lives. But that doesn't always

Earlier this year Janet Veal passed away in her apartment

in Ringwood, Hampshire. Large portions of her body

were eaten by her pet cats before she was discovered

Joyce Carol Vincent was found dead on her sofa,

was found. She'd been dead for at least three

And four days after Timothy McVeigh bombed

a federal building in Oklahoma City, taking

No one knew who it belonged to. The legs of all the other victims had been

and no one else had been reported missing.

DNA analysis showed that the leg belonged to a Lakesha Levy,

but she had already been buried with both her legs.

She'd been buried with someone else's left

leg. The legs were swapped,  but because her body had been embalmed,

DNA in the unknown leg could not be analyzed.

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