Disappearances

Not only was Eddie Aikau a local surfer and an international icon, he was also the first lifeguard at one of Hawaii's most dangerous beaches. It's estimated he saved over 500 people. So when the Hokule' he was in capsized, it was no surprise that he would risk everything to save his crew.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Between 1941 and 1945, two-thirds of all Jewish people living in Europe were murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Families were often torn apart, with survivors assuming their loved ones were killed. Today, we focus on just a few of the thousands of stories of people looking for answers about relatives who disappeared during the Holocaust. For more information on the Holocaust, we recommend checking out ushmm.org, yadvashem.org, and drk-suchdienst.de. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A week after a category 5 hurricane makes landfall in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a 32-year-old teacher named Hannah Upp goes missing. The search for her is complicated by two things: a second hurricane that hits the islands shortly after the first, and the strong possibility that Hannah may be in a fugue state — a form of amnesia that can last for years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When a teenage dance teacher goes missing in O’ahu, over a thousand volunteers show up to canvas the island. But her family will wait years to even come close to understanding what happened to her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The daughter of the infamous Aaron Burr boards a schooner in 1812 heading to New York from South Carolina. A week passes and the ship never arrives. Two centuries later, the mystery of her fate still lingers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eighteen years ago, 21-year-old Maura Murray crashed her car into a snowbank off a two-lane highway in New Hampshire. It takes just minutes from when she was last seen for her to disappear completely. But why was she on Route 112 at all that night? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Listeners, enjoy a year-end replay of our episode on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart: On May 21 1937, Amelia Earhart was a world-famous pilot about to embark on a record-setting flight. But just a little over a month later, en route to an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, she vanished. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just days before Christmas 1974, three young girls — ages 9, 14 and 17 — go to the mall to do some last-minute gift shopping. Only, they never return. Police believe they’ve run away and are slow to investigate, forcing the girls’ families to mount their own search. A cryptic letter and a phone call are the only real clues they have to the girls’ fates.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One morning in May 2016, 19-year-old Logan Schiendelman tells his grandma he’s had an epiphany. But she never finds out what it is. Because shortly after, Logan’s car is found abandoned on the side of the I-5 in Tumwater, Washington. No one has a clue where he might’ve gone. And as police retrace his movements, his disappearance only gets more confounding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The real Dr. Gonzo — the man who inspired the legendary character in Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” — was a writer and attorney who advocated for Chicano civil rights in the ‘60s. Zeta, as he was known, mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Mazatlan, Mexico in 1974. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices