What Happened to These CELEBRITIES Who VANISHED?

What Happened to These CELEBRITIES Who VANISHED?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello friends, Steve Stalkton here with you. Welcome to our
latest video. In this episode, we'll be taking a look
at ten celebrities for famous people that have gone missing
and were never found. Now, inasmuch as celebrity or fame
is not an easy commodity to measure, these stories are
presented in a random order, so we feel that any

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one famous person is not necessarily more famous than another.
Join us number ten. Ritchie Edwards, also known as Richie Maniac. Ritchie,
was born December twenty second, nineteen sixty seven in Cardiff, Wales.
He was a guitarist for the band called Manic Street

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Preachers and was reported missing February first, nineteen ninety five
at just twenty seven years old. Belonging to the so
called twenty seven Club is not a membership most would
be willing to complete the demands to get into. Musicians
that have joined this exclusive club over the years are
the likes of Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and

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Kurt Cobain, to name just a few. What do these
people in this club have in common other than being
famous musicians. They all died at the age of twenty seven.
Now making the rock scene in the late eighties, Manic
Street Preachers put a new spin on the commonplace rock
and roll at the time. Not wanting to be linked
to any one type of music, the guitar player and

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the songwriter was cutting edge for the time. The music
they were producing has been compared to the clash meets
Guns n' Roses. According to one news article, Richie Edwards
was seen as the leader of the group, but the
truth is that it was he and the bass player,
Nicky Wire that shared the responsibilities with songwriting just the same,
and other production ideas were also shared. Ritchie's charisma, intelligence,

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and artistic voice drew people in and made it easy
to interview him. A seriously introverted person, Edwards was careful
with his words and interviews and took that part of
fame very seriously. It said that he wanted fame more
than anything and was obsessed with image and notoriety and
described as vein in many ways, Edwards was also a

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deeply introspective poet. Other band members remember their missing bandmate
as someone who wanted to become an image for the
discarded and disenfranchised, while being adored and taken seriously In fact,
he was so serious that during an interview, after telling
the reporter that the band was for real, Ritchie actually
carved the number four and the word reel into his

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arm of the razorblade required eighteen stitches to tide it
all up. The band would release three records before the
mysterious disappearance of Richie Edwards, so they aspired to be
the biggest band in the world. Generation Terrorist, the Holy
Bible and Everything Must Go. Edward's disappeared between the days
of February first and fourteenth of nineteen ninety five. His

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Vauxhall car was found near Severn Bridge, parked and looked
as though it had been there for a few days.
The spot is infamous for jumpers, and while it was
said that Edward was really depressed, he seemed to be
coping by drinking and reportedly had a prescription for Prozac.
His family was reluctant to declare him deceased rather than missing.

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In two thousand and eight, his status was upgraded to
missing presume dead, even though there were still reports of
sightings of Edwards all around Asia. Arguably one of the
greatest mysteries in rock and roll history, the disappearance of
Richie Edwards at age twenty seven, was something that his
friend said he would do just to establish himself as
a cultural martyr, just as he wanted since his early

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teen years. Number nine James Anthony Sullivan, also known as
Jim Sully, Sullivan, or just Sully. He was born August thirteenth,
nineteen forty Nebraska, played football in high school, would marry
the homecoming Queen. He was the seventh son of a
blue collar family that would ultimately move across the country

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to San Diego, California, during wartime in World War Two.
Having played guitar for band called Survivors, once solely got
his hands on a guitar, he was hooked, owning his
powerful gift of strum. The guitar Souley played was as
much a part of him as his talented hands that
played it. Having moved to California as a child afforded

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him the opportunities he would need to find others that
shared his passion for music. Described as the kind of
California character who seemed to have stepped straight out of
a Pinchon or DeLillo novel, Sully stood six foot two
with a signature hannebar mustache very charismatic and charming individual.
His songs were steeped in mysterious vibes with the lonely

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moldies of days gone by crooners to the likes of
Nick Drake and Graham Parsons. He had an impressive social
circle that included Dennis Hoffer as well as other A
list celebrities, and even made an uncredited appearance in the
film Easy Rider. Sulvan also recorded his first record, called UFO,
in nineteen sixty nine on a small label in California.

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Aspiring to attract a bigger label for his music, Sully
decided to leave his own life behind and start a
new in Nashville, Tennessee. In nineteen seventy five. Sully would
leave California on his way to Nashville after separating from
his wife, Barbara ursue a record deal. At the time,
Barbara Sulvan worked at Capitol Records, but none of the

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executives there were interested in her folkey singer husband at
the time, but others did believe in Sully and that
was the reason he was going to Nashville. Traveling along
I forty, he made a stop in Santa Rose in
New Mexico and drifted into the desert winds, never to
be heard from again. Now this scenario where many people

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have gone missing and a few have been found. Santa
rose in New Mexico, particularly in the nineteen seventies, was
a small town dependent on tourists and travelers alike. Around
twenty eight hundred people called this place home, and it's
surrounded by vast desert desolation for miles around, not much
more than a pit stop in the middle of the desert,
and just a few years prior to in the sixties,

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a major stop for travelers on the old Route sixty six.
Santa Rosa became a mainstay stop for travelers, mainly for
fuel and snacks after I forty cut through the small town.
Sullivan was one of these travelers in nineteen seventy five
when he stopped in Santa Rosa in his Gray vw Van.
March fifth of that year is when things took a

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turn for the Wars. After having been pulled over on
suspicion of driving well intoxicated, Jim Sullivan stopped in Santa Rosa,
New Mexico and rented a hotel room, which he never
stayed in. He contacted his wife and had a very
cryptic conversation with her. You wouldn't believe it if I
told you. Sullivan has reported the saint as a strange wife. Jim,

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what's the matter? Is anything wrong? She asked here, if
i'd just get it, I'll call you from Nashville, but
Sulivan would never make it. Days later, after no word
from him, Barbara Sulvan called hospitals police departments along the route,
so she tracked down a department that had made contact
with him for the traffic stop. An officer is quoted

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as telling her that Sulivan isn't in jail, but if
you ask me, that's where he belongs. Although he had
passed a sobriety test and was let go, Selvan made
his way to the Mesa Hotel in Santa Rosa and
rented a room, but it's reported that during the search
form the bed was still made and the room was
as firsten as when it was rented out. March eighth,

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nineteen seventy five, Sulivan's Great VW was towed from a
rough Mesa studdied area twenty four miles south of Santa Rosa,
and all his belongings, including his prize twelve string guitar
were inside a cattle han Pete Senna worked for the
ranch near the area where Slivan's VW van was found
and had seen him that day and asked if he
needed a ride. We thought he was some cowboy. Sina

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said he had a hand of bar mustache, just like
a cattle hand. We knew. Sullivan declined help, and Sena
was presumably the last person to see him. Friends and
family immediately knew something was wrong, and one friend went
as far as to say, I knew he wasn't coming back.
Jim would never have left his guitar. After learning of

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the guitar being found inside the van, police continued to
search for Jim Sullivan, but they never turned up any
new clues as to his whereabouts. Sulivan's brothers would take
up the cause and conduct their own searches, but nothing
was ever found. There were several articles placed in newspapers
asking for the public's help and finding the man. Rumors

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and speculations as to Sullivan's disappearance and the mysterious circumstances
that surrounded the case fueled rumors. Some say he was
abducted by aliens. Others claimed there were Maffia ties, and
then some people think that he just walked away from
his life. Those are just a few of the rumors
people told and retold for years to come. Sullivan's a

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strange wife accounts finding soulless in thinking he was abducted
by aliens. It was a lot easier than the alternative,
she was quoted as saying. In twenty nineteen, Matt Sullivan
no relation heard the song Jerome off of Jim Salvan's
UFO album and was transfixed by the folky, bluesy American sound.

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It wasn't even a maybe, he says. Within the first
thirty seconds of Jerome, I knew I wanted to record
it and put it out. Matt Sullivan is the founder
of Lights in the Attic, a small independent record label.
Willing to know more about the artist, Matt and his
filmmaker wife, Jennifer moz enlisted the help of a private
detective and another musician to help investigate the late Sullivan's

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missing Santa Rosa hours and disappearance. They met and talked
to a lot of people that had earlier spoken to
Sullivan the day he went missing or had their own theories.
We traced his las known whereabouts we met his family.
It was incredibly emotional, Matt Sullivan said. The re release

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of UFO in twenty ten xponitentially outperformed the original release,
and the same year was promoted on Coast to Coast
am where people called in with their theories on the
mysterious disappearance of the talented James Sully Sultan number eight.
Connie Converse born Elizabeth Eaton Converse August fourth, nineteen twenty

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four in Laconia, New Hampshire. Connie was raised by religiously
strict parents in a time that was difficult for women
to break through into professional music careers. Converse would win
a college scholarship, but would never even finish high school,
choosing instead to pack up and move to New York.
Being exposed to the counterculture of the Bohemians and the
Beatnicks in the nineteen fifties, Converse started her music career

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in the exclusive Greenwich Village, New York scene. In nineteen
seventy four, Connie Converse would go missing, and her disappearance
would become as much of an enigma as much of
her life was. In nineteen fifty four, a friend of
Converse helped to record her first set of songs in
the kitchen of their home. Working for a printing firm
at the time, Converse was passionate about her music and

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would later be attributed as the first modern singer songwriter,
arguably some of the most hauntingly beautiful songs of the time.
Her acoustic sound and sophistication of melodies were done with
ease and set her apart from other folk performers in
that era such as Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Not
known as the strongest, focused or the best instrument player,

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Converse was, however, able to deliver an intimacy and depth
in her music that wouldn't be duplicated again for decades.
She sang about arguing lovers, promiscuity, loneliness, and other life
events that were taboo for a lady to even speak
of in those times, let alone sing about. These songs
came from somewhere deep within Converse, almost like she'd live them.

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Maybe she had. There was a hurt and vulnerability in
her voice that came out through the words and catches
the listener right in the feelings. The friend that helped
her record her songs would later say, the more I
thought about it. The songs were all about herself. After
leaving music behind, Converse would go on to edit the
Journal of Conflict Resolution, did amateur cartoon drawings, and was

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a very vocal political activist. After the recording of that
first demo in the kitchen and trying to make a
go over music career, Converse became depressed because the songs
weren't being picked up by any producers or radio stations.
This is where her life would take a major turn.
To deal with the depression she was encountering, Converse would

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turn to drinking heavily. Her depression never receded and seemed
to be relentless. Decades after recording her first song, Connie
Converse would finally get the recognition and admiration for her
music she so desperately saw it in the nineteen fifties.
In two thousand and nine, on New York label would
come across their recordings and produce an album called How Sad,

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How Lonely. The music, considering when it was recorded, sounds
eerily contemporary. David Hermann of squirrel Thing Records set of
Conversus music. He would go on to say, her voice
is really compelling. Add that to the fact this was
a woman writing singer songwriter style music in the mid fifties,
before being a singer songwriter was even a thing, and

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before a female singer songwriter's something that people were used to.
Add that with the mystery of her disappearance, the whole
thing leaves you with more questions than answers. There would
also be a forty minute documentary by American filmmaker Andrea
Kahns dedicated to the rediscovery of Connie Converse at the
Censoria Film and Music Festival that was played on Connie

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Converse Tribute Night. Connie would also find a cult following
decades after she gave up on her music career. People
are still drawn to her folk style and her adult
contemporary lyrics and sound. With the release of her songs
and the documentary, Honey Converse finally has some of the
spotlights she envisioned so many decades ago. In the summer

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of nineteen seventy four, and just days before her fiftieth birthday, CONEYE.
Converse wrote friends and family to let them know her
plans to leave her Michigan home and start fresh somewhere else.
Her plans were only known to her as she packed
her belongings at her VW beetle and drove off into
the night. She hasn't been seen nor heard from since.

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Number seven. Scott Smith bassist for the rock band lover Boy.
Lover Boy. The band was wildly popular in the eighties,
with some songs on their roster like Working for the Weekend,
which went to number one in Canada and the US
eleven Every Minute of It number one in the US
This could be the Night number one in the US,

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and when It's Over, which went to number one in
the US. Collectively, they sold over twenty three million records
and were not a one hit wonder. Lover Boy, originally
named cover Boy by lead guitarist Paul Deane but later changed,
was formed in Canada in nineteen seventy eight, but toured
the world over many times. Smith was the founding member
of the band and bassist for the group for the

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entire time. Their debut was opening for the band Kiss
in Vancouver, British Columbia, and they still sell out concerts
to this day. In the year two thousand, Smith was
on a boat bound for Mexico from Vancouver, British Columbia,
with two friends and his girlfriend when a storm started
to disturb the waves into twenty five foot swells that
eventually knocked the boat onto the port side of the

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Golden Gate Bridge off the coast of Ocean Beach, California.
Friend Bill Ellis, who was also on the boat, was
down in the cabin changing in the storm gear, and
when he made his way back to the controls, Smith
was missing, along with the boat's steering wheel. The remaining
crew was able to get the boat upright eventually and
come about to the area horse Smith was last seen.

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There was no sign of Smith nor any debris, even
though they searched for an hour. The two friends were unharmed,
and the girlfriend was treated for hypothermia and released from
a nearby hospital. The Coastguard was called and a search
was started, but hampered by weather and a heavy fog
that rolled into the area. One hundred and thirty three
square miles were searched, but no sign of Smith was

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ever found. A private search and rescue was also done,
but they were also unable to recover anything from the
wreckage and never located Smith's body. Experts weighing in on
the missing person's case suggested that no one could survive
in those waters for more than two and a half
hours due to hypothermia and sharks. Scott Smith was just
forty five years old. The band resumed touring a year

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after his disappearance. In Smith's Memory. Number six. Oscar Zeta Acosta,
also known as Doctor Gonzo. He was born April eighth,
nineteen thirty five, in El Faso, Texas. Acosta was an activist, lawyer, politician,
novelist and was hunter as Topsin's Muse for his nineteen

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seventy two book Beear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and
appeared as the character Doctor Gonzo. Having made his mark
defending the East Side thirteen, a staged high school walk
out to protest education inequalities for Mexican Americans which saw
thirteen men charged with conspiracy for the planning of around
twenty thousand students walking all their schools for the protest.

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A highly controversial figure but beloved in the Mexican American community,
Aacosta would contact his son to let him know he
was in Siniola, Mexico, right before he disappeared. He was
never seen again. Having grown up in Texas, Acosta played
football in high school and was president of his student body.
After graduating, he departed for Panama, where he was in

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the United States Air Force and became a Baptist preacher.
Deciding to return to the States, Acosta entered night school
to become a lawyer. This allowed him to become the
lawyer for the Chicano Movement, helping immigrants from Mexico fight
for civil rights. Being a lawyer also helped run for
Sheriff of Los Angeles with the promise of ultimate dissolution

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of the department. The Costa received over one hundred thousand votes,
but needed a million or more to win. A close
friend of Hunter S. Thompson, he would regularly accompany the
writer to Las Vegas while Thompson was collecting information for
his best selling book turned movie, Fear and Loathing in
Last Vegas to Dust. Cover of the book would show

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a cost In Thompson sitting at the bar at Caesar's Palace,
shot glasses, empty their whiskey, and assault shaker of illicit
substance that they're ready. The book will portray a Costa
as a three hundred pound drug addl Samoan, when in
reality he was a two hundred pound Mexican American. This
would be the only complaint he would have about how
he was portrayed in the book. Many people knew that

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the Costa would often show up in court barefoot and high.
Thompson would explain that his reasoning for the portrayal of
his friend was to keep the lapd in court officials
from harassing Acosta, as he was a lawyer in the area.
A documentary on the life of Oscar Zada Costa was
released called The Rise and Follow of the Brown Buffalo,
and it can be found here on YouTube. It follows

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Acosta's education. Activist rallies that he held his defense of
the East LA thirteen, his run for sheriff, and his
two book deal depicting his life in an autobiography. The
book called Revolt of the Cockroach People follows his career
as a lawyer and supporter of Mexican American civil rights.
We are the janitors of the world. Acostas quoted as saying.

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He also gives his opinion on the militia type behaviors
by police agencies on Americans and especially minorities. A Costa
has strong views on this subject and said that they
are not a policing agency any longer. They are a militia.
These type quotes made him a legend in the minds
of Mexican Americans, as a Costa was fighting for their rights.

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During the making of The Rise and Fall of the
Brown Buffalo, the producers were able to use rare footage
and lines recorded before a Costa's disappearance in his own voice.
This was an amazing accomplishment because other than Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas, Acosta was rarely filmed in public.
Acosta was married to Secoro Aguiniga, a paralegal pullklorico dancer

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and also a Chikana activist. She was able to introduce
Acosta to many of the key figures in the Chicano movement.
They had one son together that is kept his father's
case alive for decades, never giving up hope of information
that would lead to finding him. Very little details have
been released on Acosta's disappearance in the forty four years
plus since his disappearance, Oscar Zeta Costa has become an

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almost mythical legend due to the huge cult following for
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, both the book and
the movie. His missing person case is considered cold and
has had no new leads in decades. Number five Michael Rockefeller.
We will note here that Rockefeller is rumored to be
the most slen name in high society. There are a

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lot of people they claimed to be Rockefellers that aren't,
But Michael was the real deal. He was born into
American royalty on May thirteenth, nineteen thirty eight, New York,
the father that would eventually become the New York Governor
Nelson Rockefeller. In nineteen sixty one, seven months into a
world tour, the catamaran Rockefeller was on overturned and he

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was thrown into the water after being hit by wave
near Ozmad off the shores of New Guinea. He made
it to shore, but was then never seen again. Here's
where the disappearance turned strange. At first, it was presumed
that the famous Rockefeller drowned and was lost to the
waters forever. However, conspiracies and wild accusations about local tribesmen

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living in cannibalistic colonies were accused of killing and consuming
the twenty three year old. Now, while it's true that
the area does have colonies that probably have never seen
a piece of paper nor a light bulb, ban do
practice cannibalism. In some instances, that particular act is usually
reserved for elders that have passed away in the tribes,
and the members consumed the body to inherit specific traits,

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the wild spirits of, or even the soul of their
deceased family member. In other words, it's done as means
of ancestor worship, and they wouldn't need an outsider. The
debate as to the young Rockefeller's fate is still debated
to this day. At the time of Michael Rockefeller's disappearance,
there was no high society page in the newspaper to
cover such stories. Years later, there was a documentary made

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from Netflix twenty fourteen, The Search for Michael Rockefeller. There
was also a Broadway play, a rock song, a book,
and a TV series in the nineteen eighties. The fact is,
no one really knows what happened to Michael Rockefeller, and
speculation on this strange case is boundary. Great whispers all
the way from high society gatherings to magazine articles for

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years to come. Number four Barbara Newell Follet Barbara was
a jazz age prodigy writer. She was born in nineteen
fourteen in Hanover, New Hampshire. She was a high achiever
from the start, having published her first novel, The House
Without Windows, of the tender age of twelve, she was

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destined to go far in life. The progeny of literary
legacy Wilson Follett, who was a literary critic of Professor
and Helen Thomas Fallett, famed children's author. She was homeschooled
and showed great promise at a very young age. So
also could her own language she called fark Sue, which
she spoke in her imaginary world called fark Solia. Age four,

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she'd started writing poetry and was well on her way
to being an American great. Her first novel, which was
started at age eight and finished by twelve, had to
be recalled by memory as the original manuscript was lost
in a fire. The novel was critically claimed and launched
Fallett into celebrity status as she turned just thirteen years old.
The Voyage of the Norman Dy her next book, was

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released in nineteen twenty eight, and while she was writing
this novel, she was also reviewing and editing for other writers,
appearing on radio shows and the cover of several magazines
of the era. Wolett was the talk of the town.
Later that same year, her father would leave her mother
for another woman, perhaps having been her mused. Leaving her
father left her spending out of control, and she stopped

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writing all together. This is a small writing from follow
it at that difficult time as to what she was feeling.
It reads, my dreams are going through their death flurries.
I thought they were all safely buried, but sometimes they
stir in their grave, making my heart strings twinge. I
mean no particular dream, you understand, but the whole radiant

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flock of them, together with their rainbow wings, iridescent, bright, soaring, glorious, sublime,
they are dying before the steel javelins and arrows of
a world of time and money. At age sixteen, Violet
would move to New York with her mother during the Depression,
and what a hard life it was with the teenager.

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She would go on to take a secretary job meet
her future husband, whom she married in nineteen thirty one.
She was said to have been the happiest in these
years as a wife, but she couldn't get any of
her writing published until nineteen thirty four, when she penned
her third novel, Lost Ireland. Followed by a fourth Travels
without a Donkey, which was to be her last. Suspecting

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her husband of infidelity, their marriage began to fall apart,
and one night, finding themselves in a heated argument, Wolett
walked out of their apartment and into the night, never
to be seen again. She wasn't reported missing until two
weeks later by her husband, and he would wait a
further four months to request a missing person's built and
be published, for no one recognized her married name, and

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so little attention was paid by the public until nineteen
sixty six, when a newspaper would write about the disappearance
and it finally hit the mainstream media. Folett could have
changed the face of the literary world forever, but she
went missing just as she was starting to really live
her life. Her mother suspected Falin's husband of having something
to do with their disappearance, and a letter to him

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that can be read online, Whilett's father made several pleas
for her to either come home or her safe return,
but no clues ever surfaced. In a haunting excerpt taken
from her first novel, Barbara Newell Follett wrote, she would
be invisible forever to all mortals, save those few who
have minds to believe, eyes to see to these. She

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is ever present, the spirit of nature, a sprite of
the meadow, a naig at of lakes, a nymph of
the woods. Number three. Glenn Miller, also known as Alton
Glenn Miller, leader of the Glenn Miller Orchestra Glynn, was
born on March first, nineteen oh four, in Clorinda, Iowa,

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United States. Miller, a master of big band composition, arranged
pieces such as Pennsylvania six five thousand in the Mood
Moodlight Serenade, and many others still popular to swing and
big band lovers to this day. The musically talented Miller
attended elementary school in North Platte, Nebraska, taking a job

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milk and cows, and was able to purchase his first
musical instrument, a trombone, to play in the town orchestra.
At this time in his life, his family had moved
to Grant City, Missouri, where Miller would pick up the
art of mastering other musical instruments. In nineteen eighteen, their
family would move one more time to Fort Morgan, Colorado,
where Miller would attend high school and play football. We

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would lead his team to the Northern Colorado American Football
Conference in nineteen twenty, being named the best left end
in Colorado. He would graduate the following year with the
intention of becoming a professional musician. Nineteen twenty three, Miller
would see himself attending college at the University of Colorado
and Boulder, where he would fail three of US five

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classes because he was more interested in attending plays and
musicals in the city than he was in study. He
would drop out soon after failing the classes to pursue
his music career full time. Playing for several musical bands
around Los Angeles, Miller would be mentored by some of
the most talented musicians of the era. This would allow
on time to hone his craft and form the band

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he wonted. Soon after having his part as a solo
trombonis cut after another musician was hired, Miller decided to
start composing and arranging his own pieces. In nineteen twenty eight,
he would have a book published called Glenn Miller's one
hundred and twenty five Jazz Breaks for Trombones, and would
write his first composition called fourteen eleven. Becoming successful in

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his music career, Miller was ready to settle down and
arranged for his college sweetheart Helen Berger to marry him.
Having his band Benny Goodman's Boys, they would make their
way to New York City, joining bands to play for
a couple of Broadway shows. His first movie appearance would
be on the Big Broadcast of nineteen thirty six. Finding
it difficult to separate themselves from other big bands of

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the time, they disbanded in nineteen thirty eight after showing Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Miller's success wasn't over though. In nineteen thirty nine he
would play Carnegie Hall, a very prestigious and important milestone
for musicians at that time. In nineteen forty one, Glenn
Miller would put his music career on hold to enter
the Air Force in World War Two as an officer

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with the rank of Special Services Officer and eventually reaching
the rank of major. He would play in big bands
for the military, touring around several countries with the band.
On December fifteenth, nineteen forty four, Miller would board a
plane leaving England bound for Paris. The small engine plane
was lost over the English Channel due to what it
was speculated to be a frozen fuel line on the plane.

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Another theory, as friendly fire took the small plane down
or even enemy fire may have been the result. Alton
Glenn Miller was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award on
March twenty fourth, nineteen forty five, was presented to Miller's wife,
Helen Miller. No trace of the plane nor the remains
of Alton Glenn Miller was ever found. Number two Licorice

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mkeshne aka Christina mckashney. She was born on October second,
nineteen forty five, in Edinburgh, Scotland. As a child, she
loved writing poetry when incorporate those writings into her music.
As an adult, hanging out at local music clubs, mkeshney
would meet the man that would introduce her to the
person that would make her aspirations of being a musician

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come true. In nineteen sixty one, Herbert Jance and mkeshney
would meet at one of those local clubs. Jansh had
quit his job as a nurseman to become a full
time musician, and recognizing mccashney's talent, introduced her to his flatmate,
Robin Williamson, that would create the band that would launch
her and stardom mckashney's folksy voice and how she presented

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on stage made making her start very easy looking to
move and take their act to London. The three friends
played local clubs and saved money to make the move.
In nineteen sixty three, the three some did indeed make
the move, and drawing from American acts such as Pete
Seeger and Woody Guthrie, the trio practiced and played in
London clubs together for a while. The plan was for

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jansh and mcshney to marry, and those plans went forward
for a while, but without notice the reason, Chance left
London from Morocco and left mccashney behind with Williamson. They
decided to head back to Edinburgh and Williamson would pick
up a gig with a local duo, Clive Palmer, playing
once a week in the Crown Bar. Williamson and mccashney

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would become close and started dating. During this time, Chance
had returned for a short time to the area, but
after being given another chance to play with the band,
soon left again. During this time, mccashney didn't sting nor play.
Williamson was turning around locally with Clive Palmer still and
held auditions for her guitar player. The hired a guy
named Mike Herron and named the band the Great String Band.

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Having been discovered by a small record label, the trio
was asked to come to London and make a record again.
Mcashney moved to their boyfriend but was still not active
with the band. After winning an award, the band broke
up and everyone went their separate ways. Williamson and m
mccashney made their way back to Edinburgh, getting back together
with heron They resurrected the Great String Band and started

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the second album, entered Lecorice mckeeshney. She started appairing along
with the band, not just as Williamson's girlfriend, but is
a part of the creative process. Williamson ann mcshney would
go to Morocco and bring back several exotic instruments that
the band would incorporate into their music. In nineteen sixty
seven they would record the second album and Lecorice mccashney

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was born, how the ashes into a vocalist for the band.
The album went to number one in the UK. Next
top was Bigger Clubs and they were invited to play
at the Speakeasy Club The Queen Elizabeth Hall and the
UFO Club, all famous in the British music scene. They
would record their third album with the cut the Minotaurs
song being a favorite of the band and fans alike.

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They were nominated for the Grammy in the US and
would add one more band member in nineteen sixty eight
named Rose Simpson. Invited to play at Woodstock, the band
would come to America, but there were major issues from
the start. Their performance seemed doomed. They were removed from
their original spot and ended up playing on a date
when fans were getting rowdy and tired. The band was

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left out of the recording of the entire festival and
the soundtrack. Then mccashney started to practice scientology. This left
her bandmates feeling isolated from her, and she left the
band in nineteen seventy two. The remaining members disbanded in
seventy four, and that was the end of what was
known as the Incredible String Band. Little is known about

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mccashney's life from this point on. What is known is
she married a musician named Brian Lambert and divorced sometime
in the eighties. The last time anyone heard from her
was in nineteen ninety and it was her sister that
would be the last person she would talk to. She
was reported missing late that year, and it was surmised
that mckshney was last seen hiking in the Arizona Desert.

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Although little is known about Christine Lecorice mckshney, one thing
is for certain. She had an amazing voice and brought
a genre of music to the United States that we
may not have if not for her. And Number one
Hart Crane aka Herald Hart Crane Hart was born on

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June twenty first, eighteen ninety nine and was a modern
American poet that had a style li Liken the ts Eliot.
He was labeled difficult and highly stylized by critics. Born
in Garrettsville, Ohio, he would lead a quiet and tragic life,
as do many poets. Born to a business driven father
that invented life savers, Crane will be driven to be

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a success at an early age. However, Kraan would leave
high school his sophomore year and travel in New York City.
His parents divorced soon after, and Crane took it particularly hard.
He would become published in the nineteen twenties by several
literary magazines with white buildings containing his best writings. Not
much more is known about the creative poet, other than

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the loss of his father destroyed him. On April twenty seventh,
nineteen thirty two, Crane was on a cruise back to
New York after having an altercation with a staff member
and having been drinking heavily that day. It is speculated
that Crane either jumped, fell, or was pushed off the
ship into the water. His remains were never found on

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his tombstone a simple appetized carve. Harold Hart Crane eighteen
ninety nine to nineteen thirty two, lost at sea. Well
there you have it, folks, ten famous people celebrities. If
you will lost and never found. If there are other
celebrities you'd like to hear about in a future episode,

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off as an email the addresses and the description. Look
forward to your comments on this one. Please, though, keep
it friendly and respectful. In the meanwhile, be good to
yourselves and each other. Stay safe out there, and I'll
see you a little farther on down the trail. I'm
Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to you next time.