These five cases of people who have vanished off the face of the planet don’t seem to have any plausible explanation, writes Anna Sarjeant Emma Tresp, 1998 US Vanished into thin air Seventy-one-year-old travel-loving mother Emma Tresp didn’t let her age stop her from travelling solo, and she had a particular penchant for road tripping across the US. On August 31, 1998, Tresp left her daughter’s house in Stillwater, Oklahoma to make the eight-hour drive to a Benedictine monastery near Pecos for a spiritual retreat. By September 5, when her daughter, Lisa, didn’t receive a phone call from her mother to wish her a happy birthday, she rang the monastery.
Only to discover Tresp had never arrived..
