Gone (Podcast)

In the winter of 1922, Hadley Richardson boarded a train from Paris to Switzerland where she would reunite with her husband, Ernest Hemingway. She packed every piece of his work in a small suitcase, which was then stolen from her at the Gare De Lyon.

In November 1928, newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde took a honeymoon boat trip down the Colorado River. They vanished somewhere in the Grand Canyon a month later, and a long search found no trace of the couple. Forty years later, new evidence emerged that made the couple's disappearance a permanent legend.

Depicting the Norman invasion of England in 1066 C.E., the Bayeux Tapestry is an intricate work of medieval craftsmanship—with a final section that has been missing since at least the 18th century.

It was allegedly discovered by German immigrant Jacob Waltz, who made himself rich and then died before he could show it to anyone. Prospectors have since been searching for the “Lost Dutchman Goldmine” for more than a century.

He was a fiery lawyer and an important figure in the Chicano civil rights movement during the 1960s. But after a long battle with drug addiction, Oscar Zeta Acosta mysteriously vanished during a trip to Mexico in 1974.

He was one of the most celebrated poets of his time. Throughout his lifetime, Walt Whitman would write down his musing in his notebooks. These were donated to the Library of Congress upon his death. But sometime in the 1940s...they vanished.

We are thrilled to bring you a brand new episode of Gone today and for the foreseeable future. We thank you for your patience during this unprecedented time. They vanished while on assignment in war-torn Cambodia in 1970. Despite numerous efforts to find out what happened over the last half-century, Sean Flynn and Dana Stone's ultimate fate remains a mystery.

On December 6th, 2009, a Utah woman named Susan Powell went missing. The married mother of two seemingly had no reason to run away. But just beneath her families' perfect facade things were beginning to crumble.

The Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee are a wonderful place for a family to spend a weekend—but the woods can also be unforgiving. And on June 14th, 1969 a family learned that the hard way when 6-year-old Dennis Lloyd Martin went missing.

It’s a fortune in gold coins supposedly stolen by South Africa’s last President of the Transvaal Republic, Paul Kruger. Since it’s disappearance in 1900, treasure hunters from all over the world have searched for the missing gold. But no one has successfully located the rumored cache, worth over 200 million dollars today.

On October 7th, 1949, a young aspiring actress named Jean Spangler went missing in Los Angeles. But while Jean's life appeared wholesome and idyllic to her coworkers, it was far from the truth...

High in the Austrian Alps sits picturesque Lake Toplitz: a serene lake that holds a dark secret. In the waning months of World War II, Nazi forces dumped dozens of large wooden crates into its depths—crates that many believe hold millions of dollars worth of gold.

In 1933, a small plane touched down in the desert just outside Farmington, New Mexico. It made sixteen trips over the U.S.-Mexico border, each time carrying a ton of pure gold. Legend has it that the gold is still there, buried in the harsh landscape, waiting…

He’s known for crafting ingenious works of literature like Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth. But some historians believe one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies may have been lost to time. Known simply as Cardenio, the play was performed at least once in 1613 before it vanished.

In 1935, infamous bootlegger and New York crime boss Dutch Schultz was gunned down in an upscale steakhouse. As Schultz lay dying in a hospital bed, he told police detectives about his five-million-dollar stash of loot in Upstate New York. The hunt was on.

In August 1980, three-month-old Azaria Chamberlain went missing in Australia's Northern Territory. Her mother, Lindy, claimed a dingo snatched her baby—but authorities and the media weren’t so sure.

On March 5, 1918, the Navy collier USS Cyclops sent its final message from off the coast of Barbados, stating it was on schedule to arrive in Baltimore on March 13th. But the ship never made it. No one ever heard from—or saw—the USS Cyclops ever again.

In 1930, New York State Supreme Court Judge Joseph Force Crater withdrew the equivalent of $78,000 dollars from his bank accounts and promptly disappeared. Authorities tried to track down the missing judge, but friends and family feared the worst: that Crater knew something, and was murdered for it.