6 stories of missing people who were found alive many years later

Cases of people disappearing occur daily. Relatives have been trying in vain to find a loved one for many years, but gradually lose hope and begin to consider him dead. But sometimes fate presents amazing surprises: the disappeared are announced as suddenly as they disappeared. Read the most amazing stories of finding those whom no one expected to see, further in our material.

Millions of people disappear every year. Fortunately, most of them are announced in the first 48 hours. But there are cases when missing persons are found after many years. They appear on the threshold of their home as suddenly as they left. Some stories seem mystical, because most families no longer expected to see their relatives alive.

Here are the strangest cases of disappeared people appearing after a long time.

Arthur Gerald Jones was officially declared dead after he disappeared from Chicago in 1979. He was left with a disconsolate wife and three children who received large social security payments after the alleged death of a man.

Incredibly, after 30 years, the American was found in Las Vegas, where he lived a new life. The man worked at the casino under a false name. It is said that Jones disappeared, hiding from the mafia, because he lost a large sum of gambling.

The strangest case of disappearance in the UK occurred with the soldier Philip Sessarego (Philip Sessarego). His family was informed that he died in an explosion in a car bomb in Croatia in 1991, where he was doing military service. At that time, the Briton was 39 years old, and for the next ten years, everyone thought he was dead.

However, the former Special Forces soldier suddenly appeared in the BBC news in 2001. The hoaxer called himself a writer and soldier Tom Carew (Tom Carew). Shocked relatives listened as he talked to a journalist about his book "Jihad! The secret War in Afghanistan." In 2009, Cessarego was found dead, for real: the investigation qualified his death as suicide.

Bobby Hernandez stole his five-year-old son Julian and came up with a new identity for him. Later he lied to the boy that his mother had abandoned him. The teenager learned the shocking truth when he entered college: he saw a discrepancy in the data in the social security numbers, which is why his identity could not be identified.

The consultant told Julian that he was officially missing in Alabama. All this time, his mother did not stop searching, for 13 years she unsuccessfully tried to find her missing son.

Hernandez was sentenced to four years in prison for kidnapping Julian. Nevertheless, in court, the guy said that he forgave his father for his cruel act.

Spouses Philip and Nancy Garrido (Phillip and Nancy Garrido) kidnapped 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard when she was walking to the bus stop. The girl was held captive in California, in a backyard shed for 18 years. Philip constantly raped her and forced her to conceive two children.

The girl was discovered in 2009, when she turned 29 years old. The pedophile was sentenced to 431 years in prison, and his wife Nancy to 36 years after being accused of unlawful imprisonment and sexual violence. Garrido was granted parole and subsequently met with her and their two daughters together.

Harold Wayne Lovell was presumed dead after he disappeared after cleaning John Wayne Gacy's pool in 1977. Amateur clown Gacy became one of the most famous American serial killers in the 1970s. He took the life of 33 people. The sociopath told the police that he also killed Lovell.

Surprisingly, the pool cleaner was discovered 34 years later in Florida, where he was living on casual earnings. The man said that he did not know that his family considered him dead. His mother died thinking that her son was killed by a serial killer.

Winston Bright disappeared in 1990 and was declared dead ten years later. His wife Leslie received a monthly social security allowance for the care of three children.

But after 20 years, the man suddenly showed up. He called himself Kwame Sekou and claimed to have lost his memory. After that, the American argued in the courts for six years that he was Winston Bright, because his ex-wife accused him of fraud. Fortunately, he succeeded.

The man was desperately trying to find out who he really was. After being wounded, he lost his memory. As a result, they managed to determine their own identity by reading about their disappearance on the Internet.

There are cases in history when people mysteriously disappeared in whole groups. These mysteries have not yet been solved.