Oh, the joy of returning to pets and family while in post-vacation bliss. But what if you never came home again?

Travel is always a gamble, particularly when boarding an airplane or traversing rough terrain. But the assurance of returning to the comforts of home makes the trip worth seeing through. We take for granted that every vacation is a round-trip experience. But what if it’s a one-way ticket into disappearance?

Read these stories of a dozen people who went on vacation and somehow and mysteriously disappeared. Were they abducted or fell victim to the wrath of Mother Nature? Or could have they disappeared on purpose and living a life in seclusion? Despite investigations by police, park rangers and the FBI, not to mention surviving family members and friends, the lives of the vanished remain just as much a mystery as their (assumed) deaths.