On June 11, 1962, three Alcatraz inmates left homemade dummy heads in their beds to fool the guards before launching a daring escape from the infamous island prison, never to be seen again.
Though the prison officially claimed that the three men drowned and that no inmate ever successfully escaped, San Francisco police got a letter in 2013 purportedly from one of the escapees, suggesting that they'd lived free all those years.
In July 2013, Geraldine Largay got lost in the Appalachian mountains. She veered off trail and began texting her husband for help.
Her texts read:
“in somm trouble,” she texted on July 22, 2013, the day she left the trail. “Got off trail to go to br. now lost. can you call AMC to c if a trail maintainer can help me. somewhere north of woods road.”
A day later, she again pleaded for help: “lost since yesterday. off trail 3 or 4 miles. call police for what to do pls.”
However, the texts to her husband warning that she’d become lost were never actually delivered.
After she missed a rendezvous with her husband, he reported her missing on July 24, 2013. A large search effort was launched but Geraldine wasn’t found.
Her body was found over two years later on October 14th, 2015, less than 3,000 feet from the Appalachian Trail.
Her journal revealed she had survived for 26 days. One of her final entries, dated 6 August 2013 read: “When you find my body, please call my husband George and daughter Kerry.”