Vanishing Puns

Watch the video here which covers the full case [18:29]: The Man That Finland Forgot - The Vanishing Of Vesa Matti Frantsila | Unresolved Mysteries

[Re-uploading due to error originally in the title]

A special thanks to the Finland reddit community for helping me with translations and pronunciations of the words in the video, and also a special thanks to Elina, u/schnaufium*,* u/mk-extremis andu/Laiska_Henki*. I was also inspired to make this video from this previous post* here.

[Transcript]

Each year in Finland, around 2,000 people are officially reported missing. Most of these individuals are either found or arrive home safely, but roughly 20 of those who disappear remain lost forever. Despite this tragic truth, what links these disappearances together is the hope that they will one day return, as someone is always searching for them. The same can’t be said, however, for one man from Finland, who was lost for 15 years before anyone even noticed.

In March 2016, Henri Mikkilä, the owner of an air conditioning company in Pori, Finland, was sweeping the units in multiple properties in the area. He came across a studio apartment which needed servicing, so knocked on the door to be let in. After receiving no answer, Henri contacted the deputy landlord of the property, Mikko Pyy, to call out a locksmith to get into the room. The locksmith arrived and they managed to open the door, but what lay before them would be something that neither of them would have expected.

As the door swung open, thousands of unopened letters, leaflets and magazines fell out into the hallway. The home was completely absent of its owner, and it looked and smelt as though it had been left vacant for years. The place was a complete mess, which, along with the unopened post, had other noticeably strange features. The whole apartment was wired up with makeshift electrical devices which were considered highly dangerous and hazardous. There was no phone, yet there were several hundred speakers lying around the room, and the whole studio was completely disconnected from the electrical grid. The most bizarre item found in the property was a large handwritten note left visibly on display for all to see. A rough translation reads as follows:

*My apartment is not connected to the power grid, and therefore it

I've described these in other threads, but here's a post about them. If you've experienced things like this too, please tell me/us about 'em! Background: I have depression & anxiety, but I've never had any other kind of mental health problems. I don't use drugs, either.

When I was about 8, I got a rubber super-bounce ball. You know the ones; mine was the usual clear rubber with gold glitter inside. One day, I was sitting on the kitchen counter in my grandma's apartment. I could stretch my arm out, carefully let go of the ball, it would hit the linoleum with an audible 'bap,' and jump right back into my hand. If I was quick, I could catch it. I kind of got "into the zone" with this. Drop, bap, catch. Drop, bap, catch. After several drops, I dropped it and there was no noise. We never found the ball.

Next occurred when I was in my early teens. I'd bought a poster, and at one point I had other stuff on my wall, so I rolled it up. In our living room, we had a chair that stood off the floor about 10" on four very thick legs. I put it under the chair. It was gone the next day. We never found that, either.

Skip to me as a very young adult, in the late 1990s. I was moving out. One day, my parents were both at work, nobody else was home, and I had a van pulled up to the back. I would go to my bedroom (in the front of the house) and bring something through the living room and kitchen, then out the back door to the vehicle. Occasionally, I'd put something on the dining table, which I'd cleared of stuff (it was normally really messy). I brought in a lava lamp. This thing was "loud," as they say: it was about 17" tall, had yellow liquid inside, and had a sort of bowl or tray around the base filled with yellow, orange and red plastic flowers. You couldn't miss it, it stuck out like a sore thumb. I put it on the table, came back, and it wasn't there. Puzzled, I looked on the chairs, under the table, on the nearby counters. I checked everywhere from bedroom to truck. I wondered if someone walked in and absconded with it. I hit panic mode and went truck, table, room, table, truck, table, room, table... Finally gave up and sat at the table, putting my arms out right where it had been, and sat for a while. I eventually gave up, went back to my bedroom and grabbed the next item. When I walked back in, there was my lava lamp, on the dining table, exactly where I'd put it. This house, like the one I live in now, may have been haunted (we had two things that went on there

Writer of the of the original post, u/PhantomMarinePodcast, gave me the permission to repost this here from u/UnsolvedMysteries*. Here is the* link to the podcast by the writer himself.

William Willard Langston grew up in small towns around Newport, Arkansas. After high school he moved to Michigan where he met and married Linda Schmeichel. They had a son named Duane. William (who was sometimes known by his middle name) enlisted in the marines in 1943, was deployed in 1944, and declared killed in action on Iwo Jima on March 7, 1945.

On January 19, 1946, a man showed up in Newport, Arkansas, claiming to be Langston. He was not immediately recognized (NB that he hadn't lived in the area for about 11 years), but he greeted old friends familiarly, asked about their relatives by name, used old nicknames, and was conversant about old stories that witnesses believed only Langston would know. In one instance, cafe owner Lacey Fields asked: "Was I ever at your house?" "You came with Dutch Vaughn," replied the man. On January 20, the claimant left Newport. Nobody was sure where he was headed. The story made national headlines for the next couple weeks. His mother received a letter in the mail, claiming to be from him, that said he was headed to a veteran's hospital in Oklahoma and would get in touch afterward.

His widow had remarried two weeks earlier in Michigan (the man in Newport was aware of this, even though many of her own family members were not - he claimed he had gone to Michigan first and, seeing her remarried, decided to leave town and head for where he'd grown up).

A week after the man appeared in Newport, he postmarked a letter from Memphis to a local newspaper - he complained of how veterans were treated in that city and said he was moving on. Whoever wrote the letter was familiar with something that had happened in Newport's past. There was no further trace of the man, referred to by the press as "The Phantom Marine."

I've spent the past year investigating this mystery. The news coverage - both national and local - stops in February of 1946. I've interviewed relatives of William Langston and his wife. I've FOIA'd numerous documents from the FBI and the National Archives.

I'm looking for help resolving this mystery. Happy to

I am an engineer based in the USA with 7 years of experience. I’ve only worked two places, but at both insane hours (12+ hrs 7 days a week, 36 hr straight days with a nap and then more, etc.) have been the norm. Burnout is creeping in. My head hurts every day, I have no more friends, I’m always exhausted, and I’m losing motivation to get out of bed. This seems to be happening to tons of people.

Is this a consequence of the market, and is it permanent? Life wasn’t supposed to be this way.

I think it might be one of the meanest films I've ever seen. I think it honestly rivals some of Michael Heneke's work (which can be real nasty). I thought it was a bit overhyped until the last 30 minutes which changed that opinion drastically. The juxtaposition between the lighter scene at the start in the car and the ending was absolutely genius. I really loved it and would highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it but I won't be rewatching it in a hurry. Anyone else seen it/got any thoughts on it?

Also I'm not familiar with the director George Sluizer, is any of his other work worth exploring?

I’m a writer, reader, and lover of stories. Previous books include The Mothers and The Vanishing Half. I’m currently working on my third novel, which is about a girl group. Pandemic hobbies include podcast-walks, alphabetizing my playlists, and indulging my worst TV habits. Ask me anything!

Proof: https://i.redd.it/sau6q9mv7ru61.png

I think being able to put Curse of Vanishing on bundles would give them a great second use. Let's say you had a stack of golden apples and you did not want someone else to get them if you get killed. You could put them in a bundle to prevent them from taking them. I think this would be a great way to encourage people to use them even after you get shulkers.

Had my anatomy scan at 19 weeks today. Baby A seems to be doing well. Baby B is just.. gone. There were two heartbeats a month ago.

I’m a mixture of emotions. Naturally. Not horribly devastated but it’s such a shock after only months ago getting hit with the shock of having two. So much planning, all thrown out the window. Partially relieved, because I know things will be easier to manage now. Grateful that he passed naturally and I didn’t have to make a difficult decision. But damn.

I haven’t been super active in this sub, mostly just a lurker, but I appreciate y’all. Good luck for everyone else carrying multiples. ❤️

Being tasked with the impossible - namely killing Dumbeldore, his father imprisoned and a dark Lord having invaded his home - Draco Malfoy is less than impressed with how his life is coming along. So when he ends up in the 70s by accident, Draco - like any respectable Slytherin - isn't above using this situation to his advantage. What better way to avoid the dark Lord, but by keeping his parents away from him in the first place?

Besides, if he can deal with sharing a home with the Dark Lord and aunt Bella's "training", he can deal with sleeping surrounded by a bunch of future Death Eaters.

And if embracing the political lessons his father had always wanted to ingrain in him manage to help him pull a few of those onto his side, it can only be positive.

But apart from his mother being only a year above him, there is still that rag-tag group led by an imposter-Potter, a pubescent future potions Master and a boy, of whom nobody thinks he might be a werewolf!

Here’s just a list of the things that are infuriating me about this doc:

1. They have multiple “internet sleuths” as experts. Now, I’m all for the internet sleuthing movement, and I don’t mind them being interviewed if they played a roll in the case (like that don’t mess with cats show), but somebody just blogging about a case does not make them an expert.

2. Somebody said “I’ve spent hundreds of hours on this case.” So a week? You spent a week? So what?

3. Somebody else said they’ve spent hours on the case and disagree with the medical examiner. Jesus, who cares if you do.

4. Multiple people claiming she isn’t acting like she is bipolar because they haven’t seen someone who is bipolar acting that way before. Wow.

5. They are OBSESSED with the hatch being open and claim that’s proof she was thrown in. Um...why couldn’t she close it herself as she went in? Why is that deemed impossible and ignored? Is it more likely it would be left open in that case? Sure, but that doesn’t make the other option impossible.

6. Apparently the Cecil is a hell mouth. They act like evil is drawn there or some bullshit.

I love a Netflix doc drone shot as much as the next guy, but this is seriously one of the most unnecessary true crime docs I’ve ever seen. This story has been done to death before this doc, and if I can get the whole story in a 20 minute YouTube video, you have to give me a reason why you are making a 4 hour doc about it.

Edit: I wanted to say I posted this while starting episode 4. Spoilers, but for them to basically all admit it was probably just an accident and explain why EVERYTHING they brought up in episodes 1-3 was wrong really drove home the pointlessness of this show. I really liked how they handled the story of the musician though.

Edit 2: Those of you saying “you missed the point, the internet sleuths were bad,” you are giving this far too much credit. If that was the point, they wouldn’t have spent 3 eps letting those sleuths spew every conspiracy theory they could think and then let those exact same people debunk them.

Police say, they have several leads.

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I think this card will be good for Esper decks. Seems like sweet removal maybe for the sb not sure how relevant the monocolor restriction is.

What do y'all think?

Expect Spoilers...I got some strong opinions on this lol.

I have to say, this was a stand out as one of the worst documentaries I've watched in a long time, it is comparable to an amateur one on YouTube, but it had a good production behind it.

My first issue, the length, it was way far too drawn out, it could of easily been explained in 1-2 hours.

Second. The internet losers. Most of the documentary is listening to the 'sleuths' pretending to be investigative journalists when in reality they were just typical conspiracy theory nuts who jump to conclusions, telling ghost stories, and they added absolutely nothing. Everything they said could've been summed up by one of the detectives in 5 mins. It's like they wanted a 'Don't F**k With Cats' doc. without anything helpful. Also, they attacked Morbid, the Black Metal guy because of ignorance of the genre, he was portrayed as crazy and all that but he was the best mannered, well-thought person they interviewed (my opinion).

Third. The direction. This could have been a shorter doc. with the actual investigators and not the 'sleuths'. At the same time, this could've been used as a separate doc. about the harm people online can cause from creating false assumptions, conspiracy theories, etc.

Last and minor one. The girls voice for Lam's blogs bugged me. Sounded like the voice they would use as a narrator in a teen movie..."well, there's me, and I know what you're thinking. How did I wind up here? It all started when I wanted to visit California"

Anyways, that's my vent post. Am I crazy wrong for thinking it's terrible?

I started watching the Netflix series about the Cecil hotel and, in more details, Elisa Lam’s death.

I watched 2 episodes so far and I have to say that I enjoy it! I like the fact that the series gives a pretty good background about the hotel, the area and people involved in the case.

Few things that caught my attention so far:

• tourists from Great Britain who were staying at the hotel remained there even after being disappointed with cleanliness, safety issues etc. They even drank water that had a weird colour, smell and taste. I can’t phantom it. If something was SO WRONG with the place I was staying at, I’d do my best to leave it ASAP. Money or no money available.

• Hotel manager who’s interviewed really tries to portray herself and the hotel in the best light possible: I wonder if it’s just because bad reputation is following her or is there more to the story? Does someone from the hotel know something more?

• The tape showing Elisa in the elevator has been tampered with! I had no idea that there is about a minute missing from the recording - so bizarre! The video which is also her last sighting: https://youtu.be/3TjVBpyTeZM

To those who don’t know about Elisa a quote from Wikipedia: “The body of Elisa Lam, also known by her Cantonese name, Lam Ho Yi, a Canadian student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, was recovered from a water tank atop the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles—at which she had been staying preceding her death—on February 19, 2013”. Link to the full article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam.

Other sources on the case:

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a35461475/elisa-lam-true-story-death-elevator-crime-scene-netflix/

https://www.google.nl/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/newsbeat-55994935

https://www.google.nl/amp/s/www.insider.com/elisa-lam-netflix-crime-scene-vanishing-at-the-cecil-hotel-2021-2%3famp

https://www.netflix.com/nl-en/title/81183727

What are your thoughts???

Whats going on???

Hei!

A few days ago I posted a request to this subreddit asking for help with translating some Finnish articles and TV clips for a video I was creating and you guys helped me so much! I just want to say a massive thank you to everyone who contributed in this community, all of you were so kind and generous with your time. A big shoutout goes to the following: Elina***,*** u/schnaufium**,** u/mk-extremis and u/Laiska_Henki, you guys are awesome!

The video I was covering is below, and I've copy/pasted my post that I have submitted to the UnresolvedMysteries subreddit so you can see the thanks I have given to you there too. I hope you enjoy the documentary and I hope I have done the story justice.

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Watch the video here which covers the full case [18:29]: The Man That Finland Forgot - The Vanishing Of Vesa Matti Frantsila | Unresolved Mysteries

A special thanks to the Finland reddit community for helping me with translations and pronunciations of the words in the video, and also a special thanks to Elina, u/schnaufium, u/mk-extremis and u/Laiska_Henki. I was also inspired to make this video from this previous post here.

[Transcript]

Each year in Finland, around 2,000 people are officially reported missing. Most of these individuals are either found or arrive home safely, but roughly 20 of those who disappear remain lost forever. Despite this tragic truth, what links these disappearances together is the hope that they will one day return, as someone is always searching for them. The same can’t be said, however, for one man from Finland, who was lost for 15 years before anyone even noticed.

In March 2016, Henri Mikkilä, the owner of an air conditioning company in Pori, Finland, was sweeping the units in multiple properties in the area. He came across a studio apartment which needed servicing, so knocked on the door to be let in. After receiving no answer, Henri contacted the deputy landlord of the property, Mikko Pyy, to call out a locksmith to get into the room. The locksmith arrived and they managed to open the door, but what lay before them would be something that neither of them would have expected.

As the door swung open, thousands of unopened letters, leaflets and magazin