The truth is that with respect to this type of mysterious disappearances in the mists, many cases and versions swarm throughout the world of the pseudo-mystery that, in reality, if one tugs at the thread, it is impossible to discern the popular invention of a real story.
In reality, many of these cases ran like wildfire after the premiere of a science fiction movie that dealt with the strange disappearance of the Vidal family.
The film tells the story of Dr. Gerardo Vidal and his wife, who started off with their car in Chascomus (Argentina) in May 1968 to go to a town some 100 miles to the south.
However, Gerardo communicates to his relatives through a phone call that they have mysteriously moved to Mexico, after entering a mysterious fog.
It was said that the car was transferred to an American laboratory for inspection, and that Vidal’s wife had to be admitted to a mental hospital due to the psychological impact received.
The case became so popular that similar stories began to spread, even providing apparently reliable witnesses.
At that time nothing was said that it was just pure marketing to promote a low-budget movie called “Che, Ufo” by director Anibal Uset.
The film was based on the life of a tango singer who is abducted in Argentina and transported to Madrid. Both the Vidal family and the tango singer were totally fictitious characters, and in fact, the film had little impact …
However, what was impregnated in the people was the history of the Vidal family, which many claimed to know. In this case, an urban legend was created that far exceeded the popularity of the film itself for which it was invented.
Real disappearances
However, behind an urban legend there are always traces of truth. In fact, many disappearances produced in strange mists have been dated, but in this case, the disappeared persons have done so without leaving any trace, as if the mist had certainly swallowed them.
One of the most curious and perhaps shocking cases of disappearances is the one that occurred during the bloody war of World War I. This case stars in the 1st Battalion of the 5th Norfolk Regiment.
This English unit disappeared without a trace in August 1915 during the assault on a Turkish position at Anafata. 250 soldiers and 16 officers disappeared.
Since his disappearance, infinite possibilities have been considered, from a mass desertion before the bloody battle that awaited them, to an alien abduction.
The most pragmatic version has come to the conclusion that the battalion was entirely exterminated by the Turks. This theory is based on the finding of various bone remains found later, however, nothing was found that could identify the remains; not a gun, not a nameplate, not even a button … Nothing.
Furthermore, the Turks continue to deny to this day that they had nothing to do with the disappearance of the battalion. Admittedly, proponents of the theory of this annihilation understand that the Turks deny the evidence under threat of being declared war criminals.
However, not everything is as simple as it may seem. The history of this battalion came to light in 1965, from Spaceview magazine, which published an article in which three surviving engineers from New GM of the I GM claimed to have seen the aforementioned battalion disappear in a thick haze after having charged against Turkish positions. The sounds of the battle suddenly stopped being heard, everything was silent … And the battalion disappeared.
Once the war was over, and England believing that the Turks had this battalion as prisoners of war, they claimed them, to the surprise of the Turkish government, which claimed to not know the whereabouts of these soldiers.
The bewilderment spread and attempts were made to locate the bodies, however, as we have already mentioned, the search was inconclusive, and continues to be so today.
The official version provided by the party and British reports say that on August 12, 1915, the First Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment disappeared without a trace during an assault on Turkish troops, after plunging into dense fog. at ground level and strange looking. Witnesses described this fog with metallic reflections.
The door to another dimension of La Mussara
La Mussara is an abandoned town located in the Prades Mountains, on the Costa Dorada (Tarragona). In 1959 it was annexed to the municipality of Vilaplana.
It is a place with a great halo of mystery, with a characteristic fog and with a series of disappearances and unsolved accidents with very strange stretches.
The most famous disappearance occurred on October 16, 1991. Enrique Martínez was, along with two friends, looking for robellones and asparagus in the mountain near La Mussara.
They were experienced and knowledgeable seekers of the terrain, using a technique to cover more surface. They were moving away radially and at a reasonable distance and were gradually meeting.
But suddenly a thick fog arose, causing the friends to cry out to locate each other.
The two friends gradually stopped listening to Enrique, so they called out to him to ask if everything was going well. But Enrique suddenly stopped answering.
They returned to the point where they had last communication with him, but only found his basket with a lone mushroom inside and no trace of his friend.
They went to the car, in case Enrique had gone to his vehicle for something … However, it was closed and the belongings and documentation inside.
200 soldiers from the Castillejos base and 50 soldiers from the General Contreras headquarters in Tarragona combed the mountain in search of Enrique. The search was unsuccessful.
Already suspended the search device due to the lack of clues, his friends continued their efforts, but in January 1992 something strange happened … Jorge Roberto Boluda, Enrique’s friend, appeared in the Tarragona court asking to speak to the judge in charge of The instruction.
Jorge declared before the judge that both he and two friends who were accompanying him in his efforts to find his missing friend, heard sounds coming from the abandoned church of San Salvador.
They ran towards the place and could see seven figures dressed as monks, who later disappeared, volatilizing before their eyes.
The inhabitants of the area believe that in La Mussara there is a door to another dimension.
They assure that it was opened by the Arabs during the invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, transporting the Yinn, who according to the Koran, are free will entities that live on Earth, but in a dimension parallel to ours.
The urban legend assures that a concrete stone exists, that if it is stepped on, it transports the individual who drives it to this dimension, from which it does not return.
They do not consider the Yinn as evil, however they are attributed properties such as taking different forms or possessing human bodies.
Germán Quintana, a child swallowed by the fog
33 years ago, Germán Quintana went on an excursion to the Picos de Europa with his classmates and teachers from the Loyola School in Oviedo.
I was thirteen then. Several companions and mountaineers assure that they saw him resting peacefully next to a tree near the Colláu Gamonal, on the way to the Ordiales viewpoint.
A dense fog rose, and everything suggests that the boy wanted to return to the group, but disappeared without leaving any clue behind. Nothing was found of him, not a shred of clothing, no backpack, no belongings …
It was suspected that he could become disoriented and head towards the Vegarredonda refuge, near a dangerous cliff even for experienced mountaineers.
However, all the rescue work did not shed any light, and in addition, the lives of seven members of a canine team of the Ertzaintza were killed, who crashed with their helicopter against the slopes of the Picu Sohornín.
Among the victims of the accident was the mother of the well-known television presenter Anne Igartiburu.
In November 1998, eleven years after the disappearance of Germán, José Miguel Panach Molina, a 22-year-old soldier stationed at the Cabo Noval barracks in Noreña, disappeared in the same area.
Everything in the same circumstances … Same path, same fog, same result. But not everything ends there, on the same June 7, just anniversary of the disappearance of Germán, another helicopter crashed, occupied by three soldiers who were participating in the search for his partner.
We add to the case of the disappearance of Pastor Antonio Rodríguez, a trail that was lost in the same area on September 24, 2003.
Search efforts lasted until spring 2004, but the result was the same as on previous occasions; without a body, without belongings, without a shred of clothing … Only silence, fog and nothing.
Fog as a common denominator
Documented cases with a common denominator, the thick fog at ground level, have been mentioned in this article.
All of them correspond to people of very different condition, such as a child, the military or an experienced shepherd in the mountains; and even an entire battalion.
Another article would deserve the disappearance of ships; Ships that have entered an intense fog and that have begun to experience rare interferences in radars and radios and that have ended up disappearing.
There is no denying the evidence that many disappearances, unfortunately, will have been due to accidents in which the result has been clearly tragic but the body could not be found, and the truth is that there are a series of conditions that add a halo of mystery to these disappearances.
As the residents of La Mussera believe, many people believe that there are itinerant interdimensional portals that can absorb individuals by making them disappear.
Or there is also the possibility, approaching the theories of Stephen Hawkins that they are wormholes, that they open temporarily as it happens in the rest of the universe.
Obviously, we live in the same environment in which black holes are generated and antimatter swarms. If a black hole or a wormhole is capable of engulfing a galaxy, what makes us think we can’t find one and it engulfs us?
Perhaps the explanation is more scientific than mystical, but the truth is that there are too many unexplained disappearances throughout the world, and too many families suffering absences.
