Case file · High strangeness
Disappearance of Jim Thompson
American silk magnate and former intelligence officer Jim Thompson went for a walk in Malaysia's Cameron Highlands on Easter Sunday, 26 March 1967, and was never seen again.
1967 CE · 4.47, 101.38 · status: unexplained
The account
A huge search found no trace. Theories range from an accident or tiger attack to kidnapping, a political killing, or Thompson choosing to vanish; some locals spoke of spirits of the jungle.
The sceptical view
Most investigators favour a mundane cause, but no evidence has settled it.