One of the most bizarre unsolved disappearances of all time involves renowned French inventor Louis Le Prince. In 1890, while on a train heading to Paris, Le Prince somehow vanished without a trace and was never seen again. The story was particularly puzzling since nobody could figure out how a man could simply disappear from a moving train. However, rail transport and rapid transit has long been the source of some truly baffling unsolved mysteries, whether they be unexplained disappearances, murders, derailments, or even bizarre supernatural occurrences.
10The Sunset Limited Derailment
On October 9, 1995, an Amtrak passenger train known as the Sunset Limitedwas making a routine trip from Los Angeles to Miami. At approximately 1:40 AM, it was crossing over a trestle in a remote desert area of Arizona when it suddenly jumped the tracks and derailed, sending four of its cars crashing 9 meters (30 ft) into a ravine. An attendant named Mitchell Bates was killed in the crash and ov
