18 Celebrities That Vanished Without a Trace or Explanation

Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup is the author behind the famous novel and cinematic adaptation, Twelve Years a Slave. Northup had been kidnaped in 1841 by two men, Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton. Northup would end up in the slave markets where he was sold to James H. Birch as a ‘fugitive’. Solomon would eventually reclaim his freedom only to tragically vanish in 1857 while working in Canada.

Nobody knows what happened to Northup, but his story continues to live on to this day.