18 Celebrities That Vanished Without a Trace or Explanation

Oscar Zeta Acosta

Born and raised in El Paso Texas, Oscar Acosta would go on to become a prominent attorney, novelist, and activist within the Chicago Movement. Most well known for his work with and characterization by Hunter S. Thompson, Acosta would live up to his larger-than-life reputation by breaking down barriers everywhere that he saw them.

Oscar Zeta Acosta would vanish without a trace in 1974 while on a trip to Mexico and since he vanished, he has been presumed dead. Some fans of Oscar Zeta Acosta believe that he gave up his life of fame and drugs to live quietly in Mexico.