Missing Tourists For Monday Mysteries...!

First of all, let me try and explain where I was over the last couple of days, and why I didn't post anything Sunday.

Actually I did a post late Saturday warning about not posting Sunday. We had about 5 or 6 instantences of power outages Saturday off and on all day. In between the power failures, I made an effort to tell everyone about not having any power, but my warning post never showed up. Go figure...

But enough about my personal mystery, let's look at the case of the missing tourists.

The Missing Germans

Photo credit; strangeoutdoors.com

Death Valley National Park is a vast area of barren land, sprawling over three million acres from California to Nevada. On a day that was 49 degrees Celsius (120 °F) in July 1996, four German tourists went missing without a trace. Their last known location was a small ghost town where they had written in a visitors’ book, “We are going through the pass.” Rangers assume that means the Mengel Pass.

When the family wasn’t on their flight home, Interpol was alerted. On August 14, they were officially reported missing. Their rental van was found abandoned on October 23 with three flat tires. No wallets or passports were ever found, leading many to believe that the group had been kidnapped.

However, in 2009, human bones were discovered in Death Valley. Authorities claimed that they were “fairly certain” that the bones belonged to the missing Germans. However, no one has heard any update on the case since.


Sorry again about missing all day Sunday. But when the power goes out, not a lot you can do.

Coffee out on the patio this morning, if it isn't raining!