Disappearance of Lars Mittank
Lars Mittank | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 19, 1986 |
| Disappeared | July 8, 2014 (aged 28) Varna, Bulgaria |
| Status | Missing for 10 years, 4 months and 1 day |
| Nationality | German |
| Known for | Disappearing without a trace |
Lars Mittank[1] (born February 19, 1986) is a German man who disappeared on July 8, 2014, near Varna Airport in Varna, Bulgaria. Mittank was vacationing at the Golden Sands resort, where he was involved in a fight, and was subsequently unable to fly home with his friends for health reasons. Mittank was witnessed acting strangely while alone in Bulgaria, and days later disappeared into the forest around Varna Airport for reasons unknown. [2]
Mysterious behaviour and disappearance
On June 30, 2014, 28-year-old Lars Mittank traveled to the seaside resort of Golden Sands, Bulgaria on a vacation with a group of friends.[3] On July 6, 2014, Mittank got into a fight with four other men after a disagreement over football: Mittank, a fan of the football club Werder Bremen, had differences with fans of Bayern Munich.[4] The fight resulted in Mittank suffering a ruptured ear drum.[5] At the end of his trip, a doctor advised Lars not to fly due to his injury,[3] and prescribed the antibiotic Cefuroxime (500 mg).[4] That doctor later referred him to a hospital. Mittank's friends wanted to stay with him, but he insisted he was fine on his own.
Mittank stayed in Bulgaria without his friends, and checked into the Hotel Color Varna. However, a day after his friends left, Mittank began to act oddly, and his erratic behavior was recorded by the hotel's closed-circuit television security cameras.[4] He spent only one night in the hotel, during which he appeared paranoid and frightened.
While at the hotel, Mittank called his mother. In a whisper, he stated that four men were coming to kill him, and that she should cancel his credit cards.
Mittank was last seen at Varna Airport, the airport that serves Golden Sands in the nearby city of Varna. He was captured by airport security cameras running away from someone or something. Once outside the airport, he was seen climbing a fence, running into a meadow, and disappearing into an adjacent field of sunflowers near Bulgarian national highway A2. He has not been seen since.[5]
See also
- Disappearance of Tiffany Whitton, also last seen on security camera footage running out of a building
- Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam, last seen talking on the phone by a security camera on a cruise ship
- Disappearance of Andrew Gosden, last seen walking out of a London train station by a camera
- Disappearance of Brian Shaffer, last seen on security camera footage walking into a bar
- Disappearance of Steven Koecher, last seen walking down the street by a security camera
- List of people who disappeared
References
- ^ "Bulgarian Police Is Looking For A German Citizen". Novinite. 2014-07-24. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
- ^ Lutzke, Andrew (2016-02-23). "Unsolved Mysteries and Scary Stuff: Lars Mittank and Other Cases". Culture Crossfire. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
- ^ a b O'Neill, Marnie (2016-05-30). "People are mysteriously vanishing from airports". news.com.au. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
- ^ a b c Pepi, Kirk (2018-04-23). "The Mystery of the Most Famous Missing Person on YouTube". MEL Magazine. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
- ^ a b Heise, Thomas (2014-08-31). "Verschwunden in Bulgarien: Auf der Suche nach Lars Mittank". Spiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 2018-10-26.