The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if this could be a way to trouble shoot how to find people who are flying under the " proverbial " radar.

or it could be late and time for me to hit the sack.

I dissapeared for 5 years. Well, i say dissapeared, i just upped and left, started a new life where I am now. But if I didn't, I'd be dead by now. (either murdered or OD'd I weighed 5 and a half stone aged 20) Severed contact with my family, which was the hardest bit, but I couldn't trust them. (my mind was contorted from abuse)

Still, it took my family 5 years to find me. Anyone beat that?

The subject of a person "disappearing" - often when being pursued by government agents or an evil rival - has been a celebrated theme in our pop-culture society; both in literature and on our movie screens.

New identies, present the need for forgeries such as new passports and driver licences, and this is usually the first step needed for the protagonist in the story to assume his alter-identity, before departing for some place where the chances of being found by the pursuiters is significantly limited.

Equipped with the survivalist mentality and skills, and having set-out for the wilderness, there can be no doubt that the person wanting to disappear can do so here - in this environment - most effectively. The wilderness has an absence of a large amount of people, and an absence of effective and common forms of technology. Mobile phones usually won't work and news broadcasts are limited to the humble radio by the few carrying such portable devices.

A person with the necessary skills to survive in the wilderness could easily avoid most - if not all - of the relatively small amount of people in such an area, for the game changes to the more rudimentary abilities of covering tracks successfully, and observing those things in the environment which don't belong or manifest as a clear sign for the need to camouflage, further.

No, I have never tried to "disappear" schrodingers dog, but if I was to try I would choose the wilderness as my destination and location; not forgetting to pack a pair of Australian-Aborigine 'feather shoes' with all the survivalist gear I would need to eat, sleep, and move with unfettered aplomb.

Cheers,
Daniel Moszkowicz. (The Troll-King of Chatsitea.)

Well...my application has just been sent - 2 1/2 hours before the deadline. I understand that it is a long shot but keep your fingers crossed for me guys...

No.but i can make something dissapear before you very eyes.Spin a ball baring around inside a bowel really fast.It will dissapear because it is travling so fast you cannot see it anymore.Of course you could dissapear at any time.Ex wife knocks you off.Aliens abduct you.Black ops team kicks your door in and you dissapear permanately.You walk out your back door and fall into another dimention.You stage you own death so your wife can claim that million dollar life insurance policy and you turn up with a new name to spend the million dollars.You can just go bush for a couple of days camping by your self without telling anyone.No.You cannot do that.People will think you have been murdered.

Originally posted by MemoryShock
Well...my application has just been sent - 2 1/2 hours before the deadline. I understand that it is a long shot but keep your fingers crossed for me guys...

Sweet ... thanks for stepping up and taking up the challenge.

How sweet would it be if they actually picked you?

Putting together a fan club for thee as we speak ... Fightin' Unicorns for teh win!!!

My take: i am reading posts about the "how to" and most think one would have to truly go all commando when I don't think going to any such extremes would be necessary: if you're a white,middle aged woman that knows how to dress-down and blend in,it's MUCH easier that you'd ever believe to "go missing and not be found..."

Simply because people don't "see" this part of the population as anyone or thing out of what's considered to be "normal",it's VERY easy to pull of some rather unique and amazing situations because of it.

I was part of a group a few years ago that did some undercover investigating as to the "stereotypes" that most people respond to in their daily lives and trust me,an "average looking" white middle aged female who "blends in" with a general population stereotype can get away with murder,LOL!

I think that if someone like this who wasn't ex-military and not a survival-motivated person entered and simply "left" their daily routine and did something totally out of the ordinary of their routine daily life,they'd not be found...at all.

"Average" would be MUCH easier in a case like this,you'd want to be forgettable.

This is such an awesome idea. I would do this in a heartbeat if it weren't for college... way more than $10,000 invested into it so I would just be losing money

Just have to drop off the grid and not be in one place for too long.

This can't possibly be a game of actual hide and seek. The potential for someone to hide anywhere in North America with thirty days of supplies and wait it out is too high. Assuming there's no clause about having to try to make a new life for yourself in that 30 days, it would just be an extended camping trip.

That would be the easiest $10,000 I have ever made.

There would have to be certain rules and conditions to follow. Dissapearing from society for 30 days is just too easy.

I was homeless in Phx. Az. for about 6 months and I made it a habit to NOT look homeless. [It's kinda hard to find a job when you look like a bum].

All a person has to do is acquire a monthly bus pass using cash and "live " on the buses for a month. Change your appearence and wear headgear and sunglasses to the point that you are unrecognizable to the cameras, but not so much to where you draw attention to yourself.When you go dumpster diving for food, do it in a part of town where the businesess either don't have cameras, or their cameras aren't trained on the dumpsters [ why would they be? ]. When you do this, do it between 1a.m. and 4a.m. The buses don't run then anyway. Avoid cameras at all costs. Also, save your "bathroom stops" for then. After about 1 or 2 days, it's easy to "retrain" your system to "go" at certain times. 1 roll of toilet paper and 1 bottle of talcom powder should last 1 month. That, and 4 changes of underwear,4 changes of socks and 2 changes of clothes should fit nicely in a backpack. Bathing? Forget about it. If it's only 1 month and $10k is at stake, I wont care how I smell. That's what the talcom powder is for.

If there would be only 1 hunter trying to find me, he'd never do it. Especially in Phoenix.



Peace

I already have disappeared for intents and purposes. but i'm a tattoo artist, and it's easy for us to stay off the radar.

Great Find SD! How much fun would that be. But I am certainly not a candidate.

Which probably brings to light the first step of dissappearing, actually having the gumption to walk away from your life and do so.

My lady and I have been bail bond retrieval for the past 9.5 years now...and i can tell you it is not as easy to just vanish as easy as people think it is... there are literally hundreds of methods people use every day...but people are creatures of habit... they like family..

we use bribery, false ads in papers , and a hundred other ways to draw people out....works every time

It is actually very easy to get people to become careless and stupid...

Here's the story of a woman who tried to disappear. Her name was Susan Jordan. She left intentionally but her reasons are unknown. She just walked out of her life one day. But technology would not allow her to disappear. Someone went to a lot of trouble to track down films from cameras in places where she might have gone.

Caught on camera at her apt. complex; caught on camera at a local store; caught on camera at Greyhound bus stop....and what's this? She was wearing a disguise! There must have been a lot of sleuths on this case. This woman had done nothing wrong. She just wanted to leave her life. Who financed this manhunt? Who was so determined to find her?

So after she was caught on camera at the bus station, she took yet another bus and went to another town. When she came out of the restroom at the station....she had changed into yet another disguise. This woman had a purpose in mind. There was a method to her madness!
She was caught on Greyhound cameras in three different cities.

Television news shows covered her disappearance religiously. Investigators went into her home and took DNA samples, fingerprints, and rifled through all of her things.

A poster above said it was very easy for a middle-aged woman to disappear. This story refutes that. This woman was 57 and very ordinary in appearance. So what were her mistakes?

She moved quickly and disguised herself; she took on a new name. Still, after six weeks she was "found". They say she made a phone call to family. This makes no sense. She had plenty of opportunity to tell them she was leaving if she had wanted them to know. Why would she wait to call them? Did she call them to have them "call off the press" and to tell them to leave her alone? Did she call due to the pressures of the manhunt publicity?

If investigators worked this hard on finding criminals, there should be no criminals left on the streets.

Remember the "missing bride" who got cold feet and disappeared? She was fined for her disappearance and made to reimburse money for state time tracking her down.

So, that brings me back to the question....why was the manhunt of an innocent person such as Susan Jordan, a priority? If they had on film that she was leaving voluntarily, why did they continue to pursue her? And, who financed the hounding? Why was it so important to find this woman who obviously just wanted a change in life?

too bad recruitment is over, id love to try.
im invisible already. lol. id love to win 10 grand, i dunno what id use it for tho, as i dont use money, unless they gave it to me cash. too bad i didnt hear of this earlier.

love and peace