Skvader
The skvader is a Swedish fictional creature that was constructed in 1918 by the taxidermist Rudolf Granberg.
Brazilian Adventure
In 1925, British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett, along with his son and another companion, disappeared while searching in Brazil for the Lost City of Z. Not long after, Peter Fleming, who was literary editor for London's The Times, answered a small ad seeking volunteers for an expedition to find out what had happened to them. Fleming's story of that 1932 expedition is told in Brazilian Adventure. Despite a great deal of fanfare, the expedition seems to have been very poorly organized. Fleming and his companions do not seem to have done much preparation, not even bothering to learn any Portuguese. They left everything up to the leader they hired, an eccentric American, Major George Lewy Pingle, who lived in Brazil. They sailed from England, met Pingle, and followed him to the Araguaya river and down it, with Fleming, an admirer of Hemingway, blasting away at the wildlife for sport as they went.
CS Leigh
For a six-year run beginning in 1987, CS Leigh was one of the most visible - and ambitious - independent curators in the international art world. Then he vanished. He's since then hustled people in film, art, and publishing. A sadly beautiful con man.
Bas Jan Ader
Bas Jan Ader was a melancholic artist who died trying to cross the Atlantic in a small boat.
Sadhu Haridas
Sadhu Haridas was a hatha yogi and fakir of nineteenth-century India, renowned for his reputed power to control his body completely using the power of his mind, employing the energies of kundalini. His most notable feat, carried out in 1837, was to survive burial underground, without food or water and with only a limited supply of oxygen, for forty days. This feat took place at the court of the Maharaja of the Punjab, Ranjit Singh, at Lahore, India (now in Pakistan).
CS Leigh
CS Leigh is a master of the vanishing act and reinvention. First, he dressed the stars at the Oscars, then he sold art to the rich, and then he worked as a movie director. Every time he disappeared and changed his name, leaving behind a trail of suspicion.
Dominion of Melchizedek
Dominion of Melchizedek is a micronation known for facilitating large scale banking fraud in many parts of the world.
Ken Jennings
In 2004, Jennings won 74 Jeopardy! games before he was defeated by challenger Nancy Zerg on his 75th appearance. His total earnings on Jeopardy! are $3,172,700.
Ada Blackjack
Ada Blackjack was an Iñupiat woman who lived for two years as a castaway on uninhabited Wrangel Island north of Siberia. She never asked for adventure, but it found her nonetheless. By 1921, the young Iñupiat woman found herself widowed with a young son. In order to earn money to care for him, she joined a dangerous expedition to a frozen island north of Siberia. After two tragic years, she was alone once more, trapped with ferocious bears amid a sea of ice.
Sidney Reilly
Sidney Reilly, famously known as the Ace of Spies, was a Jewish Russian- or Ukrainian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard, the British Secret Service Bureau and later the Secret Intelligence Service. He is alleged to have spied for at least four nations. His notoriety during the 1920s was created in part by his friend, British diplomat and journalist Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, who sensationalized their thwarted operation to overthrow the Bolshevik government in 1918.