Post by hi224 on Aug 2, 2021 19:39:10 GMT
I always found this story very strange & eerie:
The day of January 25, 2002, started off just like any other for 20-year old Christopher Thompkins. He got up, said good bye to his mother, who he lived with, and left for his job as a surveyor at 8:10 AM that morning. Thompkins met up with the other three members of his 4-man surveyor team and went about their daily routine of survey work at an expanse of lightly wooded area off County Line Road, near Highway 85, in Ellerslie, Georgia. The team moved as a unit, each man spaced 50 feet apart in a line as they worked their way in the same direction through the forest. Thompkins, who was the last in the line, was keeping regular communications with the others and he and the man in front of him were within eyesight of each other. At one point the surveyor in front glanced back toward Thompkins, who had just been talking to him moments before, to find he was suddenly and inexplicably gone. It didn’t make any sense because the man had just been there several seconds before, but now there was nothing, and nowhere he could have gone without being seen. The surveyor called the others and they searched the area, but what they found only made it all even weirder. Nearby was one of Christopher’s work boots hanging from a barbed wire fence that stretched through the area, with no sign of the other boot. In a patch of grass next to the boot were his work tools, a blue fiber from his work pants, and twelve cents. That was it, and it seemed as if Christopher Thompkins had simply blinked out of existence. It would not be until 1 PM, around 4 hours after the disappearance, that one of the other surveyor’s would finally call their boss to say that Christopher had “vanished,” and oddly enough the missing man’s own mother was not told about the incident until 4:15 PM. Even then she was informed that they had to wait 24 hours for the police to do anything, and when the authorities finally stepped in they were not able to find any additional clues as to what had happened to him. A more intensive search was launched but nothing was turned up until months later, when the missing work boot was bizarrely found by chance on the private property of a man who lived 900 yards from where Christopher had gone missing.
The day of January 25, 2002, started off just like any other for 20-year old Christopher Thompkins. He got up, said good bye to his mother, who he lived with, and left for his job as a surveyor at 8:10 AM that morning. Thompkins met up with the other three members of his 4-man surveyor team and went about their daily routine of survey work at an expanse of lightly wooded area off County Line Road, near Highway 85, in Ellerslie, Georgia. The team moved as a unit, each man spaced 50 feet apart in a line as they worked their way in the same direction through the forest. Thompkins, who was the last in the line, was keeping regular communications with the others and he and the man in front of him were within eyesight of each other. At one point the surveyor in front glanced back toward Thompkins, who had just been talking to him moments before, to find he was suddenly and inexplicably gone. It didn’t make any sense because the man had just been there several seconds before, but now there was nothing, and nowhere he could have gone without being seen. The surveyor called the others and they searched the area, but what they found only made it all even weirder. Nearby was one of Christopher’s work boots hanging from a barbed wire fence that stretched through the area, with no sign of the other boot. In a patch of grass next to the boot were his work tools, a blue fiber from his work pants, and twelve cents. That was it, and it seemed as if Christopher Thompkins had simply blinked out of existence. It would not be until 1 PM, around 4 hours after the disappearance, that one of the other surveyor’s would finally call their boss to say that Christopher had “vanished,” and oddly enough the missing man’s own mother was not told about the incident until 4:15 PM. Even then she was informed that they had to wait 24 hours for the police to do anything, and when the authorities finally stepped in they were not able to find any additional clues as to what had happened to him. A more intensive search was launched but nothing was turned up until months later, when the missing work boot was bizarrely found by chance on the private property of a man who lived 900 yards from where Christopher had gone missing.