People Who Disappeared but Were Mysteriously Found Alive Years Later

Lucy Ann Johnson

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In 1961, Lucy Ann Johnson disappeared from her home in Surrey, Canada, leaving her husband Marvin and their 8-year-old daughter Linda devastated. In 2013, Linda placed an ad in the Yukon News about her mother. A woman named Rhonda reached out to Linda and told her that she was her half-sister and that Lucy was her mother. After 52 years, Linda was reunited with her mom Lucy, who had left her husband Marvin because he had been abusing her.

Natascha Kampusch

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In 1998, an Austrian woman named Natascha Kampusch was abducted from her home by Wolfgang Priklopil. The man tied her up in a cellar for eight years. But while forcing Kampusch to vacuum his car, he got a call and walked away. This gave Kampusch the chance to run away and call the cops. Priklopil wound up throwing himself in front of a train while evading capture but the girl was finally free.

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