you won't believe it but according to the National Crime information center or ncic 521 705 people were reported missing in 2021 however only 90 000 of that number remain as Active cases after all sometimes missing people aren't actually missing some reports are immediately canceled but some remain open for years usually reports of missing people end in tragedy with a missing person being dead but there are rare cases when people show up alive years or even decades later from the man who abandoned civilization to the men who lost his identity for 10 years here are 15 missing people who were eventually found foreign number 15 the man who abandoned civilization stress and burnout affect everyone no matter how successful you are there will always be a time when you feel exhausted from excessive and prolonged stress some people deal with it by taking a walk having a self-care day or even taking a one week vacation but for Spanish physician Carlos Sanchez Ortiz simply taking a vacation wasn't enough Carlos is a doctor from Seville Spain who disappeared in 1995. he was 26 years old at the time and he just received his medical degree his parents searched for him everywhere but they couldn't find him by 2010 his parents and the authorities gave up and Carlos was declared dead but it turned out that Carlos was very much alive about five years after he was declared dead two mushroom Pickers claimed that they saw Carlos in a nature reserve in Northern Tuscany they said that they saw a man with a long beard who had been living in a reserve for 20 years the two also claimed that Carlos showed them his passport and told him that he was a former psychiatrist who chose to live in seclusion before the three of them parted ways Carlos warned them that he would leave the Nature Reserve because he didn't want to be found Carlos parents immediately flew to Italy from Spain in hopes of seeing their son but they only found his former Camp Carlos parents were both incredibly happy that their son is still alive they claimed that they would respect his wishes and his freedom but they wanted to hug him one last time before letting him go it's unclear whether Carlos reunited with his parents again but hopefully Carlos parents got the closure they deserve before we go on like this video smash the Subscribe button and click the notification Bell right now number 14. missing man solves his own case three decades later growing up Steve Carter always knew that he was adopted by his parents from an orphanage in Hawaii although he had a happy life as a kid in New Jersey he also questioned why his birth certificate was created a year after his actual birth and why there wasn't any information about his real parents the custodians at the orphanage said that Steve was left behind by his biological mother who claimed that Steve was the son of a native in Hawaii needless to say Steve's blue eyes and prayer complexion convinced him that the custodian wasn't telling him the truth the secret behind Steve's identity began to unravel when his wife bought a DNA kit for Christmas and it revealed that he was actually of Scandinavian descent the last clue he needed came to him in an internet search in 2011. he stumbled upon the missingkids.org website and found a photo of a child named Marx Panama Barnes that looked exactly like him it didn't take long for Steve to realize that the missing child was actually him he discovered that he was born in Hauula Hawaii to a woman named Charlotte Moriarty his father Mark Barnes claimed that Charlotte disappeared along with her son without a trace on June 21 1977 and he never saw them since after disappearing Charlotte took baby Steve to a stranger's home and gave him a fake name and a fake birth date before leaving him behind Charlotte was admitted to a psychiatric Patrick hospital before she vanished Without a Trace Steve was then put in protective care before being adopted Steve's adoptive parents felt threatened upon hearing the news and claimed that they felt as if they had taken someone else's child though it wasn't the case in the end Steve reconnected with his father and his older half-sister who missed him dearly Steve was just happy to finally know the truth about his life number 13. bizarre disappearance of Michelle McMullen Michelle McMullen is a single mother who vanished after stealing money from the nearby Church Michelle worked at the local McDonald's to pay her bills she was barely managing until police confronted her about forged checks and stolen money she disappeared shortly after but instead of thinking that she was on the run her parents thought that she became the victim of a predator but after being spotted by a friend and running away it was clear that Michelle was on the run it wasn't until three years later that she confessed that she stole money to funder studies upon hearing this the judge sentenced her to time served in probation as well as six thousand dollars in restitution this year Michelle is in her early 40s and is living a private life with her family number 12 man who disappeared on his way to church on September 28 2004 Timothy Carney disappeared on his way to morning prayer and was never seen again there were no leads found aside from Carney's car abandoned on the side of the road near a construction site every attempt by the authorities to find him was fruitless but as it turned out Timothy was alive and well on September 23 2011 he was found alive but he insisted that he does not wish to be found his parents claimed that Kearney became interested in his religion to the point that he was giving the majority of his salary to the church they suspect that his disappearance is connected with the church but they were ultimately content to hear that he was alive number 11. man declared dead found working in Las Vegas casino usually when missing people are found they end up having an emotional reunion with their families Arthur Gerald Jones's story however was quite different Jones vanished in Illinois and after more than a decade of feudal search he was declared dead but in 2011 73 year old Arthur was found in Las Vegas 25 years after he was declared dead he used another identity to work at a Las Vegas casino Sportsbook he was charged with identity theft and fraud his wife and his three children couldn't believe the news the 73-year-old allegedly left his family in 1979 because he wanted to have a fresh start I don't know about you but I don't think it's fair to leave your wife and three children and go undercover using a fake name number 10. missing men found after three decades Edgar La tulip was reported missing in 1986 as he was headed for Niagara Falls the man was allegedly already suffering from developmental delays and mental challenges so his family was concerned for his life it turned out that they had enough reason to be afraid because latulip was never seen again until 30 years later his story will most likely remind you of a Hollywood movie but it's still incredibly tragic La tulip suffered from a head injury during his trip 30 years ago and lost his memory he lived his life while suffering from Amnesia until 30 years later when his memories came back to him while staying at a group home upon remembering his name fifty-year-old latulip finally found his surviving relatives and was reunited with his family number nine we've got your wife on January 17 1985 Denise bolser disappeared Without a Trace and the only clue that her husband found was a note that read we've got your wife and nothing else the authorities thought that she might have been kidnapped or murdered but no real evidence was found that could lead to these possibilities they also considered that perhaps Denise left on her own accord but her family claimed that she had no reason to do so however several months after Denise vanished the workplace accused her of embezzling between twelve thousand dollars to one hundred thousand dollars but the charges were dropped in 1993. it wasn't until 2002 that a private investigator found Denise living under the name Denise James in Panama City Florida Denise already had a new family there and admitted that she hid and ran away when her former boss threatened her life number eight murder victim found alive in 1984 Petra petzika failed to show up at her brother's birthday she was a immediately reported missing and authorities held an intensive search to find her in 1985 a man who was guilty of the murder of a 14 year old girl from the same area confessed that he also killed Petra but her body was never found even so the Cold Case was closed in 1989 with Petra being ruled dead surprisingly in 2015 a woman in Dusseldorf who called herself Mrs Scheider reported to the authorities that her apartment was robbed she was asked to give any form of identification and when she failed to give any she confessed to being Petra petica she was able to live for more than three decades in seclusion because she never opened a bank account or a social security card the reason behind her disappearance is still unclear but she claimed that she didn't want to reunite with her family number seven fifteen-year-old found after four years kioma gray was only 14 years old when he was kidnapped by an older man named Andrew Joshua Tafoya Tafoya was allegedly close to kioma's brother Hall in time kyoma and Tafoya grew close with each other despite their huge age difference with defoya being 20 years old and kioma being only 14 at the time kioma's parents grew worried when her grades started dropping and when her soccer coach claimed that she often disappeared with Tafoya during practice her parents for Vader from seeing Tafoya again and they thought she obliged however it turned out that kiyoma still went out with the foia when things got worse kioma's mother filed charges against Tafoya for unlawful intercourse with a minor and he was sentenced to six months of work furlough kioma's parents thought that everything would be back to normal but after six months kioma disappeared without a trace the search only ended when the authorities got involved after four years kioma finally was reunited with her family but she wasn't the same person even after Tafoya pleaded guilty to felony charges of concealing a child from her parents and was sentenced to two years in jail kioma still wanted to move in with tafoya's parents kioma's parents believed that she was brainwashed by her abductor because she was only a 15 year old child when she was taken away from home number six girl shows up after disappearing for 18 years JC Dugard went missing on June 10 1991 in Myers California she was only 11 years old at the time and she couldn't do much when a silver car snatched her from the street what's worse her stepfather Carl probin was riding a bike nearby when it happened but he wasn't able to catch up to the car JC's kidnapping haunted the family for almost two decades until 2009 when she was found living in a shed in Philippine Nancy Garrido's house in California according to JC she was kept as a prisoner by the two and she gave birth to two of Philip's children she had no hopes of escaping until she finally managed to call for help Philip was sentenced to 431 years to life in prison while Nancy was sentenced to 36 years to life this was probably not enough to compensate for everything JC had been through but the family was just happy that they finally found their long-lost daughter number five father kidnaps his own child Julian Hernandez grew up with Bobby Hernandez in a home in Ohio it wasn't until he was a teenager applying for college that he discovered the truth behind his identity as a child Julian lived with his mother and father who were living in two separate units at Vestavia Park Apartments in Alabama when he was five years old he suddenly disappeared the investigators had no idea where he was and his case was left open for more than a decade none of the Authority's efforts panned out until 2015 when a school counselor helped Julian to determine why his social security number didn't match his name it didn't take long until they found out that Julian Hernandez was on the national Center for missing and exploited children database his father Bobby Hernandez turned out to be responsible for the kidnapping of his own son Julian didn't know that his mother had been searching for him since 2002 the two were reunited while Bobby Hernandez was arrested on November 2nd 2015. number four boy went missing for two years then his dad looked under the dresser broken relationships affect a lot of children around the world usually children are even more affected when their parents divorce and many of them don't know how to live without the presence of two good parental figures Ricky is one of the many children that got caught up in the marital Troubles of Michael and Shannon from Illinois the two always fought even with Ricky around and although they tried to make the relationship work they still divorced a few years later Michael wanted to co-parent their child Ricky but Shannon wanted to be the sole guardian of their son because Michael is a soldier he was deployed right after the divorce and he only got to talk to his son through phone calls once in a while it wasn't long until their routine phone calls ceased and for Shannon to seemingly disappear off the grid along with Ricky Michael immediately searched for his ex-wife and son after getting back from his service but they weren't where they used to live the police helped him in his search and their only possible lead was Shannon's mother Diane Michael thought that it was strange that she wasn't that worried about her daughter and her grandson's disappearance and it turned out that his hunch was correct when Michael asked the authorities to search Diane's house she obliged but claimed that they wouldn't find anything connected to Shannon and Ricky in her house the cop searched the entire house and found nothing until one of them moved a wooden dresser under it was a square hole that led to an underground room where Shannon was hiding with her son Ricky it turned out that Ricky had not been outside for two years her mother and grandmother tried to hide him from his father in the end Shannon was charged with kidnapping and was imprisoned the court gave Michael full custody of Ricky and he finally got to spend time with his son number three three women found alive after being kidnapped Amanda Berry Gina De Jesus and Michelle Knight were all women who mysteriously disappeared in Cleveland it took 10 long years before anyone heard of them again Michelle Knight first went missing on August 23 2002 when she was 21 years old Michelle was about to appear in court in a custody case for her son and yet she never showed up the authorities believed that Michelle disappeared and gave up on her son's custody which he lost to the state the next disappearance was Amanda Berry who vanished on April 21 2003 one day before her 17th birthday before she disappeared Amanda told her mother that someone offered her a ride home from her job at a fast food restaurant however she never made it home that night when Amanda's mother reported that her daughter was missing the authorities insisted that Amanda was a runaway Days Later Amanda's mother received a phone call that finally convinced the authorities that she didn't run away the caller was a man who said that Amanda was with him and that she would come home in a few days yet Amanda never came back the authorities were finally convinced that Amanda simply didn't run away but the search for her was fruitless what's more lamentable Amanda's mother died in 2006 because of heart failure and she never knew what really happened to her beloved daughter the last of the three disappeared on April 2nd 2004 when 14 year old Gina De Jesus didn't make it back home from school the authorities had no idea that all three cases were connected to each other the loved ones of Barry Knight and DeJesus almost gave up in their search thinking that the three girls were dead as it turned out they disappeared because of a man named Ariel Castro all three girls were held captive by Ariel Castro who kidnapped all three girls and kept them inside his house for almost 10 years the three women only had the chance to escape in May 2013 when Ariel Castro left his house and forgot to lock the main door Amanda used that chance to get out and Shout for help luckily Charles Ramsey their next-door neighbor heard the desperate cries and quickly kicked down the storm door of the house and freed Amanda and her child whose father turned out to be Ariel Castro Michelle Knight and Gina De Jesus were found by the authorities inside two separate rooms in the house the three women were immediately sent to the hospital along with a child Ariel Castro was a immediately arrested and charged with four counts of kidnapping and assault the loved ones of the three women were all happy to hear that they were still alive but they were devastated when they heard what the three of them experienced while they were gone Justice was still served and Castro was sentenced to life plus one thousand years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a total of 937 counts of charges on September 3rd 2013 Castro was found dead in his prison cell it appears that even he couldn't bear the consequences of The Wretched crimes he committed number two woman disappears for five years Michelle Whitaker LED quite a difficult life but many were still alarmed by her disappearance as a teenager Michelle clashed a lot with her mother who thought she was too strict to get away from her home Michelle considered joining the Navy but she fell in love with her recruiter instead whom she married after graduating high school their marriage expectedly didn't last for more than a year Michelle lived a difficult life and by age 30 Michelle was working part-time as a waitress and was barely getting enough to make ends meet no matter how much he tried Michelle's life has always been hard she was arrested for drunk driving and she never had any money at some point she couldn't find an apartment to stay in so she hopped from her parents house to her friend's houses and sometimes she even slept in her car on August 5th 2002 Michelle got into an argument with her mother Laura she left the house and several days passed without Michelle calling her mother after several more days Laura grew worried and started contacting the man last seen with her daughter however no one saw where Michelle went and no one could tell about her whereabouts two weeks after her disappearance Michelle's family filed an official missing persons report the police traced Michelle's bank records but they found no activity everyone connected to Michelle was also investigated but all of them had perfect Alibis a year after her disappearance authorities declared her case open and unsolved Michelle's Mother begged news outlets on TV to keep her daughter's case alive but it was pretty much forgotten by everyone after two years in August 2005 Laura had hoped that she would find her daughter when police received an anonymous letter they claimed that they knew where Michelle was the police arrived at the location but they found the body of a woman instead Laura thought that the body belonged to her daughter but DNA confirmed that it wasn't her five years after her disappearance Michelle's family held a vigil for her however in August 2008 police received a call from a woman who claimed that Michelle Whitaker was alive in Oregon the woman's information turned out to be true and after six long years Michelle finally reunited with her family again it turned out that Michelle tried to change the way she lived and so she moved places Michelle also claimed that she thought her family wouldn't search for her and that she felt guilty for the pain she caused luckily the case had a happy ending with Michelle getting closer than ever to her family after her disappear appearance number one man who lost his identity for 10 years on August 31st 2004 a man was discovered unconscious next to a dumpster behind a burger joint in Richmond Hill Georgia the man was injured and covered in fire ants and didn't have any form of clothing when he was picked up by authorities he claimed that he didn't know who he was the man didn't know his name age or where he came from he didn't have any form of identification with him and so the authorities didn't have any leads on his identity there were also no posts about him on missing persons records or any websites after several days the man told one nurse that he remembers his name as Benjamin and for his last name he just chose Kyle the mysterious man was referred to as Benjamin Kyle from then on but the questions behind his identity still remained how did he end up in the dumpster and how did he lose his memory unfortunately these questions remained unanswered even as Benjamin Kyle learned his true name more than 10 years after he was found a genealogist was finally able to find out Benjamin's real name his real name was William Burgess Powell born on August 29 1948 he spent most of his life in Lafayette Indiana until his disappearance in 1976. Benjamin was invited on a show with millions of viewers but not a single one of them was able to identify who he was even though his real name was determined authorities still weren't able to find out anything about him in any official records William Burgess Powell was never able to remember what happened to him in the years he went missing he never remembered how he ended up in the dumpster or how he lost his memory in the first place missing people turning up alive really sounds like a great story but it's a terrifying thing to experience do you know other stories of missing people who turned out to be alive after many years share your stories in the comments below be sure to comment down your favorite story in this video as well also check out our other cool stuff showing up on the screen right now and I'll see you in the next video take care everybody