In 1768, Owen Parfitt, a paralyzed man in Shepton Mallet, vanished from his chair outside his sister’s cottage without a trace. Was it abduction, escape, or something supernatural? His disappearance remains one of England’s strangest unsolved cases.

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Sources:

https://sheptonmallet.nub.news/news/local-news/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-owen-parfitt-shepton-mallets-unsolved-enigma-219634

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/more-historys-most-famous-unsolved-disappearances

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