What's the ultimate disappearing act, anyone know of one???

Answer 1

Gorillas, white rhinos, African elephants, pandas etc. Unfortunately this list is so long it would blow this site up.

Answer 2

Wel, there's always the famous "Flight 19" over the Bermuda Triangle:
"The most celebrated disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle concerns Flight 19. On December 5, 1945, five TCM Avengers and 14 Navy aviators took off from Ft. Lauderdale on a training mission off the Florida coast. They disappeared later that day, as it is said, without a trace. Despite all the hoopla over the incident, the most likely explanation is as ordinary and unremarkable as it is tragic.

The squadron was led by an experienced pilot. But based on sporadic radio communications with the planes, it is clear that the leader became severely disoriented. He eventually headed east, out into the open ocean, thinking he was heading for the Florida coast. Eventually, the planes ran out of gas and would have had to ditch. The seas were rough, however, and the unusually heavy, 14,000-pound frames of the TCMs would have sank quickly. The unfortunate aviators had little chance of surviving in the stormy seas, much less being found in one piece in the shark-infested waters."

Then, there was Ambrose Bierce - see 2nd link below, please.

Judge Crater - see 3rd link, please.

And Jimmy Hoffa - see 4th link, please.

And then, there''s science:
"Disappearing act
Feature: September 2006
Two teams of researchers have recently devised a way to make objects invisible. Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas Philbin describe how this magical feat combines two of the greatest theories in physics: Einstein’s general theory of relativity and Maxwell’s electromagnetism

The image of the physicist as someone who is able to perform miracles with an incomprehensible theory has stuck ever since Arthur Eddington observed in his famous 1919 expedition that the position of the stars changes during a solar eclipse, in accordance with Einstein's then new general relativity. Indeed, according to Arthur C Clarke any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Few examples illustrate this better than the recent prediction by two independent groups that materials with exotic electromagnetic properties can make an object disappear. Even more intriguingly, it seems that the best way to actually engineer such an invisibility device is to follow the mathematics of general relativity (arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607418).

Invisibility has inspired countless myths, novels and films – most recently involving Harry Potter. It is important to realize, however, that invisibility is not the same as transparency. H G Wells’ Invisible Man, for instance, makes himself transparent by inventing a recipe to make his refractive index uniform so that light cannot be scattered or absorbed in his body. In contrast, the Invisible Woman character creates a field that distorts space a bit like the way in which Einstein’s gravitational field warps space–time. Her field is cunningly designed to smoothly guide light around her so that she remains hidden whatever she does. In the September issue of Physics World, Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas Philbin describe how this approach to invisibility has allowed a team led by John Pendry of Imperial College in the UK, and, independently, Leonhardt himself to develop the scientific concepts for a bona fide invisibility device."

But perhaps the "untimate disappearing act" is where my paycheck goes each month.

Answer 3

Philip Taylor Kramer. Although I think they eventually found him the story is very interesting, at least to me it is.

Answer 4

What did you do that makes it necessary for you to disappear?

Answer 5

Amelia Earhart...?

Answer 6

D.B. Sweeney