# Famous Missing Objects **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 27, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536 "2010-10-27T15:51:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/21 "2010-10-27T18:40:32Z")
The demo tapes for \*Band On The Run \* were stolen when Paul and Linda were mugged in Lagos. The orginal artwork for ELP’s _Brain Salad Surgery_ went missing after an exhibition of Giger’s work in Prague. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/22 "2010-10-27T18:41:07Z")
Paris Hilton’s dignity. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/23 "2010-10-27T18:45:46Z")
Somewhere off the coast of Colombia lies the San José, a sunken Spanish galleon thought to be carrying more than $1 billion in treasure. (The Great Mogul Diamond is likely cut up and is just different stones now. Lost forever. Not missing.) ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/24 "2010-10-27T18:56:18Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > Somewhere off the coast of Colombia lies the San José, a sunken Spanish galleon thought to be carrying more than $1 billion in treasure. Dibs! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/25 "2010-10-27T18:58:57Z")
Columbus’s original log of his first voyage to the Americas. It exists only in partial and inaccurate copies. Probably misplaced or destroyed rather than stolen. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/26 "2010-10-27T19:04:19Z")
JFKs brain, so I have read. ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/27 "2010-10-27T19:07:48Z")
The [Peacock Throne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacock_Throne) of India. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/28 "2010-10-27T19:14:36Z")
[Ernest Hemingway’s suitcase](http://lostmanuscripts.com/2010/07/31/hemingways-lost-suitcase/), containing nearly all of his early unpublished stories. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/29 "2010-10-27T19:16:33Z")
[The Ground Zero Flag](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_at_Ground_Zero) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Ayebaw](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darth_ayebaw/32/9870_2.png) [@Darth\_Ayebaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Ayebaw)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/30 "2010-10-27T19:30:09Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Amelia Earhart Actually, she _may_ have been found. [http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-resting-place.html](http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-resting-place.html) [http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-castaway-clues-island.html](http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-castaway-clues-island.html) [http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-island-artifacts.html](http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-island-artifacts.html) It’s not 100% proof, but when the serial numbers on the parts match, well… either way, it’s the best theory I’ve heard on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/31 "2010-10-27T19:31:26Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > Somewhere off the coast of Colombia lies the San José, a sunken Spanish galleon thought to be carrying more than $1 billion in treasure. > > (The Great Mogul Diamond is likely cut up and is just different stones now. Lost forever. Not missing.) Would it be possible to get a really big metal detector and a helicopter? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/32 "2010-10-27T20:25:47Z")
King John lost all his treasure in a river, IIRC. Amphicoelias fragillimus is the largest dinosaur ever discovered, only it was just one partial vertebra and the dude lost it. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/33 "2010-10-27T20:29:15Z")
Look, I said I’ll clean up my desk and I meant it. Just give me a couple more days and I’m sure I’ll run across everything. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/34 "2010-10-27T20:46:57Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > JFKs brain, so I have read. Cite, please. Because his was a strongly catholic family, and catholic tradition is that any body parts removed during autopsy are supposed to be retrieved and placed in the casket before burial. (Minor things like blood samples, microscopic slides of parts, etc. don’t count. An old priest once told me that if it was less than the chalice-worth of blood & water that came out when Christ’s side was pierced with a spear, it doesn’t need to be there for the burial. But I think that is just a tradition, not actual church doctrine.) ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/35 "2010-10-27T20:47:34Z")
Richard Francis Burton’s manuscript of _The Scented Garden_. All existing copies of the Lon Chaney vampire film _London After Midnight_. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/36 "2010-10-27T21:06:09Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > Cite, please. [Here’s some info](http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/brain.txt) ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/37 "2010-10-27T21:06:37Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Would it be possible to get a really big metal detector and a helicopter? Would that it were so easy! If several ships, submarines, radar, sonar and various other means of detection couldn’t find Air France 447 within a more-or-less known geographical area over the span of the month the data recorder pingers were assumed operable, and several search efforts thereafter, then I don’t think your plan would work too well! I guess Air France 447 _F-GZCP_ qualifies for this thread, at least for now! On a similar note, the data recorders from the planes that hit the WTC were never found either; presumably melted and destroyed in the fires and collapses. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/38 "2010-10-27T21:34:07Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > catholic tradition is that any body parts removed during autopsy are supposed to be retrieved and placed in the casket before burial. I realize that my Peace-Corps-volunteer niece \<\> the slain POTUS and that it isn’t 1963 any more, but FWIW my Catholic niece was laid to rest last week with neither her heart nor her brain, as the M.E.s are still trying to determine her cause of death. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/39 "2010-10-27T22:08:17Z")
The Crown of Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536/40 "2010-10-27T23:08:40Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > The biggest art theft in history occurred at the Isabella Steward Gardner museum in Boston in 1990. None of it has ever been seen since. [Au contraire, mon frere!](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/heist-to-see-you-stolen-vermeer-resurfaces-on-the-simpsons/) 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-missing-objects/558536.md?page=3)