The Disappearance of Lars Mittank

The most famous missing person on Youtube

It’s not uncommon to watch a traveler sprinting through an airport, trying to catch their flight back home after a much needed vacation. What would be uncommon would be watching someone running out of the airport, right before his flight takes off, agitated and incoherent. While there are hundreds of ongoing missing persons cases at any given moment, Lars stands out because CCTV cameras were able to capture his strange last moments. On July 8, 2014, just after sunrise, 28-year-old Lars Mittank arrived at an airport in Bulgaria to catch his flight home to Germany. He stepped out of a taxi, picked up his bags and walked into the departures hall. Then, in a flash, he ran out of the terminal, without his luggage, as if someone, or something, were chasing him. He looked frightened, paranoid and possessed. He stopped at the main entrance for a brief second before he ran across the parking lot, climbed over an 8-foot barbed-wire fence and disappeared into the woods to never be seen again.

German’s arguing over football is a tale as old as time. Being on vacation was no exception for 28 year old Lars Mittank and a group of other rowdy german tourists. You see, Lars was a Werder Bremen fan and the other guys were fans of the rival team Bayern Munich. So obviously It had been a long night, and all…