Episode 3820: Dark Enigma - The Strange Disappearance of Jim Thompson, a Tragic Vanished in Paradise Tale

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Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained.  I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the things that go bump in the night, frighteningly imagined creatures, supernatural beings and even some unsolved mysteries and all sorts of weirdness.  So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma.... 

And on today’s Dark enigma well today’s suggestion was rather simple, they wanted something tropical so I merged with the next request for a missing person story and Voila, we have today’s episode!  So, with that said, we will still be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight.  The choice of libation, as always my darlings, is yours, so choose your poison accordingly… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say Vanish (in any form of the word, so vanishing, vanished, etc, you get the gist)   that will be a single shot and every time I say Thailand, that will be a double shot.  Now that the business end is out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma… so don your finest Pooka-shell necklace and gaudiest floral shirt and your Dress flip flops as we dive into The Strange Disappearance of Jim Thompson, a Tragic Vanished in Paradise Tale.

Vanishings happen all of the time, to people of all walks of life. This is not a phenomenon regulated to the destitute, down on their luck, or nobodies. Indeed there have been numerous high profile disappearances throughout history that have managed to shock not only because of their baffling nature, but also because of the high-profile status of the victims. But, what happens when a CIA agent goes out for a walk in the woods and vanishes without a trace? If this were a Mission: Impossible movie, his adventure would have just begun. He would have bedded the hot female assassin, defeated the villains and driven a pimped-up supercar into the sunset. 

However, there were no happy endings for former Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officer James Harrison Wilson Thompson, known to the world simply as Jim Thompson, the art-loving American who revived interest in Thai silk and the industry. Thompson’s disappearance coupled with his later known affiliation with the OSS sparked conspiracy theories; how could it not? For those that are unaware the OSS was the US intelligence agency during World War II and the forerunner of the modern CIA, and an OSS agent’s mysterious disappearance was perfect fodder for conspiracy theory enthusiasts. 50 years is a long time. Long enough for people to either come up with theories as to what really happened to the adventure-loving American who was 61 at the time.