A lanky stranger in a beach town, with a fake ID and a final departure. A young mother trying to pin a murder on her toddler. Ships that never sailed home, and missing persons posters, fluttering in cold, Alaskan air. At first glance, there may seem little to tie these people, places and things together. Yet you’re reading about them in tandem, years after they disappeared — because they disappeared. United in their final fate of retreating from the view of the world that they inhabited across disparate times and spaces, eight missing entities come briefly together. Perhaps they will spark new theories, perhaps they will plague you with their enduring lack of closure. The only way to know for sure is to read on in today’s Daily Dose.