The Monthly Undergrounder

The Monthly Undergrounder is a periodical that publishes articles on unexplained phenomenon. In June of 1968 this magazine ran an article about The Vanishing, titled "The Original Drop-Outs:The Secret History of the Vanishing" by Colin Anton Ressnak. This article mentions several groups and people who researched the vanishing, including Celeste Roget and the James Millard Oakes League. The article goes into greater depth on Orrin Oscar Lutwidge. It tells of his background, his strange encouragement of the other conspiracy theorists, and his own disappearance after 1958 in search of "true Rapture".

The June edition of the Monthly Undergrounder also featured a reader's letter from Flann McDonagh, who dismissed the idea that all of the vanished were "brilliant" in some way, saying instead that the real connection between them was the belief in Andrew Ryan's capitalist philosophies.

Something in the Sea
Mark Meltzer first discovered this article of the Monthly Undergrounder in June of 1968 after receiving a letter from Jeremiah Lynch that mentioned the Vanishing. This letter led Mark to research the possible connections between the Vanishing and the kidnapping of young girls all around the world, including his own daughter Cindy, in 1967. After Mark received the "Rise, Rapture, Rise" album in July, Lutwidge's quote in the article, "true Rapture," made Mark question whether Lutwidge might know the location of the "Rapture" where the vinyl disk had been made. This led to Mark's investigation of Lutwidge.

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