STEVEN KUBACKI, DISAPPEARED FEBRUARY 20, 1978, SAUGATUCK MICHIGAN. FOUND MAY 5, 1979, PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.
Steven Kubacki was a 23-year-old student at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a private Christian university near the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, when he disappeared on February 20, 1978, whilst on a solo cross-country skiing trip near the town of Saugatuck.
The day after his trip to Lake Michigan, snowmobilers in Saugatuck spotted cross-country skis abandoned with a backpack and contacted the authorities to report a missing person. They quickly found the contents of the pack belonged to Steve, and a search and rescue mission was immediately started.
But, the only clue was a 200-yard trail of footprints in the snow, leading past the edge of the lake, which ended abruptly, leading investigators to conclude that Steve had fallen through the ice to his death either by drowning or hypothermia. The area close to Lake Michigan was somewhere Steve had visited many times before.
Then, 15 months later, Kubacki reappeared in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 720 miles due east, with no memory of what had happened since the day at Lake Michigan. Was Steve a victim of the Lake Michigan Triangle? - the site of many disappearances of planes, boats and people over the years.
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