Then I became exhausted and Karen mysteriously vanished. Haw realizes that the cheese has not suddenly vanished, but has dwindled from continual eating. Shortly after Loreno's disappearance in 1994, Watson seemingly vanished too. Then he vanished forever and was never heard again. When the charred casket was opened, however, The Undertaker had once again vanished. When he arrived, the colony had vanished. Saddam had vanished, and his whereabouts were unknown. Cape Verde's early prosperity slowly vanished. In Europe, they had already vanished earlier in the Oligocene. Buddhism vanished and locals later became Muslims. Her family was part of a research group known to have vanished under mysterious circumstances. By the 1970s segregated districts had practically vanished in the South. Eventually the madrigal vanished as an independent form. Eventually, it too vanished from circulation and commanded a premium for change. When they arrive, the woman has already vanished.