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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce: The Writer Who Walked Into a Revolution and Never Came Back

November 8, 2026November 7, 2026 by Tommy Hayes
Portrait of Ambrose Bierce, American writer and satirist

About 4 min readIn December 1913, the 71-year-old American writer Ambrose Bierce crossed into revolutionary Mexico — and vanished. More than a century later, no body, no grave and no confirmed account of his fate has ever been found.

Categories Vanishings & Strange Events Tags 1913, Ambrose Bierce, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Unsolved, writers Leave a comment

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