Does anyone know James Thompson's story??
It was happend in my hometown--->Cameron Highlands
The story will be start as below....
Once upon a time............................
James H.W. Thompson
Known to friends and strangers alike as Jim was born in Greenville, Delaware, America on March 21, 1906. Thai silk was virtualy unknown to the world befre Thompson arrived in Bangkok in 1945 and founded the vastly sucessful Thai silk Co. Ltd. Subsequently, Thompson was unofficially crowned the ‘Thai Silk King’. The world renowned company and its founder has been creadited with elevating the Silk trade in Thailand from an ailing cottage industry to the heights of International distinction. Tragically, Thompson’s legacies have long outlasted the man himself.
On Sunday, March 26, 1967, Jim Thompon vanished in the hills of Cameron Highlands and was never seen again.
Unsolved mystery, Since 26/3/1967
What really happened to Jim Thompson??
The Thompson case was the subject of many livel debates and a number of explanations and theories were offered as to what really happened to him. To this day, the most tantalising question remains unanswered.
The Strange disappearance of Jim Thompson in Cameron Highlands
Thompson went to Cameron Highlands for a restful Easter weekend with some close friends. They were staying in the Moonlight cottage, which belonged to Dr. and Mrs. Ling, the cottage stood just at the edge of the jungle.
Moonlight Cottage
Characteristically, he had made appointments in Singapore for the following Monday. On the first day in Highlands he and one of his friends went for a walk in the jungle and soon realised they were lost.
“Don’t worry”, he said, “follow me along this stream and we’ll find our way out.” They did. But on the second day, while his friends were napping, Jim Thompson walked off in the jungle alone. He did not return..
Jim Thompson disappeared without a trace..
It was Dr. Ling who first reported Thompson’s failure to return to the cottage. He went to the police station at about 7:30 that evening.
A group of 30 Orang Asli trackers was gathered to help in the search, but they came back unsucessful at about two in the morning. From then on, the hunt for Thompson steadily intensified. The next morning, a group of 120 people took to the hills. Searchers were divided into small groups and went out in shifts working from early morning until midnight. The folloing day, twice the number of people wear despatched to the jungles surrounding Moonlight cottage but Thompson remained missing.
The massive search which had never before been seen in the area..
It was reported that the rescue team eventually swelled to more than 300 people including 200 officers and men of the Police Field Force from Ipoh, a tracker dog and British servicemen who were convalescing in the nearby British Military Hospital at Tanah Rata.
The searchers scoured the thick jungle on slopes, valleys and ravines equipped with walkie- talkies, field telephones and hailers. As news spread, more help arrived and the search took on a new dimension with string of colourful charaters that included local bomohs, temple mediums, soothsayers and an assortment of others who claimed to have psychic powers.
By the time, bits of information on the “Thai Silk King” as he was called began to trickle into the news. The authorities were initially fairly confident that the 61 years old was still alive and was either trapped in vitually impenetrable jungle or had been injured in a fall. They felt that it was only a matter of time before he was found but as the weeks wore on, hope finding him, alive at least, rapidly diminished. Officially, search efforts for Thompson continued for eleven days but possibly due to the substabtial reward that was later offered, people were still looking for him months after he disappeared.
