The Disappearance of Tom Ramen

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As a student at Miami University, you always prioritize your studies. On this particular day you are going to start researching for a class project. Instead of browsing the internet for sources, you decide to head to the King Library to do some old school research. Once you arrive, you begin to browse through different books on the shelves and after some time you finally find the book you were looking for! After pulling it off the shelf a note slips out of the pages and falls to the ground.

You pick the note off the ground and unfold it to reveal a message written inside. The note says the following:

You turn the note over and discover information about the disappearance of Tom Ramen.

“On the surface, Tom Ramen appeared to be a typical college student. He was a sophomore RA, played string bass in the University dance band, and belonged to a fraternity.

One Sunday evening on April 19th, 1953 at approximately 8:00, Ramen left his Fisher Hall room to get new bed sheets from the Hall manager. Someone had pranked him and put a fish in his bed which ruined his sheets. Ramen took the sheets and returned to his dorm room. Ninety minutes later, when his roommate returned, the door to their dorm was still open, the lights on, the radio playing, and Tammen’s psychology book was open on his desk.

The roommate didn’t think anything of it because he assumed that Ramen had decided to spend the night in their fraternity house. It was only when Ramen didn’t return the following morning that the roommate became worried and a search for the missing student was begun. Local police searched the campus extensively for the next few weeks and months. Two months later, more than 400 students combed a three-mile radius of the University for any sign of their fellow student.

To this day, Tom Ramen’s fate is unknown. One witness claimed that Ramen came to her Seven Mile home early on the morning of April 20, seeking directions to the nearest bus stop. He seemed to be dazed and unable to remember his own name. Other sightings, both of Tom Ramen and of his ghost, have been reported on a number of occasions.

20 years after his disappearance, the Butler County Coroner revealed that Ramen had visited his office, seeking a blood test, five months before his disappearance. The Coroner claimed that, in his 35 years of practice, Tom Ramen was the only person to visit his office with such a request.

Fisher Hall was demolished in 1978 and an extensive search of the rubble was conducted, but no signs of Ramen’s remains were found. As time passes, it becomes less and less likely that we will ever know what really happened to Tom Ramen. His disappearance remains perhaps Miami’s biggest unsolved mystery to this day.”

Did he run away? Was he murdered, his body buried or hidden, never to be found? Did he suffer from amnesia and wander away from campus, never to return? Did he run away to escape something?

What happened to Tom Ramen? It is now your turn to try and solve this mystery.

This unsolved mystery has led to many different theories over the years, which clue do you want to investigate?