Lars Mittank was a 28 year old German tourist who went missing after traveling to the Golden Sands resort in Varna, Bulgaria, while on a vacation with his friends in June of 2014.
Lars and his group of friends seemed to be enjoying their time in Bulgaria during the week leading up to Mittank’s strange disappearance. While drinking at a bar about a week into the trip, Lars got into an altercation with fans of a rival soccer team. After he left the bar, Lars vanished for the rest of the night and returned to their resort room the following morning. Lars had stated to his friends that he had been badly beaten by four men that he had been arguing with in the bar the previous night. His injuries included a cracked jaw and ruptured ear drum, and he was prescribed antibiotics. This meant that because of his ear injury he would be unable to fly home with the rest of his group which was leaving that day. After his altercation, it was said that Mittank exhibited unusual behavior remainder of the trip. As he could not fly due to his injuries, Lars checked out of the resort with his buddies before checking into a nearby hotel for one night.
It was during that night at the hotel that Mittank began acting especially strange. He appeared to be paranoid and claimed that he was being trailed by the men he had been beaten by just the night before. At one point Lars even hid in the elevator for an extended period of time and made phone calls to his mother asking for her to cancel his credit cards, as he believed four men were going to kill him.
The next day, Lars Mittank travelled to the Varna airport to get clearance from his injuries to be able to fly home that day. The CCTV footage captured the whole conversation between Mittank and the airport doctor and during the conversation it looked as though the pair had been interrupted by a man working a construction project in the airport. This seemed to agitate Lars, as he fled from the airport carrying his belongings and can be seen on surveillance running through the parking lot before jumping a fence and vanishing into a field of sunflowers.
No trace of Mittank has even been found or recovered. This makes it very possible that he was actually being tracked down by the men he believed were out to kill him. Another theory proposes the idea of the antibiotic triggering a psychotic episode, or he could have possibly been suffering from a head injury due to the beating he suffered. Lars Mittank’s mother has never given up and continues to seek leads regarding the disappearance of her son. Several concerned citizens claimed to have seen Mittank, with one truck driver saying he may have given Lars a ride in 2019 in Brandenburg, Germany. However, there has been no confirmation that it was the missing man.
Lars Mittank has been missing for almost 8 years, still with no leads or any idea of his whereabouts.