A Mysterious Disappearance… What Happened to Ebonee Spears?

Before she suddenly vanished, Ebonee Spears showed strange behavior and seemed disoriented as she wandered about Wilmington, N.C…

Yasmin Scherrer
3 min readSep 23, 2022
Ebonee Spears; Photo Source: WECT

January 15, 2016 started like any other day

In Wilmington, North Carolina, the cold January day started as normally as any other day.

30-year-old Ebonee Shanetta Spears visited her parents to have breakfast at their place. Ebonee seemed like herself, which was a relief for her parents who found her the night before acting disoriented.

Before Ebonee left her parents’ home, they decided that she would come over for dinner later that day.

But plans changed, and Ebonee called them at 7PM to announce she wouldn’t come, as she had already eaten something.

After this call, things start to get weird. She was seen at the Boys and Girls Club some time later in the evening.

Almost immediately after that, she tried to make a phone call at the Wilmington Police Department’s lobby, but didn’t manage to work the telephone.

At that time, she seemed disoriented and acted out-of-character. Before she finally walked away, surveillance camera…

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Yasmin Scherrer

Writer from Switzerland • Diploma in journalism, astronomy, and editing • X @zeitgeist2004