Disappeared!

The ever entertaining Cracked.com has compiled a list of 5 People Who Just ****ing Disappeared (we are rated PG-13 here at Enigma Street)

Number 1 is aviatrix Amelia Earhart who went missing while attempting a groundbreaking round-the-world attempt. What happened to her? Well, there’s plenty of theories.

Did she just crash in the sea? Or did she as many believe end up stranded on a deserted island (over the years odd bits off kit and skeletons that might be hers have shown up on Nikumaroro/Gardner Island)?

But there are plenty of wilder claims:

Amelia was a spy.
Amelia was captured and executed by the Japanese at Saipan.
Amelia was a Tokyo Rose.

Whatever the truth let’s remember Ms Earhart as a pioneer – not as a missing person.

Agatha Christie Meets the Doctor (NO SPOILERS)

Well, its Saturday here in the UK and that means Doctor Who is on!

In tonight’s episode the Doctor meets detective writer Agatha Christie.  The Unicorn and the Wasp suggests a sci-fi explanation for what happened when the great lady went missing in 1926.

In December of 1926 Ms Christie’s disappeared from her home in Berkshire, her car was subsequently found abandoned in a Surrey chalk pit.

After being missing for ten days, she was found alive and well (physically at least) at a hotel in Harrogate (it looks lovely I quite fancy a few nights there myself).

Oddly, the alias she used was that of a woman with whom her husband was said to be having an affair.

Ms Christie claimed that she had suffered some form of nervous breakdown and entered into a fugue state (brought about by the stress of her husband’s affair and the death of her mother). But some people were unconvinced, accusing the writer of staging an elaborate publicity stunt (that ultimately cost the authorities a great deal of money).

Staged disappearance or sudden mental illness? I think I’m going with whatever the Doctor Who writers go for – it seems to involve a giant alien wasp.