Agatha Christie
This mysterious disappearance began on the night of 3rd December 1926. Crime author Agatha Christie went upstairs to kiss her sleeping daughter goodnight, and then drove off. A few hours later, her abandoned car was found down at the end of a slope. Christie was nowhere to be found. There was a natural spring near the abandoned car, so many people thought that she drowned herself there. Others suggested the incident was a publicity stunt. More chillingly, however, some evidence seemed to convince authorities that her unfaithful husband, Archie Christie, was involved. Eleven days later, Christie was found alone, and using a different name. She had been living in a hotel since the day after her disappearance. The two most popular theories offered for these strange events have been that either Christie was suffering from memory loss after a car crash, or that she had planned the whole thing to prevent her husband from spending a weekend with his mistress. Recently, however, a new theory has emerged. Police hypothesize that Christie was in a mental condition known as a “fugue state”, or a period of out-of-bodyamnesia caused by stress. In other words, the writer was in a kind of trance for several days. But who can be sure?