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Unsolved Mysteries Off the Radar

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?

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