In which we wonder why John Darwin returned
Published at 10:41 pm on December 6th, 2007
Filed under: Media Addict.
News story of the week: John Darwin, the man who disappeared, mostly, then came back again after the police started raising their eyebrows. The question, of course, is: why would you disappear, only to come back again with such publicity?
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Keyword noise: biopic, fraud, John Darwin, Teesside, vanishing.
The other day, Tim Boucher linked to Colleague M’s ghost story, in which M’s sister Lydia had a bit of trouble with a pair of argumentative ghosts apparently haunting her house. When I first heard about the ghosts, I was hoping I’d be able to post regular updates on the story; but there don’t seem to have been any updates recently. I asked M if anything had happened, and was told that everything has settled down quietly again. No more ghostly voices on the phone, no more things going missing, no more possibly-possessed cats. So, Lydia is able to sleep at night again.
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Keyword noise: Colleague M, fraud, ghosts, ghost stories, gullible, misleading, psychic.