Agatha Christie vanishes and a medium is consulted
Agatha Christie disappeared on 3 December 1926. Arthur Conan Doyle gave a medium a glove of hers, hoping for answers.
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Agatha Christie, then the most famous detective novelist in the world, left home in the dark on the night of Friday 3 December 1926. She had kissed her daughter, aged seven, goodnight and then driven off from Styles, the family house in Berkshire. Her car turned up abandoned with its lights on, holding clothes in a bag and a licence long out of date, at the rim of a chalk pit close to Guildford. More than 1,000 police officers and 15,000 volunteers searched, together with several aeroplanes, reportedly the first use of aircraft in a civilian search. She was found after 11 days, and by then the papers had turned on her husband, Archie Christie.
The paranormal strand involved a keen occultist, Arthur Conan Doyle, who handed a glove of hers to the medium Horace Leaf. Leaf declared that she would reappear the following week, and was alive, in the reported words "half dazed, half purposeful". One account says the sitting produced no answers. The reason for her disappearance is disputed.
"More than 1,000 police officers, 15,000 volunteers, and several aeroplanes searched the rural landscape (it was the first time that aircraft had been used in a civilian search operation).[48] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave a spirit medium one of Christie's gloves to find her.[c] Christie's disappearance made international headlines, including featuring on the front page of The New York Times.[50][51] Despite the extensive manhunt, she was not found for another 10 days.[49][52][53] On 4 December, the day after she went missing, it is now known she had tea in London and visited Harrods department"