Dream Holiday

What's wrong with a guy taking his girlfriend on a romantic Christmas vacation?

Nothing special, unless the guy suddenly starts showing signs of absent-mindedness, lost in the distance, and insisting on an undefined, fixed idea. Peter Gibbs, a musician and occasional pilot, landed his girlfriend in a rented Cessna-150 on the hotel runway (there was such a thing) in Glenforsa, on the island of Mull in northern Scotland. It would seem like the beginning of a dream vacation for the couple in love... and that's how it was until Christmas dinner on 24/25.12.1975. The two had a few glasses of wine and were probably about to head to the hotel room to indulge in carnal pleasures - when suddenly... Peter started saying that he had to take off right then and there, alone, right away, without delay!

His girlfriend, expectedly shocked and surprised by his insistence on flying, received no answer, Peter seemed a little confused and absent-minded and answered all her questions with vague phrases that boiled down to the fact that he had to take off immediately. The girl found herself in a dilemma but still decided to do what Peter asked of her, i.e. to help him take off. It was approaching midnight, it was pitch black outside and there was also fog. With a flashlight in her hands, the girl headed to the end of the runway to signal where it ended and how far her boyfriend had to separate from the runway with the plane. Perhaps the fact that Peter was an ex-RAF pilot and had quite a bit of experience with planes gave her some kind of security.

Peter successfully took off...aaaaaaaaaand was not seen again...at least not alive.

After takeoff - he completely disappeared. An alarm was raised, the police and the coast guard searched for him along with other citizens who joined the search...completely unsuccessfully.

And again, suddenly, in early April 1976, there was Peter! But unfortunately, only as a corpse, about three kilometers from the hotel where he was staying with his wife, with no signs of violence except for a minor injury to his leg. And the plane... The Cessna remained missing even though the corpse appeared in a place that had already been searched. The corpse was unusually fresh and without signs of decomposition consistent with three months of being outdoors.

The pathologists reported that death occurred due to frostbite and not as a result of a fall from a height.

Various theories have emerged around this case.

Naturally, the banal explanation of infidelity and an attempt to leave his wife was expected, but Peter did not receive a phone call nor was it ever established that he was cheating, on the other hand, such a dramatic `breakup` is borderline crazy and difficult to imagine and besides, it does not explain anything about the death and the disappearance of the plane. Another theory mentioned that Peter was a spy for MI-5 and was supposed to go on a mission to Northern Ireland where there was a civil war at the time, he was killed there and then the body was returned near the hotel (!?). Quite incredible if you take into account that there are a bunch of ways to deal with a corpse more easily. Besides... where is the Cessna?Eleven years later, in one of the bays of the island of Mal, a few kilometers from the runway but in the opposite direction from where the body was found, the remains of a small plane were discovered, which some assumed was a Cessna, although the plane had obviously hit the water at high speed, causing many of the remains to be scattered around, indicating that it was not a forced landing that would have left the plane to sink as a whole.

The cabin was found, and in it, comfortably nestled, stood a lobster... and legend has it that it was the couple's last dinner at the hotel on December 24, 1975...Later in 2004, the remains of a similar plane were spotted nearby, a Cessna but not a model 150, there was never a definitive answer...Anyway, a more original and exciting vacation that leaves lifelong impressions - the woman could not have imagined.

(Roger Mortis, 067)