EEK! Michael Mosley Missing in Greece

According to reports he was on the beach with his wife and the other couple who were on holiday with them. If the 4 of them set off from the accommodation together and the original plan was to stay together he possibly thought there was no need to take his phone.

The searing midday sun can affect you without your realising it. When I was in Jerusalem in a heatwave (October, which was supposed to be a cooler month) I suffered from heat exhaustion, became totally disorientated, left £200 in shekels on a table in the Old City and wouldn't have got back to our hotel without my son's help. I didn't feel it coming on, other than that I felt warm. I learnt from it but had no idea it was about to happen.

anna7

We are in Greece atm and my husband forgot his phone yesterday. He left it on the bed as we were preparing to go out. Anybody can forget their phone on occasion.

Agree, but then you don't go off on your own, when you're getting on a bit in age, in the searing midday sun, on a hike!

My thoughts go out to his family .
Goodness knows what's happened to him .

We are in Greece atm and my husband forgot his phone yesterday. He left it on the bed as we were preparing to go out. Anybody can forget their phone on occasion.

I agree lemsip. DH has just returned from a dog walk here in France. (Long story why dog needed to avoid a certain route today), DH used his phone as a map to find a different path. He also paid for a quick coffee at a bar. And most importantly he could have used it to make contact.

strange to not have a phone with you especially when in a strange country and going for a 'walk'!

I've just caught up with this thread and hope he hasn't been kidnapped.

He wasn't following his own advice although carrying a parasol to avoid the midday sun was sensible despite leaving his phone with his wife.
I had been joking with my yoga class about his walking backwards just one thing at the very time he must have vanished. It shocked me.

I so hope he's found safe. 🙏

I am posting this link as it seems to be better detailed that some reports.

www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/28373375/michael-mosley-children-search-greece/

He wrote in Daily Mail that he once suffered from amnesia after he went swimming in Cornwall. His wife took him to hospital and his memory slowly returned after 24 hours.

That could be it. He suffered another episode of amnesia after swimming and get on a boat?

I hope and pray that he is alright, and somewhere safe. 🙏

Following this with interest and care because I really like him..and his advice...did he maybe...for reasons unknown...get on a boat???

As his phone was left behind, presumably it has been checked for anything that might indicate his intentions - though if he had planned to meet someone, perhaps he had another phone… I really do hope he is safe, and that he is not deliberately putting his family though this torture. Assuming he’d had an awful accident was the easy and obvious reaction.

RosiesMaw

“Purporting to be of him”
I hope it isn’t a publicity stunt for some sort of endurance experiment, that would be unforgivable.

I really don't think that sounds likely. He would know how much worry he would be causing to his family.

It is possible for people to disappear, though. As someone said, Steven Fry. Also Agatha Christie.

From the two articles I’ve read it seems he left his phone at the house he was staying at on the other side of the bay and took the boat to the beach with his wife and the couple he was hosting. He then decided to walk back. It’s a well prepared but steep and sometimes rocky track over to Pedi but he was alleged to have been sighted in Pedi, he would then have had a fairly easy walk through fairly well populated areas back to where he was staying. My husband often forgets to take his phone when we go out perhaps he just forgot to take it with him.

Joseann

There's now photos of him with with an umbrella having reached a town.

I saw that too.
I think it was the town where they were staying.
And there are two witnesses as well that saw him?

If it was him[looks like it to me] then he didnt fall off a path. But that still doesnt explain what has happened to him since the cctv or whatever it is.

Seems Mosley’s children flew to Greece to join the search for their father today.

Alexander, Jack, Daniel and Katherine are understood to be planning to retrace his last known steps to help discover what happened to the 67 year old.

This, from 2019.
He took a dip in the sea on Wednesday.

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7367573/DR-MICHAEL-MOSLEY-reveals-dip-sea-left-wife-fearing-suffered-stroke.html

oh dear

I hate to say this but what if he left it behind on purpose so he couldn’t be tracked.

I don’t have a good feeling about this now.

karmalady

I don`t live in fear and neither do my daughters who often run or cycle in wilderness, on their own. Fear of `what if` is completely disabling to being free

Oh good heavens I don’t live in fear either!
What a ridiculous non sequitur
But even supergran can have a fall/a puncture or come across somebody who needs help

Either way, its not all about his phone. The disappearance of MM is unsettling.

I do try to remember to take my phone but often forget. It’s not an important part of me, as it is with others.

My phone goes everywhere. I use it to pay at home and abroad, I'm a keen photographer, I get some amazing shots, and I embrace the security functions it offers, should I need them.

none of us take a phone