Current TV star Michael Mosley's found deceased on the small Greek Island of Symi

[Bucking Bronco]

TV presenter Michael Mosley, known for popularising the 5:2 diet, has gone missing while on holiday on the Greek island of Symi.

A search and rescue operation is under way, including a police dog and a drone searching hard to reach areas.

A helicopter has been deployed from Athens to assist efforts.

Greek Police said Mr Mosley left his wife on the beach and set off on a walk to the centre of the island on Wednesday.

His phone was found in the place he was staying with his wife, who reported him missing, a police spokesperson told BBC News.

The 67-year-old broadcaster is well known for programmes including the BBC series Trust Me, I'm A Doctor and appearances on BBC's The One Show and ITV's This Morning.

Michael Mosley: TV presenter missing on Greek island of Symi

Mr Mosley went missing on Wednesday after going for a walk while on holiday on the Greek island of Symi.

www.bbc.com

Suggested he may have fallen off a cliff and been washed away by the ocean, but no evidence has been found yet to support the theory.

 

[bratam]

Well they now have clear CCTV footage of him making it to the town. Even a video shows him walking briskly with an umbrella for shade in the 37deg heat. It only deepens the mystery of how he just disappeared.

 

[Sqotty from office works]

Will this make up for him telling the world that vapes are OK and are not in any way detrimental to health.

 

[stormbird]

From Daily Mail, 08 June 2024:

"[Two CCTV stills] are timestamped 1.52pm and were taken from the Blue Corner in Pedi, a fishing village about fifteen minutes walk from St Nicholas and around a quarter of the way through the walk. ...

Dr Mosley and his wife [Dr Bailey] landed on the 25-square-mile island on Tuesday and were due to stay for a week with a couple who have a house in Symi Town.

The two couples took a boat-taxi from Symi Port up the coast on Wednesday morning. They stopped at St Nikolas beach where the diet doctor, a father of four, went for a swim in the sea before deciding to walk the 2.2 miles [3.5 km?] back home at 1.30pm.

He had left his phone at their friends' home, and when Dr Bailey and the couple returned to the property, they found that Dr Mosley had not returned and his mobile was where he left it.

The understanding, a senior police official said, was that he would trek to Pedi and take the bus from there to Symi's capital, near where the couple was staying. Search crews were retracing the entire path, also speaking to bus drivers to trace his path. ...

Once past the small coastal town of Pedi, the route to his holiday home involves main roads lined with houses. ...

MailOnline can also reveal that Dr Bailey was taken to a restaurant in Pedi after the owners checked their CCTV footage and spotted a man who bore a remarkable resemblance to the health guru.

Police and Dr Bailey rushed to the Katsaras restaurant to look at the footage and despite the amazing similarity it was ruled out after she said it was not her husband."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...fe-beach-sniffer-dogs-divers-join-search.html

 

[bratam]

That’s old news. There is clear CCTV footage of him walking through Pedi town and even made it to the end of the town and heading towards the track that leads to Agi Marina. It now looks like he made it to northern peninsula of Pedi and that’s where the search would have moved to. Surely they will be checking the Marina to see if he got on a boat..

Michael Mosley missing: Rescuers searching new path in ‘race against time’ - latest

Search efforts have expanded as the TV doctor remains missing on Greek island

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Cyber_punk]

Abducted?

Maybe not from the human kind..

 

[Bucking Bronco]

Abducted?

Maybe not from the human kind..

That is legit what I'm thinking lol.

Probably not though.

 

[stormbird]

A short video which shows how rocky the current search area is:

"Search teams in Symi continue to look for missing TV doctor", The Independent, 08 June 2024

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...search-symi-latest-b2558916.html#post-1638488

 

[LRitz]

A short video which shows how rocky the current search area is:

Hope they find him but time and the high temperatures are against that. Multiple things may have stacked against him (Swiss Cheese mistakes). No phone, no preparation for walk water or food, not telling anyone of his plans or (possibly worse) changing plans, not familiar area, language problems when getting directions and when reporting him missing, high temperatures. When travelling aways take advice from locals.

 

[Kurve]

 

[Pamcake1]

In the article below you will see a map that explains how he ended up in the area with the 'caves'. Having realised that he wasn't going in the right direction did he then try to strike off overland and run into trouble.
He was carrying a bottle of water with him.
40c Australians pretty much know that aint walking weather.
Is this death by misadventure. I think that is very probable.

Rescuers hunting for missing Michael Mosley search underwater caves

Their efforts in the network of caverns and 'endless' underwater tunnels, yesterday found no trace of the TV medic, but his wife has vowed the family will 'not lose hope' of finding him.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[emuboy]

The only theory I can think of is that he suffered some sort of medical episode maybe due to the high temperatures, and either collapsed somewhere on land or ended up falling into the sea.

It's actually quite incredible the number of cases where people have vanished completely in such short spaces of time and where they in theory could not have gotten too far.

For example, in February 2004 troubled nursing student Maura Murray crashed her car into a snow drift on a country road in New Hampshire, this incident following days of odd behavior. As concerned people called the police, Murray herself seemed to vanish into the trees surrounding the roadside. It was so bitterly cold that night that she couldn't have gotten far before succumbing to the elements, yet no trace of her has ever been found to this day. Even if she had collapsed in the woods, few animal predators would have been active, and if they had they would have left behind evidence such as torn clothes and bones. Moreover, it was quiet due to the snowstorm and no other witnesses saw or heard another car in the area to suggest that Maura had been taken by a human predator.

Then there's the case of David Eason, a UK tourist who in March 2001 was on Fraser Island with a tour group. While the others went on a hike near Lake Wabby, Eason stayed behind to sunbathe. But when they returned there was no sign of either Eason or his belongings - and as night fell and the weather turned foul, he still did not return. Theories such as drowning in the sea, getting lost and succumbing to exposure, dingo attack, homicide and suicide all seemed unlikely. Then years later Eason's skeletal remains were found close to the shores of Lake Wabby, in an area searched previously and on a busy part of the island.

In 1976 16-year-old high school student Trenny Gibson was hiking with classmates as part of a school trip to the Great Smokey Mountains National Park in Tennessee. Trenny Gibson stepped off the path and into the forest, presumably to answer the call of nature, but would not return to her group after her bathroom break and no trace has ever been found of her, despite her obviously not going deep into the forest, close enough for her to call for help if she ran into danger. Seriously this is an odd case. Perhaps Trenny got caught up in a time-warp and 50 years later in 2026 a family hiking this trail will be amazed to see a somewhat confused teenage girl in 1970s clothes emerging from the woods carrying a roll of toilet paper, asking them if they had seen where the other students from her high school field trip went before asking them what these strange black rectangular things their kids are carrying are, then commenting that these things look 'cool' and that she also thinks Fonzie from Happy Days is cool.

In Summer 1991 a boy scout name Jarad Negrete hiking with his troop in California was struggling to keep up with the scout leaders and other boys to asthma and obesity problems, falling slightly behind and vanishing forever. The only trace ever found of him was his camera. And oddly, another unrelated young man with the unusual surname Negrete would vanish from California in the 1990s, this one a Michael Negrete, a 19-year-old college student who somehow managed to disappear into thin air from a busy university campus in 1999 and leaving not a single clue to his fate. Nobody has seen or heard from Jared or Michael Negrete in all these years since.

And in January this year, an elderly Perth man John Frylinck disappeared in the Perth Hills while he and his wife were walking their dog. While anyone getting lost in any of the hills surrounding any of Australia's capital cities would find themselves in deep trouble due to inhospitable conditions especially in summer, Mr. Frylinck was in poor health with diabetes and dementia and could not have gotten too far. His wife and other witnesses reported him there one minute and gone the next, and not a single trace of the elderly man nor his belongings could be found, an extensive search finally called off after a week. Moreover, Mr. Frylinck vanished from Sculpture Park which is located in Mundaring, the major town of the Perth Hills rather than some isolated trail deep in the forest.

 

[Cyber_punk]

I'm still leaning toward foul play.

 

[Kurve]

The news has just reported a body's been found near the caves, no formal identification yet.

 

[Rob R]

Mayor has confirmed it is him.

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[BFew]

Looking at the photos it’s treacherous but only one path he could follow? Not sure how he could get lost?

And if he had a medical episode then you think he would be found on the path?

Crime is apparently almost non existent.

I don’t know the man personally, he seems a cheery grounded fellow. But I suppose it’s possible he was depressed over something and wanted time on his own.

I hope they find him safe and sound but it doesn’t look good.

This article from 2019 is worrying. He blacked out after swimming in cold water.

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY reveals how his wife feared he had suffered a stroke

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY, pictured in the sea, blacked out while swimming in Cornwall last weekend, leading his GP wife Clare to fear that he had suffered a stroke.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Tragic details about Michael Mosley’s final walk revealed

The wife of TV star Michael Mosley has spoken of her ‘devastation’ after her husband was found dead following desperate attempts to find him.

www.perthnow.com.au

 

[_Mike_]

Confirmed

 

[Tony Harrison]

Sad.
Heat stroke confusion and delirium maybe led him up the wrong path.

Did he still have diabetes or at least pre-diabetes?
Low blood sugar?

 

[Saint12]

The mayor seems to be front and centre in this whole bizarre event

 

[Awakening]

Tragic details about Michael Mosley’s final walk revealed

The wife of TV star Michael Mosley has spoken of her ‘devastation’ after her husband was found dead following desperate attempts to find him.

www.perthnow.com.au

Very sad

 

[BFew]

Very sad

Video report of how he was found from the local that found him.

 

[BFew]

If it wasn't for the heat, you'd think that Police dogs could have found Mosley fairly quickly on an island of this size.

 

[BFew]

A body with a few rocks on top of it?
hmm

Tragic details about Michael Mosley’s final walk revealed

The wife of TV star Michael Mosley has spoken of her ‘devastation’ after her husband was found dead following desperate attempts to find him.

www.perthnow.com.au

'The mayor of Symi said the body was found just 10 metres from the beach, next to a plot fence, “which is why it had not been found for so many days”.

“200 people are on this beach every day, and many boats come and go every day,” the mayor told Greek outlet SKAI.'

'The mayor said the body appeared to have fallen down a steep slope, stopping against a fence and lying face-up with a few rocks on top of it.'

 

[BFew]

Three different distances from the beach in the one article.
Nice one Sun.

Maybe accidental death and the body was moved to where it was found?

Good to know the mayor of the Town has already ruled out foul play.
Maybe he doubles up as the local copper too.

Barman describes harrowing moment he found body in Michael Mosley search

A BARMAN has told of the agonising moment he discovered the body believed to be missing TV doctor Michael Mosley. Ilias Tsavaris, 38, found what police sources say is the British presenter on rocky…

www.thesun.co.uk

'lias Tsavaris, 38, found what police sources say is the British presenter on rocky ground just 120 yards from where rescue teams had been searching.
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The body was found a 30 minute walk from where Dr Mosley was last seen and close to a dangerous cave complex known to locals as "The Abyss".
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Tragically, the body was found just 100 yards from the path between between Agia Marina and Symi Town that rescuers took to retrace Dr Mosley's possible last steps

The body was roughly only 100 yards away from the beach.

Ilias said: "He came from Pedi okay, and he walked not through the restaurant, if he had walked through there [the bar] we would have checked the cameras.

He was shocked the body had not been found earlier, stating: "Rescuers had searched that area everyday with helicopters."
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The mayor of Symi, Eleftherios Papakalodouk, said he was on a boat when he spotted a body lying 20m above the Agia Marina beach and called a nearby bar to have a look."
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"We zoomed with the cameras and saw it was him," he said.

"The body was found on land 10m from the beach, next to a plot fence, which is why it had not been found for so many days".
...
"It is unclear if he had an accident or if he felt unwell," Papakalodoukas added.'

 

[BFew]

You'd think as a wealthy health fanatic that he would most likely have been wearing the latest smart watch with health and fitness tracking features turned on.