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Man Dives into Miami Hotel Pool
& Surfaces in Backyard Hot Tub 8 Miles Away

From 02-22-00 Weekly World News - by Randy Jeffries

True or not true ???  You decide !

Miami, Fla. – Experts are baffled by the case of a man who dived into his hotel swimming pool – and emerged in a backyard hot tub eight miles away!  Authorities confirm that a Wichita, KA. tourist was taken into custody after police were called to the home of Miami resident Ralph Morily.

Morily summoned authorities after discovering the man in his family’s spa around noon on Saturday, November 13 the man has not been charged with any crime but is being held for psychological evaluation.  Morily said he and his wife Donna were sitting in lounge chairs in their yard when the man suddenly appeared, dazed and disoriented, in the tub.

“I can’t figure out where he could have come from,” Morily said.  “One moment the hot tub was empty, the next moment there was a man in it.”  Morily says he tried to speak with him, but the man was incoherent and appeared frightened.  Cops say the man’s wife filed a missing person’s report after she and the couple’s two teenage sons watched him dive into the deep end of their hotel pool – and vanish.  The alarmed wife notified the lifeguards and the pool was cleared.

When a search of the pool failed to produce her husband, she called the police.  The worried family was notified hours later that the missing man had been found.  The time that he disappeared corresponds to the time he emerged in the Morily’s spa.  The case is currently under investigation.  Incredibly, this is not the first such incident on record.

In 1926, a French woman named Simone LaVille disappeared while attempting to swim the English Channel.  The entire eight-man crew of the rescue boat that followed her watched her suddenly fade out of sight.  After a three-hour search, they reported the woman missing – only to learn that she had emerged in a farmer’s pond 17 miles south of London.