U.K. Coast Guard Searches for Body, Finds E.T. Replica Instead

01-04-12 • Cool Stuff, Film Posted by Adam A. Donaldson

So you’re walking along the shore in Old Portsmouth, and you see something in the water that vaguely looks like a dead body. So you call the coast guard and they arrive. They go into the water, full crime scene unit with a coroner and everything, and when they pull the object from the water, they discover something far more interesting than a dead body. What was it? A life-size replica of E.T. once owned by Margaret Wells, a 76-year-old woman from Cosham, Hampshire.

Our story begins in September, when Wells reported to police that the replica was amongst items stolen from her home along with jewelry and an iron. To make the situation even sadder, the replica is a one of a kind E.T. made by Wells’ daughter nine years ago as part of a stage makeup class.

“There’s only one in the whole of England and that is mine,” Wells said. “The police rang and said somebody has found a body in the Solent and it belongs to you—it’s E.T. I always knew E.T. would come home. He has lost a finger and looks a bit roughed up. But he has a smile on his face.”

Mother and E.T. replica are doing fine, although E.T.’s healing finger was missing. No word on whether it came off in the water or the if the criminals severed the finger in order to seize E.T.’s power, but for now Wells is just glad that someone phoned home for E.T., and then drove him there.

Source: Blastr