09-16-2024 - On This Day in Insane History

September 16th, 2024 - The Day the Moon Went Missing!

It was a quiet autumn morning in much of the Northern Hemisphere when the calls began coming in - where has the Moon gone!? People were rubbing their eyes in disbelief yet no matter how hard they looked, Earth's constant companion in the night sky was nowhere to be seen. Astronomers quickly rushed to their telescopes with furrowed brows, searching the heavens to no avail. Initial theories ranged from some cataclysmic lunar disaster to an interdimensional portal opening and sucking our satellite straight through, but no one could say for certain what bizarre cosmic quirk had made the Moon suddenly vanish.

As daylight stretched across the land, tensions mounted. Tides grew erratic without their lunar regulator, nocturnal animals grew distraught in the endless night, and the lunar landing sites stood lonely and abandoned in the inky black void where our celestial neighbor should be. But just as world leaders convened an emergency meeting to address the global lunacy, a shocked astronomer in Chile caught movement at the edge of his lens - could it be? Yes, meandering slowly back into view came the familiar pockmarked face of the Moon, right as rain as if nothing had ever been amiss! To this day, how or why our faithful Moon briefly took leave of its orbit remains an enigma for the history books. Some call it a celestial parlor trick, others a warning, but on September 16th 2024 the whole world saw that even the eternal can disappear without a trace, if only for a little while.