On the weekend of October 17,1981, a party of girls who had set out on a sponsered walk walk from Beaminster became seperated from their leader and disappeared into the worst fog ever recorded on the west coast of Dorset. For days search parties of anxious parents and police failed in their efforts to trace them. The eldest girl was thirteen, the youngest six. None of those who did return could describe coherently what had occurred during the strange exile from their home..