It’s July 28 in 1999 and a disaster is being predicted. The countdown to a new era is on and newspapers are full of stories about the Millennium computer bug. It’s believed the glitch will bring the modern world to the brink of collapse.
Now we know that didn’t really happen. Planes never fell from the sky and there were no hospital blackouts. For most of us, life carried on as normal.
But tucked away in a corner of Birmingham, a real-life disaster was brewing. It was on that hot summer’s day that 15-year-old Phillip Harris vanished into thin air.