Peaslee Incident

Background
The mystery of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee was one of the strange incidents cited in Hannah Webster's article, Arkham Oddities, that appeared in the Arkham Gazette.

The Beginning
In 1895, Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee became an Instructor Of Political Economy at Miskatonic University. At the time, he seemed perfectly normal. There was no indication of any irregular behavior or activity on his part.

A "fit of amnesia"
However, in 1908, something bizarre happened to him. Those that knew him said he suffered a “fit of amnesia”. However, it was a very strange one. While he was unable to remember family and friends, like most cases of amnesia, it went much further than that. He spoke a language that no one could understand, he seemed unfamiliar with the functions of his own body, and he seemed not to know of then current events and history.

Over time, he managed to relearn the English language, but the damage was done. He lost his job at Miskatonic University, his marriage collapsed, he drove away most of his friends. He had become a totally different person. Furthermore, he took mysterious trips to places like Greenland, the Australian Outback, and the Himalayas for reasons unknown.

Possible connection to the Mi-go
It was interesting to note that those locations were the supposed outposts of the alien race called the Mi-go, that the Old Ones had sent to Earth, thousands of years before. It remains a mystery if Nathaniel Peaslee was travelling to those locations to seek out the Mi-go and why he was doing so.

Any connection to the Mi-go, however, is pure conjecture.

Return to normal
In 1913, Mr. Peaslee abruptly returned to normal. He was subsequently unable to recall the five years he had suffered his "amnesia".

Except for weird dreams, he then lived a somewhat normal life until his death in 1941. What happened to him, what had change him so much for those five years, still remains a mystery.