The 31-year-old who materialised last week was smartly, if anonymously, dressed in black trousers and grey jacket, his hair tidily cut.
In 1975, Werner Herzog made The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, based on another factual case, this time concerning an adult foundling who materialised in a village in early 19th-century Germany.
Field of Dreams, I can't deny, is trite and sentimental; it's deeply conservative, not just in its conception of a heartland America, but also in its vision of the innocence of the past (the ghostly baseball players who materialise from the 1980s corn, the disgraced Chicago White Sox of 1919, are themselves trying to return to a prelapsarian state).
Tottenham should be prepared to face the Falcao who never materialised in the Premier League, a man who is aiming to show that he can still play at his sensational best.
You've also got an army of right-wing Christians who have materialised, funded by the dollars of US evangelicals.
And post-comeback, we're yet to see the definitive Who game materialise, despite a fair few attempts.
New York-based designer and curator Murray Moss collaborates with Materialise, who run a 3D printing service, to create a series of printed pieces that will be placed throughout the museum's galleries, making reference to eight of the Victoria and Albert Museum's key pieces and spaces.
Walsh, a stage actor who seemed to have materialised out of nowhere, started making movies in his 40th year and quickly established himself as one of the finest character actors in the business.
In another a middle-aged doctor reflects on her relationship with a nephew, who has failed to materialise from the bus he was meant to have arrived on.
One fateful morning, Queen's regular critic failed to materialise and Crewe, who was off to have lunch at Wiltons, volunteered to fill in.
What appeared the obvious narrative arc thereafter – in which his comeback vehicle Mister Lonely would lead the way to a gentler, more John Waters-ish future – has failed to materialise, as anyone who sees the impressively grotesque Trash Humpers will note.
