The Buzz Log What’s hot on Yahoo! Buzz™ (and why)...

Our top picks from the day's hottest searches.

1. Nadya Suleman (Searches increased by 1,646%). The doc who provided fertility treatments to the Octomom has been booted from a professional medical group.
2. Yankees tickets (+495%). Seats will be hard to come by with the Bronx Bombers headed to the World Series.
3. Haunted houses (+352%). For thrill seekers, a list of real-life spooky places to visit.
4. Weekend box office (+297%). Scary movies score big at the box office: "Paranormal Activity" topped attendance over "Saw VI," the latest flick in the horror series.
5. U2 concert (+256%). The rockers streamed their L.A. show live over YouTube.

Mystery, intrigue, secrets — aspiring sleuths and spies had a field day in the Buzz this past week. The search spotlight returned to a famous aviator missing for decades, and to a secret plane that the U.S. Air Force is preparing for its maiden voyage. And that's not all — there was also the bizarre case of a commercial pilot and co-pilot who overshot their destination by 150 miles. Read up on these case files and more with the Buzz Week in Review.

Gone but never forgotten
For several years in the 1930s, Amelia Earhart was one of the most famous people on the planet. The plucky aviator was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, and in 1938 she set out to circumnavigate the globe with her navigator. As we all know, the pair was never heard from again. This weekend, a movie detailing Earhart's amazing life hit screens, and in the process, has dusted up tremendous interest in her unsolved disappearance. Lookups on "amelia earhart missing" and "what happened to amelia earhart" both soared to huge gains. A popular article from USA Today details the lingering fascination with the world's most famous missing person. Seven decades later, people are still looking for her.

Psst. Wanna see a space plane?
If so, too bad, because there's not a whole lot of information on the new X-37B project. A buzzy article from Space.com explains that "the unpiloted, reusable military space plane" will launch in April, but nobody seems to know what purpose it's going to serve. According to the article, the plane's "assignment and what agency owns it remains undisclosed." A few more details were available on other blogs. Apparently, "the intent of the craft is to serve as a testbed for dozens of technologies in airframe, propulsion and operation, and other items in the hopes of making space transportation and operations significantly more affordable." Fox News hosts a slideshow of the X-37. Consider it for your eyes only.

Whoa, was that Minneapolis back there?
Ever been driving down the highway, when all of a sudden you realize you missed your exit a few miles back? Well, apparently that doesn't just happen to drivers. It can also happen to commercial airline pilots. In a story that's getting tremendous buzz, two pilots for Northwest Airlines somehow managed to overshoot their destination by 150 miles. The reason given by the crew: "They said they had been having a heated discussion about airline policy." Hmm, if that sounds a bit fishy to you, you're not alone. Government officials have launched an investigation. Web searches on "northwest flight" and "lost pilots" both posted big gains.

Also buzzing this week...
• A baby born midflight was granted "free flights for life."
• William Shakespeare keeps on publishing.
• The Balloon Boy is this year's must-have Halloween costume.

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It must have seemed so perfect. An obscure blogger unearths some pages of President Obama's college thesis. The report supposedly comes from big-time journalist Joe Klein of Time magazine. And the thesis has some real gems: like Obama's disdain for the Constitution.

The whole thing was nothing more than a satirical post on a humor blog. But Rush Limbaugh, who quoted from the supposed thesis on his radio show, sure wasn't laughing. Here's how it went down.

An unknown blogger picked up on a made-up post meant as a joke, which claimed that Joe Klein had gotten his hands on 10 pages of student Obama's college thesis. Rush Limbaugh jumped on it, which immediately sparked Web searches on "obama thesis."

Supposedly titled "Aristocracy Revisited," the excerpt revealed the president had "doubts" about the "so-called founders." Juicy. Except not true. Limbaugh discovered halfway through his show that he'd been had, but defended himself by saying basically the thesis felt true. Listen in to Rush's mea sorta culpa.

Joe Klein finally jumped in, and called the report "nonsense" on his Swampland blog, and the blogger who thought the hoax was real also apologized.

Let's hope someone kept their sense of humor in all this. Still, for a humble post to go from humor blog to major media outlet sure seems impressive. Someone ought to write their thesis on it. For real.