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February 01, 2005

 

transient global amnesia

Transient global amnesia (TGA) has been a well-described phenomenon for more than 40 years. Clinically, it manifests with a paroxysmal, transient loss of memory function. Immediate recall ability is preserved, as is remote memory; however, patients experience striking loss of...
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August 04, 2004

 

the shortwave and the calling

Washington Post (registration required) covers the man behind the Conet Project. As if the recordings weren't strange enough, this amps it up a couple dozen notches: A few things you should probably know about Akin Fernandez: There's the basic background...
Posted by xtop at 12:32 AM
 


July 24, 2004

 

the conet project

Explained by the owner of Aquarius Records: Essentially, The Conet Project is an encyclopedic document of transmissions from "Numbers Stations," which send out highly encrypted codes by means of anonymous shortwave radio broadcasts. No government agency has ever confessed to...
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July 12, 2004

 

fugue(d)

A machine operator at a plant in Troy, Schauster said he remembers nothing about the time he was missing. Police found a receipt in his car showing he spent July 4 in a Motel 6 in Topeka, Kan. His car's...
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July 11, 2004

 

secret signals

If you've ever ventured outside the shortwave broadcast and ham radio bands and tuned around the areas allotted to so-called "fixed" stations you may have heard voices reading out long lists of numbers in either four or five digit...
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June 03, 2004

 

area 51: hacked

To the Area 51 buffs who travel to the Nevada desert in the hopes of catching a glimpse of unexplained lights in the sky or to bask in the mythic allure of the region, 58-year-old Chuck Clark is almost as...
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February 15, 2004

 

1924 August 12

"Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot allegedly sentenced Pep 'The Cat-Murdering Dog' to a life sentence at Eastern State. Pep allegedly murdered the governor’s wife’s cherished cat. Prison records reflect that Pep was assigned an inmate number (no. C2559), which is...
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February 05, 2004

 

head

"The head fell on the severed surface of the neck and I did not therefor have to take it up in my hands, as all the newspapers have vied with each other in repeating; I was not obliged even to...
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February 01, 2004

 

Houdini & Doyle

Houdini had "often expressed the belief that Lady Doyle was not a valid medium." Doyle replied to Houdini's statements by diagnosing an "abnormal frame of mind" that he called "Houdinitis," one symptom of which was the belief "that manual dexterity bears some relation to brain capacity."
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December 20, 2003

 

the georgian pickpocket

"Legend has it that the most successful Georgian pickpockets like to build their mansions in the west coast city of Zugdidi, on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, far from Georgia's capital, Tbilisi. And since many sons naturally step...
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December 07, 2003

 

hillbilly hell

In a steel-mill suburb northwest of Pittsburgh, the leader of the second wave of OxyContin apostles was Curt, a young man who in 1998, at the age of 23, found himself kicked out of the Air Force and living back in his hometown.
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October 19, 2003

 

hunting the hunters

The easiest way to remove a gallbladder from a black bear, according to hunters, is to start a deep slit from just above the waistline and cut straight towards the lowest rung of the rib cage. But first, one has...
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August 30, 2003

 

interview with a trepannist

M: How long did the operation take? H: Three quarters of an hour M: Was there any pain? H: No. M: Not even afterwards? H: No. M: How long was it before the wound healed? H: Three days. M: What...
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August 16, 2003

 

winchester mystery house

Sarah grieved deeply, not only for her husband, but also for her lost child. A short time later, a friend suggested that Sarah might speak to a Spiritualist medium about her loss. "Your husband is here," the medium told...
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June 09, 2003

 

botfly survivor stories

"Once, upon returning from Belize, I noticed that a small insect bite on my forearm, presumably from a simulid fly, was enlarging rather than healing. Periodically the wound would feel like tiny hot needles were turning within. I was harboring...
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