[UA] News of the wierd

[Robert Dushay]

Two items from the Chuck Shepard's News of the Weird (published in the
Hartford Advocate, 8/31-9/6 issue) that had to be passed along to the list.
The FBI connection in the first one sounded like a TNI or Sleeper job to
me, but the behavior sounds more like some adept in action.

1. Firefighters and police called to an apartment in Fargo, N.D., in June
encountered thick smoke pouring out of a window, an odor one described as
"noxious and terrible," and the tenant standing in the corner with his
fists up as if ready to fight. The tenant finally revealed that once a
year, he piles into a skillet all the hair he has saved from his haircuts
and burns it. He was arrested when he threatened the firefighters, claiming
that he worked for the FBI.

2. In July, according to police, John Hawk, 43, the town eccentric of
Celina, Ohio, took it to the next level. While communing with his
just-deceased uncle's body at the Ketcham-Ripley Funeral Home in nearby
Rockford, Hawk allegedly decapitated it with a hacksaw and carried the head
away, presumably to fulfill a religious belief that he could bring the
uncle back to life by eating the brain (a belief that was the subject of
one of Hawk's periodic rants delivered in handbills around the town over
the years).

--Bob Dushay
Lurkomancer
rdushay at mindspring.com



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