[UA] News of the wierd

[Eric]

Hey --
    The thing I've wondered ever since I encountered News of the Weird
however many years ago is: how much of this stuff is made up out of
whole cloth and how much is based something that really happened?
        -- Eric


----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Dushay <rdushay at mindspring.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 9:38 PM
Subject: [UA] News of the wierd


> 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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