[UA] Would you like gas with those fries?...was Ears, nostrils, mouth, eyes . . . hm, needs one more hole . . .

[Nick Wedig]

>Basically, sometime in the 40s the town of Matoon,
>Illinois, was suffering from a grip (a fistful?) of
>fear. People believed a strange fellow (described as
>somewhat inhuman, kind of like a troll, I think) was
>sneaking up to houses late at night, pumping in a
>sweet-smelling paralyzing gas via a tube through any
>open-windows. He mostly targeted single women. The
>police never found any evidence at all that he
>existed, but that didn't stop people from seeing him,
>and finding themselves paralyzed in the middle of the
>night. 

Inhuman looking... paralyzing gas... 1940's... Sounds a lot like the Golden Age DC superhero, the Sandman.  

Mr. Teapot
knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men

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