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

[Nick Wedig]

>Interstingly, several of the reports from Matoon identified the phantom 
>gasser as a woman -- or at least someone in a dress, who left high-heeled 
>shoe prints beneath a few windows.  And this ties into reports from another 
>town, a few years earlier, which had suffered from similar attacks that had 
>been blamed on a mysterious woman pumping gas into people's homes.

Which makes me realize the whole deal was probably just an example of Sleep Paralysis, aka Old Hag Syndrome. (I'm not certain where, but I remember reading about the hallucinations associated with said event mainly being of women, which is what reminded me, but now I can't find a source to back that up.) 

Though it would be quite easy to claim Sleep Paralysis actually is caused by evil spirits or the Old Hag of the name, and that old myths from across the world are correct.  

Mr. Teapot
paralyzed with fear

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