Spontaneous Human Combustion, or "SHC" as it is referred to among the more hip and canny scientists and students of the unexplained, is a truly bizarre occurrence where, supposedly, people will either burst into flames or catch on fire and burn away to nearly nothing out of nowhere and for no easily discerned reason. It is often claimed this happens without the subject being in contact with any external source of flame or ignition. Charles Fort lists several examples along with various other unexplained events in his "Book of the Damned", yet, despite it being generally recognized as a genuine mystery it is seldom talked about. If something l

Henry the Ape by Ron-Tweedie, literature

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Henry the Ape

Henry's mother was startled by an escaped gorilla when she lived by the zoo and was carrying him. She wasn't terribly surprised later when he was born and she found he looked just like a gorilla, but she was a little disappointed. She'd grown up watching traditional nuclear families on black and white sit coms and had her heart set on her own family resembling those good looking, photogenic and sharp witted families that she watched on television, but now she had to scrap that fantasy. Oh well, it was already on shaky ground before the kid was even born because her husband turned out to be kind of a weirdo. She fell in love with him because h

Bunny Hitler and the Bird Thing by Ron-Tweedie, literature

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Bunny Hitler and the Bird Thing

OK, I'll be honest with you, there's no Bird Thing. There used to be, but one day it stopped singing, started drooping like a plant that hasn't been watered, then fell over backwards and died on the floor, so I'm just going to talk about Bunny Hitler. He lived under a microscope where he rode a glass bullet that traveled through rows of human heads every morning on his way to the fish tank where he worked. This morning when he was on the bullet he farted swarms of blue bottle flies. He wondered if he should go see a doctor. He made an appointment after he got to work then left work to keep his appointment at noon. X-rays revealed his body w

Mass Hysteria or Scientific Progress? by Ron-Tweedie, literature

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Mass Hysteria or Scientific Progress?

In 1896 and 1897 there was a rash of UFO sightings in the United States. These are currently dismissed by many as being newspaper hoaxes, and, although, based on the absurdity of many of the stories, many of them doubtlessly were, I suspected those were inspired by original accounts which may have held more than a mere germ of truth. Specific instances that appeared in newspapers (compiled by Wikipedia) The Sacramento Bee and the San Francisco Call reported the first sighting on November 18, 1896. Witnesses reported a light moving slowly over Sacramento on the evening of November 17 at an estimated 1,000-foot elevation. Some witnesses said t

Edward Mordrake and his demon twin by Ron-Tweedie, literature

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Edward Mordrake and his demon twin

I stumbled upon the story of Edward Mordrake as a child back in the 1970s while reading a book about freaks and human oddities. Although it was presented as being true there is no factual evidence that Edward Mordrake ever really existed. His story only existed as a sort of urban legend until an 1895 Boston Post article authored by fiction writer Charles Lotin Hildreth mentions Edward in a list of human freaks that include a woman who had the tail of a fish, a man with the body of a spider, and a man who was half-crab. Not surprisingly none of the freaks he mentioned were factual. Then, as now, journalism wasn't limited by any kind of dedicat

The strange suicide of William Kogut by Ron-Tweedie, literature

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The strange suicide of William Kogut

I've always been partial to stories where the condemned manage to cheat the hangman and, refusing to suffer the humiliation of being executed by the state, took matters into their own hands. The condemned are usually watched very closely once the death sentence has been announced, not only in order to prevent escape, but also to prevent suicide. There is, after all, a symbolic meaning, a message for the public, a point being made about the power of the State when executing the condemned. It's a challenge for prisoners to not only think of a way to kill themselves, but also to make preparations for doing so as it all has to be done right under

Expanding Earth by Ron-Tweedie, literature

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Expanding Earth

I just watched part of a video by one of those flat earth people. Luckily he wasn't making too much sense. This is fortunate because I am already encumbered with more than my share of unpopular convictions. I'm open to the idea of the earth being flat, I mean, I understand why certain people would want to diminish our opinions concerning ourselves and have us believe earth is only one of billions of celestial bodies spinning through the void like so much dust rather than have us believe our world sits in the center of all creation as everything else in the universe orbits around us, but although there is interesting proof that says we are, in

Miracle Mike by Ron-Tweedie, literature

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Miracle Mike

Miracle Mike: The chicken that lived for 18 months without a head On 10 September 1945 Lloyd Olsen and his wife Clara were killing chickens, on their farm in Fruita, Colorado. One, a five-and-a-half-month-old Wyandotte chicken, survived decapitation. Although it is common for a chicken to flap wildly and run around after having it's head cut off only to die after a few minutes, this chicken actually survived the operation. A post mortem conducted later revealed that, although the axe removed the bulk of his head, it missed the jugular vein, leaving one ear and most of the brain stem intact. Obviously there was enough of it's brain left undama

Cripple Dance by Ron-Tweedie, literature

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Cripple Dance

"Here I am all you slap happy butt fuckers! I'm drunkerna cock suckin' chimpanzee and happy to be intimate with a stationary piece of paper made from a manic depressive tree's corpse. Well, lets party, or should I say, 'partake', of life's stupid joke of joy- joy is just a way of making fun of everything- excuse me while I piss-yay! How dumb! You crumb! Yum yum!! Crumbs! You're just a symptom of my consciousness- let me kill you all and become unconscious. Kill! Cool! Kill! COOL! Die in my eye- fear in my ear! A stench to pose for my nose! I feel an electric eel. Squeal! Go to Hell Jezebel! I won't tell! Two hungry fat legged guys sm

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