August 2012
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Hadden Clark: Childhood
Hadden Clark came from a privileged background. There was abuse though. Both parents were alcoholics which created an unstable home life. The youngest daughter would run away in her teens. Their oldest son would end up in prison after killing a girlfriend. Then you have Hadden. His father would call him a “retard” and his mother would treat him as a female. She would dress him up in girl’s...
“Oh wow so people have decided to report me for copyright problems now. Really?...”
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The White Bear Inside Your Head
It begins with a simple request. Sit in a room and say whatever comes into your mind for five minutes. But then the experiment takes an unexpected turn. The researcher says: “Verbalise your thoughts as you did before, with one exception. Try not to think of a white bear. Every time you say ‘white bear’ or have ‘white bear’ come to mind, though, ring the bell on the...
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Blood Farming
Excerpts from The Red Market, a book by Scott Carney, subtitled “On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers.”
For the last three years the man had been held captive in a brick-and-tin shed just a few minutes’ walk from where the farmers were drinking tea. The marks on his arms weren’t the tell-tale signs of heroin addiction; they came from where...
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Phantom Plane Crashes
People in Westbrook, Connecticut were amazed Wednesday morning, January 15, 1997 when they heard that a single-engine plane dive toward the waters of Long Island Sound… and then vanish.
According to the newspaper The Day, “The Coast Guard, state Department of Environmental Protection, two rescue helicopters, fire departments from Westbrook, Old Saybrook, Madison, and Clinton, and some...
July 2012
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“I had gotten out of bed and I was in the kitchen making coffee. Evidently, I had...”
– Eddie Cole
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butt-wiggly asked: I absolutely can't stop scrolling through your blog. I'm fascinated :D
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Timeline of People's Temple
September 1954: Jones speaks at Laurel Street Tabernacle, an Assemblies of God Pentecostal church in Indianapolis.
April 4, 1955: Several members of the Laurel Street Tabernacle join with Jones to form the Wings of Deliverance church, later renamed the Peoples Temple. The church was formed in part to further Jones’ beliefs in racial diversity.
1960: The Peoples Temple officially becomes a...
