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Man With No Face
One of the most famous intravenous drugs for generating stories about bizarre behavior was phencyclidine: "angel dust," or "PCP." Although little is heard anymore about angel dust, it was well known for its ability to both addle and confer superhuman powers upon its abusers, or so the stories went. Tales of "some guy who was dusted" going berserk and beating up six cops before fifteen more managed to subdue him abounded. In my work in … Read entire article »
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Mercritis
In Mississippi there is a story about a disease called Mercritis that slipped over from Europe. Men who catch it emit an odor that when inhaled by a beautiful woman, will make her homicidal. There was a riot in the 1950′s during a Mercritis outbreak that swept the southern states and was covered up by the government and the medical community. Growing up in the south, people were always saying “Oh yeah, it’s true, my … Read entire article »
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Lead in Lipstick
Recently a lipstick brand called "Red Earth" decreased their prices from $67 to $9.90 because it contained lead. Lead causes cancer and the lipstick brands that contain lead are: CHRISTIAN DIOR LANCOME CLINIQUE Y.S.L. ESTEE LAUDER SHISEIDO RED EARTH (Lip Gloss) CHANEL (Lip Conditioner) MARKET AMERICA-MOTNES LIPSTICK The higher the lead content, the greater the chance of causing cancer. After doing a test on lipsticks, it was found that the Y.S.L. lipstick contained the most amount of lead. Here is the test you can do … Read entire article »
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Kidneys On the Black Market
The crime begins when a business traveler goes to a lounge for a drink at the end of the work day. A person in the bar walks up as they sit alone and offers to buy them a drink. The last thing the traveler remembers until they wake up in a hotel room bath tub, their body submerged to their neck in ice, is sipping that drink. There is a note taped to the wall … Read entire article »
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ABC-TV Owners WANT YOU DEAD!
This morning, March 23, 2010, at 8 A.M. Eastern Time, ABC-TV’s "Good Morning America" show presented an outrageous in-depth hit piece — a foolishly ambitious presentation of orwellian inverted logic — on the growing movement of healthy eating, or eating healthy. ABC-TV’s first exhibit was one of those in-the-home interviews with Kristie, a woman who had been on the brink of death due to healthy eating. ABC-TV launched their ludicrous lie from the pompous platform … Read entire article »
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Deadly Dress
A new consignment boutique opened in town and a woman went shopping there and bought a dress. She wore it that night to a party. Sometime during the party the woman began to feel sick. She had had a few cocktails, so she thought it was just a reaction to the alcohol. She said her goodbyes and headed home. That night, alone in her apartment she felt worse and worse and by morning she had … Read entire article »
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Civil War Bullet Baby
The article is from THE AMERICAN MEDICAL WEEKLY, 1(19):233-234 (Nov. 7, 1874) ATTENTION GYNECOLOGISTS! –NOTES FROM THE DIARY OF A FIELD AND HOSPITAL SURGEON, C.S.A. by L.G. Capers, M.D., Vicksburg, Miss. How common it is now-a-days, and how natural, too, for men to tell wonderful stories about "the war"; their desperate charges; hair-breadth escapes; numbers who have fallen victims to their feats of personal valor, etc., etc. Then every surgeon has performed any number of wonderful operations … Read entire article »
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Nurse Fired for Saving a Dying, Unwanted Baby in Hospital Basment Sink
I feel this has to be an urban legend or calculated story to turn hearts for sympathy… In 2007, a nurse goes into the basement of a hospital and discovers a baby in a sink. She saves the baby and gets fired. Supposedly the hospital policy was any unwanted babies that were born were placed in the basement sink until they died. The nurse is brought up on charges and she, in turn, tries to go … Read entire article »
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Hormones in Cow’s Milk
Please read this and pass along to as many people…. Mitzi Lyons and her husband Kyle live here in Gainesville. Their daughter Marissa has had menstrual problems, bleeding every day for three years and within the last year she started producing milk. They have performed tests, surgery and put her on birth control without success. They were considering giving the girl a hysterectomy in January, but Mitzi’s Dad started doing research on the internet about his granddaughter’s problem. He found out that farmers were injecting rBST (hormones) into cows so that they would produce more milk. Wal-Mart sells Great Value milk, which contains rBST and is the kind that the Lyons family always drank. Her parents stopped giving Marissa Great Value milk 3 months ago and she has since … Read entire article »
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The Farmer and the Nobleman
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming And struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death. … Read entire article »
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