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The Case of the Ghostly Pigeon
Status: Phony Ghost
For the past month villagers in West Bengal have been terrorized by a ghost that took the form of a floating skull with fiery red eyes. A number of people have suffered scratch marks when attacked by this ghost. Now police have taken a suspect into custody, "A pigeon with a miniature plastic skull dangling around its neck and with glowing red bulbs in the eye sockets." The police don't know who outfitted the pigeon in this way, but suspect that their sole motive was to create a panic. In other words, it was a random prankster. However, the cause of the scratch marks remains undetermined. Also, demonstrating how unreliable eyewitnesses can be, police noted that "people had described the ghost variously as a man and a monkey." Which recalls the Winsted Wild Man panic in Connecticut over 100 years ago, in which witnesses swore they had seen a (nonexistent) wild man sporting tusks and as large as a gorilla.
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Categories: Mass Delusion, Paranormal Posted by Alex on Tue May 30, 2006 |
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And the Dehli monkeyman panic of more recent memory...
Posted by Joe Littrell on Tue May 30, 2006 at 06:48 PM
The pigeons are plotting against us. . .I've suspected it for years!
Posted by Accipiter on Tue May 30, 2006 at 08:21 PM
My own favourite example of the reliability of eyewitness accounts is the witness who in the immediate aftermath of the misataken shooting of Menezes in London claimed to have seen that he (Menezes) was wearing a "bomb belt with wires coming out." Other eyewitnesses described him leaping the turnstiles as he fled the police, though in fact he bought a ticket and was not in fact chased through the station at all...
Turning a plastic skull and a couple of lightbulbs into attacks by a ghost monkey seems easy:)
Posted by outeast on Wed May 31, 2006 at 03:49 AM
Turning a plastic skull and a couple of lightbulbs into attacks by a ghost monkey seems easy:)
Funny how most of the eyewitnesses there were the policemen involved though :(
Posted by Owen on Wed May 31, 2006 at 05:41 AM
Doesn't blatant stupidity just warm the cockles of your heart?
Posted by Nettie in Perth, Western Australia on Wed May 31, 2006 at 10:51 AM
Kill the pigeon! Where's dastardly and muttley when you need them?
It's been proved in various scientific studies that eye-witness accounts are highly unreliable, even when the witnesses haven't been influenced by rumours, newspaper reports etc. I'm with Gil Grissom. Witnesses lie, evidence does not.
Posted by Nona in London on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 07:43 AM
It's been proved in various scientific studies that eye-witness accounts are highly unreliable, even when the witnesses haven't been influenced by rumours, newspaper reports etc. I'm with Gil Grissom. Witnesses lie, evidence does not.
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