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rsdsharp

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4. In early 1963, Life magazine published an article about this.

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 12:33 PM

Apr 2015

I was not quite nine years old at the time. I read the article, and it scared the hell out of me. I had nightmares for weeks. Recently I acquired a copy of that Life issue, and have re-read the article. It is still creepy, but not as scary more than 50 years later.

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