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A compulsively readable collection, Alien Hand Syndrome brings together over 90 fantastic-but-true stories...absolutely mind-bending gems plucked from the annals of history. Selected and narrated by Alan Bellows...who can take the chaos of an event like the Lake Peigneur Disaster and retell it with harrowing step-by-step suspense...each entry opens a window onto a world where something's gone terribly, yet fascinatingly, wrong. You can't get enough.
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Alan Bellows, aka "The Professor," is the writer, designer, managing editor, and marketing mastermind behind DamnInteresting.com. A software designer, he developed his fascination for the odd and unexpected while doing programming for the library industry. He lives with his wife in Orem, Utah.
Welcome to the five stages of reading Alien Hand Syndrome: Astonishment: This is amazing! Insecurity: I'm a smart person... how could I never have heard of this before? Panic: Please, don't let it end. Gratitude: Great!...and look, there are over 90 more essays where that one came from. And Zeal: You won't believe what I just read.
Collected and curated by Alan Bellows and his team at DamnInteresting.com, with over 400,000 unique visitors a month, this is the stuff nightmares are made of, and no one will be able to stop reading: Giant Carnivorous Centipedes; Mike, the Headless Chicken; The Exploding Lakes of Cameroon; The Swirling Vortex of Doom; Secret Agent Cyborg Cats; Fiery Balls of Naga; The Deepest Hole; The Terrifying Toothpick Fish; and, of course, Alien Hand Syndrome...a disorder wherein a person's hand develops a "will of its own," unbuttoning shirts, grabbing at the steering wheel, tossing away cigarettes, and in some cases actually attacking its host.
Most entries are full-blown narratives, complete with illustrations...for example, pointing out step-by-step how "The Halifax Disaster" unfolded. Other entries examine short-take anomalies...such as unusual drug side effects, including the antidepressant Clomipramine (spontaneous orgasm upon yawning), the hormone Oxytocin (increases one's generosity), the medicine for Parkinson's disease, Ropinirole (compulsive gambling), and Viagra (priapus syndrome, with a remote chance of gangrene curable only through penectomy...say no more).
Introduction: The Big Book Theory ix
A Alien Hand Syndrome 2
The Amber Tide 6
An American Coup d'État 8
Amoebic Altruism 12
Animal Weaponry 15
B Bacteriological Apocalypse 17
The Bath Schoolhouse Explosion 19
Beheaded and Bewildered 22
Birth Control of Antiquity 25
A Booger a Day Keeps the Doctor Away 28
Bryukhonenko's Dogs 31
C Capgras Syndrome 34
Carnivorous Giant Centipedes 36
Centralia's Hidden Inferno 38
Charles Bonnet Syndrome 40
Clever Hans the Math Horse 44
Cognitive Glitches 47
Coley's Cancer-Killing Concoction 49
Corpse Acres 52
Cyborg Spy Kitties 56
D Davy Crockett: King of the Atomic Frontier 58
Deep Water Mysteries 61
Dogs of War 63
Dreaming on Demand 65
The Dwarf Who Became a Giant 69
E Earth's Artificial Ionosphere 71
The Ethyl-Poisoned Earth 74
The Exploding Lakes of Cameroon 80
F The Farewell Dossier 83
The Fartiste of Paris 86
A Fluke of Nature 90
The Fordlândia Fiasco 92
G Gelotology 101 95
The Gimli Glider 100
Guppy Love 106
H The Hail from Hell Theory 109
The Halifax Disaster 113
High-Rise Syndrome 117
I Interstellar Eavesdropping 119
Irrational Optimism 125
K The Kola Superdeep Borehole 128
Kowloon: The Walled City of Darkness 131
L The Lake Peigneur Disaster 134
LeMessurier's Mess 137
M The Mad Gasser of Mattoon 140
Mad Jack Churchill 143
The McCollum Memo 145
Mike the Headless Chicken 149
The Molasses Flood of 1919 152
Montagu's Manufactured Major 154
N The Naga Fireballs 157
Nature's Nuclear Reactors 159
Nazi-Thwarting Norwegians 161
The Niihau Island Incident 165
The Nucleon 168
O Onoda's Long War 171
On the Origin of Circuits175
Operation Pastorius 179
Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 184
Outer Space Exposure 188
P Peculiar Parasites 191
The Pepcon Disaster 193
The Phobia Factory 196
Pleasure on Demand 200
Poland's Germ Gambit 204
Project Pluto 206
R The Revelations of Restored Sight 209
S Secret Agent Candy Jones 213
Sidis's Superbrain 216
The Skyhook 220
Spies on the Roof of the World 223
Spring Heeled Jack 227
Submersible Aircraft Carriers 230
The Sun Gun 234
Sylbaris the Survivor 237
T Terror on Wall Street 240
Tesla's Tower of Power 245
The Treacherous Toothpick Fish 249
The Tree of Ténéré 251
Tsar Bomba: The World's Most Massive Weapon 253
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study 256
U Unanticipated Side Effects 260
Undark and the Radium Girls 262
Undead Hamsters and the Gaia Theory 266
Urine for a Treat 269
The USS Pueblo and the Hawaiian Good Luck Sign 272
V Vaseline's Healing Power 276
Vesna Vulovic's Lucky Day 278
W Walking Corpse Syndrome 280
Weird Weaponry 284
Z Zero Recall 287
Contributors 291
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