"...we should pass over all biographies of 'the good and the great,' while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows."
~Edgar Allan Poe

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Newspaper Clipping of the Day

Via Newspapers.com



This brief cautionary teaches us what should be obvious: if you summon the Devil, be damn sure you want him to oblige.  The “Fort Lauderdale News,” October 9, 1965:

OKLAHOMA CITY. A teenage girl was determined to disappear with the devil last night, but she made it only as far as a hospital. 

Friends convinced Kathy Campbell, 14, that if she laid on a grave and called 10 times for "Lucifer," she would disappear, or "something would happen to her." So, police said, Miss Campbell and four companions went to a graveyard, where she carefully stretched out on a grave in the darkness and pleaded for Lucifer to appear. 

After 10 attempts, Lucifer did not show up. But when the girl got to her feet a large bird swooped down out of the darkness and struck her on the chest. 

She was taken to a hospital in a state of shock. She was released a few hours later.

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  1. John BellenNovember 2, 2022 at 2:20 PM

    That probably cured her of a lot of bad habits right there.

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