The Year in Review...Sort of.
2004-01-01 at 4:35 p.m.
First, we must start with the following link-http://paranormal.about.com/cs/miscinformation/a/aa122903.htm. It will go to About.com's Paranormal Phenomena page and a rather interesting rundown of the supernatural events of the year, at least according to some-an example from January; ...A dead deer was found atop a power pole...
February;
...Columbia Tragedy. Some blamed the crash of the Columbia on UFOs and other "odd objects"-
March;
... War = Onset of Apocalypse. Several "prophets" saw the war in Iraq as the beginnings of the end of the world, saying it would eventually lead to World War III.
Some of Indrid's favorites of the year include the obvious-
- the Laci Peterson case, not linked because the gentle reader is an internetidiot if they can't go find a Laci Peterson story on their own-
- Michael Jackson...nuff said. A delightful t-shirt was sighted the other day at tshirthell.com. It said something like; "Michael Jackson didn't rape those children...he made love to them." And that is not by any stretch of the imagination the worst t-shirt on the site. The worst is probably a drawing of a dead smileyface (x's for eyes) with a propeller beanie cap that has the caption, "Is it pedophilia if the child is dead?"
- There are less obvious favorites-in the previous entry the creation of a new, more virulent tuberculosis was linked-
- From Seattle many interesting stories-a couple of note were the story of Barbara Opel, a woman who hired a bunch of teens to kill her boss for $41,000. (The stories of the year in Seattle are summarized here.) According to the story the teens, including Ms. Opel's daughter, killed the hapless boss with baseball bats and knives while she shouted encouragement. Oh, those pushy soccer mom types never know when to quit! Also from Seattle a follow-up on a story seen many times on Television's Unsolved Mysteries-(hosted by Robert Stack-dead this year!)-the murder of punk rock diva Mia Zapata may have been solved with the arrest of a Florida man who is accused of strangling her in 1993. Indrid has to wonder about the coffee-murder correlation. Let's not forget Green River Gary finally got caught, either. Here's to Green River Gary!
- Another seemingly forgotten story-The poisonings of the Lutherans of New Sweden, Maine.
- Supernatural stories of big cats and skunk apes....
All in all, it could have been a much more interesting year.
Here's to more, and better weirdness in 2004!
