Thursday, August 5, 2010

Spook Juice for the Conspiracy-Minded










PERCEPTION IS REALITY


My perception of reality has been shaped, in part, by a near transcendent fascination with odd "coincidences," juicy cover-ups, furtive conspiracies, and mind-boggling mysteries. You know, the kind that stretch way beyond the often easy-to-debunk urban legends. I have vivid memories of being so thoroughly captivated, at age nine, by the mysterious and still-unexplained disappearance of Joan Risch that I established my own unofficial, one-kid search for the Lincoln, Massachusetts housewife. I spent a more than a week engaging Keystone Cops kind of search for clues to her disappearance -- in fields, back alleys and abandoned buildings of my Boston neighborhood over 25 miles away!

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