Sunday Vanguard [Nigeria]
2 December 2018
FEAR OF RITUALISTS IN DELTA:
We anoint our pants to escape Yahoo Boys – Warri girls
“As a rule now
in my house, we pour anointing oil and sprinkle holy water on our pants before
wearing them because of Yahoo Boys”. With these words, Alero, a female resident
of Ubeji area of Warri, told Sunday Vanguard her family’s strategy to escape
ritualists on the prowl in Delta State. […]
Punch [Nigeria]
22 December 2018
ICYMI: Fear of ‘Yahoo boys’
has made us stop wearing pants – Women in Delta students’ communities
For some time, there have been reports that some
ritualists, also known as ‘Yahoo boys’, have been stealing female underwear,
sometimes at gunpoint, particularly around campuses of tertiary institutions in
Delta State. Although the veracity of the claims that such stolen undies are
used for ritual purposes has not been established, such reports have instilled
fear into the hearts of ladies living in such areas, resulting in fear and
panic. […]
The Herald [Nigeria]
4 January 2019
No One Is Snatching Pants In
Delta – Police
The Police Command in Delta has dismissed as rumours,
the alleged cases of snatching of ladies’ pants in the state by hoodlums. […]
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The First News [Poland]
5 January 2019
Tails From The Underground:
cats & vodka in the subterranean depths of Warsaw’s Palace Of Culture
[In 1967 the Rolling Stones played the Congress Hall
in Warsaw’s Palace of Culture & Science.]
[…] [They] were rumoured to have been reimbursed for
their performance with vats of Polish vodka. However, when it came to the
crunch, they were forbidden from taking the booze out of the country. For years
after, it’s said that that thousands of litres lay stored in these basements,
with the vodka eventually finding its way back into the homes of the Palace’s
employees and the domestic black market. Though likely to have been heavily
embellished, and possibly even completely invented, its stories such as this
that add to the mystique and the magic of the Palace’s basements.
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The Mirror [UK]
5 January 2019
'I was sold as a sex slave at
19 and forced to watch a girl be murdered'
Aged only 19, Sarah Forsyth travelled to Amsterdam on
the promise of a job as a nursery nurse – and instead was abducted at gunpoint
and sold as a sex slave. […] Sarah knew she had to escape after one of her
pimps, known only as Gregor, told her the murder of the Thai girl she saw was
part of a snuff porn movie plot. Snuff – a film apparently showing the death of
a participant in a sex scenario – is often dismissed as an urban myth. But
Sarah learned the horrifying truth. […]
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Standard-Examiner
[Ogden, UT]
5 January 2019
Survey findings from long-rumored section of Brigham
City cemetery to be presented at railroad exhibit
BRIGHAM CITY —
Contrary to a long-held urban legend, there probably isn’t a mass grave of
Chinese railroad workers buried in a small section of the Brigham City
Cemetery. […] Museum Director and Curator Kaia Michaelis said there are several
historical facts that contradict the legend. Michaelis said many of the Chinese
railroad workers had contracts with Central Pacific that stipulated their
bodies would be returned to China if they died. Michaelis said often times
workers who died were initially buried near where they died, but later exhumed
and put on a train to San Francisco, then shipped back to China. […]
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Two examples from
recent TV series of animal intrusions
into a human body. Top: Episode 8 of Twin Peaks (Showtime, 25 June 2017).
Bottom: Episode 3 from the second season of Legion
(FX, 17 April 2018).
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Anthony Bourdain & Joel Rose (script), Paul Pope
(art), “Boil in the Belly.” Anthony Bourdain & Joel Rose, Anthony Bourdain’s Hungry Ghosts,
Milwaukie, OR: Berger Books, 2018.
