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Houdini planned something like this for when he died. Unfortunately the code wasn't kept very secret so the experiment was a waste.

http://www.prairieghosts.com/houdini.html (look near the end)

Similar legend here...

Never witnessed it myself, but interesting how they share several similar characteristics in their stories...

http://www.prairieghosts.com/devprom.html

When I was 6 and 7 (better than 40 years ago) we'd play outside all day from morning until the street light came on. Our moms never looked for us, or wondered if we were safe, if someone had kidnapped or killed us. Adam (and John) Walsh changed that for everybody.

The case of Adam Walsh might have caused a new level of awareness that children sometimes are kidnapped and killed (and that awareness is surely nothing but a good thing), but it is not exactly the first time it happened. For instance, take the case of Albert Fish. He was abducting and killing children 50 years before Adam Walsh was killed.

I'm not sure if I have a point, but if I do, it is just this: that evil people have been around forever, and if anything has changed, it's just that we've become more aware of it these days (which, as I said before, is a good thing).

I'm glad that the dead are still a minority in Chicago. Given the city's reputation, one would presume that they were in the majority.

An infamous case that my parents told me about was that of Leopold and Loeb. Some people are just evil.

A rather famous example of this happened between Arthur Conan Doyle and Erich Weiss aka Harry Houdini. Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories was an ardent spiritualist. Houdini, as a magician, knew the tricks mediums played on the gullible and had Doyle write a message in private which Houdini then reproduced by having a paint-covered ball "write" the message.

Houdini would not explain the trick, and Doyle insisted that Houdini must be using supernatural powers. Despite their disagreements, the two men remained friends for some time.

This site tells about the friendship between Doyle and Houdini.

I suggest that in the interest of energy conservation, that seti@home switch to using
an equally effective Ouija Board. Super energy efficient

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