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Casteele -> RE: Terrified Woman From Another Universe Wakes Up Here (1/7/2012 1:28:36 AM)
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My thoughts are different than the others who posted.. Seems the most common assumption is that the girl is simply loony or something.. I don't think she is. How can a figment of someone's imagination be loony--or sane? :-P But seriously.. I followed some of the links and did a few Google searches looking for more info, and came up with nearly zero. The apparent first exposure of this girl was some blog a couple years ago, in which the author supposedly has a couple emails back and forth with this girl. But any further searching of keywords or even her name (assuming it would be consistent even if it was a made up name for anonymity) turns up practically nothing before or after. I admit not everyone has something to be found on Google, but if this girl were real, I'd bet the tabloids would have run her story to death and had at least a dozen "conspiracy theorists" websites posting her story and how it was somehow a government experiment gone wrong by now.
The two other "stories" also make me think it's made up. The vanishing professor gives a link or two, but following them, I cannot find any such story. (I have to admit once again I only briefly scanned the website to which the links led; They posted a lot about UFO's and some alien abductions, but I found nothing in my quick scan about a vanishing professor.) I did note the mention of how it's been "40 years," which is a common tactic by scammers trying to make you think that if it has not been debunked or disproven in X-amount of years, that you should at least give it an open mind that it could possibly be real--opening to doors to the suspension of disbelief.
The other "related" "story" given, about the man who arrives in Japan with a passport from a non-existant country stumping Japanese authorities before vanishing in to thin air as well.. That one had no links, and I cannot find anything on Google referencing such a story exists anywhere else but this posting. Anyhow, that's another common tactic of scammers. Ever get one of those chain letters that claim "This is perfectly legal! I had my doubts, so I called the post office and they said yes, it's perfectly legal! Go ahead, call them and see for yourself!" It's referencing a "trusted" authority with claims that said authority will tell you exactly the same thing the writer is telling you. In hopes that you'll just assume they will and you're too lazy to actually call said authority. For the chain letter example above, I got sick of seeing such chain letters get posted on Usenet news and the posters vehemently claim that they were also skeptical and called the post office themselves rather than just trusting the chain letter. So I actually called the post office and they told me what I expected to hear: that yes, such letters are indeed very illegal in the USA, and they are very aggressive in prosecuting the people involved in them. So much for secondhand accounts of what the authorities say.
So, it seems to me that just about everything in the article is simply made up at some point. Most likely, the woman is also pure fiction and doesn't really exist.
PS: Anyone want to buy my spaceship? It's got a built-in time machine and one of those "MiB" flashy thingies that make people trance-like so you can program them to have whatever memories you want.. I don't want to mislead or fool anyone though, it does need a new paint job, badly!
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