Aimee Semple MacPherson Los Angeles – 1926 – Aimee Semple McPherson was something of a celebrity and an Evangelist. Normally I ask myself how is it that these Evangelists get to be famous? But in Aimee’s case it’s easy to understand. Aimee was born in Canada and at only 17 she married Irish Pentecostal preacher Richard… Continue reading Now You See Her – Now You Don’t – Now You Do

At least that is a Carl Jungian theory and part of psychotherapy’s theses. Jung believed in the unknown ‘‘dark side’’ of the human personality; dark because it consists of the socially or religiously degraded human emotions that include things sexual lust, power strivings, selfishness, greed, envy, anger or rage. In other words, evil. The dark side, also known as… Continue reading What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Wo/Men? The Shadow knows…

There will always be women who shed doubt on rape claims when the reported rape turns out to be a lie. Only the twisted mind of a woman like that can explain why she would go to such lengths to harm innocent people while making herself appear to be a victim. Perhaps there is an… Continue reading Burlingame Busted for Bogus Brutal Sex Assault

This story reminds me of Dr. Hannibal Lector and it might do the same to you. In fact, a former patient of this surgeon even likened him in a media interview to Lector. True, Dr. Glen Tucker didn’t kill and eat his patients, but he committed atrocities on them during his spectacularly brutal 10-year career… Continue reading Tyrannical Tucker and his Tangled Trail of Victims

This was a story I saw on that interesting, now defunct series Urban Legends. That’s the show where three stories are dramatized, two being myths and one true, and it’s the audience’s job to figure out which is which. This one story in particular intrigued me because I have blogged about a medical condition that… Continue reading The Soldier and the 60-year-old Broken Neck

Of course everyone is familiar with the dazzling little sports coupe known as Porsche and its many models: 911 Carrera (how unfortunate), the Boxster,  the Cayman GT4 and on and on. The sports car has nothing to do with most of this blog. It’s a status symbol with an impressive appearance that probably picks up a… Continue reading Porsche History as Hitler’s Henchman

Why on earth would anyone admit to a crime, especially a major crime such as a murder, she or he hadn’t committed? Does this really happen? What sort of personality can be coerced into making a confession about a terrible act he or she hasn’t committed? Sometimes the psychology of police interrogation is very troubling,… Continue reading False Confessions and Wrongful Convictions

A young child’s mind is a fascinating thing. Filled with imagination and easily influenced, a child can believe virtually anything s/he is led to believe, especially by those closet to him/her. I believe this to be a survival mechanism. When a defenceless child cannot reconcile a situation she experiences or witnesses, her mind perceives it… Continue reading The Monster in My House

You’d think that getting struck by lightning even once and living to tell about it would be a miracle. Lightning is an electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm between electrically charged regions of a cloud (known as intra-cloud lightning or IC lightning), or another cloud,( called CC lightning), or a cloud and the ground, (called… Continue reading And They Say Lightning Only Strikes Once…

Sibling Incest Usually when we speak about incestuous families we tend to think of father-daughter incest. Rarely do we think about mother-son or brother-sister. However these types of sex abuse happen and are probably under-reported, hence the reason this incest isn’t known about as broadly as that of parent-child. There is a plethora of studies… Continue reading Sibling Sexual Abuse a Sordid Secret