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I went outside for a smoke with the dog and locked myself out. The house had an old detached garage. My grandmother had a detached garage too. My grandmother kept the key to her house on a nail about 3 feet into the garage on the west side wall. I walked into the garage I was housesitting. I felt along the west wall. 6 feet in I found a key on a nail. It opened the door.

I told the owner after she got back. She had no idea there was a key in the garage.

What a relief when the key worked.

I swear to gawd, I saw two guys hitchhiking who looked just like killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, rolled up jeans, ducktail haircuts, etc. Still haunts me. Watched them in mirror after passing for what seemed like miles on those straight roads.

I’m sure there are rational explanations, since I knew the story well. But damn. Saw a Civil War soldier as I hiked a battlefield, wasn’t a re-enacter and I was sober both times.

and seen the original movie three times, the remake once, and "Capote" twice.

True crime has always fascinated me. Capote's writing sttyle enhanced that.

They stopped for gas at Garden City, not far from Holcomb.

I guess it's possible they hitchhiked on back roads in Kansas before they got to Olathe.

(I'm a big fan of Capote's book "In Cold Blood" too)

After about a week of interacting online he mentioned he was writing 2 books. I asked for titles - one was about aliens landing here and his other book was titled “Inside The Mind of a Serial Killer” - I deleted e-Harmony that day.

One of the people in her cardiac rehab class was Ella Fitzgerald.

Sister said it was well worth the heart attack to meet her.

During the French and Indian War, George Washington fought alongside the British against the French. After one battle, he wrote a letter to his family after the battle saying he took off his jacket and there were four bullet holes but he wasn't touched. He also had several horses shot out from under him but he wasn't inured.

https://josephsmithfoundation.org/the-bulletproof-george-washington/

My favorite is the one of pitcher Cole Hamels. One day, I couldn't find it; I looked everywhere in the house. Sometime later, my father passed away. As I was helping to go through his things in his and my mother's house (in another state), I opened the bottom drawer of his dresser...and there, in corner of the drawer, was my Cole Hamels card. Absolutely no clue how it got there!

We took grade school boys & girls camping at a church camp in the Sandia Mountains. Boys camped down the road from the girls in ancient cabins. Our staff cabin was right up against the girls large cabin. In the middle of the night all the girls began screaming and crying hysterically. We ran into cabin with flash lights and about 10 bats were up in the corners and swooping around the girls. I can still see their little mouths opening & closing in my mind.

We all ran about a half mile in the rain to the boys cabin and slept there.

We reported it to the church but they obviously didn’t take it seriously as the next yr someone was bitten by a bat in that same cabin and they finally condemned the cabin.

Mike (April 20, 1945 - March 17, 1947) was a male Wyandotte chicken that lived for eighteen months after he was beheaded, surviving because most of his brainstem remained intact, and it did not bleed to death due to a blood clot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken