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" STRANGE DOORKNOBS (cid:1) involving doorknobs. As a result, they were drunkards who had somehow FOUND ON PARK TRE,ES (cid:1) are considering the eVent a prank or an saturated their bodies with flammable artistic statement unless, as one police spirits and accidentally set themselves CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (DEC. 31) officer speculated, "it's an ambitious on fire. UPI. - Fifteen trees in a city park have squirrel." Other ancient beliefs regarding the been fitted out mysteriousEy with Since the trees are owned by the city, phenomenon attributed it to the victims doorkno-bs, and police are coming the event is being investigated as a_case merely being sinners who were being unhinged trying to figure out why. of mischief. Feldmann said. He said punished by divine JX)wers. The used doorknobs were carefully city workers wiU remove the doorknobs An anomaly associated with death by attached, along with their locking "and plug Ute trees so all the sap doesn't lightning is that the bodies of people mechanisms, apparently sometime run out". killed by lightning have been observcd Monday night or Tuesday morning, to decompose at a very rapid rate. says Sgt. Steve Feldmann. SPONTANEOUS IHUMAN(cid:1) In the case of SHC. the "People walk their dogs inr this park COMBUSTION (cid:1) decomposition process is much more and someone caHed this morning and ra,pid. told us about it." Feldmann said. One of the greatest mysteries known to man is when a living human body Not only does the process occur in a He said a white ribbon was tied to suddenly bursts into flarnes and rapidly matter of minutes. but the fire ONLY eacb of the trees about seven feet off burns to ashes. This phenomenon has CONSUMES LIVING FLESH, leaving the ground. And, on each, about three been known throughout history, yet to almost untouched the clothing and feet off the ground, dourknobs were date no one has discovered how and surroundings of the victim. installed on opposie sides, as if to suggest a strolleF could open a door on why it takes place. Olle of the most thoroughly one side. walk through, and exit The victims of the SHC phenomenon documented cases was that of Mrs. through a dOOF on the other. have little in common though many Mary Reeser, who was suddenly have a history of alcohol abuse. consumed on the night oOuly 1, 1951. Police checked with experts on the occult and satanism, but were told there Indeed. a 19th century theory The following morning, Mrs. is no known mystic symboHsm concluded that people afflicted by SHC Reeser's landlady took a telegram to APRI L-MAY 1992 NEXUS-55