Alien Hand Syndrome: and Other Too-Weird-Not-to-be-True Stories - Softcover

Alan Bellows

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761152253 ISBN 13: 9780761152255

Publisher: Workman Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Collected and curated by Alan Bellows and his team at a website, with over 400,000 unique visitors a month, this is the stuff nightmares are made of, and no one will be able to stop reading: Giant Carnivorous Centipedes; Mike, the Headless Chicken; The Exploding Lakes of Cameroon; The Swirling Vortex of Doom; Secret Agent Cyborg Cats; Fiery Balls of Naga; The Deepest Hole; The Terrifying Toothpick Fish; and, of course, Alien Hand Syndrome - a disorder wherein a person's hand develops a 'will of its own', unbuttoning shirts, grabbing at the steering wheel, tossing away cigarettes, and in some cases actually attacking its host. Most entries are full-blown narratives, complete with illustrations - for example, pointing out step-by-step how 'The Halifax Disaster' unfolded. Other entries examine short-take anomalies - such as unusual drug side effects, including the antidepressant Clomipramine (spontaneous orgasm upon yawning), the hormone Oxytocin (increases one's generosity), the medicine for Parkinson's disease, Ropinirole (compulsive gambling), and Viagra (priapus syndrome, with a remote chance of gangrene curable only through penectomy - say no more).

About this title

From the Back Cover

A compulsively readable collection, Alien Hand Syndrome brings together over 90 fantastic-but-true stories absolutely mind-bending gems plucked from the annals of history. Selected and narrated by Alan Bellows who can take the chaos of an event like the Lake Peigneur Disaster and retell it with harrowing step-by-step suspense each entry opens a window onto a world where something s gone terribly, yet fascinatingly, wrong. You can't get enough.
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About the Author

Alan Bellows, aka "The Professor," is the writer, designer, managing editor, and marketing mastermind behind DamnInteresting.com. A software designer, he developed his fascination for the odd and unexpected while doing programming for the library industry. He lives with his wife in Orem, Utah.

Edition details

• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0761152253
• ISBN 13: 9780761152255
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Damm Interesting