Anonymoushi love! i’m sorry i’m just seeing this now. thank you for this heads up, i appreciate it. i have seen some problematic posts regarding sixpenceee stealing work and not crediting sources correctly, etc. but i was unaware of the insensitivity to the mentally ill. thank you so much for your kind words. i truly appreciate you and will definitely be more wary of the people i follow and reblog. :)
As someone who wants to study the human consciousness I found this very interesting.
Scott Routley was a “vegetable”. A car accident seriously injured both sides of his brain, and for 12 years, he was completely unresponsive.
Unable to speak or track people with his eyes, it seemed that Routley was unaware of his surroundings, and doctors assumed he was lost in limbo. They were wrong.
In 2012, Professor Adrian Owen decided to run tests on comatose patients like Scott Routley. Curious if some “vegetables” were actually conscious, Owen put Routley in an fMRI and told him to imagine walking through his home. Suddenly, the brain scan showed activity. Routley not only heard Owen, he was responding.
Next, the two worked out a code. Owen asked a series of “yes or no” questions, and if the answer was “yes,” Routley thought about walking around his house. If the answer was “no,” Routley thought about playing tennis.
These different actions showed activity different parts of the brain. Owen started off with easy questions like, “Is the sky blue?” However, they changed medical science when Owen asked, “Are you in pain?” and Routley answered, “No.” It was the first time a comatose patient with serious brain damage had let doctors know about his condition.
While Scott Routley is still trapped in his body, he finally has a way to reach out to the people around him. This finding has huge implications.
HOLY STEAMING SHITFUCKS
WHY IS EVERYONE NOT LOSING THEIR SHIT ABOUT THIS
What a fucking nightmare, just kill me.
I know a girl who was hit by a drunk driver and in that state for a year. When she woke up the first thing she did was tell off the doctor who tried to convince her mom to pull the plug. She heard *everything* while being called brain dead.
Omg^
This is a miraculous discovery, and opens up a lot of possibilities for medicine.
The Disturbing Disappearance of Dorothy Forstein
Dorothy Forstein had been married to her husband Jules Forstein for only two years when she was found badly beaten outside her home in Philadelphia, PA. Not five years later, she was kidnapped in the dead of night, never to be seen again. Both crimes remain unsolved, with no clear motive or suspects, but what really happened to Dorothy Forstein? Are the two crimes related, or was she just the unfortunate victim of bad luck?
Dorothy Forstein married her husband Jules Forstein, a Philadephia city magistrate, in 1942. Jules had two children from a previous marriage, Myrna and Marcy, and the couple soon welcomed a son of their own, Edward. Dorothy was known as an outgoing woman who was friendly with everyone she met, and had no known enemies. But in 1944, everything changed. She had dropped off her three children at a friend’s house for the night, so she could do some shopping. When she returned home, she decided to drop off her purchases before going to pick up her kids. But when she got to her house, a man jumped up from the front of the house and began beating her. The struggle knocked the telephone from its hook, alerting the operator. When the telephone operator heard the noises of a fight, they contacted the police. When police arrived to the home, they found Dorothy unconscious, nearly beaten to death, with a broken jaw, nose, and shoulder, and a concussion. She could not identify or describe her attacker, only noting how he jumped out from nowhere.
There was never a clear motive to this case. Nothing was stolen from the house, so it was not an attempted burglary. Dorothy wasn’t assaulted, and no specific threats were made toward her. Her husband Jules had a rock-solid alibi, and their marriage was happy by all accounts. Neither wife nor husband could identify anyone who would want to hurt Dorothy, but police did theorize that perhaps someone angered by Jules’s legal work for the city had taken revenge on Dorothy. Still, no suspects were ever identified.
After the attack, Dorothy became paranoid and extremely cautious, convinced she would suffer another attack. Her suspicions were correct, and on the night of October 19, 1949, Jules returned from a political banquet to find his two youngest children, Marcy and Edward, cowering in the corner of the upstairs bedroom. Teen-aged Myrna was staying with a friend. Dorothy was nowhere to be found, and Marcy fearfully exclaimed that a man had taken her.
At 9 pm that night, Dorothy had phoned a friend to arrange a shopping trip for the next day, and at some point between then and 11:30, when Jules returned home, she disappeared. Marcy told police and consulting psychiatrists that she had woken up to the sounds of someone entering the house. She went out to the hall to investigate, and saw her mother lying sick on the floor of her bedroom. A man, described only as wearing a brown cap and jacket, picked her up and carried her over his shoulder, her head hanging limp behind him. He patted Marcy on the head told her that her mother was fine, and told her to go back to bed. About 15 minutes later, according to Marcy, Jules came home.
Police believed Marcy’s story, as she never changed it and had been checked out by psychiatrists. Captain James Kelly of the Philadelphia Police Department was the first to be notified about the crime, as he was a family friend. Jules waited until the next day to contact police officially, having spent the night phoning all of Dorothy’s friends to ask if they knew where she was. Officer Kelly spent the investigation notifying over 10,000 police departments, hospitals, morgues, and mental institutions, asking if they had Dorothy. There was never any physical evidence, like blood or fingerprints, inside the Forstein home, and no clear motive for the abduction. Nothing was stolen from the house, including Dorothy’s purse and keys, and there was no ransom note. Once again, police believed the crime was committed by someone looking to get revenge on Jules, perhaps motivated by his actions in court. But no specific person was identified, and theory is all police ever had to go on.
Roughly a week after her disappearance, Dorothy’s story was gone from city media. Many believe that this wasn’t the news cycle running its course, but someone with a high position in government trying to bury the crime. Could this person be Jules, or someone he knew? Could the perpetrator perhaps be someone Jules delivered an legal ruling to that they deemed unfair, and so they sought revenge? Or was this crime, and the previous assault, a random attack for other purposes? Were the two crimes connected, either by motive or by the person responsible? These questions and others may never be answered, and it’s likely we’ll never know what happened to Dorothy Forstein. She’d be 109 today, and everyone involved in her disappearance is likely long gone.
Most Spooky Hotel 2017: Stanley Hotel, United States
Stanley Hotel is one of the most reportedly haunted hotels in the entire world. It has been featured on several ghost related shows such as Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures. The hotel was so haunted that it even inspired famous author Stephen King to write his novel The Shining.
There are several “more haunted” spots throughout the hotel. The first is room 217. This room is the most famous spot in the hotel as it was where Stephen King got his inspiration for the Shining. It is believed that this room is haunted by Elizabeth Wilson, or Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Wilson was the hotels head housekeeper. One night, during a storm in 1911, she was injured during an explosion while lighting up the lights in room 217. Although she survived, the traumatic experience has caused her to remain within the room after her death. Guests within the room have reported items being moved and their luggage being unpacked. Lights are often turned on and off. Mrs. Wilson is also old fashioned in that she will haunt any unmarried guests who decide to stay the night. These visitors have reported feeling a cold force come between them while they are trying to sleep.
Two other rooms known for their hauntings are room 401 and room 428. When the hotel first opened the entire fourth floor was where female employees, children and nannies lived. Now visitors to the fourth floor, and more notably room 401 have reported hearing children running around and laughing. Room 401 also has a closet which is notorious for opening and shutting by itself. Room 428 has its own set of ghosts. Visitors to this room have heard furniture moving and footsteps moving above them, even though it is physically impossible for anyone to go onto the sloped roof. There is also a cowboy who will appear to visitors at the corner of the bed.
Another spot that is haunted in the hotel is the Concert Hall. It is believed that one of the ghosts in the concert hall is Paul. Paul was known to do a little bit of everything around the hotel. One of his jobs was to enforce the 11pm curfew in the hotel. Now guests who stay out late at night will sometimes hear a voice tell them to “get out.” Paul is also known to occasionally nudge guests and workers. Another spirit to haunt this location is the hotel founder’s wife, Flora Stanley. Flora can be heard playing the piano. A third spirit named Lucy is also known to act up. She will often communicate with ghost hunters by flickering flashlights on and off. No one knows who Lucy was in life, although it is speculated that she was either a runaway or a homeless woman.
Other haunted locations at the Stanley hotel include the Grand Staircase, the Vortex and the Underground Caves. The Grand Staircase is believed to be a spot where many of the ghosts pass through. The apparition of a woman has also been seen by multiple guests descending the staircase. The Vortex is where it is believed many of the ghosts travel through as it is a natural spiral of energy. The Underground Caves is another spot thought to attract ghosts due to its high volume of limestone and quartz (two materials believed to trap spiritual energy). Visitors to this area have reported shadow figures, voices, and cold breezes brushing past them.
(Sources: https://www.tripsavvy.com/the-haunted-stanley-hotel-4108817, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanley_Hotel)
Bobby Mackeys Music World: AKA The Most Haunted Nightclub in America
Located in Kentucky is a greasy gritty dive bar known as Bobby Mackeys Music World. While guests can come and enjoy riding a mechanical bull or busting a move on the line dancing floor, they may also experience something paranormal.
The building was originally used as a slaughterhouse in the 1850s. During this time the owners would take any leftover body parts and simply dump them into the well in the basement, resulting in a grisly and reeking pile of remains. Eventually the slaughterhouse closed in the 1890s and a local Satanic cult moved in. The Satanic cult was thought to have used the well as a site for rituals. As a result the well has become what many believe to be a portal to Hell. It is still thought to be a portal to Hell today.
In the 1896 a young woman named Pearl Bryan met a grisly fate on the property. Pearl Bryan was the daughter of a wealthy local farmer who fell in love with a man named Scott Jackson. Jackson was a dental student who was alleged to be a member of the Satanic cult that resided in the closed down slaughterhouse. After Pearl became pregnant, Jackson and his friend, fellow dental student Alonzo Walling, decided to perform their own abortion. Pearl was heavily sedated on cocaine, and the procedure went on for hours before the two students realized that they had completely messed up the job. Upon realizing their mistake, they murdered Pearl and chopped off her head so that police could not recognize her. Her body was dumped in a field on the property, and her head was supposedly used in a Satanic ritual. Now visitors to the premises can sometimes spot the headless figure of Pearl roaming about.
Eventually the building was restored in the 1920s and became a popular speakeasy for mobsters. In the 1950’s the building became another popular nightclub named the Latin Quarter. During this time there was a dancer known as Johanna. Johanna was one of the most popular dancers until she became pregnant with local singer, Robert Randall’s, child. When Johanna’s father found out about the baby, he had some of his shadier connections kill Randall. Johanna was distraught and hung herself in a dressing room. Johanna is now one of the most active ghosts on site. Visitors can spot her apparition hanging around her dressing room area. Others have felt her touching them or have heard a disembodied voice in the area.
Other incidents that happen on at the bar include furniture moving on its own, banging, screaming, and Jukeboxes turning on and off by itself.
(Sources: http://weekinweird.com/2016/01/25/investigating-bobby-mackeys-investigating-kentuckys-legendary-portal-to-hell/, https://roadtrippers.com/stories/bobby-mackeys?lng=-96.67528&lat=40.80972&z=4)