The headline says it all: “Underwear-stealing ghosts made my life hell.” The best line of the story, though? “I thought I was going crazy.”
Though the possibility of a paper clip making software that turns Americans into even more paper clips is “not technologically possible in the next 20 years” (estimates range from 20 years to, well…never), “the potential negative consequences are too severe not to study the possibility.” Welcome to the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
Apparently, it needed to be said: “applying electrodes to the brain…could have some unintended results.”
Finally, if your child “screams at night, cries, is always feverish, suddenly deteriorates in health, puts up an attitude of fear, and may not feed very well,” it may very well be possessed by vampire witchcraft spirits.
