Didn’t take this long to morph into a conspiracy theory, did it?
This is really weird. Coos Bay, Oregon–Five people are suffering from hallucinations and nobody knows why: but doctors suspect they might be having them because maybe, maybe… they touched something. ( http://www.aol.com/article/2016/10/17/mysterious-hallucination-causing-illness-seemingly-spread-by-tou/21584672/ ).
But the bottom line, so far, is, they just don’t know.
First a 54-year-old caregiver called the sheriff to say a gang of ruffians was trying to tear the roof off her car. When this turned out to be like, totally not true, deputies took her to the hospital.
But then the two deputies started having hallucinations. Then a hospital worker. And then the caregiver’s patient. Five people seeing and hearing things that aren’t there, and no one has been able to find out why.
The only thing that would make this story even weirder is if they all had the same hallucination. But that would take us out of our own world and into M.R. James country. As is, it does sound a bit like his classic horror story, Casting the Runes.
Who ever heard of any kind of disease, transmitted by touch, that causes you to have hallucinations? Well, nobody–otherwise they’d have diagnosed the thing by now. To me it sounds like some funky kind of secret weapon that somehow got out of the lab; but maybe I’ve read too many thrillers.
I hope this is not one of those stories–in a fallen world that falls a little farther every day–that just dries up and blows away without any explanation of the mystery. Let’s keep an eye out for further developments.