The following story is drawn from the front page of the Daily Telegraph, England.  I
don't know about you, but I think it has certain Kultish overtones...

	Floods in a city branch of NatWest bank have led to the discovery of the ancient body of
a pigmy in a safety deposit box, according to staff.  They say that the flood water has started to
reverse the mummifying process. They were alerted to the problem when an unpleasant smell
began wafting from the safety deposit box in the banks vault.  Investigations led to reports that
it contained a preserved ancient pygmy.

-snip-

	The mummified pygmy is said to have been stored in the vaults of the NatWest on
princes street, just opposite the bank of England.  A burst water main flooded its basement in
May and the branch is closed for the "foreseeable future"

-snip-

	A bank spokesman refused to confirm that a preserved pygmy had been found on

NatWest's premises. "We have been unable to contact the owner to open the box" he said
"nobody really knows what is in it.  This is all pure speculation" But he admitted that the box in
question was a "large wooden one"




(The Telegraph is as respectable a newspaper as you get, and this story has been repeated on
national news... do you ever get the feeling that the illusion is breaking down around you?)




	An Egyptian teenager who complained of stomach pains was found to have his
underdeveloped twin fetus lodged above his abdomen where it had been slowly feeding off him
for the past 16 years. Doctors found an 18-cm long fetus weighing two kg with a head, an arm, a
tongue and fully-formed teeth when they operated on Hisham Ragab, 16. An X-ray had shown a
swollen sac had been pressing against his kidneys. Medical examination of the teeth found in the
fetal mouth cavity revealed that they were those of a 16-year old, indicating that the fetus had
been feeding off Ragab's cells for 16 years.

	Sounds a lot like the X-Files where the agents were investigating the freak show.  Things
like that might explain where some of the extra human souls are going when they are reborn in
the illusion and there is no room for them.