a brain-dump of rumor ideas.

If you collect enough coins produced in the same year, by the same mint, to pay for an international phone call, and feed them into a payphone also produced that same year, your call will be connected to the number you dialed on the same month, day, and hour, but in the year you selected. Talk quick, the phone burns-out in less than a minute, and some explode.

Buy a blank hard-bound journal, in your own blood write the same question on each page. Take it to a library or used book store and leave it on a shelf in a subject area in which you might find the answer to the question. At some later time you will receive a call from the institution or store telling you the book you wanted has come in. In it you will find an answer to your question. It will not always be correct.

Find a young child playing with a stick and buy it from him or her using only copper coinage. Immerse the stick in rainwater then attach two wild bird feathers using a string or thread given to you by a stranger. The stick can then be used to dowse for anything of yours you’ve lost in the last week, but will only function once.

Trap someone’s breath between two mirrors, one backed with mercury, the other with silver. Until the mirrors are parted, or the mercury wears off, that person’s words can be dimly sensed by placing the silver-backed mirror to your forehead. If you speak while the mercury-backed side rests under your chin the person whose breath is contained will hear you faintly.

Spend an entire day and night walking barefoot in a grassy area. Until the next time your bare foot touches the ground/floor/carpet/etc it will feel as if you are walking barefoot in the grass. You will also have permanent grass stains on your toes.

Certain bodiless spirits can perceive the material world through only one segment of the visual spectrum. Different orders of these spirits see through different colors. Persons dressed in the color a spirit can see attract their special attention, while those dressed in black avoid their notice all-together. This explains much about religious garb, but what’s Johnny Cash trying to avoid?

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