I will have a normal-length post on this site tomorrow. For anyone checking in today, I merely have two old news stories that are so gigantically strange-sounding they may be worth your visit at this site today. The first is a very interesting story that appeared in a newspaper in 1913 (click on the image if you have trouble reading it):
The very serious researcher Ian Stevenson MD actually spent years trying to accumulate birthmark evidence for reincarnation, and you can study some of his results here. He claimed weighty evidence about this.
Then there is the "she married a ghost" story reported below (click on the image to more easily read it):
The newspaper page below gives more details about this case of Margaret Simmonds, telling us the source of the account is the very serious philosophy professor C. E. M Joad, a person who was the author of quite a few long and very serious volumes (as you can see here). But alas the story on the page kind of fades away like a vanishing apparition. Only those willing to squint will be able to extract some more details. Apparently the bride's husband soon vanished, never to be seen again; and there were reasons she suspected he was a ghost (such as that she met him at a house reputed to be haunted, and he was none of the invited guests).
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88063294/1943-05-16/ed-1/seq-104/
Although the story above claims that Professor Joad asserted the story of Margaret Simmonds was "entirely authenticated," I don't know whether the story above is true. But I do know the story line could probably be expanded into a successful romantic comedy movie, perhaps with a title such as "Ghosted." I can also imagine someone turning the story into a courtroom drama. A spouse might be arrested for the murder of a vanished husband, with a defense of "he was only a ghost, so he disappeared." There might be spooky events in the court room (such as a jumping gavel) which might cause the jury to wonder whether the wild story was true.
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