Okay So I'm not a paranormal investigator, but I often have that outlook when looking at newstories and such. I blame too many years of reading horror RPG books and HP Lovecraft novels. I bring this up now because, this story is obviously the end result of a dire plot that cries out to be investigated. I mean why the heck was the groundkeeper in his car!?!This story is a good example of how all cult busting activities end up. The cops arrest a lot of people who have an unhealthy interest in fresh body parts.
You laugh, but both of these stories were headlines when I came into work this morning and now they are buried. I had to search CNN to get the links.
It's like CNN caters to a different audience in the mornings. I read both of those this morning before leaving for work. Maybe they just post the weird shit at night, and try to have it gone before noon.
It's also strange how the article makes the Nigerian Police out to be really nonchalant about human sacrifce, like they see it all the the time.
YAY lets go to nigeria WOOT LOVECRAFT!!
I don't think it's so much that the Nigerian police don't care about the human sacrifice bit per se...it's that the populace in Nigeria generally places little value on the life of their fellow humans. [like 'oh look. another dead guy. what's for lunch?]
I got this second hand - but from more than one person in my line of work who'd worked in Nigeria. Both parties' [neither of whom knew the other, nor had they been in Nigeria at the same time] stories about the place supported the others' claims.
For example, it's [or 'it was at one time'] pretty common for folks driving cars in Nigeria to actually attempt to run down pedestrians in the street.
I'm not clear on whether this practice is a half-assed attempt to eliminate competition for food, work, women, etc, or more of an inter-tribal, cross-cultural, or religious conflict / vendetta thing.
Whatever the root cause, it IS clear to me that I don't want to work in Nigeria. And the standing invite I received from a Zimbabwian tobacco broker [whom I met in China] to join him and his family for barbecue in Zimbabwe is for sale fairly cheaply as well. Tom and his family are probably dead, or disenfranchised by now.
And I'm not so sure I agree with you about the elaborate plot thing in the first story, or that it has any paranormal hooks to it at all. Maybe the guy's wife and the groundskeeper were doing the nasty BEFORE she was buried. erm...make that DEAD and buried.
-knats
Yoruba.