{"id":5890,"date":"2015-06-20T18:20:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T23:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5890"},"modified":"2023-12-14T19:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T01:47:38","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-june-20-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5890","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for June 20, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Foreshadowing Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n

On February 24,1989, a forward cargo door on a Boeing 747 on United Airlines flight 811 from Hawaii to Auckland blew out over the Pacific at 23,000 feet. The resulting decompression smashed a hole in the front of the aircraft, and nine passengers were sucked to their deaths. One was 24-year-old New Zealander Lee Campbell. His grieving mother later told The Wall Street Journal<\/em> how a strange and very clear vision of her son had appeared to her as she lay in bed in Wellington in the early hours of the fatal day, at around the time of the incident. Later, she found a poem he had written, called Was That Me?<\/em>, which also seemed to foreshadow his death. It read:<\/p>\n

Waves hypnotizing me with green, beckoning fingers
\nA dream of space flight weightlessness
\nAir rushes past to fill a vacuum
\nProgressive holes which must be filled.<\/p>\n

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Culled from:\u00a0Black Box: Inside the World\u2019s Worst Air Crashes<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

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Brain Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

Here’s another excerpt from\u00a0Malformed: Forgotten Brains of the Texas State Mental Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From Medline<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Subarachnoid hemorrhage is bleeding in the area between the brain and the thin tissues that cover the brain. This area is called the subarachnoid space.
\nSubarachnoid hemorrhage can be caused by:<\/p>\n