Synopses & Reviews
Welcome to the five stages of reading
Alien Hand Syndrome:
Astonishment: This is amazing!
Insecurity: I'm a smart person-- how could I never have heard of this before?
Panic: Please, don't let it end.
Gratitude: Great!--and look, there are over 90 more essays where that one came from. And
Zeal: You won't believe what I just read.
Collected and curated by Alan Bellows and his team at DamnInteresting.com, with over 400,000 unique visitors a month, this is the stuff nightmares are made of, and no one will be able to stop reading: Giant Carnivorous Centipedes; Mike, the Headless Chicken; The Exploding Lakes of Cameroon; The Swirling Vortex of Doom; Secret Agent Cyborg Cats; Fiery Balls of Naga; The Deepest Hole; The Terrifying Toothpick Fish; and, of course, Alien Hand Syndrome--a disorder wherein a person's hand develops a "will of its own," unbuttoning shirts, grabbing at the steering wheel, tossing away cigarettes, and in some cases actually attacking its host.
Most entries are full-blown narratives, complete with illustrations--for example, pointing out step-by-step how "The Halifax Disaster" unfolded. Other entries examine short-take anomalies--such as unusual drug side effects, including the antidepressant Clomipramine (spontaneous orgasm upon yawning), the hormone Oxytocin (increases one's generosity), the medicine for Parkinson's disease, Ropinirole (compulsive gambling), and Viagra (priapus syndrome, with a remote chance of gangrene curable only through penectomy--say no more).
Synopsis
Welcome to the five stages of reading
Alien Hand Syndrome Astonishment This is amazing
Insecurity I m a smart person how could I never have heard of this before?
Panic Please, don't let it end.
Gratitude Great and look, there are over 90 more essays where that one came from. And
Zeal You won't believe what I just read.
Collected and curated by Alan Bellows and his team at DamnInteresting.com, with over 400,000 unique visitors a month, this is the stuff nightmares are made of, and no one will be able to stop reading: Giant Carnivorous Centipedes; Mike, the Headless Chicken; The Exploding Lakes of Cameroon; The Swirling Vortex of Doom; Secret Agent Cyborg Cats; Fiery Balls of Naga; The Deepest Hole; The Terrifying Toothpick Fish; and, of course, Alien Hand Syndrome a disorder wherein a person's hand develops a "will of its own," unbuttoning shirts, grabbing at the steering wheel, tossing away cigarettes, and in some cases actually attacking its host.
Most entries are full-blown narratives, complete with illustrations for example, pointing out step-by-step how "The Halifax Disaster" unfolded. Other entries examine short-take anomalies such as unusual drug side effects, including the antidepressant Clomipramine (spontaneous orgasm upon yawning), the hormone Oxytocin (increases one's generosity), the medicine for Parkinson's disease, Ropinirole (compulsive gambling), and Viagra (priapus syndrome, with a remote chance of gangrene curable only through penectomy say no more).
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Synopsis
This collection of too-weird-not-to-be-true stories gives the freakish details behind odd curiosities, from unusual drug side effects to the Alien Hand Syndrome--a disorder wherein a person's hand develops a will of its own.
Synopsis
A compulsively readable collection,
Alien Hand Syndrome brings together over 90 fantastic-but-true stories--absolutely mind-bending gems plucked from the annals of history. Selected and narrated by Alan Bellows--who can take the chaos of an event like the Lake Peigneur Disaster and retell it with harrowing step-by-step suspense--each entry opens a window onto a world where something's gone terribly, yet fascinatingly, wrong. You can't get enough.
About the Author
Alan Bellows, aka "The Professor," is the writer, designer, managing editor, and marketing mastermind behind DamnInteresting.com. A software designer, he developed his fascination for the odd and unexpected while doing programming for the library industry. He lives with his wife in Orem, Utah.