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June 18, 2004

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q.  Where's the scariest place you might see a halo around someone's head?  How about your own head?

    A.  The story is told of an 18th-century climber scaling Mount Brocken, highest peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, when suddenly he glanced up and saw before him in the haze a human figure with a halo around its head, says Larry Gedney in the "Alaska Science Forum."  "Understandably startled by this apparition, he lost his hold and fell to his death."


     
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