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OTD in 1944 the police chief of Matton Illinois pronounced "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon", a supposed nocturnal prowler spraying paralytic gas, to be the result of mass hysteria https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

OTD in 1944 the police chief of Matton Illinois pronounced "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon", a supposed nocturnal prowler spraying paralytic gas, to be the result of mass hysteria https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

The panic over "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

The panic over "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

The Commissioner of Public Health, addressing the panic over "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" announced that "The whole town is sick with hysteria" https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

The Commissioner of Public Health, addressing the panic over "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" announced that "The whole town is sick with hysteria" https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944, with at least 4 people in 3 separate locations reporting being sprayed by paralytic gas https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944, with at least 4 people in 3 separate locations reporting being sprayed by paralytic gas https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944, with at least 5 people in separate locations reporting being sprayed by paralytic gas https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944, with at least 5 people in separate locations reporting being sprayed by paralytic gas https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944, with the new attacks featuring a blue vapor and a buzzing sound from "the motorized gassing machinery" https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944, with the new attacks featuring a blue vapor and a buzzing sound from "the motorized gassing machinery" https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944, with at least 8 people reporting paralytic gas attacks https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944, with at least 8 people reporting paralytic gas attacks https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Beulah and Carl Cordes report an attack by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" OTD in 1944 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Beulah and Carl Cordes report an attack by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" OTD in 1944 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Emily Dickinson wrote: "Forever is composed of nows."

What 'nows' are lurking in your story's 'forever'? Ponder questions of time and space with us THIS SATURDAY at the next edition of Writing the Occult - an event for writers, creators, readers, and the simply curious.

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Attacks by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" continued OTD in 1944 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Police received the first report of an attack by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" OTD in 1944 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Police received the first report of an attack by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" OTD in 1944 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

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Urban Raef and his wife told police that they had been victims of an early attack by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" OTD in 1944 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

Urban Raef and his wife told police that they had been victims of an early attack by "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" OTD in 1944 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/mattoon/?s=mb #history #travel #gas #Fortean

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THE MAGIC BEHIND HOOKLAND, the ongoing open-source (re?)creation of a lost English county that has delighted social media for more than a decade, explored in ways that diminish none of the enchantment. A lovely guidebook. A MINUS

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