The girls at the center of the Salem Witch Trials had mysterious screaming fits, and modern researchers have finally come up with a disturbing explanation why.
A few nights before he died, Edgar Allan Poe was found wandering the streets in a fugue state. Disturbingly, he was wearing someone else’s clothes—and as he was dying, he kept shouting one word.
One day my seemingly normal friend started whispering all the time and muttering to herself. It seriously freaked me out, so I asked why she did it—but nothing could have prepared me for her answer.