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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The "Chopper" case in Germany, 1981.

Someone/something talked with a ghost-like voice in the middle of a telephone call, or out of a sink or a toilet, and it said very detailed and creative insults, many of them, mostly against a dentist and his young female assistant, and of course all their patients heard it.

People felt terrorized.

It made the news headlines for about 2 years. Ghost experts got involved. It kept the police busy. TV shows etc.

In the end they found that the assistant was doing it. They never really found out the reason why she did it.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What about the Metzgermeister? The case about the cannibal who ate the victim's severed penis along with the victim, and then murdered and ate the guy's flesh. The guy did volunteer to be eaten, to be fair.

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He didn't actually eat the bepis iirc. He fried it and tried to, but found it to be too tough to chew. This saddened him. And, again, I could be misremembering, but I think the guy he ate sat in his tub, bleeding out for hours before he actually died. Willingly tbc and I vaguely remember something about him reading a Star Trek novel while he waited to tap out? We are some very strange animals, us humans.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Dude clearly needed to stew it.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

I didn't really believe half of it.

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Her motive seems pretty obvious to me; she was both bored and cool. That's all it takes