Atlast! The Book Returned After 31 Years...

On March 16, 1978, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, Dick Cavett on late night TV and hi-fis on sale at Hecht's, Sarah McKee walked into the Arlington Central Library and borrowed a book.
She was 39, a single mother of three and had just become a lawyer. She lived in a three-bedroom apartment in Fairlington that already was filled with books. But she was a literary "omnivore," and on this day her eye fell on Alvin M. Josephy's "The Patriot Chiefs," about great Indian leaders.

It was due back April 5. This month -- three decades, one career, five presidents, three relocations, seven grandchildren and thousands of books later -- McKee happened to open "The Patriot Chiefs," spotted the library card in the pocket and thought: "Drat." And so May 5 -- 31 years and one month overdue -- it arrived back at Arlington Library with a note of apology and a check for $25. "To my great embarrassment," the note said, "I recently opened this book and discovered it is yours -- not mine. My apologies for my tardiness."

A library spokesman, Peter Golkin, said it might be the longest overdue return in library memory.
As for a fine, he said, "It's always great to get the books back, as opposed to any kind of income from fines or replacement fees."

McKee, now 70 and retired in Amherst, Mass., said the problem was that after the passage of so much time, she thought the book was hers.

She said that last year she moved many of her books to her basement to have her floors worked on and was in the process of bringing the books up from the basement, dusting and reshelving them, when she made the discovery.

In the process, she opened the Josephy book, looked in the back, "and oh, my Lord, it wasn't mine," she recalled. "Drat," she thought. "I have to send it back."

She did so, mailing it first class. Asked about the book, she said she could not recall whether she read it, adding with a laugh: "You know where you can borrow it."

McKee, a lifelong bibliophile and once the owner of about 4,000 books also she is a trustworthy, honest book borrower.

Reference:
http://www.washingtonpost.com

Unsolved Case..

Arthur Leigh Allen (December 18, 1933 – August 26, 1992) was a prime suspect in the "Zodiac Murders", although he was never charged in the case. While being investigated Allen passed a polygraph test, had his fingerprints compared to those at the murder scene of known Zodiac victim Paul Stine and had his handwriting tested.

The Zodiac killer was active in Northern California for ten months in the late 1960s. He killed at least five people, and injured two. He comitted the first two murders with a pistol, just inside the Benecia border. In his second shooting in Vallejo, he attempted to kill two people, but one survived despite gunshots to the head and neck. 40 minutes later the police recieved an anonymous phone call from a man claiming to be their killer and admitting to the murders of the previous two victims. One month three letters were sent to Newspapers in California containing a cypher that the killer claimed would give them his name.

They cypher was decrypted to read:

“I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH FUN IT IS MORE FUN THAN KILLING WILD GAME IN THE FORREST BECAUSE MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUE ANAMAL OF ALL TO KILL SOMETHING GIVES ME THE MOST THRILLING EXPERENCE IT IS EVEN BETTER THAN GETTING YOUR ROCKS OFF WITH A GIRL THE BEST PART OF IT IS THAE WHEN I DIE I WILL BE REBORN IN PARADICE AND THEI HAVE KILLED WILL BECOME MY SLAVES I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MY NAME BECAUSE YOU WILL TRY TO SLOI DOWN OR ATOP MY COLLECTIOG OF SLAVES FOR MY AFTERLIFE EBEORIETEMETHHPITI”

The last eighteen letters have not been decrypted. And in 2002, the Zodiac letter did not match the sample Allen's DNA. But until now the case is still unsolved.

References:
http://listverse.com/bizarre/top-10-unsolved-mysteries/

Rare Gift...being a WEREWOLF

Werewolves, also known as lycanthropes from the Greek (wolf) and (human, man), are mythological or folkoric humans with the ability to shape shift into wolves or anthropomorhic wolf-like creatures, either purposely, by being bitten or scratched by another werewolf, or after being placed under a curse. This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon.

Werewolves were said to bear tell-tale traits in European folklore. These included the meeting of both eyebrows at the bridge of the nose, curved fingernails, low set ears and a swinging stride. One method of identifying a werewolf in its human form was to cut the flesh of the accused, under the pretense that fur would be seen within the wound. A Russian superstition recalls a werewolf can be recognised by bristles under the tongue. The appearance of a werewolf in its animal form varies from culture to culture, though they are most commonly portrayed as being indistinguishable from ordinary wolves save for the fact that they have no tail (a trait thought characteristic of witches in animal form), and that they retain human eyes and voice

Like a little boy named Pruthviraj Patil also known as the ‘Werewolf Boy’ for hair all over his face and body suffers from a rare genetic condition called hypertrichosis (Werewolf Syndrome) since birth. He is one of only 50 people in the world with this condition. After Pruthviraj’s family tried all sorts of treatment but to no avail, they appeal to doctors for a permanent cure. The hair grows back even after laser treatment and this baffles doctors for a solution. Pruthviraj lives in his normal life even if he has unique and special physicality stilll he has a guts to face the tricky world.

References:

www.odude.com

www.wikipedia.com