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Italy's Satanic Amnesiac Mystery

Submitted by PointBlank

Edited by PointBlank

Tags: Bizzare, Mystery, Italy



I love a good mystery story. Even better when it's especially bizarre, or if it takes place in an exotic locale. When I first heard about the 22 year old British woman who was discovered dead and buried in a bathtub full of sand on a Tokyo balcony, I didn't think anything could top it.

I was wrong.

When a disheveled man showed up at police headquarters in Vercelli, Italy claiming that he had amnesia, police were baffled. One can only imagine that their bafflement turned to downright befuddlement at what they found later.

Three days earlier, on March 16, the owner of a bed-sit outside Bergamo, more than 70 miles away, had broken into the flat. The tenant had not paid his rent and she wanted to know if he was still there.

She found a scene of pure horror. The apartment was in chaos and there were signs everywhere that it had been used for a satanic rite.

There were upturned crosses, and the walls and floor were smothered with esoteric symbols written in blood. Police forensic experts estimated that as much as 3l had been splashed around.

Only later was it established that all of it belonged to the young man who had turned to the Carabinieri.



Several experts have said that the man does not appear to be faking the amnesia. He can't recognize his own family, and his body has several small puncture wounds on it. His parents say that he had always been into UFOs, and that he had quit his job six months earlier. What is unclear is how he managed to travel the 70 kilometers to the police station after losing 3 liters of blood, and who removed his computer's hard drive and his cell phone's SIM card.

I'm reminded of the Piano Man story. Of course, that guy turned out to be a hoax, and he was just a piano player, not a UFO-obsessed satanist.

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Valeyard

Valeyard

Shreveport, LA
January 2005

MAR 30, 2007 03:05 PM

I feel an new movie coming on...strains of The Ninth Gate biggrin

Margot_Dent

Margot_Dent

Los Angeles, CA
February 2004

MAR 30, 2007 03:07 PM

what, no hat tip? wink also, that bathtub thing is weird.

st_even

st_even

Milwaukee, WI
September 2006

MAR 30, 2007 03:24 PM

Wouldn't it be cool if this guy turned out to be like, Satan's ambassador to the world, or some guy who was possessed by aliens and scribbled their messages all over the wall, messages which had for a thousand years been wrongly associated with Satanism? Man, that would be fuckin' awesome.

Valeyard

Valeyard

Shreveport, LA
January 2005

MAR 30, 2007 03:30 PM

st_even said:
Wouldn't it be cool if this guy turned out to be like, Satan's ambassador to the world, or some guy who was possessed by aliens and scribbled their messages all over the wall, messages which had for a thousand years been wrongly associated with Satanism? Man, that would be fuckin' awesome.



I prefer the strictly Satanic explanation...lets not muddy the issue with his obsession with aliens surreal

RudieCantFail

RudieCantFail

I'm lost
January 2006

MAR 30, 2007 03:43 PM

Isn't amnesia sometimes the brains response to severe psychological trauma? It's entirely possible that this guy was witness to some extremely fucked up shit, and his mind has suppressed everything to avoid confronting it.

Valeyard

Valeyard

Shreveport, LA
January 2005

MAR 30, 2007 03:48 PM

RudieCantFail said:
Isn't amnesia sometimes the brains response to severe psychological trauma? It's entirely possible that this guy was witness to some extremely fucked up shit, and his mind has suppressed everything to avoid confronting it.



He could have caused the trama himself, that much blood-loss can cause some pretty severe shock. It would be cool if something supernatural happened, but right now I'm thinking the idiot caused the amnesia himself induced by the shock of severe blood loss....

Roethke

Roethke

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

MAR 30, 2007 04:12 PM

RudieCantFail said:
Isn't amnesia sometimes the brains response to severe psychological trauma? It's entirely possible that this guy was witness to some extremely fucked up shit, and his mind has suppressed everything to avoid confronting it.



He could have been in a fugue state, or dissociative amnesia. But for the most part, amnesia happens when there is physical harm to the brain. Losing that much blood could actually have caused brain damage. I'm not a doctor of anything besides being a sweet dude, so I'm clearly not an expert in the matter.

Roethke

Roethke

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

MAR 30, 2007 04:13 PM

VenimenB7 said:

RudieCantFail said:
Isn't amnesia sometimes the brains response to severe psychological trauma? It's entirely possible that this guy was witness to some extremely fucked up shit, and his mind has suppressed everything to avoid confronting it.



He could have caused the trama himself, that much blood-loss can cause some pretty severe shock. It would be cool if something supernatural happened, but right now I'm thinking the idiot caused the amnesia himself induced by the shock of severe blood loss....



beat me to it

Trahern

Trahern

United Kingdom
March 2003

MAR 30, 2007 06:44 PM

I feel so much safer not knowing what happened.

Palcode

Palcode

Italy
November 2005

MAR 30, 2007 07:27 PM

that guy is a friend of a friend of mine!! i'm italian.....and i can tell you for sure that this story is a true mistery!!
sincerly, i don't know what to think about it...but i remember the face of my friend when she told me about the fact!!!

Shal

Shal

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

MAR 30, 2007 09:59 PM

Wow. surreal

Rin

Rin

SUICIDEGIRL

British Columbia, Canada

MAR 30, 2007 11:24 PM

Roethke said:
He could have been in a fugue state, or dissociative amnesia. But for the most part, amnesia happens when there is physical harm to the brain. Losing that much blood could actually have caused brain damage. I'm not a doctor of anything besides being a sweet dude, so I'm clearly not an expert in the matter.



but you are ACE at being a dr. of sweet dudeism so i will take your version as a-ok.

BatAttaK

BatAttaK

Reston, VA
OLD SKOOL

MAR 31, 2007 10:54 AM

SMS card? I think you mean Sim card.

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