People Share Unexplained Things That Happened to Them, and We’re Freaked Out

Here’s a nice and creepy story that reminds us all that if we’re going to check ourselves into a nursing home, we should check that it wasn’t built on the site of, for instance, an old hospital where everyone perished in a terrible fire a hundred years ago. Just a friendly reminder.

It’s definitely not unusual for dementia patients to get confused about reality; I mean, that’s kind of what having dementia is all about. What’s a little more unusual is that they all seemed to be having a shared delusion, and they had all decided that the proper response was to steal spoons. As I said, do your research before you pick a nursing home.