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Well, maybe not completely made up? The post from the Park points you to this article from The Naked Scientists, describing the phenomenon occurring during Wor

• aaron695 8y ago
  I can't find "Angel's Glow" in any post/pre war newspapers / academia. I'm guessing it's a mutation of the original 2000 legend spreading. It's hard to search on, but glowing wounds comes up blank pre-2000 AFAICS. It'd be interesting to interview the original kids, pretty sure it's a clever hack. It's possible having mum in glowing bacteria means they might hear things differently and accidently caused the legend, but still, I'd like to think they were crafty. It's also a great example how people just don't fact check stuff no matter how out there it is. Science has a long way to go.
  • acqq 8y ago
    I’ve found only this paper from 2000 mentioning the “glowing wounds”, and the next year the boys write about that phenomenon: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-4269-4_19 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-4269-4_... But when I search for the “phosphorescence of wounds” I get one text from 1821(!) https://books.google.at/books?id=ryxGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA180&dq=“Phosphorescence+of+wounds” https://books.google.at/books?id=ryxGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA180&dq=“P...
  • ggg9990 8y ago
    There’s a lot about the Civil War that can only be found in books or newspapers that aren’t searchable online. Many of the newspapers of the time are long gone with no searachle archive.