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> The apartment was fully settled in 1980. A year later, an 18-year-old woman who lived there suddenly died. In 1982, her 16-year-old brother followed, and then
by lqet 4y ago
> The apartment was fully settled in 1980. A year later, an 18-year-old woman who lived there suddenly died. In 1982, her 16-year-old brother followed, and then their mother. [All from leukemia]. [...] A new family moved into the apartment, and their son died from leukemia as well.
> A child's bed was located directly next to the wall containing the capsule.
- I-M-S 4y agoNaturally occurring radiation might play a part in human tendency to regard certain places as haunted.
- BaculumMeumEst 4y agoi'm pretty sure superstition about haunted locations doesn't come from people repeatedly getting leukemia
- heywhatupboys 4y agolmao, this is the most HN comment
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoActually "haunted" locations are often linked to carbon monoxide and infrasound, IIRC. We generally don't blame ghosts for mysterious burns or other signs of radiation sickness.
- undersuit 4y agoWe don't, but a society that doesn't know about radiation or even elementary particles may. The village doctor in the 1500s diagnosing radiation sickness would be even more of a quack than the one that doesn't apply enough leeches.
- sh4rks 4y agoI wonder what happened to that child
- Arch-TK 4y agoIt's possible that the apartment came furnished and that the bed being referred to was not a specific child's but rather a bed made for a child in which supposedly multiple children slept in before dying.