Apparently interest has waned for this thread. Too bad, i found it interesting!
Anyway, here's the shakedown:
1. True. I did fall in a well next to our house. It was out in the country and we didn't even know it was there (the well, not the house
). Over the years, it had gained a "glaze" (more like a clod) of dirt over the top. For some reason (maybe there had been a lot of rain?), the clod fell in one day. The pine straw that was resting on it, however, didn't, and it made this really cool funnel shape of pine needles. Fascinated, i went over to investigate and,
very fortunately (i would say "providentially"), the clod of dirt that had been covering it was floating on the surface of this very full well. But as soon as my feet hit it, it started sinking. The lip of the well came up to about my nose, but i managed to climb out, and somehow the dirt clod didn't roll while i was standing on it.
2. True. It was supposed to be hush-hush, because it wasn't widely known at the time that he was an alcoholic. My grandfather was a very reliable man (an all-around awesome guy), and he was asked to drive Mr. Faulkner from Oxford to Byhalia (where my grandfather lived). I'm not sure if Faulkner was inebriated or wasn't actually willing to go. Either way, i thought it was a cool story.
3. True. It may not have been worded the best, but it was unintentional. Ahnahld's nanny that he employed for his kids, is actually who she was. She spoke very highly of him.
4. False, though this did happen to a friend of mine. In fact, his wife, who was almost completely blind, received an odd package one afternoon while he and i were at work. She called James (my friend) who promptly left to investigate. Ended up it was just something he ordered that he had forgotten about and it came in an odd container, but that's how i found out about the whole story. But his friend fit the psych profile perfectly. Kinda creepy.
