Have you ever tried to go to sleep, look at the clock reading 2 a.m., and then just took out your laptop and started reading stuff? Of course you have, but sometimes you reach a click spiral that leads you to reading about mysterious true stories that seem like they’re pulled right from an episode of The X-Files. Hell, some episodes were influenced directly from the following stories. The problem with reading a lot of these stories is that you usually tend to read them in the middle of the night.
The Insatiable Tarrare
Have you ever been so hungry that you could eat and entire large pizza by yourself? What happens when you actually eat all of that food? Yeah, you don’t want to see pizza again for a long time. One person couldn’t quite stop those cravings. Tarrere (c. 1772 – 1798), a French man was a person who couldn’t seem to stop eating. If you want it to be weirder, picture a man with a huge mouth, stained teeth, and had vapor rising off of his body like a person walking out into the cold covered in hot water. His cravings got so bad that even his parents had to kick him out of the house because they simply couldn’t afford to keep feeding him.
His talents were used by the military to smuggle intelligence within his body because he could eat so much that he would appear to have nothing on him. He would eat an entire box full of intelligence, smuggled it, and then crap it out with the documents still legible. Sure, that sounds pretty amazing, but knowing that he could willingly eat a box no problem, what else could he eat?
Live animals
Stones
Silverware
Possibly a child and tried to eat dead bodies in morgues
I know that sounds like pretty much the worst, but before it got noticeably insane, he was actually tested to see just how insatiable his appetite was. Dr. Courville and Dr.Percy had been prepared for 15 laborers near the hospital gates. Usually, Tarrare was restricted when he was around food since he would probably go nuts, but this time he was allowed to go at it and ate the entire meal of two large meat pies, plates of grease and salt and four gallons of milk, and then immediately fell asleep. Four gallons of milk would make a competitive eater walk away without even making a dent into half of that, and that’s not including the food he ate.
To make things weirder, Tarrare was presented with a live cat. He tore the cat’s abdomen open with his teeth and drank its blood, and proceeded to eat the entire cat aside from its bones, before vomiting up its fur and skin. Following this, hospital staff offered Tarrare a variety of other animals, including snakes, lizards and puppies, all of which were eaten. He also swallowed an entire eel without chewing, having first crushed its head with his teeth.
The Death of Gloria Ramirez
Dead bodies are pretty gross. The fact that we all have a depressing party around a person in a fancy box is really creepy when you start to think about it at a funeral. The death of Gloria Ramirez takes it to another level. Before Ramirez died, she was rushed to a hospital on the evening of February 19, 1994. She was already suffering from advanced cervical cancer, but what else was happening to her baffled the staff at the Riverside General Hospital.
First, the staff tried sedating her with diazepam, midazolam, and lorazepam. It wasn’t really working. It was at that moment that they noticed that her skin was covered in an oily sheen, her breath smelled like a fruity garlic, and her blood samples smelled like ammonia and had little particles in it.
One medical resident fainted when they looked and smelled the blood. The nurse who took the sample soon felt sick after as well. After those two fell ill and fainted, a respiratory therapist helping out in the trauma room also passed out. At this point, the ER was evacuated into the parking lot with the other patients. When it was all over, 23 people became ill and 5 were hospitalized. She died soon after from kidney failure related to her cancer, but the reasons for why her body was like that and what they hospital staff got sick is still unexplained.
The Disappearance of David Miscavige’s wife
If you don’t know how that guy is, he’s the leader of the cult or religion or hell corporation of Scientology. Not only is he basically the bad guy in every thriller in which an evil cult wants to set someone on fire or poison the water supply, he is also married to Michele Miscavige. The problem with that is she hasn’t been seen by the public since August 2007. That’s almost 9 years without anyone seeing her.
Not only was she assumed missing then, she also did not appear at the marriage of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes in November 2006. Considering how close Cruise and Miscavige were, the fact that the wife didn’t show up to the wedding is a red flag. Remember Leah Remini, the actress who left the church and starred in King of Queens? One big reason she left the church was because she had the gall to ask where his wife was. When she did that she came under “an unbelievable torrent of attack” because she was curious… and still showed that she wasn’t completely brainwashed by the cult.
At least 2 reports to the LAPD about her missing have been filed — one by Remini. How successful was that? She’s still missing. Detective Gus Villanueva, in response to the missing person report, said: “The LAPD has classified the report as unfounded, indicating that Shelly is not missing.” In August 2013, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that detectives met with her in person following a missing-persons report filed by actress Remini.
I expect that meeting with her was an instance of brain washing and police incompetency. Former members of the Sea Org (the weird boat they have for some reason), have said that they believe Miscavige is at the compound of the Church of Spiritual Technology – a Scientology corporation – at Running Springs in San Bernardino County, California. That compound has been reported as being a prison for Scientologist’s who are still loyal, but have done something wrong to where they get punished.
If you want to start off this weird episode of The X-Files right, we can go back to Michele Miscavige’s mother, Flo Barnett, a long-time Scientologist. On September 8, 1985, 52-year-old Flo Barnett was found dead from three “somewhat superficial” rifle shots to the chest and a fatal shot to the head. There was a previous suicide attempt, and there were slash marks on her wrist that were a few days old. She shot herself 3 times in the chest with a rifle. In the chest? After that, she managed to shoot herself in the head with the same rifle… with slashed wrists? I doubt that. Send in Mulder and Scully ASAP!
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