Look to the news, folks. The scary and strange happens around us all the time. This week, it’s the story of Rom Houben, who, after a car crash, was thought to be in a coma that lasted for 23 years.
However, after a recent brain scan, it was revealed that Rom was actually conscious and fully aware of his surroundings for almost two-and-a-half decades–just too paralyzed to communicate with anyone. Now he has a keyboard that responds to tiny vibrations in his hand to let him type.
This recalls to mind a tale from Stephen King’s short story collection, Everything’s Eventual. In Autopsy Room Four, a paralyzed, but fully aware man is wheeled in to an autopsy room after being pronounced dead, and can only watch and feel as the doctors prep him to be carved open.
Brrr. Not sure how someone could stay sane during the kind of ordeal Rom has gone through. What other strange stories have you come across lately?