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Mad Gasser of Mattoon

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The Mad Gasser of Mattoon (also known as the "Anesthetic Prowler," the "Phantom Anesthetist," or simply the "Mad Gasser") was the name given to the person or people believed to be responsible for a series of apparent gas attacks that occurred in Mattoon, Illinois, during the mid-1940s. [1]

29 relations: Assault, Atlas-Imperial, Carbon tetrachloride, Chemical warfare, Chloroform, Extraterrestrial life, Flit gun, Futility Closet, Heavy industry, Hysteria, James Thurber, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, London Monster, Loren Coleman, Mass hysteria, Mattoon, Illinois, My Life and Hard Times, Nocebo, Paranormal, Pérák, the Spring Man of Prague, Placebo, Pollutant, Pollution, Shin Megami Tensei IV, Skeptical Inquirer, Spring-heeled Jack, The Memory Palace, Toxic waste, Trichloroethylene.

Assault

An assault is the act of inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person or, in some specific legal definitions, a threat or attempt to commit such an action.

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Atlas-Imperial

Atlas-Imperial Diesel Engine Company was an American manufacturer of diesel engines based in Oakland, California.

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Carbon tetrachloride

Carbon tetrachloride, also known by many other names (the most notable being tetrachloromethane, also recognized by the IUPAC, carbon tet in the cleaning industry, Halon-104 in firefighting, and Refrigerant-10 in HVACR) is an organic compound with the chemical formula CCl4.

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Chemical warfare

Chemical warfare (CW) involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons.

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Chloroform

Chloroform, or trichloromethane, is an organic compound with formula CHCl3.

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Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").

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Flit gun

A Flit gun is a hand-pumped insecticide sprayer used to dispense FLIT, a brand-name insecticide widely used against flies and mosquitoes between 1928 and the mid-1950s.

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Futility Closet

Futility Closet is a blog, podcast, and database started in 2005 by editorial manager and publishing journalist Greg Ross.

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Heavy industry

Heavy industry is industry that involves one or more characteristics such as large and heavy products; large and heavy equipment and facilities (such as heavy equipment, large machine tools, and huge buildings); or complex or numerous processes.

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Hysteria

Hysteria, in the colloquial use of the term, means ungovernable emotional excess.

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James Thurber

James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit.

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Journal of Abnormal Psychology

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association (APA).

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London Monster

The London Monster was the name given to an alleged attacker of women in London between 1788 and 1790.

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Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman (born July 12, 1947) is an American cryptozoologist who has written over 40 books on a number of topics, including cryptozoology.

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Mass hysteria

In sociology and psychology, mass hysteria (also known as collective hysteria, group hysteria, or collective obsessional behavior) is a phenomenon that transmits collective illusions of threats, whether real or imaginary, through a population in society as a result of rumors and fear (memory acknowledgement).

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Mattoon, Illinois

Mattoon is a city in Coles County, Illinois, United States.

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My Life and Hard Times

My Life and Hard Times is the 1933 autobiography of James Thurber.

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Nocebo

A nocebo effect is said to occur when negative expectations of the patient regarding a treatment cause the treatment to have a more negative effect than it otherwise would have.

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Paranormal

Paranormal events are phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described to lie beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.

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Pérák, the Spring Man of Prague

Pérák, the Spring Man was an urban legend originating from the Czechoslovakian city of Prague during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in the midst of World War II.

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Placebo

A placebo is a substance or treatment of no intended therapeutic value.

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Pollutant

A pollutant is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource.

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Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

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Shin Megami Tensei IV

Shin Megami Tensei IV is a Japanese post-apocalyptic role-playing video game developed by Atlus for the Nintendo 3DS.

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Skeptical Inquirer

Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason.

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Spring-heeled Jack

Spring-heeled Jack is an entity in English folklore of the Victorian era.

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The Memory Palace

The Memory Palace is a monthly historical podcast hosted by Nate DiMeo.

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Toxic waste

Toxic waste is any unwanted material in all forms that can cause harm (e.g. by being inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin).

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Trichloroethylene

The chemical compound trichloroethylene is a halocarbon commonly used as an industrial solvent.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Gasser_of_Mattoon

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