Well. Remember how they re-opened the investigation into Natalie Wood's death based the boat captain's recovered memories? The investigation failed to come up with anything new, the cops have announced.
The captain's memories were "recovered" under hypnosis.
The Amazing Kreskin doesn't think there is such a thing as hypnosis. He offered money to anyone who could prove the existence of a hypnotic trance, but how do you prove the existence of any mental state? Courts don't allow memories recovered through hypnosis because they tend to be less accurate and the person believes them more firmly. So hypnosis has some effect.
By the way, I mentioned how quickly tasteless Natalie Wood death jokes reached us in junior high school. How did they spread back then without the internet, and they didn't tell jokes like that on the radio or TV in those days. I also remember a kid in junior high doing a joke thing. He falls asleep, his hand dangling loosely in front of his face. Then he opens his eyes, sees a hand in front of him and starts screaming.
That was the only time I saw that gag until I saw the same thing in a Soviet comedy from around 1970, which would have been five years before I saw it at school.
Was it a coincidence, or did the joke somehow work its way here from the USSR?
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