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FIRE!

▪ In 1922, Mrs Ona Smith, 23, an invalid who lay paralysed on a bed in a little cottage in Alva, Oklahoma, was plagued by fires. Bedside watchers kept a vigil day and night as the mysterious fires appeared at intervals. Atseveral witnesses, including a reporter. The fires seemed to start in the air, blue flames jumping and crackling.

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