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Saturday 23 November 2013

Japanese Schoolgirl Sends 18 Classmates to Hospital After “Psychic Attack”?


Japanese Schoolgirl Sends 18 Classmates to Hospital After “Psychic Attack”?


You probably think I’m gonna make a Carrie reference, don’t you? Well I’m not, that’s be too easy and it’s definitely not because I’ve never actually seen the whole movie (I should probably fix that, shouldn’t I?). But before we end up talking about movies the entire time, let’s get the post started! So on June 19th, 2013 emergency services were dispatched to a well-known prep school, Kamigōri High, in Hyogo, Japan. 18 students at the all-girls school reportedly experienced a bizarre “state of panic” for an hour. It all started when a freshman student said she was feeling sick and started to hyperventilate. It was popularly believed that this girl actually possessed psychic abilities and thought that this was related to her powers. This caused many girls, 18 in total, to start freaking out and hyperventilating themselves, in fear that this was some kind of psychic attack (what is she, a Pokemon?). The 18 students were taken to two different municipal hospitals and were later released after showing no signs of of long term after effects. Some of the students at the prep school went to Twitter and Facebook to talk about the incident. Comments ranged from “There are a lot of suspicious rumors spreading around the internet. Wonder if they’re better off calling in an exorcist?”, to “This kind of thing happens from time to time.” (psychic attacks happen from time to time? Never a dull moment at that school!) and even to “Definitely gotta be filed under puberty.” (How come puberty never gave me psychic powers?! I got gypped!). The girl with the supposed psychic powers has not responded to any of the rumors as of yet.

I have no idea why the students would assume this girl has psychic powers, but I highly doubt that’s why she was feeling sick. Maybe she was really sick. Or maybe she faked the whole thing for whatever reason, though i kind of doubt that. I do however, believe that the other girls were simply overreacting just for the sake of it. 18 of you start to hyperventilate along with the “psychic” girl because you’re afraid she’s going to attack you with her powers? I call bullshit on that. They probably just wanted to make a scene so they could probably make fun of her and her “abilities” some more. Really what I’m more interested in is why they think she has powers. Did they witness her doing something strange with these powers, or is it something they thought up of for no reason? Whatever the case may be, I think the entire thing was blown out of proportion all because “the weird girl” was feeling sick. But what do you think? Did this girl really have some sort of psychic episode/attack or was she simply feeling sick?

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