'82 Mystery: Nothing is More Dangerous Than the Human Mind

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by: Suzanne J. Best
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 Time: 1:34 AM
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The human mind can do mysterious things. It can make you believe things that are just not true, it can make you see things that are not there, it can make you think that you have done something that may not have ever happened.

R.M. Wood understands the power of the mind. In his novel '82 Mystery, from 82Mystery.com (www.82Mystery.com), he demonstrated that the mind can play many tricks on the unsuspecting victim. Based on a true story, this suspenseful mystery took the reader from one twist and turn to another, finally tying up loose ends with an unexpected result.

The apartment complex had an air of sinister mystery about it. They said that in 1982 a teenage girl fell from the 4th floor. No one knew how she fell; if it was an accident or if it was a suicide. There was one person who thought she knew, but she would never tell.

"Though he barely noticed the building before, looking at it then scared the hell out of him," wrote Wood. "A sense of foreboding, like something evil was hiding in the building that he couldn't see."

Michelle was a teacher before she started her own ice cream business, riding her bicycle around town selling her frozen treats. It was said that she was a good teacher; no one knew why she left. Some said she just wasn't in her right mind anymore, some said there was a tragic event, some said she stopped teaching to sell drugs from her ice cream cart. Michelle knew why she stopped teaching, but she would never tell.

"As Michelle waited on the girls, there was certain uneasiness in the air," wrote Wood. "Would the girls ever forgive her for what happened?"

Megan had just been promoted to detective. She stopped to buy ice cream and tell Michelle about her good fortune, and then she went home to her teddy bear collection and her cat. She hoped that her past would never come back to haunt her; the file had been closed, there was no proof of wrong-doing. No one really knew how Billy fell, some said he was running from something and just fell off the cliff, some said he got lost and walked right off, some said he was pushed. There was one person who thought she knew, but she would never tell.

"The last thing Megan remembered was some sort of commotion in the distance, the rustling of bushes and some yelling," wrote Wood. "She couldn't make out who was yelling. Then she heard a cry; a primal scream in the night. Then a loud thud. That was it."

Megan and Michelle didn't know how their pasts intertwined, it took a tragic turn of events to bring them together and unravel the past. When Michelle started remembering her friendship with Holly, she realized what had happened that day, so long ago…or did she? She turned to Megan for help and Megan brought in Dunn, a hypnotist, to find the truth.

"Michelle's experience was all too familiar to Megan," wrote Wood. "The more she thought about it, the more she realized that. A mysterious fall. Doing drugs or drinking before hand. Not knowing what really happened."

Dunn brought Michelle back to the apartment complex where it all began and ended. He helped Michelle put the pieces together and make sense of the events that were fragmented in her mind. Finally, everyone knew what happened, and one of them told.

Wood recounted this story because of a similar event that he recalled from his youth, where a young girl died, and it seemed that the event and its details were covered up. As in the story, there was an undercurrent of mystery and a hint of underworld ties. Wood himself was threatened when he started researching the story as was Michelle's husband in the fictionalized version.

About the Author

Suzanne J. Best is a staff writer at News & Experts.