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@@@@@ There was a guy in Nebraska who could predict tornadoes by the corns on his missing footA legless sailor in England who was used by his mates as a kind of human fish-finderA Japanese double amputee who became a respected poet - not a bad trick for a fellow who'd been illiterate at the time of the train accident in which he lost his arms Of all the stories, maybe the strangest was that of Kearney Jaffords of New Jersey, a child born 189 without armsShortly after his thirteenth birthday, this formerly well-adjusted handicapped child became hysterical, insisting to his parents that his arms were "hurting and buried on a farm He said he could show them whereThey drove two days, finishing up on a dirt road in Iowa, somewhere between Nowhere and Nowhere in ParticularThe kid led them into a cornfield, took a sighting on a nearby barn with a MAIL POUCH advertisement on the roof, and insisted that they digThe parents did, not because they expected to find anything but because they hoped to set the child's mind and body at rest againThree feet down they found two skeletonsOne was a female child between twelve and fifteenThe other was a man, age undeterminedThe Adair County Coroner estimated these bodies had been in the ground approximately twelve yearsbut of course it could have been thirteen, which was the span of Kearney Jaffords's lifeNeither body was ever identifiedThe arms of the female child's skeleton had been removedThose bones were mixed with the bones of the unidentified man 190 Fascinating as this story was, there were two others that interested me even more, especially when I thought of how I'd gone rooting through my daughter's purse I found them in an article called "They See with What's Missing," from The North American Journal of ParapsychologyIt chronicled the histories of two psychics, one a woman from Phoenix, the other a man from R?o Gallegos, ArgentinaThe woman was missing her right hand; the man was missing his entire right armBoth had had several successes in helping the police find missing persons (perhaps failures as well, but these were not set out in the piece) According to the article, both amputee psychics used the same techniqueThey would be provided with a piece of the missing person's clothes, or a sample of his handwritingThey would shut their eyes and visualize touching the item with the missing hand (there was a huggermugger footnote here about something called the Hand of Glory, aka the Mojo H