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“We all have a sixth sense,” he says. “We just file it under ‘nothing.’ I decided to file it under ‘something.’”

“June 14, 1992. Des Moines. Mrs. Gable bought two gallons of milk. Her husband left her the next day. She never drank milk.”

But one drawer is locked. Behind it: the “Red File.” Pondo will not show a reporter its contents. He will only read one entry aloud, his voice dry as dust:

He closes the drawer. “That’s the sinister part,” he says. “Not the death. The return .”

Of course, skeptics call Pondo a hoarder of coincidence. “Apophenia with a filing system,” says Dr. Mira Laskey, a cognitive psychologist at Johns Hopkins. “The human brain is wired to see patterns. A red shoelace doesn’t cause a raid any more than a black cat causes a broken mirror.”

“Sept. 9, 2019. A librarian in Boise checks out a single book: ‘The Secret Sharer.’ Returns it unread. Drowns in her bathtub 12 days later. The book is back on the shelf. No water damage.”

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Author Tally Education Pvt. Ltd.
Language English
Binding Paperback
Publisher Sahaj Enterprises
ISBN
Year of Publishing 2021
Pages 336
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“We all have a sixth sense,” he says. “We just file it under ‘nothing.’ I decided to file it under ‘something.’”

“June 14, 1992. Des Moines. Mrs. Gable bought two gallons of milk. Her husband left her the next day. She never drank milk.”

But one drawer is locked. Behind it: the “Red File.” Pondo will not show a reporter its contents. He will only read one entry aloud, his voice dry as dust:

He closes the drawer. “That’s the sinister part,” he says. “Not the death. The return .”

Of course, skeptics call Pondo a hoarder of coincidence. “Apophenia with a filing system,” says Dr. Mira Laskey, a cognitive psychologist at Johns Hopkins. “The human brain is wired to see patterns. A red shoelace doesn’t cause a raid any more than a black cat causes a broken mirror.”

“Sept. 9, 2019. A librarian in Boise checks out a single book: ‘The Secret Sharer.’ Returns it unread. Drowns in her bathtub 12 days later. The book is back on the shelf. No water damage.”

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