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The Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society reports on the latest outbreak of a "bizarre psychological disorder known as genital retraction syndrome."
The Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society reports on the latest outbreak of a "bizarre psychological disorder known as genital retraction syndrome." From Nigeria's Daily Independent:
In what looked like a confirmation of the alarm raised last week alleging infiltration of ritualists in Patani ... three young men have allegedly lost their genitals in mysterious circumstances Daily Independent gathered that the incident occurred in a restaurant after one of them allegedly gave change to a man after eating. Those involved, according to reports, are Ufoma Julius (24), Stanley Jeremiah (23), and Innocent Ebioma (15), all were said to be eating in the restaurant when the dramatic incident happened
According to one of the victims, Mr. Ufoma, who spoke with Daily Independent at the General Hospital, Patani, where they were subsequently taken for medical check up, 'We were all eating in the hotel when he too came in and after eating he paid and as the boy received the N500 note from the suspected ritualist he felt a cold shiver immediately and his penis disappeared.
'Alarmed, he started shouting ‘my penis, my pennies' and he touched me and immediately I too also felt the same way and my penis also disappeared and so it was with the third victim, so we all raised alarm and a crowd gathered at the scene," he narrated.