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Elephant Memory +9 -

Anon visits an Indian man with Elephant Memory

Categories: /x/ , india

>Go to India in my late teens for "soul searching exercise
>Go on these kind of excursions with a bunch of others
>End up in some shitty village
>See crowd of people gathered around someone,
>Lots of these charlatans about
>Clearly been brought here to fleece us out of rupees
>Talk to guide, "So what's his trick, what does he do?
>"He elephant memory, never forget anything
>Start getting goaded into asking him something
>All attention is now on me and I don't like it
>Panic
>"What did you have for breakfast...on this day..25 years ago?
>"Eggs"
>Everyone applauds like he's just started flying around on a magic carpet
>I'm much less impressed
>Literally impossible for him to prove his claim and for me to disprove it
>Demand to ask him something else
>"No, only one question
>Get ushered away
>Total fucking scam
>Come back home
>Get gf couple of years later
>She mentions wanting to visit India one day
>Tell her how it's all one big con
>Tell her about my experience
>Come up with simple solution to dab on this hoaxer
>Tell her my plan
>She agrees it'll work
>We go back to India about 6 or 7 years after I'd been myself
>Hope guy hasn't died because he was old when I was there in my late teens
>Take excursion to village
>Guide doesn't remember me at all
>See crowd of people gathered around old man
>Contain excitement
>Talk to guide, "So what's his trick, what does he do?
>"He elephant memory, never forget anything
>Tells me to ask him a question
>Now I encourage people to gather around
>The hunter has literally became the hunted
>Don't even need to think about what I'm going to ask
>He makes eye contact with me and I ask him a simple question "How?"
>Doesn't even blink or take a breath "Scrambled"
>Do a 360 and walk away in silence