>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