The Unexplained

In 1993, I visited a family in Finland for WWII story and left with this amazing story instead! The family asked I just refer to the subject as “Bebe.” She was a normal little girl of 8 in 1915, near Malm, Finland. One day her dad took her to a legendary medicinal spring near Malm. As dad dipped some water from spring, normally quiet little Bebe began to shout in an entranced chant, “Hands and feet, fingers and toes!” A second instance of this bizarre chant happened when Bebe saw missing finger on a shop mannequin. Third and last such strange outburst from Bebe was when brother showed her stone he’d found and, by scratching fingernail on it, it appeared to be a severed thumb. Bebe had run around the table chanting uncontrollably, “Hands and feet, fingers and toes!” Bebe’s strange affliction had disappeared and was all but forgotten until an incident 20 years later in Malm.

Bebe, nearly 30 years old in 1935, had a faded memory of her strange childhood outbursts, until she read in newspaper about the mysterious discovery in Malm, at the very medicinal spring where she’d had her initial entranced chanting of “Hands and feet; fingers and toes!:”

SHOCKING FIND IN A SPRING

In a spring near Malm in Finland workmen found proof of a number of murders having been committed.

Four right hands, five left hands, six right and three left feet, and many fingers and thumbs were among the gruesome parts recovered from these medicinal waters.

The crimes centering around this spring are declared to be the most baffling in the history of police annals in Finland.

Bebe had never understood why, at age 8, she had suddenly had a premonition twenty years before the most baffling criminal mystery in history of Finland!