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Grave robbers, body snatchers, and ghostly tales.

Dr. Tamara Hunt, Professor of History, will give a lecture, “Resurrectionists: Body Snatching in Indiana?,” at Southwestern Indiana Historical Society’s monthly lecture series at 5:30 p.m. October 17 in the Welborn Foundation Community Room on the 15th Floor of the Fifth Third Bank Building in Evans

The Body Snatchers was published during the height of McCarthyism.  However, its rather inconspicuous author largely dispelled notions that it was an allegory on communism or the importance of individuality. Nevertheless, considering the times, it wasn’t exactly irrational to propose such an analysis. Even if it was unconscious on the author’s behalf, the story’s proposed political undertones have subsequently allowed generations of filmmakers to creatively reinterpret it to reflect the...

She is well aware of the media reports of looting and body snatching coming from the crash site. she had this message for russian president, vladimir putin. take a listen. >> mr. putin, please take care of my son and my daughter. >> who knows where they are. who knows where the bodies are. where did they take them. >> i can do nothing but wait for their bodies. >> reporter: do you have any idea where your sons body and his girlfriends -- >> no idea. >> maybe they took it. maybe its there. maybe ...

>> reporter: do you have any idea where your sons body and his girlfriend -- >> no. >> maybe they took it. maybe its there. maybe its in one piece, maybe 1,000 pieces. >> no one knows. >> reporter: people here absolutely horrified at the reports coming from the crash site of looting and body snatching. people here are outraged. they are angry. theres also the sense of tremendous sorrow and grief, sense of loss. i spoke to one mother who lost both of her sons to mh17. she looked at me and said i ...

The pushback her husband maz gotten. i think thats frustrated her and angered her. i think she would like to do that to change that. i think she feels like she could make a bigger impact in many ways being on the inside once her husband gets out of the white house. >> you know, when i asked if the first lady would run for office, one person who knows her very well had this answer. watch. >> i would say where did you take my wife? because im sure there would have been an alien body snatching goin...

>> i see michelle in the hair salon. its just too much work. it takes me -- it takes my barber 20 minutes to cut my hair. >> i just want to say it takes him longer in the hair salon than it takes me. i just want to point that out. >> uh-oh. >> but what about the first ladys future business? he was asked what his response would be if michelle says she wants to run for office ten years from now. >> i would say, where did you take my wife? i am sure there would have been an alien body snatching goi...