Are You a Serial Killer?
Published Sunday, April 23, 2006 by have Metrocard, will travel | E-mail this post
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Social scientists in Scandinavia* have devised a question, a sort of riddle, designed to identify psychopaths and serial killers. Apparently if you can puzzle the answer out there’s something very wrong with you.
The riddle goes as follows:
A man’s mother dies.
He attends the funeral. At the funeral, he sees a beautiful woman.
After the funeral he looks for the beautiful woman, to try and talk to her, but he cannot find her anywhere; she’s gone.
Two weeks later, the man kills his own brother.
Why?
(For the Answer, click the “Comments” number above.)
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*I gleaned this from cocktail party chatter and cannot back it up with facts.
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The answer is, he kills his own brother in the hopes that the beautiful woman, presumably a friend of the family, will show up at the funeral, and he can meet her. If you can figure this out, it means you possess the psychological detachment any good serial killer needs to do his job well.
Scarily enough, my friend’s mother, a sweet woman in her fifties, figured this out immediately.
Did you?
Hooray! I totally got it.
for once, i'm glad i didn't get a right answer.
this is not really odd behavior. totally depends on how hot the girl is.
Damn. I got that immediately. I swear I'm not a sociopath. =(
If you ever do feel the need to arm yourself with facts, Snopes can help.
But you live in America, so you're probably better off arming yourself with a handgun, a bullet-proof vest and fanatical self-belief. Or so I'm told.
If you ever do feel the need to arm yourself with facts, Snopes can help.
But you live in America, so you're probably better off arming yourself with a handgun, a bullet-proof vest and fanatical self-belief. Or so I'm told.
My immediate response was that the woman was a long lost sibling who had undergone a sex change. The man killed her in disgust after having nailed her.
Should I be worried?
I got it in less than 5 seconds. You just have to think like a crazy. I bet it would have taken me (and whoever figured it out) a lot longer if you didn't say it's a "crazy people test". Just ask the question straight up without giving the audience a context. If someone can answer it quickly, then he/she is a true nutjob.
I had gotten this in an email forward a few months ago--my boyfriend and his mother figured it out immediately also...no one else I forwarded it to got it--scary indeed!!
i heard this before. on an archaeological dig in belize, a student was extremely into serial killer psychology and had read this from one of her books on the subject. except her version was a girl's sister first died and then she kills her parents.
I assumed it was because he found out that not only had his brother come to their mother's funeral in drag, but he'd fallen in love with the asshole before he found out. I figured there was a narcissistic angle, where the man so enjoyed himself in the mirror that when he saw a woman that looked very much like him, it was absolute infatuation at first sight. Imagine the absolute rage upon discovery.