Of course, skeptics call Pondo a hoarder of coincidence. “Apophenia with a filing system,” says Dr. Mira Laskey, a cognitive psychologist at Johns Hopkins. “The human brain is wired to see patterns. A red shoelace doesn’t cause a raid any more than a black cat causes a broken mirror.”
“I found this one this morning,” he says. “Before you arrived.” index of sinister
As the interview ends, Pondo pulls a fresh index card from his shirt pocket. Of course, skeptics call Pondo a hoarder of coincidence
He points to a bulletin board covered in pushpins and string — a conspiracy theorist’s dream, except the strings connect not plots, but vibes . A gas leak in Ohio. A misplaced stop sign in Nevada. A child’s lost mitten found folded neatly on a grave. “The human brain is wired to see patterns
“June 14, 1992. Des Moines. Mrs. Gable bought two gallons of milk. Her husband left her the next day. She never drank milk.”