Coincidence? I think not.

I wanted to follow up on the world’s largest collection of pencils even after the Newton News of Jasper County, Iowa, tried to block my investigation. I’ve discovered that the record-holding collector is currently a math teacher in Colfax, Iowa, and that he is a native of Albert Lea, Minnesota, which coincidentally is the hometown of Eddie Cochran, who I mentioned here last month, and also of Richard Carlson, star of Creature from the Black Lagoon. What strange confluence of cosmic forces is at work here? More research is required around the inexplicable phenomena associated with the Albert Lea Vortex.