The Small Town Misfit scours the world for those "police blotter" incedents that if nothing else remind us that there are some who won't be dragged into Web 2.0 by any means.

Columbia, SC A 27-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman, both from West Columbia, went to a 78-year-old “medicine woman” in Columbia on Dec. 5 who told them they had “bad spirits” haunting them. She said that she could perform a healing ceremony for them, but they would need to leave as much money and jewelry as they could with her for two days, at which time they could retrieve the stuff. When the man and woman went back, the medicine woman was gone, and so were the $8,500 cash, four gold chains, a gold ring and a gold bracelet that they’d given her.