This is a story I’ve seen on TV and in the newspaper. It’s about a woman name Jill Price who claims to remember absolutely everyday of her life since she was fourteen. She came out with a book recently entitled “The Woman who Can’t Forget”, and has appeared on numerous news casts and talk shows.

My sister screams hoax, and I tend to believe her. 99% of the things she says are unverifiable, and the rest are things regular people would remember, or could guess. Here’s a link to a review of her book:Unable to Forget

Quote the article:

“On Friday afternoon, October 19, 1979,” she writes, “I came home from school and had some soup because it was unusually cold that day.” Oprah, take note: Oct. 19, 1979, was, in fact, a Friday, and it was cloudy with a high of 67 in Los Angeles, well below normal.”

Okay, I don’t live in Los Angeles, but October tends to be a chilly month (in the Northern Hemisphere). If someone asked me what I was doing July 5, 1990, I could say, “It was pretty hot, so I had some ice cream.” And, by God, If you look it up, I’m probably right!

It seems she uses similar tactics and vague words that are usually associated with Psychics.

They also said that they checked her facts with her diary. That’s pretty dumb, in my opinion. What if she wrote the diary yesterday? What if she memorized her diary, like it was a play? It wouldn’t be that hard to do.

She could very well have an above average memory… but is she using that to scam her way onto talk shows and sell books? What do you think? Is the woman genuine?

With eight months left in 2008, it might be premature to choose the weirdest book of the year, but “The Woman Who Can’t Forget,” the memoir of a 42-year-old California woman named Jill Price, will be hard to beat. It poses a thought-provoking question—what would it be like to recall almost every day of your life since childhood?—and then unintentionally answers: it’s like being stuck on an airplane watching an endless loop of security-camera video.