<story><title>Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark (2012)</title><url>http://mentalfloss.com/article/30380/why-some-civil-war-soldiers-glowed-dark</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaron695</author><text>Anyone have a link that reports on this &amp;quot;Angel&amp;#x27;s Glow&amp;quot; before this article about the 2001 Sci fair project?&lt;p&gt;I find nothing.&lt;p&gt;Are we sure they didn&amp;#x27;t make it up that &amp;quot;Angel&amp;#x27;s Glow&amp;quot; ever existed?&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t find any reference, everything seems to loop.&lt;p&gt;Clever if true, make up a legend to fit some loose facts.&lt;p&gt;The whole idea is a bit crazy, glowing soldiers living longer. But once you accept that as &amp;#x27;fact&amp;#x27; a convoluted idea around hypothermia, worms and glowing seems less crazy.&lt;p&gt;[edit] Searching old newspapers and academia &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot;, nothing before 2000.&lt;p&gt;Shiloh National Military Park agrees - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;ShilohNMP&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;567566540000003:0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;ShilohNMP&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;567566540000003:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a bit of a no brainer, but their hack is what&amp;#x27;s interesting, make up a legend to &amp;quot;solve&amp;quot;, love it.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s interest how people blindly believe it, even though it&amp;#x27;s so so convoluted. Then the loop starts and it becomes fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kroniker</author><text>While I share your concern that this may be a hoax, I think that unfortunately internet searches won&amp;#x27;t be too fruitful for pre-2000 urban legend material. I would remain highly skeptical, but I&amp;#x27;d ask a civil war historian first before ruling this out entirely.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark (2012)</title><url>http://mentalfloss.com/article/30380/why-some-civil-war-soldiers-glowed-dark</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aaron695</author><text>Anyone have a link that reports on this &amp;quot;Angel&amp;#x27;s Glow&amp;quot; before this article about the 2001 Sci fair project?&lt;p&gt;I find nothing.&lt;p&gt;Are we sure they didn&amp;#x27;t make it up that &amp;quot;Angel&amp;#x27;s Glow&amp;quot; ever existed?&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t find any reference, everything seems to loop.&lt;p&gt;Clever if true, make up a legend to fit some loose facts.&lt;p&gt;The whole idea is a bit crazy, glowing soldiers living longer. But once you accept that as &amp;#x27;fact&amp;#x27; a convoluted idea around hypothermia, worms and glowing seems less crazy.&lt;p&gt;[edit] Searching old newspapers and academia &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot;, nothing before 2000.&lt;p&gt;Shiloh National Military Park agrees - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;ShilohNMP&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;567566540000003:0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;ShilohNMP&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;567566540000003:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a bit of a no brainer, but their hack is what&amp;#x27;s interesting, make up a legend to &amp;quot;solve&amp;quot;, love it.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s interest how people blindly believe it, even though it&amp;#x27;s so so convoluted. Then the loop starts and it becomes fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quirkot</author><text>Source from USDA: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ars.usda.gov&amp;#x2F;news-events&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;research-news&amp;#x2F;2001&amp;#x2F;students-may-have-answer-for-faster-healing-civil-war-wounds-that-glowed&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ars.usda.gov&amp;#x2F;news-events&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;research-news&amp;#x2F;2001...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A google search for &amp;quot;Bill Martin 2001 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair&amp;quot; returns multiple sources</text></comment>