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I only found out about my aunt's odd claim a couple of years ago, several years after she died, so, unless she told someone eventually, I guess I'll never find out. My mom said she never even dropped any hints about who it might be, but she couldn't wait to move away from that neighborhood. That being said, I have to say that the women on that side of the family have some strange traits. My grandmother used to read tea leaves, and was forever claiming to know things that she couldn't possibly have known. My mom considers fortune-telling and such to be works of the devil, but nevertheless has that trait. She frequently claims to know things that people have done, with no evidence at all. Like her mother, she usually turns out to be wrong. My grandmother's maiden name was Bell, and my grandfather was fond of saying "the Bells are all dingy." It seems likely that my aunt's "knowledge" was one of those delusions to which the family was prone. Still, even paranoids have some justifiable fears, so, who knows?