Naked Dead Man

     Okay, well speaking of really white nudes in the winter time, I'm not sure if I have ever told anyone this story before – it was so bizarre. In September of 1977, I started my lab job at Roswell Park which is just off Main Street in Buffalo – near the West Ferry bus stop, if I recall correctly. There was a bank on the next corner where I opened an account and deposited my paycheck every two weeks.

       Well, it was during that first winter I was walking to the bank in the middle of the day. It was snowing and there was snow on the sidewalks – I don't think the sun was out. As I turned the corner from Carlton to Main Street, I saw an object on the sidewalk near the bus-stop. It was deathly white and looked to be a human form. There were a couple of people standing over it.

       As I got closer, I could see it was a naked dead man. He was lying on his back. His eyes were shut. I looked up at the nearby building to see which window he had jumped out of. It was only a two-story building, and there were no open windows. The sidewalk did not look like someone had just splattered there. And he couldn't have been walking down the street and suddenly died – not naked like that – not lying there so peaceful-looking like that.

      A police car arrived, and they began making arrangements to move the body. I continued on to the bank. All I could figure is that the man had been murdered and dumped there.

      For the next few days I checked the newspaper for a story about the naked dead man lying on the sidewalk in the middle of the day. But the story never appeared.

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