From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!ark Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Pretending to be insane Article-I.D.: rabbit.605 Posted: Thu Jul 15 10:57:02 1982 Received: Sat Jul 17 06:25:25 1982 I also recall reading an article about this. It may have been in New York magazine. A writer showed up at a hospital behaving normally, but (falsely) claiming that he occasionally heard voices saying things like "Thud." It took him months to get out of that hospital.