Have you ever seen the TV show the X Files? The premise was two FBI agents were investigating unnatural events. The show lasted 11 years and is still interesting although it is science fiction. In real life, two authors Mark Leslie and Rhonda Parrish wrote a book called Haunted Hospitals published by Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2017. The book focuses on hospitals in Canada and the US with a few examples around the world. Most of the hospitals deal with sanatoriums or insane now called psychiatric hospitals.

In the last 100 plus years, the treatment of patients that were housed in insane hospitals was not what we considered as reasonable. Doctors really did not understand the brain so many experiments were done and not all them worked, likely few worked. In the insane hospitals people died, but did their spirit stay? We do not know, there are signs that spirits or something unusual exist or they are easier to find in places such as insane hospitals.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, do you believe in unnatural or unexplained effects? When you buy a dividend paying stock you are looking for few unexplained events, you are looking for a steady profitable company that can share its profits in terms of dividends.  Are the unexplained events interesting? yes, but try to buy slow and steady profitable companies whose stock over the years rise. After a few years you will be pleasantly rewarded.

There are more questions than answers, till the next time – to raising questions.