To expose a liar

I am about to write about a situation I've recently stumbled across. Mind you, I might sound like a vengeful jerk, but hey, I do love exposing liars.

I will try to keep this as factual as possible, because it's so obvious that I'm right.

Well tonight around cards and chemical cider, a fellow student described how her film was to be shown at the Notre Dame Student Film festival. She also mentioned another student's film, and I happen to inquire as to the plot. She described it like this:

There's this guy and he keeps seeing this black thing, and every time he turns his head to look, it moves. And he gets freaked out. And then he sees his wife and a man in bed (or something like that) and closes his eyes, but when he opens them, he has killed them.

Now I admit to taking some liberty with this, but the basic points are there: The blob that you can't see because it alwasy remains on the edge of your vision, and the dead cheating wife and lover, killed by the main character, but unknowingly.

This is, to the smallest detail, the plot to an obscure horror/sci-fi novel called Fear, by L. Ron Hubbard. The same author was responsible for inventing Scientology, putting El Nino into effect, and creating the first jar of peanut butter and jelly. Everything there is true except the last two.

Anyway, I emailed him, and he seems like a good guy, but he said he had never heard of the book (In which a man is followed but exactly such a flitting creature, then ends up killing his cheating wife and her lover but only realizing he did it after the fact). I will not say that he is lying to me, especially since I only know the plot on second-hand knowledge. However. my suspicions have been aroused. Yeah aroused, so what. Grow up.

I'll let you know what happens, whoever you are.