I forget the specifics, but I could have sworn I once read something about the head staying alive several minutes after a beheading.
some important physics or chemistry scientist who was french, conducted an experiment
way back during French revolution
he was sentenced to be beheaded,
and he told his friends he would blink for as long as possible after being cut. he told them to count how many times we would blink after being beheaded
the number's like 20 or something. not too long, but still creapy
also, this episode in manitoba: it's pretty out there, but i'm not surprised these things happen. i think it's a combination fo pyshological disposition and environmental influences [i.e. what you expereinced throughout the sum of your life]