The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) is a U.S. non-governmental organization committed to engaging people of faith to work together to ensure that the United States does not engage in torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of anyone, without exceptions.
 NRCAT’s founding principles state that: “Torture violates the basic dignity of the human person that all religions, in their highest ideals, hold dear.
 It degrades everyone involved -- policy-makers, perpetrators and victims.
 It contradicts our nation's most cherished ideals.
 Any policies that permit torture and inhumane treatment are shocking and morally intolerable.”
The Niles Canyon ghost story is the Northern California variation on the vanishing hitchhiker archetype.
 There are many different variations of this story depending on whom you ask.
 All stories include a girl being involved in some sort of motorized vehicle accident on February 26 (year often changed).
 One variation of the story includes a girl being involved in a car crash on Niles Canyon road (off the 680 freeway in Sunol, California) on the way to her prom.
 The girl died on impact and to this day is said to haunt Niles Canyon road every February 26.
 The tale of the haunting goes that people traveling along Niles Canyon road (now Highway 84) on the night of February 26 will see a normal-looking high school-aged girl walking along the road in a prom dress (many people have said it is white).
 People traveling along the road (mostly those traveling alone) have said to have stopped and offered the girl a ride.
 She accepts the ride, giving the driver an address across the bridge (either Dumbarton or Bay Bridge depending on the storyteller).
 Once the driver gets to the beginning of the bridge, the girl will disappear.
 Sometimes people have gone to the address to find that a girl many years ago matching that description once lived there.
 Today, many people will travel along this treacherous pitch black road in the hopes of catching a glimpse of the Niles Canyon ghost.
John Wayne Gacy Jr. (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and rapist.
 He sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered at least 33 teenaged boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois (a part of metropolitan Chicago).
Sexual assault is a sexual act in which a person is coerced or physically forced to engage against their will, or non-consensual sexual touching of a person.
 Sexual assault is a form of sexual violence, and it includes rape (such as forced vaginal, anal or oral penetration or drug facilitated sexual assault), groping, child sexual abuse, or the torture of the person in a sexual manner.
The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon that demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception.
 The illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound.
 The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound.
 If a person is getting poor quality auditory information but good quality visual information, they may be more likely to experience the McGurk effect.
 Integration abilities for audio and visual information may also influence whether a person will experience the effect.
 People who are better at sensory integration have been shown to be more susceptible to the effect.
 Many people are affected differently by the McGurk effect based on many factors, including brain damage and other disorders.
A mock execution is a stratagem in which a victim is deliberately but falsely made to feel that their execution or that of another person is imminent or is taking place.
 It may be staged for an audience or a subject who is made to believe that they are being led to their own execution.
 This might involve blindfolding the subjects, making them recount last wishes, making them dig their own grave, holding an unloaded gun to their head and pulling the trigger, shooting near (but not at) the victim, or firing blanks.
 Mock execution is categorized as psychological torture.
 There is a sense of fear induced when a person is made to feel that they are about to be executed or witness someone being executed.
 Mock execution is considered psychological torture because there is no physical harm caused, but there is mental harm.
 Psychological harm is caused because the victim's suspense level increases while awaiting their death or someone else's, which is considered torture.
 The psychological trauma begins to occur when the victim starts to believe that they are about to be executed.
 The buildup of anxiety due to mock execution could influence the end result of the staged death.
The Jamesons is a novel by Mary E. Wilkins, first published in 1899.
 It narrated in the first person by a character named Sophia.
 The story she tells began six years before and takes place in a small New England town, often referred to as a village, named Linnville.
 The town is set in the country and is composed of a small community where people are by no means rich, but are able to live comfortably.
 The lifestyles and traditions of the community are disrupted, in both positive and negative ways, when the Jamesons come to town.
 The Jamesons are a very wealthy family from New York City who come to Linville for the summer, and eventually buy a permanent summer home there.
 The mother of the family, Mrs. H. Boardman Jameson, tries to “improve” the community through readings of formal literature and attempts to change the way the people eat, dress and decorate their homes on both the interior and the exterior.
 Many people are unhappy about her superior attitude and total disregard of other people’s opinions on the changes she attempts to make, but she gains respect at the end of the novel after planning an elaborate Centennial celebration for the town.
The El Ayyat train disaster happened at 02:00 on the morning of 20 February 2002 in an eleven-carriage passenger train travelling from Cairo to Luxor.
 A cooking gas cylinder exploded in the fifth carriage, creating a fire which engulfed seven third-class carriages, reducing them almost to cinders.
 The initial number of dead given by officials at the time was 383, all Egyptians.
 However, considering that seven carriages were burnt to the ground, and each carriage was packed with at least double the maximum carrying capacity of 150, this number is considered by many people to be a great underestimate.
 The dubious nature of the given death toll lies with the absence of a full passenger list; accounting for those missing was almost impossible at the time.
 In addition, the fire was so intense and the carriages so badly burned that many corpses had been reduced to ash.
 As there was no means of communication between the driver and the rear carriages, the driver did not know of the fire until about two hours after it had begun, resulting in many people, attempting to flee from the overcrowded carriages, jumping to their death.
 Some important Egyptians have commentated that the official number of 383 dead is grossly inaccurate and was an attempt to lessen the damage done to the reputation of the government.
 Many people consider a number of about 1000 deaths to be more accurate.
The Mentally Ill were a punk band originating from Deerfield, Illinois in the late 1970s.
 Their legendary 1979 7" single Gacy's Place named after notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy, is considered by many to be one of the most unusual records of the early Chicago punk rock scene.
 They also released Sex Cells 7" and then dropped into obscurity.
The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving the dumping of a bucket of ice and water over a person's head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as motor neurone disease and in the US as Lou Gehrig's disease) and encourage donations to research.
 It went viral on social media during July–August 2014.
 In the US, many people participated for the ALS Association, and in the UK, many people participated for the Motor Neurone Disease Association, although some individuals opted to donate their money from the Ice Bucket Challenge to other organizations.

Question: How many people did the person who Gacy's Place is named for assault, torture and murder?
Answer: 33