Strange Attractor

Yesterday, got an email from a loony. A genuine one – he directed me to his web page, which set out all the reasons why he believed himself to be telepathic, a prophet, persecuted by MI5 and the police, guided by angels – and was possibly also a manifestation of Christ.
I didn’t reply.
This morning, on a pagan forum, I saw a post from somebody, asking for information about an obscure deity. I googled and discovered it was one of Satan’s minions, named as such in some ancient list of Christian demonology. I posted as much. The poster quickly replied, to the effect: “I know all that, I’ve read the grimoire, the illustration in it looked exactly like the creature that appeared to me when I was lying paralyzed in bed a few years ago. I’m trying to find out what it wants me for.” (I’m paraphrasing her words, so as to preserve her anonymity – Google’s bots are everywhere) her Livejournal link was in her sig, so I went and had a look – she was being treated for bi-polar disease.
Uh-huhhh… I clicked off the thread and mentally backed away.
I seem to attract these people – I used to get regular emails from somebody convinced she was Maid Marion in a previous lifetime and, before email, got letters from people who raved about Atlantis and Arachne and the Illuminati conspiracy.

Funny – B never seems to encounter these people. There again, he always gets gets bitten half to death in the midge season, whereas the little biters never go near me. Is there a correlation?