Jackson Brodie was a rising fourth year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania when he decided to take a semester off and travel Southern Europe. According to his mother, Brodie was suffering from nervous exhaustion and the persistent delusion of being haunted by the wraith (or spirit) of an old female cadaver he had dissected. Fearing an imminent breakdown, he hoped some time touring the Mediterranean would lift his spirits, so to speak. Letters and postcards sent home to his mother seemed to suggest his condition was greatly improving when he decided to extend his stay by two weeks and see some of Northern Africa. He left Spain by boat in the fall of 1921, stopped in Gibraltar for a night, and then went on to Tangiers. Unfortunately, his last letter home displayed a steep regression into madness. He claimed the wraith had followed him to Tangiers and was stalking him through the dark winding streets of that ancient city. He included this one blurry photo as proof. Exactly what befell Brodie remains unknown, as all contact subsequently ceased and his body was never recovered.