Prophecy Author:David Seltzer Twenty years ago..Fact: 100,000 people were wiped out in Minamata, Japan. Cause: A chemical neurotoxin. Effect: Sickness..Madness..Death. Source: Water. — Now, in Manatee County, Maine..Biological changes are beginning to occur. People are sick. Their minds are confused. Children are born dead..born deformed. And a family of campers has been foun... more »d dead, mutilated by some indescribably brutal force.