Jill’s Amazing Memory Matches her Weird Handwriting

How a woman’s amazing memory wowed the scientific world and set the media alight?

The incredible story of Jill Price's remarkable memory was locked away in the annals of scientific research at the University of California for 8 years.

Jill Price had always wanted the story of her remarkable memory to be kept a secret. And so for 8 full years scientists at the University had studied her phenomenal memory in secret.

Why was it kept secret for so long when it would have made such fascinating material for the world's media??

Well that is the whole point.

Jill was an intensely private person and the thought of all that publicity made her freeze up. She didn't want her story to be flung to the hungry jaws of the media.?

So scientists honoured her wishes and kept her identity hidden.

Then in 2006 when she was eventually persuaded - in the interest of science - to reveal her fascinating story she decided to “come out.”

When the story broke the scientific world and the media went wild.

And just as she had feared, TV stations and newspapers everywhere had a publicity fest and she became famous overnight.

Oprah interviewed her on one of her shows. Diane Sawyer interviewed her on ABC News and the audience everywhere was fascinated and astounded.

They devoured every bit about her remarkable memory; how she knew to the exact day when Princess Grace had died: how she knew exactly when JR from Dallas was shot; when the Unabomber was arrested and when the L. A. Riots took place.

And there was a lot more.

When Jill was questioned about it she explained that she had an autobiographical memory – which means that she remembered things in relation to her own life.?

In other words, her memory is based on her own personal history. The things that she remembers so perfectly are related in some way to an incident in her own life.

So much so, that her recall of an event not linked in any way to her personal life was unspectacular.

She admitted that she was not a brilliant student at school and that she even found it difficult to memorize a poem if it had no relevance to her personal history.

Who is Jill Price?

Today Jill is in her middle 50's.?She has spent most of her life in Los Angeles where she has worked as a school administrator.

She lives with her parents and she is a collector of personal memorabilia that she can’t bear to part with.?Her memory is intrinsically bound up with these symbols of her life.?So it’s easy to see why she would hate to lose touch with any?of them.?

In fact, she suffers from separation anxiety to the extent that she feels that she would not be able to cope if she moved away from her home and family.

Now here is the interesting part for graphologists and handwriting analysts.

Jill has recorded in amazing detail the highly fascinating story of her life in a journal that contains 50 thousand pages of her very strange handwriting set up in columns like a newspaper.

50 thousand pages!

So Let’s take a look at her handwriting. (You'll find it at here: Secrets of her phenomenal Memory

This is a handwriting sample to beat all handwriting samples. It is reproduced from just one of the columns in her journal.?

The very first thing that hits you is how strange it is. But we also notice how extremely crowded it is. Crowded to the point of obsession - which I think is the key to her whole personality.?

Her mind is so crowded with the events of her personal life and her past that she has compacted every detail into an unforgettable block of personal memorabilia.

Encapsulated in her unique handwriting style is her private history - a graphic representation of her unusual personality and possibly a symbolic depiction of her dreams.?

The phrase obsessive-compulsive disorder comes to mind. She remembers so much about herself because she thinks constantly about her past experiences in a compulsive way.

So what would you call this - pure eccentricity or possibly genius?

If you would like to see an explanation of how her handwriting mirrors some of the most intricate details of her personality take a look at this article: