Itchin' in my Head...

Is it me or is this thing all kinda creepy?

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU MARCH 13, 2003 20:02:38 ET XXXXX

'YOU THINK I AM THE GIRL WHO RAN AWAY,' SMART TOLD COP

"You guys think I'm that Elizabeth Smart girl who ran away," Elizabeth Smart challenged police officer Bill O'Neal the moment she was found by authorities.

Smart's startling words have ignited a firestorm around Salt Lake City: Was the teen unknowingly conveying the unthinkable -- she deliberately ran away from home?!

While local and federal authorities work on the likely premise the girl was taken by force and later brainwashed, questions of a possible runaway scenario began to creep into the picture, sources said late Thursday.

One top federal source said the case remains "utterly baffling."

The other weird part is that supposedly she'd been "brainwashed" according to her family and yet this "brainwashing" was supposedly instantly broken and this girl was back with her family, playing the harp and watching "The Trouble with Angels" one SINGLE DAY after being found.

Why am I getting the creepy-crawlies about this whole incident?