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oddities
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May 31, 2013
CREEPING BABY DOLL
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Model for a “Creeping Baby Doll,” which was patented in 1871: First of all, creeping is what they called crawling back then, and as recent...
Aug 11, 2012
THE REAL SILENT HILL
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“This was a world where no human could live, hotter than the planet Mercury, its atmosphere as poisonous as Saturn's. At the heart of t...
Aug 10, 2012
DEAD WALK
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In times past, when the villages of Tana Toraja were still extremely isolated and difficult to visit, it is said that certain people had the...
Jul 17, 2012
FLY BOY
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More Dead Fly Art
Jun 22, 2012
DEATH ON VINYL
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Huh. And Vinyl.
Dec 4, 2011
CROSSROADS
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Meeting with the Devil at the Crossroads A “vision,” as told by Henry Goodman Robert Johnson been playing down in Yazoo City and over at B...
Dec 2, 2011
OUR NEW LITTLE FRIENDS
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"These are not your average kiddie dolls. They are hellish, tortured souls. Definitely conversation starters or the beginning of your ...
Dec 1, 2011
A SADISTIC APPETITE
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Marie Delphine LaLaurie (d. 1842), more commonly known as Madame LaLaurie, was a Louisiana-born socialite, known for her involvement in the ...
Nov 28, 2011
GHOST PHOTOGRAPHY
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"You can't take a picture of this. It's already gone." More photos (and their origins).
Nov 22, 2011
PURE HATE
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“In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and, last but not le...
Nov 17, 2011
EXORCISM
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Anneliese Michel complained of seeing disturbing visions while saying her prayers. Later, evil voices giving her commands followed. Fi...
Nov 14, 2011
'TIL DEATH
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Carl Tanzler (d. 1952) was a German-born radiologist at the United States Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida, who developed a morbid obses...
Oct 13, 2011
DID YOU HEAR THE NEWS ABOUT EDWARD?
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Edward Mordrake was reportedly the 19th century heir to an English peerage. He supposedly had an extra face on the back of his head, which ...
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