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The doll is based on a separate case from 1970 that paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren handled, the case of the Annabelle doll. More interesting story here - http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/conjuring.php
The awesomely insane Heaven and Hell nightclubs of 1890s Paris http://io9.com/5910963/the-awesomely-insane-heaven-and-hell-nightclubs-of-1800s-paris
Parrot mummies.
Cloondooan Castle ruins, Ireland - A partially-ruined 16th-century castle, or tower house. It had been a fortress of great strength. In A.D. 1586, The castle was under seige and Mahon, the owner, was killed. His people surrender and the western side of
Process of natural mummification found in a Renaissance tomb
The original definition of the disorder sleep paralysis was codified as a nightmare by Samuel Johnson in his book “A Dictionary of the English Language”. Sleep paralysis was widely considered to be the work of demons, and more specifically
Frog Purse, a philippine souvenir
Series taken by automatic camera showing effect of 35th atomic bomb test on house built 1 mile from point of detonation, over period of 2.3 seconds until total demolition. http://images.google.com/hosted/life/3a9e7b556f7d34da.html
Ogopogo or Naitaka (Salish: n'ha-a-itk, “lake demon”) is the name given to a cryptid lake monster reported to live in Okanagan Lake, in British Columbia, Canada. Ogopogo has been allegedly seen by First Nations people since the 19th century.
Herculaneum (in modern Italian Ercolano) was an ancient Roman town destroyed by volcanic pyroclastic flows in 79 A.D., located in the territory of today’s commune of Ercolano, in the Italian region of Campania in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. It
If you’re not satisfied with the work your wife’s done, electrocute her! :D From a gallery of creepy vintage ads.
This recently discovered cave in Vietnam is massive beyond description. An entire forest is growing inside! There are no words to describe the enormity, and beauty of this natural wonder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_Doong_cave
An enlarged anatomical head made by Paul Zeiller I in 1860–1864, possibly the most dissected in a series of three enlarged male busts displayed in his anthropological museum.
A laryngologist’s collection of objects removed from the throats of gagging patients. There are literally drawers of things like this at Mutter. My personal favorite object is a full set of dentures. Mutter Museum
Directed by Lernert & Sander Music by: Nathan Larson Three ways of melting a chocolate bunny. Candy and gore, wonderful mixture!
fresh scarification on black tattoo
Abandoned Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital - dead cat
A bowl of prayers. (At the Tsuglagkhang Complex in McLeod Ganj, the official residence of the Dalai Lama) India
Eskimo grave set on pilings in tundra, ca. 1906 Photo credit: B.B. Dobbs
Japanese God of thunder 雷神
A sculpture of a child in a crib, covered with a blanket of stone. Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri
For those who grew up in Australia, the bunyip will be familiar. The bunyip is a large mythical creature from Australian Aboriginal mythology, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds and waterholes. It has been described as a giant starfish
Legend has it the ghost of Walt Whitman is still seen today walking through the woods of Jaynes Hill. The area is also said to be a hot-bed of UFO activity. This is probably due to the close proximity to Mount Misery which is also said to be an active
9c silver disc brooch, late Anglo-Saxon.
Statue of Christ and crosses left by pilgrims, Hill of Crosses
Teddy has an Operation by ZeFrank. Wow
surprise
Louise - “The Unfortunate”
A pic from the book “A Pictorial History of Horror Movies’ by Denis Gifford. Picture is a still from the 1966 film “Black Cat”
Mike Parker’s ‘The World’s Most Fantastic Freaks’
Gold disc brooch, Merovingian, probably from Germany, late 6th. The brooch is made in cloisonne technique with garnets and glass, adopted from Eastern Mediterranean jewelers by the Franks, Goths, Lombards and other “barbarians”. The wearing
Hag stones. Traditional amulets. Stones with natural holes right through them are considered to be magical, they are thought to make it possible for people to see the spirits in the world and give the owner good luck.
How to hold the divining rod - 1700
A baby in a bear chair
Vintage Buried Alive sideshow banner by Fred G. Johnson
Best.Christmas.Tree.Ever.
A detail view of the lid of the oaken casket containing a giant’s heart. Preserved Heart of a Norse Giantin an Oaken Casket(5th century)While going through his famous grandfather’s belongings after his passing in 1937, violinist Lars Sigerson
Norwegian wood carving
Anatomy of a gummy bear
awesome Art installation with hundreds of little frozen men, left out to melt in the heat of the sun Nele Azevedo’s Ice Sculptures of Melting Men (2005)
Casket and Grave Markers, St. Lawrence State Hospital, New York Christoper Payne
Creepy: King Henry IV’s partially preserved head, which was separated from its body during the French Revolution, when monarchs’ graves were desecrated. You can read more about it here as well.
death mask - tesla
Saint Magnus Cathedral, Orkney, Scotland
A Procession of Cats. Bodleian Library, Oxford, mid-13th century manuscript.
This dry specimen shows the upper end of the right femur of a solider wounded by a musket ball at the Battle of Waterloo, 18th June 1815. The impact of the musket ball has created a deep cavity in the neck of the femur in which the ball is almost complete
Psalter and Hours of Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy Attributed to Jean Le Noir (French, active 1331–1375) http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/70012435?img=28
St Odile of Alsace (c. 662 - c. 720), patron saint of eye and ear diseases, often shown with a pair of eyes resting on a book. Detail of an Austrian triptych, tempera on wood (1491).
Creepy Japanese McDonalds Commercial
The message in this Lysol douche ad: use it or you will be so utterly repulsive down there that your husband will lose all sexual interest in you and your marriage will fall apart and it will all be your disgusting fault.
Edward Theodore “Ed” Gein was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards
Shoes Made From The Skin Of Big Nose George Parrott. George Francis Warden, a.k.a. “Big Nose George Parrott” was a horse thief and a train robber. In 1878, after a botched hold-up, he and his gang killed a couple of lawmen and fled to Montana.
Portrait of a Lady and a Young Girl, 1567 (detail) Adriaen van Cronenburg
These photos of a morass of telephone wires in New York City were taken in 1887 and 88, only a little more than 10 years after the telephone was first patented… More pics here - http://twentytwowords.com/2013/03/01/the-insane-mess-of-telephone-wires-over
Cat on a cross, in Paris.
Images of persons afflicted with elephantiasis often crop up online and for decades the condition had been wrongfully fingered as the cause of the deformities distressing Joseph ‘The Elephant Man’ Merrick. For the record, Merrick likely suffered from
Tickling the funny bone
Château de Pierrefonds castle
The Frog Museum in Switzerland originated in the 1850s when an eccentric Napoleonic guard began collecting dead frogs on his walks in the countryside. When he returned home he would gut them, fill the skins with sand, and arrange them into satirical table
