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Archive for the 'Mysterious News' Category Corpse Bride or Wax Statue? You decide… Folklore or morbid tribute? Her hands, just look at her hands… A Mexican Bridal Shop Mannequin Looks Just Like A Preserved Human Corpse. (Viral Nova) “In the middle of Chihuahua, Mexico, there is a bridal shop that is quite famous. However, it’s not famous because of the dresses. It’s the store mannequins that keep them on the map. That’s because, for the past 75 years, a startlingly lifelike mannequin stood in the window. That Mexican bridal shop mannequin puzzled locals. According to local legends, the mannequin is actually the preserved daughter of the shop’s former owner. Disturbing,…
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2014 » July
Archive for July, 2014 Corpse Bride or Wax Statue? You decide… Folklore or morbid tribute? Her hands, just look at her hands… A Mexican Bridal Shop Mannequin Looks Just Like A Preserved Human Corpse. (Viral Nova) “In the middle of Chihuahua, Mexico, there is a bridal shop that is quite famous. However, it’s not famous because of the dresses. It’s the store mannequins that keep them on the map. That’s because, for the past 75 years, a startlingly lifelike mannequin stood in the window. That Mexican bridal shop mannequin puzzled locals. According to local legends, the mannequin is actually the preserved daughter of the shop’s former owner. Disturbing, but is…
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Old “Ghostmother” Portraits, and a New Twist…
Old “Ghostmother” Portraits, and a New Twist… We were out for a week, but now we’re back. We missed you. Now, please enjoy some genuine old portraits, and then some newfangled alterations of old portraits. Old portraits of children with creepy ‘ghostmothers’ in the background show how far mums would go for a good photo By Daily Mail Reporter “In the early days of photography, many well-off families jumped at the chance to have their precious children’s likeness captured for eternity. The one trick that they had to deal with next, after finding photographers willing to set up the bulky equipment and travelling to the portrait location, was getting the…
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The Alternate Universe of Kymaerica
The Alternate Universe of Kymaerica This art is so deeply strange and oddly intriguing – are the installations permanently marking real locations commemorating history from an alternate reality? Or are the markers temporary art pieces placed strategically for short periods of observation? Either way, the work touches on the concepts of memorials, travel, geography, and history in a way that gets our imagination soaring… THE BELIEVER – NOVERMBER/DECEMBER 2009 Discover Kymaerica The brick courtyard was adjacent to the railroad tracks on Atlanta’s industrial west side—and part of a structure that had been transformed from its industrial roots to become the home of a five-star restaurant. I must have taken a…
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Mysterious Power of Love Letters
Mysterious Power of Love Letters …The power of words is no less potent than a love potion. I think it’s quite obvious that Virginia Woolf knew the secret to writing an effective love letter - Throw Over Your Man: Virginia Woolf’s 1927 Love Letter to Vita Sackville-West by Maria Popova “…and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads.” “What makes an extraordinary love letter? After Monday’s omnibus of famous correspondence, I revisited a lovely decade-old book titled The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time, which features missives from icons like Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Frida Kahlo, Franz Kafka, and Mozart, covering everything from…
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Can You Find The Phantom Brownstones In Brooklyn?
Can You Find The Phantom Brownstones In Brooklyn? New York is full of secrets and mysteries. All you have to do is walk around for a day (or a night) and you are guaranteed to find something amazing, intriguing, or mystifying. Here’s one Brooklyn based “secret” right on the street in plain view that is fascinating and even a little spooky… The Fake Townhouses hiding Mystery Underground Portals (from Messy Nessy) “Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them… On a street in Brooklyn that takes you towards the river, where the cobblestones begin paving the road, there is a townhouse that deserves a second look.…
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Cut off from the world, a family survives for decades in the wilds of Siberia…
Cut off from the world, a family survives for decades in the wilds of Siberia… This is a beautiful and heartbreaking story. Fascinating beyond imagination. A story that would make a most interesting and eye-catching film – Who wants to write the screenplay? For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga “Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation:…