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ven-of-the-valley · 7 months

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I left a comment on the video, but I really wanted to make an infodump post about it to because I’m a spooky little autistic. The newest Ghost Files episode reminded me of one of my favorite spooky history facts that I wanted to share:

CW: Dead people in photos (nothing graphic, very peaceful, but content warning all the same)

So the photo of Joyce and Tim in the archive room, they say one of them is dead and they don’t know which, but in a lot of these “post mortem” photos, if you look closely, there’s an interesting way to tell who’s dead and who’s alive.

“In the 1800s, taking a photo of a dead body wasn’t creepy—it was comforting. In an era when photos were expensive and many people didn’t have any pictures of themselves when they were alive, post-mortem photography was a way for families to remember their deceased loved ones. This was especially true for children, whose mortality rate was much higher than it is now” (Little).

Now, back in good ol’ 1867, there was a little more to taking a photo than a button on an iPhone 13, and it could often a couple of seconds for the photo to actually be taken, in which time people would naturally sway and twitch slightly, which is why people and faces are often blurry in these old photos. It’s like when it’s dark and your phone can’t focus, and it makes you hold your phone still while it takes the shot, but no matter how hard you try, it always comes out fuzzy.

Now, I don’t know if you know this, people 9 times out of 10, dead people don’t move. So when taking these photos, they remain still for the duration of the photo process. I tried to pick some pictures that would really demonstrate this, but it’s super chilling to see just how clear dead people are in these old photos, especially when put against living counterparts.

The one above is one of the clearest examples of this I could find online, but if you’re ever in the Winchester Mystery House, they have some super cool pictures hanging up that demonstrate this concept.

So Shane, Ryan, if you ever see this—well first of all I think I’d probably scream because my favorite creators saw my post—know that you can tell more than which looks “dead inside” because, hey, don’t we all?

#ghost files #watcher ghost files #watcher #we are watcher #watcher network #ryan beraga #shane medej #spooky history #spooky facts #post mortem photography #victorian history

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have-some-facts · 7 months

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Hey

It’s spooky month

Have some spooky facts about

Horses✨

(Warning, I’m gonna talk about horse cannibalism and horses eating humans and other animals)

Okay, so we all know the big or small creatures called horses, right? Well, then you should know that they mainly don’t eat meat.

They in fact do. There have been reports of horses eating small animals and animal products.

The grim stories of the snowy mountains’ cannibal horses:

A few people (2 or 3) went into the mountains in Australia at Dead Horse Gap. When they came there they saw three horses ‘standing calmly’. When they looked closer they saw that the horses’ ribs were showing, they looked thin and their skin was sagging. They approached quietly and the horses did not move away. Then the people saw a 4th horse. Which was laying dead on the ground with two of the three horse nibbling on what was left of it’s organs.

There was a horse called ‘the man eater of Lucknow’. This horse went to India. After arriving in India it went on a rampage, slaying and eating several of the people living there. After the people captured the horse they forced it to fight a tiger. Now you might think ‘awe, the poor horse doesn’t stand a chance!’

He won. The horse won.

In Tibet horses were actually fed blood. This was because it was cold and there was not a lot of grass. The people fed the horses blood to make sure that they could still use the horses.

I am kind of scared of horses right now.

#spooky facts #animal facts #horse facts #the man eater of Lucknow

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nickysfacts · 7 months

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Guess you could never say, the ancient Celtic people ever went over their heads!

💀😂💀

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pathesis · 2 years

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"One-part kisses, three-part rum " A Lavinia Fisher doodle for the spooky season! Lavinia Fisher (1793 – 1820) She would feed her victims a home-cooked meal and poison their drinks. Wore her wedding dress to the gallows believing she would be safe bc at the time there was a law stating no married woman could be put to death, she arrived only to see her husband get hung first. Lavinia's last words were “If you have a message you want to send to Hell, give it to me; I'll carry it,” then she jumped from the gallows killing herself.

#spooky facts #MyArt #My Art #Lavinia #Fisher #serial killer #spooky #horror #ghost #doodle #fun facts #art #lavinia fisher #pathart

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thesehauntedhills · 2 years

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#these haunted hills #Spooky Facts #creepy facts #true facts #quick facts #dark facts

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daily-spooky · 1 month

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#funny #lol #haha #humor #meme #memes #tweet #twitter #funny memes #goth #gothic #spooky #facts #pale #grunge #alternative #soft grunge #dank memes #dark humor #news

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cozylittleartblog · 8 months

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what if there was a plague doctor that was so so so cute (and was also secretly a bird themself)

#art #plague doctor #posie #pastel #kawaii #cute #captioned #artists on tumblr #character design #oc #original character #oops! no name yet #halloween #spooky #i made them for merch reasons but i will draw them like i draw my other characters #i worked so hard i got Brainsick from Stress and i had to stop and then also i was busy in Not art ways for once #GIRL I NEED MORE HOURS IN THE DAY #oh uhh character facts. i love skulls and flowers and plague doctors and crows/ravens so i jammed them together #they are an anthro white raven disguised as a plague doctor. bird disguised as bird. nice. you can see their tail though #they use they them. the nonbinary urge to wear a full face mask at all times #that little bird is their Familiar of sorts and it can turn into things. usually a staff or a walking cane i think #the little bird also doesnt have a name. neither of them have names #not from lack of trying i just haven't had time to look yet #edit - THEIR NAME IS POSIE #YKNOW LIKE THE NURSERY RHYME

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catchymemes · 6 months

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#words #quotes #movies #tv shows #funny #lol #haha #humor #meme #memes #halloween #spooky #spooky season #facts #adulthood

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amphibianaday · 8 months

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day 1398

#amphibian #frog #halloween #*authors note: it is in fact early september. the trees are not even turning yellow yet #i saw halloween stuff at the store though sooo #capitalism bad but at least we get halloween themed items as early as they think they can get away with it #this year im on the hunt for some spooky fabrics i wanna make my own creepy buttonups #ive never made a buttonup but how hard could it be? <- hubris

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nyankoizumi · 1 year

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Looking at each other with their autistic eldritch horrors eyes

#spooky month #overthinking their cyan eyes despite the fact that they never addressed it #might make another post about them #because i have a thing for a crazy uncle coded adult relating and maybe worrying over a child/teen who has also seen The Horrors #but is TOTALLY not affected by them whaaaat noooo im normal you're the weirdo amirite #spooky month pump #spooky month bob #bob velseb #also no i don't think pump is part of the cult nor that bob is related to moloch is just their go to assumption #bob velsen #bob velseb fanart #i really really like pump i want to give him a full sized Snickers bar #spooky month fanart #I realize i should have an art tag so #my art

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byrdblood · 1 year

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"lifetime achievement award" but playing from, like, 3 apartments down at a frat party and you've had the worst day of your life

#bob velseb #spooky month #spooky month 5 #sr pelo #my art #listen i firmly headcanon that the amulet gave him the ability to transform #hence the SIGNIFICANT quality increase of his costume and the fact its still on in the autopsy room #but if say he needed to spend lots of that energy healing #healing say 10 bajillion bullet wounds and several encounters with a car #maybe hed be human idk #also mild gore/injury warning

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wondertrio · 4 months

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there’s something odd about the Tinselfoots’ new goat…

#love leaning into wendells cold weather northern farm childhood #and the fact that he looks a bit spooky of course #dnd #wendell

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have-some-facts · 6 months

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Alright

Pigs are cute and all

(I’m going to be talking about some gross topics, including pig cannibalism, murder and complications with pigs)

But also kind of scary

Pigs don’t have the best eyesight and will eat anything edible. Even corpses

After pigs give birth they can sometimes push out some of their organs (of course other animals including humans). Which is called pelvic organ prolapse. This happens when the muscles and ligaments that support the pelvis stretch to much, causing the organs to drop down.

By any other animal you’d want to fixed very soon. Right?

Well by pigs you want this extra fast. That’s because the other pigs will attempt (and likely succeed) to eat the organs that are hanging out of the pig.

First time pig mothers might also attack their own young, leading to either severe wounds or death. The mother pig (sow) will probably eat the dead piglet after.

Like I said, pigs will eat anything. Including humans

There have been several deaths by pigs. I’ll tell you some:

In 2013 a 69 year old farmer was going to feed his pigs. He didn’t come back. When the family came to check on him in the pen they saw a horrible sight. The man’s dentures and some of his remains.

In 2019 a Russian woman fell into an epileptic emergency and got eaten alive

In 2015 a Romanian farmer died due to bloodloss after being attacked by his hogs

In 2014 a two year old child walked into a pig pen and was eaten

In 2013 a mob boss was still alive when he was fed to hogs by a rival family. People still whisper that they use those hogs to dispose of bodies

And there’s more

#pigs #spooky facts #cannibalistic #fun facts #animal facts #fun facts with idi

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vellichorom · 27 days

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i'm TELLING you spooky month fever has gripped me by the throat so HERE'S a little something based off of a little roleplay between my beloved sibling & i ~

worry not, she made it! god struck bob down at the last minute