The Curse Of The Mummy

Saw this prop on Grandin Road's Halloween Haven.  I wonder if this Peruvian person ever figured they'd be made into a Halloween prop.  This has to somehow result in a curse.  It HAS to.  How can it not?

The real mummy...

The Grandin Road variety (I wonder if this is the first time a Halloween decoration has been made based on a real corpse).  It's actually a very cool product. 

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Pumpkin Scrap

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The Children

So peculiar.  More of an art installation?  A message?  I wonder how people reacted to seeing this on Halloween night. 

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Disturbia

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Euthanasia Coaster

The Euthanasia Coaster is an art concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers.  In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives "with elegance and euphoria".  As for practical applications of his design, Urbonas mentioned "euthanasia" or "execution".  John Allen, who served as president of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, inspired Urbonas with his description of the ideal roller coaster as one that "sends out 24 people and they all come back dead".  As a hypothetical means of euthanasia, the design led to concern from anti-euthanasia association Care Not Killing.

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Attics

The attic in this house came with a big lock on the attic door which is located in the ceiling of the main bedroom. Last night I removed the hardware so I could sand, fill the holes, and repaint. It was an old nasty thing.


And I'm sure that's where my ghost story begins.



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Very Long Fingers

My brother sent me this news item:

PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. (WPIX) [SOURCE HERE]

An alleged mutated human body washed ashore on Plumb Island, a small island where the U.S. Government typically studies dangerous animal diseases.

A security guard on foot patrol reportedly discovered the clothed decomposing body Thursday afternoon on the southwest beach area of the island, where access is restricted, police said.

The body was described as that of a white male about 6-feet tall with a large build and "very long" fingers. According to authorities, there were no obvious signs of trauma.

An autopsy will be conducted by the Suffolk County medical examiner in order to determine an exact cause of death.

Plum Island, which is located about 100 miles northeast of New York City in the Long Island Sound, has been called a potential target for terrorists because of its stock of vaccines and diseases.

I wonder how long the fingers were. For someone to mention them, I'm assuming they needed to be at LEAST an inch or more longer than normal human fingers. I mean, if I found a body and felt compelled to include finger length in addition to body length, the fingers would be about a foot long each.

There's not a lot of information about human finger length on the internet. It seems the recorded data is all about deformities or Marfan's syndrome, and not natural aberrations.

So how long were this poor man's fingers?

Don't Desecrate The Dead

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