Halloween!
Category: creepy
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Back to School, Kids!
From the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. See more photos from the exhibit at The Terrifying Human Oddities This Man Collected Will Haunt Your Dreams.
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Corpse-eating Cats
I am working on a story with a cat who is found feasting on a dead body. I’ve always been intrigued by stories of cat owners who are eaten by their pets. When I was a teenager, there was a story in my neighbourhood of an old woman who was found in her home weeks after she had died, and she had been mostly eaten by her four cats. Such pragmatic creatures.
Visit Body of dead cat lover ‘gnawed and eaten’ by her own pets as she lay undiscovered for weeks for a reported incident of a woman who was found with body parts completely eaten away by her cats.
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Spontaneous Human Combustion
I’ve always been fascinated by spontaneous human combustion. These 10 cases of spontaneous human combustion are very interesting recorded examples.
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Necropants
Yesterday, I went to visit an exhibit about Vikings with a couple of good friends. As we toured the exhibit, one of my friends asked me, “Have you heard of necropants?”
And here are a pair — well, a replica of a pair.
Necropants are part of Icelandic magic folklore from the 17th century. Wearing these pants are meant to guarantee your wealth, but getting a pair involves finding a living man willing to donate his skin to you after he dies, and a coin from a widow (in one account, I read that the widow had to be of the guy whose legs you are about to wear) during a Christmas or Easter. You place the coin in the scrotum of the pants to ensure your wealth. What is worse, I think, is that you are supposed to wear them from that point on and then make sure to get them off before you die.
The following video does a good job of explaining the zany rules around making the necropants work.
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Horror Short: Tea Time
My favourite kind of horror story is short and packed with discomfort, gore and narrative. This horror short video is a perfect example.
The Devil's Muse 