March 2011
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The Murder of Katie McCarron
Karen and Paul McCarron’s first child was Katherine, diagnosed with autism in 2004. In September of that year, Paul and Katie moved to North Carolina to live with her paternal grandmother. This move was made so Katie could attend The Mariposa School in Cary, North Carolina, a special school for children with autism and related disorders. Paul and Katie returned home to Illinois on...
Mar 31st
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Folie à deux - A Madness Shared by Two
Folie à deux is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another. Margaret and her husband Michael, both aged 34 years, were discovered to be suffering from folie à deux when they were both found to be sharing similar persecutory delusions (Enoch and Ball, 2001). They believed that certain persons were entering their house, spreading...
Mar 30th
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Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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“Everybody’s looking for something to blame because they don’t want to look...”
– Charles Manson (via lady-madonna)
Mar 28th
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Mar 28th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 25th
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Mar 24th
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“Horror is the removal of masks”
– — Robert Bloch
Mar 23rd
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Mar 23rd
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“Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English...”
–  Stephen King
Mar 22nd
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Mar 21st
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“Death was in that poisonous wave, And in its gulf a fitting grave For him who...”
– Edgar Allan Poe, The Lake (1827)
Mar 20th
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Pascualita
In Chihuahua, Mexico, local rumor has it that this mannequin, known as “Pascualita,” is actually an embalmed body. According to legend, a lady named Pascuala Esparza owned a wedding boutique in the city, making dresses for soon-to-be brides. Her own daughter, Pascualita, was engaged to be married, so Pascuala set about to make her a special dress. Everything was planned when, on the day of...
Mar 20th
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Mar 19th
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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
– Edgar Allan Poe, 1827
Mar 19th
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renlei asked: inlove with your blog~
Mar 19th
mrspotatodick asked: I read christopher pike religiously. wanna be fwiends
Mar 19th
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“And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.”
– Edgar Allan Poe, The Conquerer Worm (1837)
Mar 18th
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Mar 18th
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“It was the devil that was omnipresent. It was the dead who squeezed the living...”
– Christopher Pike, The Cold One (1994)
Mar 18th
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Mar 17th
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: Schrödinger's cat →
tamburina: Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment, usually described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. The thought experiment presents a cat that might be alive or dead, depending on an earlier random event. In the course of developing this experiment, he coined the term Verschränkung (entanglement). A cat, along with a flask containing a poison and a...
Mar 17th
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“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death,...”
– The Book of Revelation (6:8)
Mar 16th
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