[looktothesky]

This gimme the jibblies:

Now, if that was a GIF, and it blinked, I would have messy pants right now.

[Jane Sherwood]

What about those pictures they used to take of dead people? Not photes of them in coffins or at funeral, I mean the ones where they would just prop the corpse up on a chair or something and snap a picture like they were still alive. The pictures of little kids are the worst - that just seems so...sick...


...that doll is creepy as hell, too. And I'm probably the only one here that actually enjoys most of the nightmares I have (I've even had a few Freddy dreams before! Now those are fun!). Nightmares sort of give me this weird thrill, and I know that if I could just remember them I could write some pretty bad-ass stories.

[Despondent]

The pic of the doll doesn't freak me out per se, but I wouldn't want one in my home.

there was a series of videos in the 80's called faces of death. I never saw them, but they'd show capital punishment, cattle slaughtered and the like. that's what your comment made me think of, Jane. Were those pics shot by folks behind the scenes at a funeral home? sounds like gruesome stuff.

I saw part of some movie called Magic about a ventriloquist controlled by his dummy's alter ego (?) that was pretty freaky. Probably tame to most. I'm not really into the horror genre.

[Heccubus]

I've seen some of the Faces Of Death footage. It's not really freaky, just shudder-worthy.

[looktothesky]

there was a series of videos in the 80's called faces of death. I never saw them, but they'd show capital punishment, cattle slaughtered and the like.

The capital punishment sections of those videos are almost completely fake, or staged. However, the cattle torture was real. The video series 'Faces of Gore' contain actual footage.

(Yes, I have seen portions of both video series. I'm not making a guess here.)

And they are shudder-worthy, but mostly fake. Sorry.

[Emu]

Sounds like sleep paralysis to me, Despondent. We got into a discussion on it once in the Ogrish forum. Something to do with being unable to move and hallucinating. Very odd condition...

Oo, that used to happen to me a lot. It was weird, I thought I was going insane

What about those pictures they used to take of dead people? Not photes of them in coffins or at funeral, I mean the ones where they would just prop the corpse up on a chair or something and snap a picture like they were still alive. The pictures of little kids are the worst - that just seems so...sick... 

Like in that movie "The Others"... Cool movie, freaky photos though. Very grotesque.

[Gleffnork]

Well, you know a photograph was a rare and expensive thing back then, so if t a person died without having one made whilst still alive, that was probably the best time to take one of the corpse. Does that make sense?

[Jane Sherwood]

Not to me at least...it's just a touch too morbid for me to take in, that's all. I understand the stuff about photos being expensive and all that, but still, didn't it disturb the families at all to have a picture of their relatives like that?

This post has been edited by Jane Sherwood: 06 June 2004 - 04:43 PM

[barend]

*flipping through photo album*
okay kids, that's your uncle harold, and as you can see he learned the hard way never to look down the barrel of a gun whilst cleaning it.

[Jane Sherwood]

"...and there's your cousin Sally - she got caught in the machines down in the factory..."

[barend]

...and silly old grand mamma, who left the gas on for a day then lit her pipe...

[Jane Sherwood]

"...and dear old uncle Earl. That bear really did a number on him, didn't she? I suppose he should have known better than to try and take his picture with her cub..."

[Despondent]

In the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum there's a death mask of Twain's infant son. I always thought that was kinda creepy.

I know some people with a painting, a portrait of some female relative who died, and they had this sash hanging in front of part of it to somehow symbolize death, sickness and mourning. I'd rather they hadn't explained it to me.

Went to my Uncle Steve's funeral a couple of weeks ago. It was open casket which is creepy. plus, they shaved his mustache but kept his beard. I'd never seen him without that mustache.

[Jane Sherwood]

Why would they shave his moustache but keep the beard?

[barend]

i watched a documentary on the history of the crash test dummy...

the used to use bodies from the morge wrapped head to toe like a mummy... to test car crash impact... they showed footage of a dead kid in the seat, going through a crash test.

that wasn't the worst thing either...