Scary pictures (Like toy subject)
JAMES BUCHMAN
Polar Bear
JAMES BUCHMAN <FUNKYF...@webtv.net> wrote:
: since i was born (1978 also). They stare at you the whole time your down
: there and sometimes id swear the lady winks at me. Its all my mind but
: it is freaky.
I've always found the photos taken at the turn-of-the-century
scary. For some reason the photographic processes of the time
gave people really evil-looking eyes! The photo of
the famous Margaret "Molly" Brown (the "Unsinkable Molly Brown")
on her family web-site comes to mind.
And so do the pictures of the Sikh soldiers in colonial Singapore.
Those photos and their reputation as fierce fighters have always
put me in great awe of them!
Colin.
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>My aunt has a down stairs in their house that they dont really use at
>all. It used to be used so much when her son and his family lived down
>there. The place seems creepy but nothing really is out of the ordinary
>there. There is two 18x24 pictures of a man and women on the wall and
>they came from spain in 1978. They look so freaky and ive not liked them
>since i was born (1978 also). They stare at you the whole time your down
>there and sometimes id swear the lady winks at me. Its all my mind but
>it is freaky.
>
Back in the late 60's, we went to visit distant relatives at a farm in Indiana.
We were not exactly happy as kids to be there.....BORING. They put us up in a
room with a very creepy picture of a kid of 12- or so. It was a real old pic
and my older sister was terrified of it. She was so upset that it got me scared
too. She kept saying that the pic was watching her and that the lips kept
moving as if to speak to her. We found out later that days after the picture
was taken, he had been killied in an accidental shooting there at the farm.
PJ
Rashid1116
Now , my parents have a scary picture ! It's not actually a picture , it's a
painting. It's huge and it's of an old man holding a glass of wine . They used
to have it hanging in the house , but now it has been banished to the garage.
The eyes follow you everywhere , the old man is freaky looking..white hair ,
old fashioned clothes , wrinkled face.
When we were kids , my couisins and I used to scare ourselves silly looking at
it . Once we wanted to shoot it with a bee bee gun , but were too afraid to do
it !
Melissa R. :)
Argyle me
PJ wrote:
>They put us up in a
>room with a very creepy picture of a kid of 12- or so. It was a real old pic
>and my older sister was terrified of it. She was so upset that it got me
>scared
>too. She kept saying that the pic was watching her and that the lips kept
>moving as if to speak to her. We found out later that days after the picture
>was taken, he had been killied in an accidental shooting there at the farm.
awwww...that's so sad. my mom has a copy of a pic of a cousin of my great
grandma who drowned when she was 14. and she was a pretty girl too
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Kai Miakoda
Polar Bear wrote:
>
> JAMES BUCHMAN <FUNKYF...@webtv.net> wrote:
>
> : since i was born (1978 also). They stare at you the whole time your down
> : there and sometimes id swear the lady winks at me. Its all my mind but
> : it is freaky.
>
> scary. For some reason the photographic processes of the time
> gave people really evil-looking eyes! The photo of
> the famous Margaret "Molly" Brown (the "Unsinkable Molly Brown")
> on her family web-site comes to mind.
>
> And so do the pictures of the Sikh soldiers in colonial Singapore.
> Those photos and their reputation as fierce fighters have always
> put me in great awe of them!
>
> Colin.
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Just like pics of John Brown, they spook me out. His eyes are just
really eerie.
Kai
John Shue
My neighbor had this painting of an old Spanish sea captain that is really
freaky.
Its all dark and moody and every time I visited her, I had to run past that
painting because I couldn't stand to have its eyes following me. It later
turned out that this neighbor was heavily involved in the occult.
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schadow<chaser?>
You have been talking about winking posters and old daguerrotypes... so
I got to share a story as well...
The case I'm going to tell you about was hardly of ghostly nature, but
here it is:
About 2 years ago I stayed at my friend in a small town. His father was
a policemen all his life, and we were sitting in his room talking about
crimes and such (it was late evening). Janis told me about an old
unsolved case: the cemetery guard (sic) was brutally killed. The
tormentors put a wire through his ears, poked knives into his eyes, and
shoved anything they could get into each hole of their victim's body,
making him look like an inferior woodoo doll. Janis' father was
investigating that case, but fruitlesly. After telling this Janis
offered me to have a look at the photograph of the victim taken at the
site immedeately after the police had arrived. I thoughtlessly agreed
(stupid!).
Janis stood up, unlocked a cabinet, drew a b/w photo sized about 3x4"
and gave it to me. I carelessly glanced at it and in a 1/10th of second
I was blasted to the bed, head buried in the pillow, breathing as hard
is if I were going to have a heart attack, the general sensation was
that of an electric shock. It took me about 10 min. to recover... and
still what I saw haunted my mind - in that 1/10th of a second I
percieved a middle-aged man, with thick electric wire sticking out of
his ears, knives sticking out of his eyes (eye liquid leaking down the
cheecks) etc. I still feel shrill horror at recollecting that second...
That was the moment of the >severest< horror I >ever< experienced. I
even admit there was some energy about that pic, for I was blasted >as
soon as< I looked at it.
Some time after we were going to bed, and I saw Janis put the picture in
the same cabinet... Ha ha, I'd rather have slept my whole life in the
streets than a night in the room where the picture was, so I forced him
to put it in the farthest corner of the kitchen and had nightmares all
night through.
What is really strange - I have seen loads of loathsome pictures showing
human decay and such (at alt.binaries.grotesque, for instance), they had
due effect on me, but my impressions from such photos weren't even a
pallid shade of that peerless horror I told you about.
And you talk about posters...
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Reality? Is that where the pizza delivery guy comes from?
dragonfly
my mum told me that in my aunties house there used to be a toy clown, a
wooden puppet, hanging at the bottom of their stairs. my cousin (whos now
27 or somewhere close) always hated that clown but could never explain
why. i haven't ever seen it *shrug* but i don't like clowns & this was
supposed to be a really scary puppet..
*shudders* on the wall behind me is the head of an old man its wooden &
the mans face is carved out & hes wearing a hat. you think its ok when you
first see it, but when you look again you notice that the only thing that
*really* sticks out, are the eyes. which are painted which & are looking
sideways. its *so* menacing its unbelievable :)
>My aunt has a down stairs in their house that they dont really use at
>all. It used to be used so much when her son and his family lived down
>there. The place seems creepy but nothing really is out of the ordinary
>there. There is two 18x24 pictures of a man and women on the wall and
>they came from spain in 1978. They look so freaky and ive not liked them
>since i was born (1978 also). They stare at you the whole time your down
>there and sometimes id swear the lady winks at me. Its all my mind but
>it is freaky.
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garbage
John Patrick Riley
You know, nobody on the group has come forward to defend clowns! Do all of his
here hate/fear them universally? There do seem to be some characteristics that
many of us in this newsgroup have in common. We once found that almost
everyone here is a cat owner, for example. Interesting. -John
LITTLEPJoo
>John Patrick Riley wrote:
>You know, nobody on the group has come forward to defend clowns! Do all of
>his
>here hate/fear them universally? There do seem to be some characteristics
>that
>many of us in this newsgroup have in common. We once found that almost
>everyone here is a cat owner, for example. Interesting. -John
>
Good point. Another obvious is that we all rather enjoy getting the cr*p
scared out of us. I wonder what other things there might be........
PJ
JENNINE CIMILDORA
Well, since you mention it I have no fear of clowns or clown dolls or
clown toys. I just never posted it because I post too much already, and
believe it or not, I try to choose the things I post to to cut down on
my need for tactilely stimulating the tips of my fingers. ;)
John Patrick Riley wrote:
>
> You know, nobody on the group has come forward to defend clowns!
<snipped for brevity>
Polar Bear
John Patrick Riley <rile...@centuryinter.net> wrote:
: You know, nobody on the group has come forward to defend clowns! Do all of his
: here hate/fear them universally? There do seem to be some characteristics that
: many of us in this newsgroup have in common. We once found that almost
: everyone here is a cat owner, for example. Interesting. -John
I don't. I find them amusing, just like they're meant to be.
I also find them poignant. I once saw a photo of a clown
after a show. He had taken off his cap, and he looked so sad.
I found this poignant coz many of them spend all their
efforts making children happy, when for some of them happiness
eludes them.
Cheerz!
Skye
Okay so some people are scared of clowns and some are amused by them. Am I the only person in the world who is annoyed by them? Them and magicians. They annoy me. I feel like they are just liars in weird clothes.
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IShue
>You know, nobody on the group has come forward to defend clowns! Do all of
>his
>here hate/fear them universally?
Clowns are eveeeelll. (Austin Powers reference!) Carny folk - small hands...
any way I digress.
There's something sinister about a carnival just appearing out of nowhere, in
the dark of night, just like one a friend of mine and I were driving by. She
said "Dude, where the heck did that circus come from?" We both got creeped out
by it.
Life is not as it appears;
Neither is it otherwise.
--- Zen Koan
dragonfly
*screams* i'm going to stop reading IT at the moment.. maybe i'll put it in
the freezer.. does anyone else do that? if they're scared of a book, they put
it in the freezer? (btw, i *didn't* get it from FRIENDS.. i've *always* done
it.. it helps me)
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dragonfly wrote:
>*screams* i'm going to stop reading IT at the moment.. maybe i'll put it in
>the freezer.. does anyone else do that? if they're scared of a book, they put
>it in the freezer? (btw, i *didn't* get it from FRIENDS.. i've *always* done
>it.. it helps me)
hmmm...I've never done that, personally. maybe it's your way of cooling off the
action. : )
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Whisper2i
> does anyone else do that? if they're scared of a book, they put
>>it in the freezer?
I tried reading the book "desperation" by stephen king. Iv read all his books,
no problem,,,this one for some reason i couldnt read. I wanted to,,but every
time i started reading it, my mind wouldnt concentrate,,after about a month of
this,,"something" told me to get rid of the book, and not read it. I did,,,i
also told my mom about it, she read it first,,and she said that was the only
time she ever had a problem reading a book, and that what usually took her 2
days to read, took her a month. She said she felt like she shouldnt read
it,but was stubborn and did anyway. Just an odd thing, i thought id share.
John
I've only seen one doll I havn't liked, It was last summer, I was baby
sitting and it was just me and the little 5 year old boy there and I had
sent him to go take a nap and he left this doll in there because he didn't
like being alone with it, I thought he was kinda silly (By the way it was a
baby micky mouse doll) so it just sat there in the floor by the couch
staring up at me while I was watching TV, it kinda freaked me out for some
reason, I don't remember what I did with it I think I either just turned it
around or threw it back in his room when he was asleep hehe:) BTW I'm 6' 1"
170lbs guy:) stupid doll.....hehe
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dragonfly
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*laughs* no. i just put it in there to stop the thing coming out ..
dragonfly
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>> does anyone else do that? if they're scared of a book, they put
>>>it in the freezer?
>
>no problem,,,this one for some reason i couldnt read. I wanted to,,but every
>time i started reading it, my mind wouldnt concentrate,,after about a month of
>this,,"something" told me to get rid of the book, and not read it. I did,,,i
>also told my mom about it, she read it first,,and she said that was the only
>time she ever had a problem reading a book, and that what usually took her 2
>days to read, took her a month. She said she felt like she shouldnt read
>it,but was stubborn and did anyway. Just an odd thing, i thought id share.
weird. gotta' get that book now :)
Rayvyn Shadow-Black
<snip desperation>
now which one was the first one? desperation or the other?
Either way.........
The first of the two I found hard to read. I wouldnt put it down yet never
seemed to be getting anywhere.
When commited to a book, what with everyday life going on around me, it
usually takes 3-5 days depending on the type and size of book. I think it
took at least 2 months to read the first one.
The second of the two I have yet to finish and I started it last year,
probably early in the year. Just couldnt read it and yet to finish it
either.
Wierd that its happened to other people too. :)
Rayvyn
Richard Kiene
My daughter got a Clown piggy bank for her birthday one year. Guess I
shouldn't have shown her the movie "IT". Now I've got a weird piggy
bank!!!
scratchie
Skye
I usually devour Stephen King books. I haven't read Desperation or The Regulators yet, but Insomnia took me months to read, instead of just a few days like usual.
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Josh Laird
Has anyone ever had nightmares or weird dreams as a result of reading
SK's books? I've read everything he's published except the newest Dark
Tower book. The only stories that have ever given me bothersome dreams
were "The Long Walk" in the Bachman Books and "The Stand." While
reading "The Long Walk" and for a short time after, I had recurring
dreams in which I would be doing any number of ordinary things. But I
knew that if I stopped I would be killed. The only dream that came
about from reading "The Stand" was of myself and about 10 or 15 of my
friends from school. We knew that everyone else was dead, and we were
standing around a swimming pool in a dark room planning our next move.
But the most graphic and 'gross' books didn't bother me at all. Has
anyone else's dreams been affected by his books?
Josh Laird
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Rashid1116
>Iv read all his books,
>no problem,,,this one for some reason i couldnt read. I wanted to,,but every
>time i started reading it, my mind wouldnt concentrate
That happened to me with The Tommyknockers. It took me a couple of months to
read it , sometimes 2 weeks would go by before I would pick it up again.
Melissa R. :)
Jeff
Tommyknockers was one of his only books, that I have read more than
once, but I will admit, that towards the middle (meat) of the book, my
mind did wander alot... thats why I read it again, because Ididnt pick
enough of it up the first time... the second and third times I read it
where like reading a new book!!
BobCat99
>BTW I'm 6' 1"
>170lbs guy
What does BTW mean?
>My daughter got a Clown piggy bank for her birthday one year. Guess I
>shouldn't have shown her the movie "IT". Now I've got a weird piggy
>bank!!!
That must be really scary for a child who saw the movie, "It". My cousin saw
The Exorcist when she was five years old and been scared of it for a long time.
From,
BobCat99