New Additions to my Photo Collection

I have 3 new additions to my Vintage Photo Collection, the first two I bought for 50p each from an Antiques market in Oxford, the third one is an Etsy find

This one is a Christmas card with the message handwritten on the back, I find it so beautiful



This one seems to be a little novelty picture done at seaside resorts where you had a photograph taken with your weight on the top as you stand on Scales, kinda weird, but I guess people weren't so bothered by their weight in those days



and finally a print from an old glass negative of a dead child

My Book Collection

Heres some amazing images from my book collection, just thought I'd share afew

These are from the found photography books 'anonymous' and Being Human







afew from the book 'Secret Games'





Wisconsin death trip

Missed Call

I'm passing this on from www.postsecret.com cause its totally heartbreaking, the message was sent to postsecret along with this email
"This is the last thing I heard from my girlfriend in January of 2009. It was right before she took her own life. I didn't answer the phone because I was in class, and have regretted it ever since."

Missed Phone Call by eflore7

Anneliese Michel

I just finished watching 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose' and thought i'd look into the 'true' story behind the film.
Anneliese Michel (1952–1976) was a Catholic woman from Germany who was said to be possessed by six or more demons , including Lucifer, Judas Iscariot, Nero, Cain, and Hitler.



In 1968, when she was 17, Anneliese began to suffer from convulsions. It was then that a neurologist at the Psychiatric Clinic Wurzburg diagnosed her with Grand Mal epilepsy.

Soon, Anneliese started experiencing hallucinations while praying and she carried out a number of highly disturbing actions. She licked her own urine off the floor and ate flies, spiders, and coal. She bit off the head of a dead bird. In one instance, she crawled under a table and barked like a dog for two days. She could often be heard screaming through the walls for hours.
An exorcist from a nearby town examined Anneliese and concluded that she was demonically possessed.

In 1975, her parents gave up on the doctors from the psychiatric clinic. They chose to rely solely on the exorcisms and the church for healing.
Anneliese endured 67 rites of exorcism over a period of 10 months. Over time, the ligaments in her knees ruptured due to the 600 genuflections that she performed obsessively during each exorcism session.



According to the autopsy, on July 1, 1976 Anneliese Michel succumbed to the effects of severe dehydration and malnourishment.

At the time of her death, she weighed only 68 lbs. from almost a year of semi-starvation during the rites of exorcism. She was also suffering from pneumonia and a high fever.

She was buried next to her illegitimate sister Martha at the outer edges of the cemetery. This area is normally reserved for illegitimate children and suicides.

During the trial in 1978, there were four defendants. They were Father Arnold Renz, Pastor Ernst Alt, and Anneliese Michel's parents, Josef and Anna. All four were found guilty of negligent homicide and sentenced to six months in prison, suspended with three years' probation.

Was she really possessed?

This video plays the some of the tape recordings of the exorcisms

Sleeping Beauty 3

So it arrived, my amazing book, sleeping beauty 3, I love it soo much, its signed by Stanley Burnes. Its a smaller that the previous ones, but I quite like its small size, kinda like a childrens book, but a terribly sad one.







It came with a postmortem CDV thats so wonderful and delicate, the perfect parcel arriving this morning, has made my day :)

The boy in the box

One of the saddest stories I've come across in a long time is that of the boy in the box


"His given name has eluded police for 43 years, along with the way he met his death.



In life, almost nothing is known about the small child found decades ago in a dumpsite. But in death, he would be embraced by homicide investigators who had seen it all -- except a boy in a box, surrounded by trash and rusty car parts. And generations of Philadelphians would be drawn to him long after he was in the ground. Some still pray for his soul.

The cardboard box -- the first of what would come to be his three graves -- held him only briefly, perhaps a few days or weeks. After months on a cold slab in the city morgue, he was buried in grave No. 191 in a potter's field alongside prisoners, unclaimed bodies and body parts.

He came to his final resting place in 1998, when his body was exhumed for DNA testing and then reburied in a private cemetery.

At first glance, the man who spotted the body thought it might be a discarded doll. But it was of a boy of about 4, left in a box marked "fragile" and "handle with care," dumped in a rubbish-strewn lot in a desolate wooded area on the city's northern fringes. The nude, badly bruised body, covered by a blanket, wasn't even big enough to fill the box."

His original gravestone simply read "Heavenly Father, Bless This Unknown Boy."






For more information on the case visit - http://americasunknownchild.net/

Mothman?

I watched 'The Mothman Prophecies' at the weekend, and I had forgotten what it was about, but I enjoyed it alot more second time around, and it certainly got me thinking and wanting to look into the apparently true story of the mysterious 'mothman'.
While looking for more information I came across alot of similar bird men type things that have been reported all over the world, seems kind of weird and I think there has to be something in it.
The mothman that the film is based on is one from West Virginia, it was reported in a town called Point Pleasant for afew months before the collapse of the silver brigde. It is thought this 'mothman' figure appears before a major tradgedy, the appearances are often accompanied by strange dreams and frightening phone calls to people in the local area.
these are some drawings done by witnesses, showing what they saw, the figure is described as being around 8 foot tall





Other similar reports come from a Village in Cornwall, this time described as an owl man, this drawing was done by a young girl who supposedly saw this creature hovering around a church tower



we find another similar story known as The Black Bird of Chernobyl.
Menacing phone calls and terrifying dreams began mid April 1986 and contuinued untill the bird was last seen flying away from the smoke after the nuclear disaster at the end of April, workers described it as "a large, dark, headless man with gigantic wings and fiery eyes."



Could 'spring heeled Jack' of Victorian London be derived from the same strange entitiy? But just twisted to fit into a Penny Dreadful



These creatures are all terrifyingly similar, I think there could be something in it