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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees
Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 176.248.120.78
| Posted on Friday, October 18, 2013 - 04:25 pm: | |
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=90403 Some are from movies, some seem to be random, weird old photos and a couple might be genuine old medical shots, in case anyone doesn't want to see anything like that. |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.237.187.186
| Posted on Friday, October 18, 2013 - 07:07 pm: | |
Yikes! The stuff of nightmares there, David. Thanks for that! |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.134.108.8
| Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2013 - 01:19 am: | |
Good stuff |
Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.24.62.55
| Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2013 - 11:19 am: | |
I like the idea of psyching myself up to look at a series of images that are supposed to creep me out. As long as there's no snuff stuff! Here goes... with my selection of the most personally creepy image to follow. Deep breath. Think of this as a psychological experiment. I'm going in! |
Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.24.62.55
| Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2013 - 11:35 am: | |
That wasn't too bad. The image that most resonated with me was the one of the weird line of figures dressed in brown Ku Klux Klan like robes while a normal wedding celebration progresses just the other side of the wall. I feel there is a story there I want to be told. They appear twice and the first rather mundane image is made fascinating by their subtle reappearance. I'm guessing they were taken from a film like many of the other images. Can anyone name it? |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.145.221.126
| Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2013 - 12:01 pm: | |
Actually there's a thread on this board somewhere about that image... The explanation is there. It's not from a film. It's a genuine location with weird statues on the balcony |
David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees
Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 176.248.120.78
| Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2013 - 03:04 pm: | |
Yeah, I posted those images a while back. It was some kind of art installation if I recall correctly. I actually have a Pinterest board set up for weird imagery if anyone fancies a look: http://www.pinterest.com/velesphotos/spooky/ |
Lincoln (Lincoln_brown)
Username: Lincoln_brown
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 101.119.29.106
| Posted on Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 03:14 am: | |
Some great images there, David. |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.26.121
| Posted on Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 03:35 pm: | |
Indeed so! I especially like those from Negative Space. |
Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1
| Posted on Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 03:43 pm: | |
Did I dream an image of a horribly fast slithery giant flatworm type creature hurtling through a crowd of terrified people in what looked like leisure centre changing rooms? Some people actually tried to leap on the thing and stop it! I'd have been up the nearest wall screaming my lungs out ffs!!!! |
David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees
Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 176.248.120.78
| Posted on Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 09:38 pm: | |
Yes, that Negative Space was quite a good Tumblr blog for images like that but I had to stop following it, as they just posted so much stuff every day I couldn't keep up. It ended up making going through my dashboard a chore, sadly. |
Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.24.62.55
| Posted on Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 10:47 pm: | |
Jesus! Went through them again and I must have dreamt it. Where the hell did that image come from? It looked like a giant, man-sized, liver fluke and rippled horribly as it shot across the tiled floor before impossibly vanishing down a small drain opening. People were scattering in front of it and a couple tried to leap on the thing and stop it escaping but could get no kind of grip on it. The image was from above and at an angle in grainy black & white as if captured on a surveillance camera. I must have seen this somewhere or else it was a fragmentary memory of a dream. I've always been terrified of things like flatworms, flukes, tapeworms and leeches. Shudder... |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.237.187.186
| Posted on Friday, October 25, 2013 - 12:42 am: | |
Been eating cheese before bed, Stevie? |
Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1
| Posted on Friday, October 25, 2013 - 12:00 pm: | |
That must be it, Caroline. I do love cheese! |
David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees
Registered: 12-2011 Posted From: 176.248.120.78
| Posted on Friday, October 25, 2013 - 04:11 pm: | |
I've tried some Google searches to find that video, or anything similar, but haven't had any luck Stevie. I'd love to see it if it is real. |
Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1
| Posted on Friday, October 25, 2013 - 04:29 pm: | |
I freaked myself out last night searching for "giant liver fluke/flatworm" on google and was rather relieved to hear that the real "giant liver fluke" lives inside a Canadian deer and is only an inch and a quarter long - THANK FUCK!!!! Although I do remember a story related in an old issue of 'Fortean Times' (I think) about a Japanese whaling ship having to hose a squirming, slithering avalanche of huge intestinal parasites off the deck when they cut open a particularly deep diving sperm whale - with strange plate-sized sucker marks along its flanks. The creatures were each about four foot long and the crew could not be sure they had flushed all of them overboard. Anyone for sushi? |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.237.187.186
| Posted on Friday, October 25, 2013 - 10:13 pm: | |
Now I feel really sick! I must say, I have a bit of a fear of intestinal parasites. It stems from our biology lab at school ... and the pickled tape worms they had in jars on the window ledge. Used to freak me out - I couldn't sit on that side of the room but always had to be by the door instead! Did anyone else have that kind of thing in their biology lab at school? Thinking back, it seems such a strange thing to keep in a school! |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.27.144.213
| Posted on Saturday, October 26, 2013 - 01:39 am: | |
If anyone wants to explore the topic of horrible invertebrates, the following are well worth hunting down: Horacio Quiroga, 'The Feather Pillow' John B.L. Goodwin, 'The Cocoon' Carl Jacobi, 'Mive' Clark Ashton Smith, 'The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis' Brian Lumley, 'Haggopian' E.F. Benson, 'Caterpillars' Three of those stories are about parasites. Which are probably the most disturbing creatures in the world, whether they crawl in our guts, run our banks or speculate with our savings. |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.134.106.233
| Posted on Saturday, October 26, 2013 - 02:12 am: | |
The Cocoon is one of my all time favourite horror stories. I currently have it in a collection edited by Bradbury (but the name escapes me at the moment). Scary stuff indeed. |
Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw
Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.24.62.55
| Posted on Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 12:00 pm: | |
I've only read two of the above stories, Joel, and I agree with Weber that 'The Cocoon' (1946) is an all-time favourite. It can be found in 'The 6th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories' (1971). A truly nightmarish yarn! The E.F. Benson story, 'Caterpillars' (1912), is also unforgettably horrific and I'd include it in a number of squirmy invertebrate monster horrors of his; 'The Thing In The Hall' (1912), 'Negotium Perambulans' (1922) & 'And No Bird Sings' (1928). I read his complete horror short stories collection over last Christmas and would rank it second only to the complete M.R. James as a single author collection. A truly wonderful epic spinechiller of a volume! |