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[Snytbaggen]

This really creeped me out when I saw it earlier today. I've read it a few times more and still look over my shoulder every time. His other comics (WARNING: cartoon boob) are also really awesome, although not really creepy.

 

[Übermatik]

Fantastic!

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

I admit I looked. There was a just a feeling that I had to.

When all was said and done, I wasn't THAT creeped out by it, but I thought it was VERY well done and got a lot of enjoyment out of it.

 

[Hilbert]

I admit I looked. There was a just a feeling that I had to.

When all was said and done, I wasn't THAT creeped out by it, but I thought it was VERY well done and got a lot of enjoyment out of it.

I enjoyed the comic quite a bit, although I forced myself not to look.

 

[mantidor]

That is kind of cute, is a little lamb! or am I missing something here?

 

[indigo-cyclops]

I am only creeped out by a few select works by Zdzisław Beksiński.

Always love seeing a Beksinski shout-out. The dude is absolutely brilliant.

 

[Melchiah]

That is kind of cute, is a little lamb! or am I missing something here?

The empty eyes, that seem to bleed black, or at least that's the way I saw it.

 

[Endo Punk]

I came across this creepy music video a while back. It used puppetry and claymation, also had a nice beat. Very gothic in tone too, if it has been posted here can some link me to it please or rather post the link again

 

[YesNOnoNOYes]

That's a very cute comic. I love it!

 

[Melchiah]

I came across this creepy music video a while back. It used puppetry and claymation, also had a nice beat. Very gothic in tone too, if it has been posted here can some link me to it please or rather post the link again

Sounds like Tool. Dunno about the video, but here are the YouTube search results for Tool.
http://www.youtube.com/results?sear....0.0.0.63.225.4.4.0...0.0...1ac.1.dZJNLiSkG5M

 

[Endo Punk]

Sounds like Tool. Dunno about the video, but here are the YouTube search results for Tool.
http://www.youtube.com/results?sear....0.0.0.63.225.4.4.0...0.0...1ac.1.dZJNLiSkG5M

I don't believe it was a band song. Basically animation with clay and disturbing surreal images and a nurse or two. Prob took place in a hospital as well. I'll try to find it and post if can.

 

[Melchiah]

I don't believe it was a band song. Basically animation with clay and disturbing surreal images and a nurse or two. Prob took place in a hospital as well. I'll try to find it and post if can.

Well, Tool's videos tend to feature clay-like animation, and surreal images. Dunno about nurses or hospitals though.

 

[Melchiah]

By Dave Irvine, http://www.gnarledbranch.com/

 

[Henke]

Well, Tool's videos tend to feature clay-like animation, and surreal images. Dunno about nurses or hospitals though.

They're also fucking incredible too.

 

[Melchiah]

The overlook abandoned hotel
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andregovia/sets/72157627707127762/

The exploration of this long abandoned hotel was truly an unsettling experience. Everybody had camera problems, curtains move, weird sounds, doors shutting and you have the feeling you are being watched every step you take.left to sit for over 12 years in the woods ,the decay was creeping around fast now ,the damp carpets and walls could be smelt ,the hotel is alarmed so our explore was short ,with a few broken windows around that had been fixed someone was looking after this 100 year old hotel ,over 350 rooms on 5 floors with casino and the mood that we were not welcome .i was looking around at all times ,Glass cups covered in thick dust and plates sitting on the tables very creepy ,the silence was like that of snow .the bars were still stocked ,just like the hotel just locked the doors and the people left.too much to say about this place ,we almost tripped the motion sensors around the doors so could not see all of this vast complex ! this hotel was the same as the hotel from the film the shining ! sounds funny but the retro horror film vibe here was strong for sure ,I can almost say i was a litttle frightened in here for some reason.

You wonder why the hotel was abandoned all of a sudden, everything is still there, it seems as if people ran away and never returned.

Overlook hotel abandoned and closed down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a96upe6z2Y

 

[Kenka]

Where is that hotel if real ?

 

[Melchiah]

Where is that hotel if real ?

This is the hotel, that inspired Stephen King: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanley_Hotel
And this is the hotel, that was used for the film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timberline_Lodge

I dunno where the pics have actually been taken. It could be, that he's just photoshopped the pics.

 

[dafrocka]

 

[Hilbert]

This is the hotel, that inspired Stephen King: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanley_Hotel
And this is the hotel, that was used for the film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timberline_Lodge

I dunno where the pics have actually been taken. It could be, that he's just photoshopped the pics.

Damn, I was hoping it was a new resident evil game.

 

[dosh]

You really need to take a look at this thread.
Tons of great stuff. I'm honestly surprised to realize Melchiah hasn't posted over there yet

 

[Nizz]

Pics of people with pitch black eyes look soulless. I think that's why the stories of Black Eyed Kids always fascinate me.

 

[mantidor]

ooops double post

 

[mantidor]

I knew I've seen something about that here.

I also saw an article about the top 10 list of abandoned hospitals, freaking creepy. Some insane, crazy people do Halloween parties and tours on these places, I don't think I'll be able to, but I also can't deny I'm terribly curious about spending a night.

Tried to find the article but really an google result for top 10 abandoned anything will be good.

fake edit: ok I found it, what was really interesting is that they are "open for exploration", one of them is actually owned by a guy who offers ghost tours.

http://www.nileguide.com/blog/2010/...n-hospitals-and-asylums-open-for-exploration/

some pics from the article:

some choice of quotes:

Although the staff must have been terribly overworked, the administration wasn’t innocent – documented acts of torture by the wardens read like a horror movie. Rudimentary full frontal lobotomies were performed with ice picks, patients were placed in solitary confinement for weeks upon weeks, vicious inmates were left to terrorize other patients, and tens of thousands died over the years, many from unnatural causes, buried in mass graves in the hospital’s cemetery.

Like many similar institutions, once WWII vets returned from the war, the influx of PTSD patients into the asylum was overwhelming. The institution was completely unequipped to treat so many sick people, and suicides, starvation, horrendous neglect, and escapes were reported.

The horrors of Byberry continued for many years. After failing inspection after inspection through the 1980s, stories continued to emerge about patient abuse, including one who claims he was shackled to his bed for 14 months straight. Another claimed that a female patient was murdered by another patient, who dismembered her body and hid it around the hospital. The killer escaped and was never found.

 

[Melchiah]

You really need to take a look at this thread.
Tons of great stuff. I'm honestly surprised to realize Melchiah hasn't posted over there yet

Heh, I didn't know there was such a thread, as I haven't visited Off-Topic in a couple of days, but I do now. Thanks for the heads up. =)

 

[Melchiah]

 

[Phonomezer]

Pics of people with pitch black eyes look soulless. I think that's why the stories of Black Eyed Kids always fascinate me.

I had an "experience" last week on the train, not sure if I was just imagining things or being influenced by the shit I've read online, but this guy and I were the only people at the end of the cart (midday), sitting opposite each other.

He then just leans over towards me with most of his body in the isle, staring at me for a full 2 or 3 minutes. His eyes were really black, not the whole eyeball though. I was so uncomfortable, I didn't know where to look; felt like an eternity.

In reality though, he was either a tad touched in the head or just cruising. Shame, he was quite cute

 

[Woody Invincible]

I had an "experience" last week on the train, not sure if I was just imagining things or being influenced by the shit I've read online, but this guy and I were the only people at the end of the cart (midday), sitting opposite each other.

He then just leans over towards me with most of his body in the isle, staring at me for a full 2 or 3 minutes. His eyes were really black, not the whole eyeball though. I was so uncomfortable, I didn't know where to look; felt like an eternity.

In reality though, he was either a tad touched in the head or just cruising. Shame, he was quite cute

He was following Dating-Age's advise to not look away, asserting his alpha on you. You could have had a gaffer, and you let it slip away.

 

[Phonomezer]

Nah, I would've had a streetpass hit at least

 

[Hydrargyrus]

From this morning

 

[mantidor]

From this morning

I have to be honest that is kind of amazing.


Don't know why this thread reminded me of a horrible nightmare I had with my grandmother, she was alive, but she became gradually really menacing, first she gave me something, and I woke up, or at least I thought so, then I saw a shadow beneath the door, and went to check completely terrified, then I woke up again in my room, pinching me and making it sure it was not a dream, I got up ad go to the dark kitchen to just see her shadow in the back, I woke up again, absolutely terrified and unable to get out of that cycle, then I hear her like if she was dragging chains and saying "brains" but in a really disturbing tone, then I woke up again and she is in front of me, but much older and paler than how she was, and she is very angry at me about something, at this point I'm so terrified actually my screams woke me up for good.

It was the most disturbing because I loved her very much and her death was incredibly painful, I hate how the mind is able of such perversions, because I can't think of another word to describe that nightmare.

 

[Melchiah]

http://cogitz.com/2009/08/24/sokushinbutsu-self-mummified-monks/

Sokushinbutsu: Self-mummified Monks

Scattered throughout Northern Japan are two dozen mummified Japanese monks known as Sokushinbutsu. Followers of Shugendô, an ancient form of Buddhism, the monks died in the ultimate act of self-denial.

The actual practice was first pioneered by a priest named Kuukai over 1000 years ago at the temple complex of Mount Koya, in Wakayama prefecture. Kuukai was founder of the Shingon sect of Buddhism, which is the sect that came up with the idea of enlightenment through physical punishment. There were three steps in the process of self-mummification that Kuukai proposed, and the full process took upwards of ten years to lead to a successful mummification.

The first step is a change of diet. The priest was only allowed to eat nuts and seeds that could be found in the forests surrounding his temple; this diet had to be stuck to for a 1000 day period, a little under three years. During this time, the priest was to continue to subject himself to all sorts of physical hardship in his daily training. The results were that the body fat of the priest was reduced to nearly nothing, thus removing a section of the body that easily decomposes after death.

In the second stage, the diet became more restrictive. The priest was now only allowed to eat a small amount of bark and roots from pine trees. This had to be endured for another 1000 day period, by the end of which the priest looked like a living skeleton. This also decreased the overall moisture contained in the body; and the less fluid left in the body, the easier to preserve it.

Towards the end of this 1000 day period, the priest also had to start to drink a special tea made from the sap of the urushi tree. This sap is used to make lacquer for bowls and furniture; but it is also very poisonous for most people. Drinking this tea induced vomiting, sweating, and urination, further reducing the fluid content of the priest’s body. But even more importantly, the build up of the poison in the priest’s body would kill any maggots or insects that tried to eat the priest’s remains after death, thus protecting it from yet another source of decay.

The last step of the process was to be entombed alive in a stone room just big enough for a man to sit lotus style in for a final 1000 day period. As long as the priest could ring a bell each day a tube remained in place to supply air; but when the bell finally stopped, the tube was removed and the tomb was sealed. When the tomb was finally opened, the results would be known. Some few would be fully mummified, and immediately be raised to the rank of Buddha; but most just rotted and, while respected for their incredible endurance, were not considered to be Buddhas. These were simply sealed back into their tombs.

The Japanese government outlawed Sokushunbutsu in the late 19th century, though the practice continued into the 20th.

Seems kinda egocentric practise for a monk, as the ultimate goal was to become revered, and raised among the highest.

 

[Kenka]

Outstanding. I didn't know about these practices, much less that they were actually followed.

Damn, those guys had guts (no pun intended).

 

[Scuderia]

Nutters

 

[Canis lupus]

This be photoshopped?

 

[Misterinenja]

This be photoshopped?

She fucked Ted.

 

[slaughterking]

http://i.imgur.com/k1bSD.jpg

That's awesome.

 

[commedieu]

anyone remember the (south african/african?) Painter who did fucked up images, oil paintings.. i think it was in this thread. Was a pretty well known artist..? Smearing faces, blood, tissue, etc..

 

[Frost_Ace]

http://cogitz.com/2009/08/24/sokushinbutsu-self-mummified-monks/

Seems kinda egocentric practise for a monk, as the ultimate goal was to become revered, and raised among the highest.

loved it in SMTIII

 

[Ifrit]

loved it in SMTIII

Well, he's pretty damn awesome in that game

 

[Kenka]

That's Daisoujou, right? I didn't know he was a reference to such extreme self-denial practices.

 

[Sielys]

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

I have to be honest that is kind of amazing.


Don't know why this thread reminded me of a horrible nightmare I had with my grandmother, she was alive, but she became gradually really menacing, first she gave me something, and I woke up, or at least I thought so, then I saw a shadow beneath the door, and went to check completely terrified, then I woke up again in my room, pinching me and making it sure it was not a dream, I got up ad go to the dark kitchen to just see her shadow in the back, I woke up again, absolutely terrified and unable to get out of that cycle, then I hear her like if she was dragging chains and saying "brains" but in a really disturbing tone, then I woke up again and she is in front of me, but much older and paler than how she was, and she is very angry at me about something, at this point I'm so terrified actually my screams woke me up for good.

It was the most disturbing because I loved her very much and her death was incredibly painful, I hate how the mind is able of such perversions, because I can't think of another word to describe that nightmare.

I just want to acknowledge your dream and share one of my own since you sparked the memory.

My grandmother grew very ill and looked almost skeletal and frail for someone only her age (which escapes me, she was youngish).

So my dream had me entering an abandoned warehouse turned creepy hospital (complete with dim lights with a reddish glow and silent hill-esque decor). In the main lobby, I see two nurses tending to a giant mass of flesh with hair and attributes that hinted at a face. It sat on a gurney inside of an enlongated bath pan where the body "marinated" in a pool of blood and guts. In fact, the nurses were scooping cups of mush and pouring it over the body. Turns out it was my grandmother. Upon seeing me she started talking about faith and beliefs. (My grandmother wasn't that religious). Me not believing in a god couldn't say much in return but instead I put my barehands on her oozing skin and ran my fingers through her hair, something the nurses appeared to have been uneased by. Caressing her body, she passed away, comforted by my touch. The nurses then admired my selfless act of touching her sickly figure without gloves.

In real life, my grandmother passed away a couple of months later surrounded by many people in my family... but I wasn't present. I've tried deciphering this dream over and over. My favored take on it is that the dream was my intimate goodbye to her even though I didn't get to see her one last time in person in her final moments.

 

[commedieu]

 

[sorijealut]

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[cacophony]

 

[Melchiah]

 

[JJD]

Man I love when this thread gets a bump.

I wish it was more active.

 

[Hawkian]

You really need to take a look at this thread.
Tons of great stuff. I'm honestly surprised to realize Melchiah hasn't posted over there yet

This one sort of got me. It's the sort of real-life creepy where, you could be walking in one part of that building and not realize at first that anything is out of the ordinary, maybe it's just a quiet day, maybe the receptionist is just in the bathroom or the staff is on lunch break, then you start to notice the walls...

 

[Aguirre]

 

[Melchiah]

Man I love when this thread gets a bump.

I wish it was more active.

Speaking for myself, I'd post more often, but most of the pics I come across aren't really appropriate for this forum.