What Scares You?
What if you could talk to God? Not through prayer, but through thought? Where you would be able to converse directly, and receive direct answers. One group of scientists believed it was possible and set out to do just that. They were going to open the gateway of the mind.
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After coming across a post on Instagram claiming that during the French Revolution, the government allowed the bodies of those guillotined to be skinned and tanned, and then turned into various goods, such as boots, pants, and jackets. The post also claimed that the skin of a man was preferred for fashion, because the skin of a woman was too soft to be useful. Is there any truth to the claim? Is there a market for Human Leather?
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Imaginary Friends are a psychological and social phenomenon where a friendship takes place in the imagination rather in physical reality. To the person, usually a child, the friend is real, and they often get frustrated when others can’t see their friend. Often, as they grow older, children lose their imaginary friends, whether that friend leaves, or is simply forgotten over time, we may never know. For one little girl, she shared her imaginary friend with the world when she first wrote, “This is Lisa.”
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Imagine taking a late night drive. You come upon a tunnel in desperate need of repair; cracks are visible in the cement and graffiti is everywhere. Regardless, you choose to drive through, but your car suddenly dies. You try to restart it, but it won’t turn over. Glancing into your rearview mirror you see the shadow of a woman in your back seat. This is just one possibility of what could happen if you drive through the Sensabaugh Tunnel.
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Perhaps you, just as I, have seen the image floating around the internet of the mummified face of a nun. The caption reads, “Josephine Rosenthal’s head. The mummified head of the first nun ever recorded to be possessed.” If you’re anything like me, you searched the internet to learn more about this possessed nun, only to find story after story about Mary Rosenthal, or Sister Mary Crociffissa. As it would turn out, the mummified face belongs Mary Rosenthal, Josephine’s daughter.
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There was once a blind old man. One night, he was viciously attacked by a band of robbers. Unable to see an escape, or even defend himself, he was left for dead in the middle of a field. Angry, he cried out in frustration, “If only I had seen their faces! But my eyes can’t see! If only I had eyes on the palms of my hands!” This is the origin of Tenome.
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When someone dies, they leave this world, and depending on your beliefs they either move on, or are just gone. While all deaths are tragic, there are some that hit harder than others, such as murder or suicide. Some people die having left something unfinished. Often, we hear of the dead with unfinished business returning as ghosts. The concept of the dead returning as zombies is also well known. Though these cases lean more towards virus outbreak, or other direct means. There is one belief, born from Scandinavian Viking folklore, that combines the ghost and the zombie into a single entity. The gjenganger.
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Dracula, king of all vampires, first of his kind, was just a man. The story, written by Bram Stoker (Author of Bram Stoker’s Dracula), took the legacy of a man, and made it the basis for his book. A story that has spanned the ages. The man was Vlad Tepes, also known as Vlad the Impaler, and he once ruled over Wallachia. The horrors of his rule are remembered to this day. When we think of Vlad Tepes, we think of Transylvania and Dracula’s castle, and while he did have a castle, he also had a fortress. Poenari Fortress, also called Poenari Castle, or Castle Arges is believed by some to be haunted.
Some people, talented or not, have that “star quality” that grants them access to millions of fans, fame, and fortune. Some people have great talent and have to work hard, struggle, and fight to get to the top. Then there are those who have talent beyond measure, but for some reason just can’t grab hold of their piece of the spotlight. In these cases there are few options; keep on fighting, settle for smaller victories, or give up and pursue other aspirations. But what if there were another option?
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Secure, Contain, Protect. That is the mission of The SCP Foundation.
SCP-096 is a humanoid creature, standing approximately 7.8 feet (2.38 meters) tall. Its body appears emaciated, very little muscle mass and clearly malnutritioned. Its skin and eyes lack pigmentation, and the subject appears void of body hair. Its arms reach out approximately 5 feet (1.4 meters) in length, highly disproportionate to the rest of the body. Its jaw can open four times more than that of the average human. Other than these few characteristics, SCP-096 appears human.
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