time travel, parallel universes, and other useful illusions
A couple years ago, I noticed something peculiar happening in the comments section of one of my articles. It all goes back to 2013, when I first posted about Robert the Doll. This, if you don’t know, is the strange tale of a seemingly ordinary doll that allegedly holds a mysterious curse. These days, he …
I can’t just ignore a story about Ayers Rock, otherwise known as Uluru, the cursed monolith of Australia’s Northern Territory. It even made it onto my list of infamous haunted objects back in 2014. This year, Uluru has claimed a new victim: Another tourist who took it upon himself to borrow a small rock from …
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They call it The Goddess of Death, but its real name is the Women from Lemb. This curious artifact, a statue carved from pure limestone, was unearthed in Lemb, Cyprus in 1878.
Do you believe a song can kill? In the early 1930s, Hungarian songwriter Rezso Seress was struggling to make a living. Music publishers were uninterested in his work. His fiancée argued with him constantly. Give up the dream, she’d say, and who could blame her? The chips were down, and money was tight. But Seress …
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In 1906, young Robert Eugene Otto received a doll from his family’s servant. It was, at first blush, unremarkable: a doll of wire, cloth and straw, with beige skin and human-like hair. It wore an outfit similar to that of an American Naval officer. But the doll held an ominous secret that would reveal itself …
