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Does anyone know if the photos of dead people are real?
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I remember reading or hearing that they were real. I forget where I read it, but I think it was a reputable source. The pic with the director in it could have just been thrown in for fun, but I think the rest were real.
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Okay, I think I'm wrong. I looked up some trivia on the movie and read that the director also had some of his friends playing the dead people in the photos, and there wasn't anything about any of them being real, so I'm guessing they're all fake.
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the house I'm living in right now... in the 1800's it was the biggest house in town so it served at the "funeral home" for a while.
a couple years ago when we were cleaning out the attic, we found a death book... each page had the persons name, birth, death, and what they died from along with a picture of them laid out in what is now my best friend's bedroom
very creepy
some of the pictures were badly damaged but most were still in good condition
I would have liked to keep it but the landlord took it
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CircusFreak wrote:
the house I'm living in right now... in the 1800's it was the biggest house in town so it served at the "funeral home" for a while.
a couple years ago when we were cleaning out the attic, we found a death book... each page had the persons name, birth, death, and what they died from along with a picture of them laid out in what is now my best friend's bedroom
very creepy
some of the pictures were badly damaged but most were still in good condition
I would have liked to keep it but the landlord took it
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That's some freaky shite punkdavid.
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Mercury wrote:
That's some freaky shite punkdavid.
Yup.
This was apparently very common in Victorian times. There's a name for this kind of picture, but I can't remember it right now. "Sleeping Beauties" is a term I've seen used, but there's a better, spookier term I've heard as well.
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punkdavid wrote:
There's a name for this kind of picture, but I can't remember it right now. "Sleeping Beauties" is a term I've seen used, but there's a better, spookier term I've heard as well.
memento mori?
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The Big So-So wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
There's a name for this kind of picture, but I can't remember it right now. "Sleeping Beauties" is a term I've seen used, but there's a better, spookier term I've heard as well.
memento mori?
Yes, that's the Latin (?) term. The term I'm thinking of is more like "Dead Bettys" or something like that.
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i found those pictures to be unsettling. that being said, they really shouldn't be as unsettling as society makes them out to be today. death, particularly dead bodies, are a social taboo that really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. it gets on my nerves that we are so easily offended by them. oh well.
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