“Cult of Oddities”: 35 creepy but interesting photos and facts (36 photos)

October is the ideal time for all kinds of horror stories, horror films and walks through abandoned places in search of ghosts. But this is for the bravest, and you can start simply with a selection of terribly interesting photos and facts from the Twitter account “Cult of Oddities.”





1. Spanish flu epidemic, 1918. Family photo



2. Abandoned doll house



3. Kitten: 1, Henri Willet: 0



"Alason, France, September 21. 67-year-old Henri Villette went to drown a kitten today. He threw the kitten into the water, then lost his balance and fell himself. The kitten climbed onto land. Villette

drowned."

4. Ancient olive tree in Puglia, Italy. It is over 1500 years old



5. Actor Bela Lugosi was best known for his role as Dracula. During his funeral in 1956, actor Peter Lorre quietly asked colleague Vincent Price: “Should we drive a stake through his heart, just in case?”



6. Caroline Walter's grave in Freiburg, Germany. She died of tuberculosis in 1867, and since then fresh flowers appear on her grave every day



7. In 1871, a woman from Quebec hired a hearse for the sole purpose of riding around the city in a coffin, smoking a cigarette and enjoying the view.



8. Cookies in the shape of an angel, as they are described in the Bible



9. Xylaria polymorpha mushroom, also known as "dead man's fingers"



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10. Works by Anna Coleman Ladd, 1918. The casts in the top row are made from the mutilated faces of World War I soldiers. The bottom row shows their faces before their injuries, taken from pre-war photographs. Prostheses on the table are designed to cover the disfigured part of the face



11. LEGO funeral sets are sold at the Vienna Cemetery



12. Victorian closed graves. For fear of being buried alive, the tombs had already locked doors installed, and the only key was left in the hand of the corpse.



13. A friendly reminder that you could be swallowed up by a sinkhole at any moment.



14. A little medieval humor. Abbey of Sainte-Foy, Conques, France, around 1050



15. A Florida couple found this on the wall of their home: a frog with a spider in its mouth, both dead. What happened?



16. “Death in the Cauldron” - the cover of an early 19th century book about culinary poisons



17. Archduke Franz Ferdinand poses as a mummy during a trip to Cairo in 1896



18. Advertisement for the sale of a house with the note “no ghosts”



19. This 3-person coffin was custom made for a grieving couple who had lost their beloved daughter. They intended to commit suicide and be buried with her. They never returned for the coffin, and it is now on display at the National Funeral History Museum in Houston, Texas.



20. A real sign in the Parisian catacombs



21. A throne carved into a tree trunk in Kendal, England, in 2012 by artist Andy Levy. The intricate details represent the Parr family who lived at Kendal Castle in the 16th century. Catherine Parr was the sixth and last wife of Henry VIII.



22. “Last November, I started my biggest project yet—turning my childhood dollhouse into a pathology museum. This is what happened. Welcome to the museum.”



23.Bone chairs from Muddycap (2022)



24. To copyright their unique looks, professional clowns submit them to Clowns International, which paints their faces on eggs and registers them with the Clown Egg Register, a museum in London's Trinity Church where Grimaldi the Clown was buried in 1837



25. “If you stare at the center of this “healing grid” for a long time, your brain will begin to correct imperfections, because our reality is a lie.”



26. Photo of a preacher from 1911. He wore a mask in the shape of a skull, walked around the city and preached sermons about death.



19. Graves decorated with goat horns at the Nokhur cemetery in Turkmenistan. Horns are part of local tradition and are intended to protect against evil



28. “There have been 3 alien abductions here in a week. When will the Council do something about it?”



29. A friendly reminder that at any moment a meteorite could crash through your ceiling and nearly kill you, like what happened to Anne Hodges in 1954



30. Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey and actress Jayne Mansfield, 1967



31. Embalmed human heart in a heart-shaped lead case. Found in the medieval crypt of Christ Church, Cork, Ireland



32. Poster from the 1930s about the dangers of electric shock



33. "Royal evil", or scrofula, causes enlarged lymph nodes and lesions in the neck. European monarchs believed they had a divine gift of healing, and the royal touch was the only cure. Over time, scrofula goes away on its own, so the royal touch always worked.



34. Inca skulls indicate brain surgery. The Incas practiced an operation in which a piece was broken off from the skull, part of the brain was removed, and the hole was closed with metal.



35. Funerary sculpture of François de Sarre at La Sarre Castle, Switzerland, which shows his body being eaten by frogs and worms, 15th century