Sometimes life may appear boring, I like peaceful. There's a difference.

Distance is the answer.

Some days, I sit, and I remember. . .

Autumn, the best, and most beautiful season of the year.

Early Autumn at Pepple Creek

 

 

Elizabeth Short, also known as the "Black Dahlia," is one of the most famous people buried in Oakland's Mountain View Cemetery, but how exactly did she end up buried there instead of Los Angeles where she was killed?

Elizabeth, known by friends as Betty, was found brutally murdered in a vacant lot at Norton Ave and 39th Street in Southwest Los Angeles on the morning of Jan. 15, 1947. She was an aspiring actress who had moved to California from Massachusetts in hopes of becoming a movie star.

Short's mother, Phoebe M. Short, arrived at San Francisco Airport on Jan. 18, 1947 - three days after her daughter's body was found. Phoebe had flown from her home in Medford, Massachusetts to see her daughters (Virginia and Elizabeth). Virginia, who lived in Berkeley, greeted her at the airport. But Elizabeth had never shown up for the family reunion.

Phoebe Short learned about her daughter's death from Wain Sutton, a rewrite man for the LA Examiner. Sutton first told the mother that her daughter had won a contest and they were checking with her for background info. After squeezing Elizabeth's life story out of her for a while, Examiner city editor Jimmy Richardson told Sutton to give Phoebe the bad news.

Elizabeth's body arrived in Oakland a day later, at the same time that police in Los Angeles were conducting house-to-house searches to find the Dahlia murder site. They never did.

She was buried Jan. 25, 1947. Despite the hot media coverage, her funeral was a lonely one, attended by her mother, sister, brother-in-law, and a pair of men in trench coats - either cops, or reporters. The case has never been solved.

Source:SecretOakland

 

There's a wedding gown store in Chihuahua, Mexico, with a mannequin that become infamous — and the reason is positively chilling. On display since the 1930s, La Pascualita became notorious because some believe that she's not a mannequin at all, but an embalmed body. Local legend states that she was once the daughter of the store's owner and that the owner decided to preserve her corpse after her daughter died tragically on her wedding day.

It's true that La Pascualita is hyperrealistic. Her fingernails look human, and one store employee claimed that she even has varicose veins on her legs. Others have suggested that La Pascualita's eyes follow customers around the store, and one rumor claims that a French magician used to be able to "bring her to life" at night.

Go inside the eerie legend of La Pascualita, Mexico's "corpse bride" mannequin: https://inter.st/2jc8

 

“Child with teeth”. This little loop was created from Aleksandra Waliszewska’s painting. The painting was used as an illustration for a book “Upiór” by Łukasz Kozak.

 

Hellmouth. Based on an illumination from "The Hours of Catherine of Cleves" (ca. 1440)

Return of the Skinny Monster. The animation created entirely from public domain materials. Based maily on the engraving "Artisans and Death" by Rudolph Meyer, 1650. Background elements from the "First view of the Baths of Caracalla" by Hieronymus Cock, 1551. Original prints from Rijks Museum

Holbein's drum. Based on an engraving from "The Dance of Death" by Hans Holbein (1497-1543)

a trip | feat. Aleksandra Waliszewska

The Full Harvest Moon will occur on October 6, 2025 at 11:48 p.m. Eastern Time. This is the first of three supermoons in 2025, making it the largest and brightest full Moon of the year.

 

“My next great adventure, aged 90, is going to be dying. There’s either nothing or something. If there’s nothing there’s nothing, that’s it. If there’s something, I can’t think of a greater adventure than finding out what it is. I happen to think there is something because of the experiences I’ve had, because of experiences other people have had. Very powerful ones.”

~ Jane Goodall