Introverted Owl

Lover of Horror | Halloween Enthusiasts | Foodie | Artistic | Geek | Book Lover | Bipolar Disorder, PTSD & OCD |

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Untitled, oil on canvas by ShinKwangHo

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mike mignola

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In 2010, 19-year-old Sam Ballard was a promising rugby player from Sydney, Australia, spending an evening drinking red wine with friends at a house party. A garden slug crawled across the floor. As a joke, his friends dared him to eat it. He did.

Within days, Sam began suffering severe pain in his legs, followed by vomiting and dizziness. His mother rushed him to hospital. Doctors diagnosed him with rat lungworm, a parasite typically carried by rodents that can pass into snails and slugs that consume infected rat droppings. In Sam’s case, it caused a severe form of meningitis known as eosinophilic meningoencephalitis.

He fell into a coma that lasted 420 days. When he woke, he was left with catastrophic brain and spinal injuries, paralysed and entirely dependent on round-the-clock care. He lived another eight years in that condition, cared for by his family and supported by friends who never abandoned him.

His mother never blamed the friends who issued the dare, saying they had simply been being mates, the way teenagers are.

Sam Ballard died on 2 November 2018, surrounded by twenty of the people who loved him most. His final words to his mother were: "I love you."

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collection

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Olli Hihnala

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Joonas Ryynänen

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Im glad they made up romance for stories and music but can you imagine how scary it would be to deal with all that for real

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this is a certified AROMANTIC POST!!!!!!!!!!! NO yearning on my shit..... GO ON . GET

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official aromantic post

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Unhung, colored pencils, markers, and white pen on red paper by apelure

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Xavier Ortiz

[morbidology]

The "St. Dennistoun Mortuary" is a coin-operated automaton created around 1900, attributed to John Dennison, a maker of mechanical amusements based in Leeds who also operated a concession at Blackpool Tower. It’s housed in a mahogany cabinet with a glazed viewing area and shows a Greek Revival mortuary building with double doors and grieving mourners outside.

When a coin is inserted, the doors open to reveal morticians working on bodies laid out on embalming tables, watched over by a nodding policeman, while the mourners outside bob their heads as if sobbing.

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i have a better suggestion

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i have a better suggestion

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Arthur Adams

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Megan Nichols (15) disappeared from her home in Fairfield, Illinois on July 3rd, 2014. That day, Megan and her mother Kathy Jo planned to run errands together, but Megan stayed back after claiming that she wasn’t feeling well. Kathy Jo said that when she returned from the errands later, Megan was gone. She left her phone in her bedroom—which had been completely reset—and a note for her mother that said, in part, “I love you, but I will never be happy here. Don’t look for me.” Police initially classified Megan as a runaway but changed her status to endangered missing after extended time went by without any trace of Megan. Over the next those three years, there were many searches for Megan in Fairfield and many other surrounding areas that turned up nothing. 

Finally, on December 26th, 2017, remains were found in a wooded area in Wayne County, Illinois. A month later, those remains were confirmed to be Megan’s. Despite the original belief that Megan had runaway, it became clear at that point that she likely never left the Wayne County area. Details surrounding Megan’s death remained quite mysterious. Initially, authorities did not release any details on how Megan died or if foul play was involved. There was speculation about the 18-year-old she was dating at the time of her disappearance was involved, but it took years before that would finally be confirmed. Then, during October 2020, an arrest was made in Megan’s case. On October 6th, 2020, Brodey Murbarger, aged 24 at this point, was taken into custody and indicted on six counts: three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of home invasion, and one count of concealment of homicidal death. Shortly after his arrest, it was announced that prosecutors believed that Murbarger had suffocated and strangled Megan to death. Murbarger’s arrest was the first step towards justice for Megan and her loved ones. Throughout the court proceedings, the prosecution presented exactly what they believed happened to Megan - and how the investigation zeroed in on Murbarger as their suspect.

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