Carmen et Terror

True to its name, this account posts a carmen followed by a terror on alternate days. Carmina are songs and poems. Terrores are creepy, unsettling, or morbid items of interest. They are generally not gore, and I do try to tag them with appropriate triggers and nsfw markers.

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Unedited Footage of a Bear aired on Cartoon Network’s [adult swim] block after midnight because the people who run AS are bastards.  

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13-year-old Omayra Sánchez Garzón was trapped under debris in a pool of water in her home in Armero, Colombia in November of 1985.  Armero, along with several other towns, was destroyed by mudslides in the wake of Nevado del Ruiz’s eruption.  Omayra was trapping in this position for 60 hours, speaking calming with bystanders and rescuers before finally succumbing to either gangrene or hypothermia. Source

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This video interrupted an episode of Doctor Who on WTTW in Chicago in 1987, following an earlier but less successful interruption of the 9pm news on WGN.  The man wearing a Max Headroom mask and his accomplices seem to have filmed this earlier and then performed a broadcast signal intrusion as a prank.  Those of you too young to remember Max Headroom might be comforted to know that this video didn’t make any more sense then than it does now. The most plausible - though very much unproven - theory as to where this bizarre video came from emerged on Reddit in 2010. It was only marginally less bizarre than the real Max Headroom.

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Gary Numan, “The Fall”

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Aileen Wuornos’ final interview before her execution.  Whatever was going on in her mind, it continued to get worse during her time in prison and she’s pretty far gone by this point.  Ironically, her conspiracy theories revolve around the government trying to make her appear crazy. Wuornos claims that she killed a man who tried to rape her, which could be true.  But she then shot another six men in Florida.  Wuornos was the basis for the film Monster.  

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Phil Ochs, “Iron Lady”

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A memorial on 34th St. in Gainesville, FL, on the UF campus.  These five students were raped and murdered by Danny Rolling, a drifter who was executed for these and three other murders.

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“Mystery Rider,” written by Danny Rolling and performed by Sam Bull.

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Tell me—after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.

Peter Kürten, the Vampire of Düsseldorf

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Apocalyptica, “Hall of the Mountain King”

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A letter sent to the Riverside PD, the local paper, and the father of Cheri Jo Bates six months after her still unsolved murder in 1966.  Is this an early letter from the Zodiac Killer?  We’ll probably never know. Source

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Christian Death, “Zodiac (He Is Still out There)”

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A clip of a Butoh dancer’s piece on the atomic bombings of Japan, featured in the film Baraka.

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Krzysztof Penderecki, “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima”

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Dennis Raider, who terrorized Wichita, Kansas for 26 years as BTK, poses in clothing taken from some of his ten victims.  Rader stalked his victims for weeks before invading their homes, binding them, torturing them, and finally strangling them to death for sexual gratification. Source