Michael Montoure

Unreliable narrator Michael Montoure writes horror & urban fantasy about hidden truths, secret dealings, & our changing pasts. He's standing right behind you.

[michaelmontoure]

Suck it, haters.

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candy delivery

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by Agostino Arrivabene

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[the-sunflower-spaceman]

Browsing antique stores is always the most wild fucking time. I found an insanely cursed Sean Connery Barbie in my favorite antique store which is nothing new there are like 20 super cursed dolls in that store but they sell men’s flannels for $12 so

[the-sunflower-spaceman]

The antique store with like 50 pocket dimensions underneath it is playing “What A Feeling” from Flashdance. There’s a giant bloody wooden tooth hanging from chains. This is so surreal

[the-sunflower-spaceman]

FYI I was using bloody as in there is red splatters on the roots of the teeth not the expletive

Shaggy Rogers is here and he has a giant beard

[the-sunflower-spaceman]

There is a Greco Roman helmet in one of the the pocket dimensions on top of a typewriter

[the-sunflower-spaceman]

THERE IS SECRET LIBRARY ???????

[the-sunflower-spaceman]

People have definitely fucked up here. I can sense it.

[the-sunflower-spaceman]

This door doesn’t even wiggle there’s no way that lock is what’s keeping it closed

[the-sunflower-spaceman]

What the fuck

[the-sunflower-spaceman]

Y’all I’m gonna die going up this

[the-sunflower-spaceman]

This place is so terrifying im looking for bodies now

[the-sunflower-spaceman]

Trying to find exit. I’m actually starting to get anxious now.

[the-sunflower-spaceman]

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[cryptidcaper]

Jules walked into silent hill

[drawhimacrown-deactivated202002]

So I have absolutely been inside this specific antique store (unless this is a pocket dimension that exists in many places, the store I know of is in downtown tacoma, WA). It’s spooky as hell, you can’t ever find anyone working there (the one time I did find a clerk he looked like he hadn’t left this garbage mansion in years, his hair was ginger and way too long and way too crunchy), it’s always disturbingly quiet despite being on a main downtown street, and to leave you have to meditate on that desire to summon an exit less you be trapped forever. The floors are incredibly uneven with lots of ramps and rooms on a slope. The library is my favorite part. There’s chairs and shit hanging from the ceiling all over the place. There are several false doors and windows. The inside in undeniably larger than the outside. This place is filled with a miasthma of chaotic energy.

To heal your soul, I recommend going to Mad Hat Tea just around the corner which also has a very real Vibe but it is healing and calming to a magical degree. A classmate of mine said once she had a terrible cold and went to Mad Hat between classes and asked the woman to give her something good for colds, she drank it without question and immediately her cold was gone. Shit theres so many like, old-magic-aura areas in downtown Tacoma guys, it’s crazy.

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I wanna visit this place… And kinda DON’T. I mean what If you leave but the wrong exit, everything SEEMS normal, but people start staring at you… Because; ‘What are you, like 3 years old?!… Stop THINKING so loud!!’

[gothiccharmschool]

This is in Tacoma?!?! I need to go there. 

[henamyung]

I watched ‘Us’ last week and IT BECOMES MY ALL TIME FAVORITE HORROR MOVIE IN MY LIFE SO FAR 

[corpus-vertebrae]

2013, model: Joanna Sobesto, designer: Łucja Zając https://www.instagram.com/p/Br8qWP-grlX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2dgz3m19ei4d

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Azerbaijani painter writes Quran on transparent silk pages

Azerbaijani painter and decorative artist Tünzale Memmedzade has transcribed the Quran onto transparent silk pages. Memmedzade, a 33-year-old artist, used 50 meters of transparent black silk, and 1,500 milliliters of gold and silver inks in the project, which has taken three years to complete. (read more) 

Mashallah, how incredibly beautiful. 

[geekandmisandry]

This is just…amazing

[cosimevil]

LOL #HORROR #horrorfanatic #horrorlover #horrorbuff #horrorfan #horrorphile #horrorlove #horrorislife #horrormeme #halloween #werewolf #wolf https://www.instagram.com/cosimevil/p/BwSwIx1BKYC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p05sqt2ec18c

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

found two silver chalices in a velvet box in this house in the woods, if i hypothetically drank from one how fucked do you think i am? should i leave the other out with wine in it or something not a joke thank you

i don’t know if this is a reference or something but this is so fucking funny i don’t even know what to tell you. absolute peak nonsense. i think you’re in a Huge amount of trouble but I don’t know how.

[rat-knife]

not a reference didn’t have wine so now one is sitting on the table full of grape juice

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

YOU NEED TO PUT THESE BACK

[the-quasar-hero]

I’m the real estate agent that sells obviously haunted houses to nice white families that want to get away from it all.

[lamborghinea-pig]

I would like to give you my business. I’m tryin to die penniless and leave nothing but a found footage film to my kids in the will

[the-quasar-hero]

Then oh boy, do I have the forest cottage for you! Far from anyone that could help you, it has a gorgeous view of a lake where dozens of people have gone missing. There’s a rumor of a killer that raises from the water, but this place has an excellent porch

[lamborghinea-pig]

Is there a small, dark washing room in the basement corner that’s at least ten degrees colder than the rest of the house? That’s a must.

[the-quasar-hero]

Yes. And there’s a latch window that always seems to swing open in the middle of the night.

[lamborghinea-pig]

Wonderful! I especially love how cell receptionist patchy at best, making any attempted outgoing call to the police as dramatic as possible.

[the-quasar-hero]

I think you’ll also love how it’ll immediately become pitch black as soon as the clock strikes 5:00 pm no matter the time of year. There’s also no stars for some reason.

[lamborghinea-pig]

Did the previous owner leave any religious iconography that could slowly appear to distort and corrupt over time, or will I need to furnish that myself?

[the-quasar-hero]

Let’s just say I definitely didn’t put these area rugs here myself to cover a few ornate symbols drawn in blood 😇

[lamborghinea-pig]

You’ve got a sale!

[weaponizedhorse]

This post deserves so many more notes. I could not breathe the other day trying to read this out loud to my mom it was so fucking funny

[rubyvroom]

Round-up: A Lot of CSI-Style Forensics Have Turned Out to be Bogus

Basically a lot of it is pseudoscience that was never rigorously tested in controlled situations to see if it actually worked.

This is because it was not developed by scientists, but by police, and mainly with an interest in putting people in prison rather than uncovering the truth.

At least two dozen people have been falsely convicted due to “Bite Mark Analysis”. 

“Burn pattern analysis” put an innocent man to death in Texas

“Blood Spatter analysis” such as that shown on the TV show Dexter is actually completely unreliable even according to the US Department of Justice

Forensic hair comparison is also widely believed to be junk science and the FBI is currently reviewing convictions based on hair analysis due to the unreliability of their results

Handwriting analysis has an unreasonably high error rate, by some accounts as high as 43%

Lie detector tests, or polygraphs, are notoriously unreliable and based on bad science. Even though everybody knows this, they are still constantly being used in criminal investigations among other places.

Toxicology labs can be poorly supervised and badly run, producing false and even fraudulent results

Due to sloppy procedure at many labs and lack of regulation even DNA testing is often unreliable

Even when correct results are produced, genetic profiles may be less useful than we have been lead to believe

Fingerprinting analysis is not foolproof and actually has not been thoroughly tested, as this Frontline special discusses

Here are a few more articles on how unreliable modern forensics are.

Unfortunately due to TV shows that stress forensic investigation, juries are demanding this kind of evidence at trial, and have little idea of how untested and unreliable it really is.

[rubyvroom]

HEY REMEMBER WHEN I WROTE ABOUT THIS TWO YEARS AGO? SPECIFICALLY THE PART ABOUT FBI REVIEWING ITS FORENSICS HAIR ANALYSIS CASES? WELL THE RESULTS ARE IN AND WHOOPS: EVEN THE FBI ADMITS THAT IT’S BOGUS NOW

In case you are stopped by the paywall here’s a Slate article on the same thing and here’s another one. 

Hair analysis alone has been used in thousands of trials. The FBI is reviewing 2500 cases out of “21000 federal and state requests to the FBI’s hair-comparison unit between 1972 and 1999″. Even if this review exonerates some of those convictions, that doesn’t even begin to cover the hundreds of state and local “experts” trained by the FBI in this bogus “hair analysis” technique to do things like this:

Santae Tribble served 28 years for a murder based on FBI testimony about a single strand of hair. He was exonerated in 2012. It was later revealed that one of the hairs presented at trial came from a dog.

So anyway remember anytime you hear about “forensic evidence” that a lot of it is bullcrap and not scientifically validated and a lot of so-called experts are just pulling conclusions out of their ass.

[feedyourdeadnametothevoidfish]

the forensic hair analysis thing is terrible, the FBI literally invented a branch of forensic psuedoscience with no evidence behind it in order to boost conviction rates, then taught the bogus technique to thousands of forensic investigators in the us and around the world. we have no idea how many people have been wrongfully convicted, and this is just one in a very long list of forensic techniques that lack rigorous scientific evaluation

[rubyvroom]

It’s been another year or two so here’s an extremely recent article about how “Criminal Profiling” is totally bogus and TV shows like Mindhunters continue to focus on it because it looks cool and makes good stories, but it really only works in the movies. 

Profiling was trendy in the 70s-90s but has been falling into disrepute ever since. This 2007 analysis showed that Criminal Profilers do not outperform regular detective work. Here’s another analysis finding Profiling unreliable in its current form and suggests ways to make it more scientifically rigorous. Here’s another. 

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“The shadow of English culture has loomed large in my life. […] But the most important figure from (the) English legacy is, incredibly for me, a teenager by the name of Mary Shelley”

Guillermo Del Toro wins Best Director at the BAFTAs [x]

[creaturesofnight]

Warner Bros/New Line’s “I Like Scary Movies” Art Installation Part.2

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[rlmjob]

welcome to my blog

[iminyournotis]

the sign looks like it’s walking towards me i feel threatened

[darthlenaplant]

Like this?

[morbidlyqueerious]

actually what the christ

[approachingsignificance]

All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House