#spooky fact

[daily-spooky]

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[cozylittleartblog]

what if there was a plague doctor that was so so so cute (and was also secretly a bird themself)

[amnhnyc]

This Fossil Friday, meet the Museum’s mummified hadrosaur—one of the most complete pieces of Mesozoic dinosaur remains ever found! This fossil represents one of the greatest discoveries in the history of paleontology: a rare glimpse at the texture of dinosaur skin. Like the skin on modern birds’ feet, this duck-billed dinosaur’s skin was marked by bumps called tubercles. The tubercles are larger along the animal’s back and sides and smaller around the joints, which needed to be flexible.

Photo: Image no. ptc-7737 © / AMNH Library (Circa 1992)

[the-witchhunter]

I really think we don’t play into the comedy of various folk traditions of dealing with ghosts actually working on Danny Phantom ghosts/Danny

The Fentons paint their home Haint Blue and suddenly Danny has a hard time finding his way home

Danny unable to cross running water and just suddenly ejected from the GAV as they Drive over a bridge

Amity Parkers driving the box ghost away from the Nasty Burger by throwing salt packets at him

Folks hanging up bottles in a tree and Sam having to let Danny out every time he gets stuck in one because he got too close in ghost form

The juxtaposition of the doctors Fenton being like “we can shoot them!” And everyone else just getting a box of kosher salt from the grocery store and it somehow being just as effective

[catchymemes]

[horrorfilms1313]

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Tobe Hooper was hoping for a PG rating so that the film could reach a wider audience.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Just deleted the ask I was trying to respond to, but re: "skeptics always die in horror movies" - I have mixed feelings on that trope!

On the one hand I think it sets the tone and helps the audience suspend their disbelief - people are always complaining about horror movie characters being idiots, so this can be a way to be like "see? We DID consider rational explanations, and then someone immediately got murdered very supernaturally, so stop asking questions and accept the premise."

On the other hand, I think it definitely contributes to the idea that skeptics are close-minded killjoys who are too stubborn to accept reality, which is a very common and incredibly annoying mindset. Shane Madej did not spend the last eight years marching into haunted houses and loudly demanding that the demons inside kill him for me to still be hearing shit about how "if you don't take the supernatural seriously you will Attract Evil Energies And Die".

[thatsbelievable]

[daily-spooky]

[amphibianaday]

day 1398

[spookysalem13]

I've always loved 🖤 crows, but even I didn't know there were this many different kinds 😍

[amnhnyc]

The Research Library’s Rare Book and Rare Folio Collection includes close to 15,000 volumes dating back to the 15th century. Would you read this rare tome? 🕯️ 👻

[nyankoizumi]

Looking at each other with their autistic eldritch horrors eyes

[catchymemes]

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Tim Burton's Vincent (1982)