I love your brain. What does it say about me that what you call weird is entirely relevant to my interests? I've been interested in true crime stories and in general weirdness since my age was in the single digits. The DDC numbers 364.1523 and 364.1524 are the first library call numbers that became memorized library numbers in my mind.
And yes, I thought that story of Carl and Elena was fascinating (says the fangirl who did not flee in horror when encountering necrophilia!fic in her primary fandom).
I embrace your weirdness! I've also always been interested in the weirder side of life. "So gross. Cool!" I was the only one in my Catholic college film class who enjoyed A Clockwork Orange. (And Life of Brian, which all the religious kids were butt-hurt about.)
Fun fact: I learned about Carl and Elena when I took a ghost tour in Key West. As I recall, there were pictures. So gross. And so cool.
The Iconic Corpse YouTube episode about Carl and Elena had many photos, which were interesting. I've never taken a ghost tour before, but there's one here in Toronto and it sounds like fun. When we're all vaccinated, maybe I'll take a stroll through T.O.'s ghosts ;)
I went to a religious high school and a history teacher there was a huge fan of A Clockwork Orange. He had a movie poster in his classroom. It wasn't on the syllabus, but my friends and I saw the movie and were a bit mystified. I went a step further and read the book, but that didn't clear things up for me at 15. I'm sure the history teacher was just being subversive since we were all embroiled in Shakespeare, Bronte, Hardy, Yeats and William Blake at the time.
I love taking ghost tours! You get to hear great stories and see some cool old places. I've done them in Key West, New Orleans, Gettysburg, and Salem Mass. Missed out on Savannah because no-one wanted to do it with me. Spoil sports.
The message of Clockwork Orange was really interesting to me, regarding free will and under what circumstances it would be appropriate to take it away from people. But also, Malcolm McDowell looked ah-mazing. LOL!
I've never been into 'true crime' as such but I'm a lifelong fan of the weird. :D
The wife of a man MG used to work with is the state pathologist and the first time I met her at a party I asked so many questions about her work it took us a while to realize everyone else had fled the kitchen where we were snacking while talking about the body farm.
Ahhhh, a body farm. That is a truly bizarre human invention. It's hard to imagine a bunch of badgers deciding they needed to understand all the various ways they would change after death and planting a whole bunch of dead badgers in a field and observing them (with spiral notebooks, tiny pencils, and glasses perched on their snouts).
I don't think badgers have much of a problem in identifying badger murderers. :D
What was fascinating to me was that she said they were having to repeat a lot of old studies because the amount of preservatives in human cadavers had changed so drastically.
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And yes, I thought that story of Carl and Elena was fascinating (says the fangirl who did not flee in horror when encountering necrophilia!fic in her primary fandom).
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I'm telling you, it's hard being a fangirl sometimes...
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Fun fact: I learned about Carl and Elena when I took a ghost tour in Key West. As I recall, there were pictures. So gross. And so cool.
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I went to a religious high school and a history teacher there was a huge fan of A Clockwork Orange. He had a movie poster in his classroom. It wasn't on the syllabus, but my friends and I saw the movie and were a bit mystified. I went a step further and read the book, but that didn't clear things up for me at 15. I'm sure the history teacher was just being subversive since we were all embroiled in Shakespeare, Bronte, Hardy, Yeats and William Blake at the time.
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The message of Clockwork Orange was really interesting to me, regarding free will and under what circumstances it would be appropriate to take it away from people. But also, Malcolm McDowell looked ah-mazing. LOL!
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The wife of a man MG used to work with is the state pathologist and the first time I met her at a party I asked so many questions about her work it took us a while to realize everyone else had fled the kitchen where we were snacking while talking about the body farm.
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What was fascinating to me was that she said they were having to repeat a lot of old studies because the amount of preservatives in human cadavers had changed so drastically.
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