Rosalia Lombardo died in 1920, when she was just two years old. Her tiny body in perfectly preserved in the Capuchin convent in Palermo, Sicily, and she is thought to be one of the best preserved mummies in the world. Strangely, sometimes she can be seen to open and close her eyes as if she were awakening from a long sleep. Many witnesses are convinced that this is evidence of the paranormal, others say it is an optical illusions caused by light passing over her. Regardless, it is enough to give anyone the creeps!
Examples of Argyria, a condition where the skin becomes discoloured due to excessive exposure to the chemical compound, silver.
Most people affected by the condition live healthy lives with no implications. The bottom image is of Paul Karason, an American man who treated himself with a homemade silver-infused tonic in an attempt to treat his dermatitis, acid reflux, and a range of other health problems. After his skin turned silver, he became affectionately known as ‘Papa Smurf’.
In the summer of 1990, Marlene Warren opened the front door of her Florida home to a brown-eyed clown wearing an assortment of flowers and carrying two balloons, one reading “You’re the greatest!”. Upon handing them to Marlene, the mystery clown then shot her in the face. The murder remained unsolved until 2017.
Her murderer was a woman named Sheila (Keen) Warren, who later married Marlene Warren’s widower, Michael Warren, in 2002. Detectives say it is “undetermined” whether or not he had any involvement in Marlene’s murder.
The mask Michael Myers wore in the Halloween films was based on William Shatner’s face. To be exact, the mask was a Captain Kirk death mask created for Star Trek.
In 1977, Charles C. Morgan, a 29-year-old Escrow agent from Tuscon, AZ, vanished from his home. Due to his high-profile career, his family feared the worst. However, three days after his disappearance, Charles “Chuck” Morgan returned home to his wife, Ruth. At 2. a.m, he appeared on their front doorstep wearing a plastic tie around one ankle, and a pair of heavy duty handcuffs around his wrists. He was also missing a shoe. Chuck pointed to his mouth and shook his head, and it became immediately apparent to his wife that he could not speak. She gave him a pen and paper to write on, and he wrote that he had a hallucinogenic drug in his throat that was slowly destroying his nervous system. Frantically reaching for the telephone, she began to dial for the police, but was stopped by Chuck. He wrote another panicked note, this time saying that phoning the police would put their family in danger. With no other alternative, Ruth resorted to slowly nursing him back to health. This is when he told his wife the frightening truth; For the past two years, he had been working as a secret agent for the US Treasury. Once healthier, he rarely left the house. When he did, he would wear a bullet-proof vest and he contacted his daughters’ school to say he must be the only man to pick them up. His paranoia spiralled out of control but there was no sign of his abductors. The secret unearthed and Chuck seemingly back to good health, it appeared that all was well. However, two months later, Chuck Morgan vanished again.
