But when the door opened, the dog did an immediate about-face. I've never seen her act like that, ever. She's a service animal, so she goes in everywhere," Silver said, then added: "I don't understand it myself. I guess we'll find out. Subscribe Manage my subscription Activate my subscription Log in Log out. Regions Tampa St. Letters to the Editor Submit a Letter. Investigations Narratives Pulitzer Winners. Connect with us. About us. Obituaries Homes Jobs Classifieds. Careers Advertise Legal Contact.
Log in. Account Manage my subscription Activate my subscription Log out. By this time she was living at Camp Chesterfield, a Spiritualist settlement in Indiana which has been the frequent target of investigative debunkers over the years , making automatic paintings that she believed to be guided by spirits—in particular, great creative spirits of the past.
Wojciechowsky, on the other hand, was a simple German immigrant who worked as a house cleaner and never had any intention of belonging to the art world but ended up in it anyway. She had been a medium for a long time before discovering her ability at automatic writing and then automatic painting. Starting in the s, she produced works in a styles as numerous as the spirits who guided her. In the s, the artist Richard Lindner became intrigued by Wojciechowsky and introduced her to the gallerist Daniel Cordier, who showed her work in his gallery on several occasions.
Despite this recognition, Wojciechowsky claimed no personal credit for her work, insisting that it was the spirits who made the art using her hands. Ivan Albright, an American modernist, is well known for his intricately eerie and dark works of figurative art. Gertrude Abercrombie was a bohemian Chicago artist and jazz enthusiast who painted eerie Surreal works in an extremely precise, hard-edged style.
She conceived of herself as a witch and often depicted herself in that guise, usually in the company of cats and owls, in eerie settings.
Her Strange Shadows Shadow and Substance , from , deals in many of the classic Surrealist tropes—the uncanny double, the foreboding clock, flesh depicted in a deathly color, the cramped and geometrically ambiguous stage set. In Search for Rest , the Abercrombie-witch figure strides across a blasted landscape in which distant trees seems to become ghostly human figures, as the moon sheds its silver light on a lone tree. Is the female protagonist haunted by these entities, or is she the one doing the haunting?
Beauregard Ave. The name lived for 66 years until it closed in , according to the archives. More: The good, the terrifying and the paranormal investigation of Cactus Hotel in Texas. Nathan's Jewelers had a year run in the building, and that's when the building got its unusual exterior texture. In , owner Nathan Donsky had crews apply crushed granite. As for Mar-tiques, Marty Rutenacht has been filling the once-empty store with antiques since For those interested in checking out the haunted store, hours are 10 a.
Facebook Twitter Email. Is any other home good so extremely duplicitous? Another superstition: A broken mirror is said to bring seven years of bad luck.
Why seven years? It would take seven minutes, maybe, to clean up the mess without drawing blood—those shards of glass can be difficult to spot. And a mirror can be expensive to replace; they were super valuable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
New York Times reporter Wendy Moonam goes as far as to say that in that era, "A mirror was the ultimate status symbol. After that, displaying a mirror was a mark of refinement, power, wealth, and self-confidence.
This will leave you haunted in your mirror. But don't fret too much if you do crack or break a mirror—good old Snopes rates the veracity of this superstition as a "legend," not fact although their post then goes on to give in-depth advice about how to rid yourself of the seven-year curse, one of the tips being to touch a shard of the broken glass to a tombstone Many spiritualists also believe that a broken mirror in a house will attract bad energy they don't exactly look pretty, so I won't argue the point.
Little wonder that some secondhand resale sites have entire sections dedicated to them. It is, after all, a little creepy to look at your fragmented self Have you ever seen a puppy look at its reflection for the first time? It usually barks, out of fear or confusion. Though we're now used to seeing ourselves, it can still be strange. In fact, there's a phobia known as eisoptrophobia , which refers to an extreme fear of seeing your own reflection in the mirror; and another phobia, spectrophobia , is a fear of seeing ghosts.
Combined, these amount to a fear of seeing ghosts in the mirror. If you ever see shadows dancing across a mirror and ask yourself if you saw something move out of the corner of your eye, you can probably understand why this is unsettling. Mirrors show us ourselves and show us what's behind us. So what if there's something there that we can't see because our vision is limiting us? What if we're not alone? Mirrors conjure up these existential thoughts and fears. In fact, it's quite hard to talk about mirrors without spiraling into the philosophical realm—suddenly your sentences are tumbling and twirling down a hallway of poignancy when all you were trying to do was explain what you saw.
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