A Creepy Story I Received, One Of The Best So Far. My Mouth Literally Fell Open As I Read The Last Line. 

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URBAND LEGEND: Annora Petrova

Annora Petrova was a girl who professionally ice-skated. One day she looked up her name on Google and found a creepy wikipedia page that set forth a motion of events which destroyed her life. This is what was found on her computer. 

Mid Wales Hospital Talgarth More photos and full report here: www.proj3ctm4yh3m.com/urbex/2014/09/23/urbex-mid-wales-ho…

Built in 1903 the Mid Wales Hospital,Talgarth was originally a Lunatic Asylum but later functioned as a Hospital specialising in the treatment of the mentally ill. Abandoned since 1999 the hospital buildings have fallen into disrepair…

The Creepiest Movie Characters of 2013 So Far (Updated)

Movie Review: American Mary (2012)

Title: American Mary

Release Date: August 27, 2012

Directors: Jen & Sylvia Soska

Run Time: 102 Minutes

Quick Hits: Strapped for cash medical student Mary Mason runs into more money trouble than she previously thought she had.  Mary slowly stumbles into the underground world of body modification, but soon finds that her patients won’t be the only ones with scars.

Review:  American Mary opens with us learning that Mary Mason (Katharine Isabelle) is a medical student studying to become s surgeon who is struggling to pay her bills in a timely fashion.  She turns to the adult classifieds and follows up an ad for a strip club.  Midway through the interview the owner, Billy (Antonio Cupo), of the club is pulled aside.  Billy offers Mary $5,000 if she helps save the life of a man that has apparently been tortured by someone else.  Having left her resume at the club, a stripper named Beatress contacts Mary about performing another” elective surgery” on a friend of hers which goes exceptionally well.   News of Mary’s work spreads throughout the internet and her business takes off.  It does so well that a set of twins who run an extreme body modification forum approach her about trading their left arms.  Mary learns that Beatress has gone missing from the strip club which leads to a violent end of the film.

            You might be thinking that this movie sounds a bit like gore porn but you would be mistaken.  To be honest there is little to no actual gore shown in this film which actually adds to the suspense of the film.  Obviously we see blood but not on the scale of other slasher films.  With that being said the movie was a little slow at the start, as most first acts are in horror films, with the introduction of the main characters and their motives and that almost pushed me away.  The story really picks up after Mary goes to the strip club and performs the impromptu surgery.  Form that point on you truly feel invested in Mary and want to see her succeed.  I’m sure you are wondering where the horror element is in this movie as it isn’t truly apparent in the above summary.  I don’t want to give away the whole thing so you are going to have to see it for yourself.  All of the other elements are spot on, from lighting to dialogue.  You never really have a dull moment between the conversations that any one or two characters are having.  The overall lighting is a bit shadowed but that adds to the air of suspense as well as the mystery that surrounds Mary.  In all I would definitely suggest that you give American Mary s look.

Rating: 4/5

The 40 Most Breathtaking Abandoned Places In The World

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Elkmont Region Great Smoky Mountains, Sevier County, Tennessee

Tucked away in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee lies Elkmont, formerly a pioneer Appalachian community, then a temporary logging town, and finally, a resort community. 

The first known permanent residents of what is now known as Elkmont settled here in 1840. The small community that developed was known simply as “Little River”, and, like the majority of Appalachian communities, residents developed a subsistence agriculture economy; most residents grew corn and apples, and kept bees for honey. Multiple gristmills (for grinding grain into flour) popped up along the the creek, Jakes Creek, that ran through the area. Unfortunately, only two structures from the pioneer era of Elkmont remain standing. 

In the 1880s, a Knoxville businessman by the name of John L. English began a small-scale logging project along Jakes Creek but his venture folded in 1900, likely due to a disastrous flooding of the creek in 1899. In 1901, Colonel Wilson B. Townsend purchased 86,000 acres of land along Little River and established the Little River Lumber Company. In 1926, Townsend sold most of the tract of land he purchased to the newly formed Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission, although he’d been given permission to continue logging for most of the next decade. The company ultimately ceased operations in 1939 and by then had produced 750 million board feet (1.8 million m³) of lumber.

In the logging company’s early days, Townsend allowed fishermen and hunters to use the Little River railroad to access the deep, game-rich forests of the Smokies. As the valley was stripped of most of its valuable timber, Townsend began advertising the area as a mountain getaway. In 1910, an affluent group of Knoxville gaming enthusiasts formed the Appalachian Club, built the Appalachian Clubhouse to use as a lodge, and many clubmembers began building cottages, making the club a getaway for Knoxville’s elite. Membership was difficult to obtain, so many rejected Knoxville residents purchased the Wonderland Hotel site in 1919.

Eventually, the U.S. government agreed to establish a national park in the area if the states of Tennessee and North Carolina purchased the land; this process was completed in 1926. Lifetime leases on the Wonderland Hotel and rustic cottages expired in 1992 and ownership reverted to the National Park Service. The park’s general management plan of 1982 called for all remaining structures to be removed to allow nature to reclaim the affected areas. However, in 1994, the Wonderland Hotel and many surrounding cottages were placed on the National Register of Historic Places, giving them a “special status.” 

Sadly, in 2005, the Wonderland Hotel collapsed due to a structural failure. Parts of the hotel deemed to have historical value were removed and the rest cleared, leaving only the annex and a chimney fall (pictured above). In 2009, the National Park Service announced plans to restore the Appalachian Clubhouse and many cabins in the area. The remaining structures are to be carefully documented then removed. 

[Image stills courtesy of Jordan Liles]

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