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odditiesoflife: The Historic and Haunted Ghost Town of...

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:51:59 -0400

The Historic and Haunted Ghost Town of Bodie

The old mining town of Bodie, California is America’s best preserved ghost town. Dating back to 1859, Bodie is literally frozen in time and looked after as an historic park. The town is both authentic and mysterious, with original fixtures, furniture, and personal items in the buildings left untouched since their residents abandoned them.

Bodie abounds with legends of the paranormal, but none more famous than the haunted Cain residence. The man of the house had an affair with their maid. After being publicly disgraced, the unfortunate maid took her own life and reportedly haunts the house.

The Cain house is open to the public and has provided accommodation for park rangers. People have reported ghostly apparitions and strange music. Staying overnight in the house, park rangers and their wives have experienced paranormal events such as hearing strange noises, being paralyzed in bed, and seeing items move by themselves.

The most frightening legend of Bodie is a mysterious curse that follows many visitors after they leave the town. Allegedly, Bodie’s ghosts serve as guardians to the town’s property, casting bad luck and misfortune to souvenir hunters who take anything with them.

Each month, Bodie’s park rangers receive objects and letters from people who admit to taking items and beg the rangers to put them back. The letters tell tales of horrible incidents such as mysterious illnesses, car accidents, and even death. The rangers frequently speak of these accounts and assure the senders that the objects are always returned to their original places.

mllemia: lostsplendor:By Leopoldo Metlicovitz,...

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:50:20 -0400

mllemia:

lostsplendor:By Leopoldo Metlicovitz, 1915 (via Vintage et cancrelats)

Rudolph Eickenmeyer Jr., Little Butterfly, 1903

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:15:34 -0400

Rudolph Eickenmeyer Jr., Little Butterfly, 1903

tiffanyandco: Tiffany diamonds were the screen darlings of the...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:23:34 -0400

tiffanyandco:

Tiffany diamonds were the screen darlings of the Jazz Age. Here, starlet Fania Marinoff (circa 1923) demonstrates that nothing burns brighter in black and white.

androphilia: The Day Of The Dead By William-Adolphe Bouguereau,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:17:51 -0400

androphilia:

The Day Of The Dead By William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1859

thevictorianlady: Russian Ballerina, wife of John Maynard...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:13:19 -0400

thevictorianlady:

Russian Ballerina, wife of John Maynard Keynes, and Bloomsbury Group member Lydia Lopokova in 1922.

geisterseher: Les Abus de Paris : abus sociaux, abus...

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:39:53 -0400

geisterseher:

Les Abus de Paris : abus sociaux, abus littéraires, abus dramatiques… 40 livraisons à 30cs A la Diection [sic] , 16 passage de l’Opéra, Galerie de l’Horloge (1843)

tuesday-johnson: ca. 1870, [post mortem tintype portrait of a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:39:02 -0400

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1870, [post mortem tintype portrait of a young child]

via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection

vintage-eros: Parisian Proto-Flapper from La Belle Epoque.Circa...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:55:03 -0400

vintage-eros:

Parisian Proto-Flapper from La Belle Epoque.
Circa early 1900s, from the antique nudes archive at DeltaofVenus.com.

castaroundvintage: Lock & Whitfield, 1850s. Unknown woman.

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:54:19 -0400

castaroundvintage:

Lock & Whitfield, 1850s. Unknown woman.

hoodoothatvoodoo: Papillons (de la collection d’ Obertun) 1890

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:52:39 -0400

hoodoothatvoodoo:

Papillons (de la collection d’ Obertun)

1890

inneroptics: , Oscar Gustav Rejlander

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:14:06 -0400

inneroptics:

, Oscar Gustav Rejlander

vintagechildrenkids: bizarre_victorian_era_portraits_ Adorable...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:26:38 -0400

vintagechildrenkids:

bizarre_victorian_era_portraits_

Adorable Hidden Mother photograph.

Juliana Royster, Untitled Study of Woman Reading to Children,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:50:06 -0400

Juliana Royster, Untitled Study of Woman Reading to Children, c.1905

maudelynn: Vilma Banky

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:15:58 -0400

maudelynn:

Vilma Banky

geisterseher: The Alphabet of Flowers and Fruit. London: Dean...

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:38:28 -0400

geisterseher:

The Alphabet of Flowers and Fruit. London: Dean & Son, 1856

Very serious Victorians looking down at me.

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:38:00 -0400

Very serious Victorians looking down at me.

Beautiful wallpaper

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:37:07 -0400

Beautiful wallpaper

The Young Swell

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:35:26 -0400

The Young Swell

historyofromanovs: history meme | three inventions: electric...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:19:03 -0400

historyofromanovs:

history meme | three inventions: electric light, nineteenth-twentieth century

The Edwardian era is described by one author as “the dawning of the age of material novelties, heard in the clatter of the telegraph, the jingle of the telephone and the cacophony of the first mass-produced typewriters, experienced in the eerie feeling of ascent on the first elevator rides, the dazzling aura of electric light, and the new, democratic mobility of the bicycle.”