Abandoned Haunted City in Taiwan!
A perfectly fiendish destination for a far east vacation, the city of San Zhi is said to have been a proposed resort town for the nouveau riche of Taiwan’s booming 60s economy. Apparently a series of unfortunate accidents claimed the lives of so many workmen the place began to be shunned by potential vacationers before it was completely finished, so now it sits unused and abandoned. The ghosts of the workmen who died “in vain” constructing the unfinished city are said to haunt the place, perhaps stalking visitors in Grudge-like fashion.
Web Urbanist has a list of other abandoned cities, some closer to home if traveling to Asia doesn’t fit your budget, that are equally delightful. And devoid hopefully of vengeful ghosts.
A tip of the chapeau to WebbAlert.
An Evening With The Undead: Romero and Bava
An Evening with the Undead was a 1968 drive-in double feature of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace. The promo ad warned that before you could be admitted to see “The 8 Greatest Shocks Ever Filmed,” you would be required to sign your own death certificate.
Over at Scenes from the Morgue (where they’ve uploaded tons of retro pulp movie ads), The Beerman says he’d probably have given his left nut to see a first run of these flicks. Being of the XX chromosomal persuasion, that’s not a sacrifice I’ll ever be called upon to make, but I’m with him in spirit.
The Vest Pocket Motorbike
Actually it doesn’t fit in a pocket but it did store behind the seat of of planes owned by men of leisure. Whatevs. You know you want one for the back seat of your Honda Civic:
h/t The Clockworkers Guild’s Journal
Marie
Fewdio has been turning out horror shorts for consumption on YouTube for some time now. All are great but this piece, called Marie, is one of their best:
Star Trek Steampunkery
Disengage from your inner Photoshop critic and enjoy these neo-Victorian wallpapers featuring Spock, Kirk, and the rest of the Star Trek gang.
via Ephemerist