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thenewgreen  ·  4040 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Photo Challenge Last Day (Day 16): Scary

Something about this, and not just the red-brick, reminds me of High Plains Drifter

edit: Just read the link. Definitely "scary".

    Examiners attempting to identify the remains found them to be mummified rather than dissolved. The killers had stored the bodies in acid with the apparent intention of dissolving the remains, but had chosen hydrochloric acid which has the effect of mummification instead.
-c'mon! Don't homicidal maniacs do their research anymore?




BlackBird  ·  4040 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    High Plains Drifter

Unfortunately that link went to your messaging with elizabeth about continuing Hubski Photo Challenges!

The bank is creepy as all buggery: I got out of the car and walked around, had a look at the steel doors at re front, no chance of looking inside through them or the windows. Spookier yet, on the right side of the building (if looking at the photo), there's a window facing the street. On the inside window will between the glass and the blinds were a pair of gold coloured cherub angel statuettes. Sad and chilling all at once, especially knowing what was once inside.

I didn't hang around too long: it's a two-street-town, and I'm sure the locals get their share of gawkers coming to see it and nothing else. The old bank was put up for auction last year, but I don't think it sold. It was marketed as a 4br home and ex-bank

(edit: sold late last year, no word what's being done with it yet).

thenewgreen  ·  4040 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Who would want to live there?

Here's the High Plains Drifter photo:

BlackBird  ·  4040 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can only assume someone who has the ability to completely give exactly zero F's about the story.

Similar story happened with the Gonzales house here in Sydney a few years ago. Nutshell: The son Sef Gonzalez, for reasoning I can't remember, murders his family at home one night. Calls the cops, says they were attacked by intruders. Story doesn't wash, eventually turned out it was him.

So, what happens to a not-old, 2 storey house in a nice part of Sydney? It was put up for sale, and a Buddhist couple bought it. The Real Estate agency didn't think it necessary to do an "oh, by the way..." about it's history; the couple found out about it in the papers after signing the sale, and then refused to refund the couple. A heap of bad PR forced the Agency to refund and cancel the contract, and got fined pretty stiffly.

Then, someone else bought the house knowing the history, for about $700k or so.

Edit: Got lost in storytime, nice photo by the way!