Spend enough time scrolling through social medium and you ’ll find one : A picture that ’s too foreign to just be “ creepy-crawly , ” too flummox to just be “ mysterious , ” too sinister to just be “ weird . ” That , my friends , is an image that ’s been cursed .
In the early days of the internet , these pictures experience alongside more explicit image on shock situation like rotten.com , but since last month,@cursedimageshas been collecting the finest ( PG - rated ) examples of the genreon Twitter . Some of them are one-time deary while others have yet to gain ground greater infamy , but all of them are clear beam from Hell .
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— maledict images ( @cursedimages)August 29 , 2016
To learn more about these photos of the damned , Gizmodo spoke to @cursedimages ’ Lord , who explain the genesis of the chronicle .
“ Earlier this year , I had meet one or two posts on Tumblr of an unaccountable and odd delineation and the caption was simply ‘ cursed epitome , ’ ” say the account ’s admin , who prefer to remain nameless . “ It intrigued me , but when I tried explore that terminal figure to retrieve other moving picture like it , nothing issue forth up . ”
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— cursed effigy ( @cursedimages)August 23 , 2016
“ I ’ve always been fascinated by creepy and paranormal thing and had a few weird characterization saved that made me conceive back to the term ‘ unchurch effigy , ’ ” the admin continued . “ After a few day I begin seeking out more and more of these pictures and then I decided I should post them all in one place . ”
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— cursed images ( @cursedimages)August 26 , 2016
According to the God Almighty of @cursedimages , there ’s no one factor that take a leak an ikon manifestly “ cursed . ”
“ unredeemed range , to me , leave you with a cosmopolitan uneasy impression , ” said the admin . “ There could be certain lineament , like someone looking directly at the photographic camera or an ball floating in the background . ”
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“ I do it sometimes I send image that seem more silly that curse , but I attempt to quell true to that weird belief . I think a good proportion of funny and creepy is important , and it leaves people enquire if the whole ‘ cursed ’ affair is really a joke or not . ”
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involve if they had a preferent exposure , however , @cursedimages ’ admin discover it easy to name a single image .
“ This picture just catch me , ” said the admin of an image of a swim mess seemingly threaten by an approaching phantasm . “ I always hear news report about these beautiful and terrific pool of pee that go down forever . Sometimes the lakes have a dark history , like a kid diving too deep and never coming back up or someone project an unrecognizable creature swimming down with them in the depths . This definitely gives me that feeling , and I ca n’t aid but imagine this characterisation documents a soundbox of water like that . ”
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— imprecate images ( @cursedimages)August 11 , 2016
In addition to attempt to shock and divert the write up ’s followers , @cursedimages ’ admin saw their mission as giving a 2d aliveness to the photo .
“ Many of these image already were sort of forgotten , ” said the admin . “ I establish a few lay to rest late in eldritch and abandoned paranormal picture taking websites . But the really humorously odd ones have definitely turned into more than what the photographers intended . ”
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“ It really leaves the story behind it up to you , and you ’re just break to experience the use behind these pictures , ” the admin continue . “ If the photographers had n’t settle to share these flakey epitome with the man , they could ’ve been buried and forgotten . I think it ’s nice to be able-bodied to transform them into this idea of a ‘ beshrew image , ’ and let others appreciate just how weird these images are . ”
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