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A Washington, D.C. street became a site of urban Gothic this week, as a construction crew's glitch presented a dire threat:

The explanation is prosaic: "A construction crew was trying to cut a hole, and their blades got stuck."  Which makes sense.  But until the crew extracts the blades, they remain a clear image of urban horror.

Today's Gothic story comes from Japan, where people are rethinking personal behavior on rollercoasters in light of COVID-19.

A Wall Street Journal article about this is mostly behind a paywall, but it leads in the open with an awesome phrasee:

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A YouTube clip demonstrates:

"Please scream inside your heart" may be a great description for the year 2023, and Infocult hereby approves.

(thanks to Tom Haymes for the video)

It is apparently "Human Heads Found" week in the United States.  Yesterday we noted a Florida story about a jogger coming across a head.

Today's story involved half a human skull which turned up in a Michigan fireplace.

The homeowners, who recently had purchased the property, found "half of a human skull, and bone fragments" in a fire pit, said Todd Scheffler, Trenton's chief of police.

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The home on Wilson, Scheffler noted, was formerly owned by Mark Eberly, who was killed in a shootout late last month with a Tennessee police officer who was trying to conduct a welfare check on him.

Infocult: your guide to the uncanny persistence of human remains.

In Florida - of course - a jogger came across 上外国的网站东西加速软件.

Police believe the incident occurred in the last 48 hours because the jogger told them she ran in the same area on Sunday and saw nothing unusual. The head was spotted in a grassy area under an overpass around 7 a.m., police said, adding that no video surveillance exists nearby.

And that's where the story ends.  There isn't any active crime, nor any clues, as far as media accounts reveal.

Infocult: always scanning for real-life Gothic horror.

Today's real-world Gothic horror story comes from California, and combines cannibalism with a family plot:

According to police, the suspect, identified as Dwayne Wallick, 37, was caught in the act of eating Ruby Wallick, his 90-year-old grandmother, on Monday.

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At around 2 p.m., Richmond officers responded to a 911 call reporting a man standing over a woman’s body on the 1200 block of Club Court, a residential area near the Hilltop Plaza. Upon entering the home, where both Dwayne and Ruby are reported to live, the officers said they found the suspect cannibalizing the woman.

(Why not say "eating the woman"?)

Another local source added a resonant phrase:

Officers arrived at the residence to find 37-year-old Dwayne Wallick standing over 90-year-old Ruby Wallick, his grandmother, and digging in her flesh. [emphases added]

Ah.  A touch of Gothic flair in that account.

(thanks to Steven "loves his BBQ" Kaye)

From Tiktok, what may be the first Gothic fiction about the COVID-19 pandemic.

(thanks to Jesse Walker)

Today we learn about blood plastic.

This plastic material is made from 100 per cent dried and pressed cow’s blood, without any additives. Animal blood is a waste material from the meat industry. Designer Basse Stittgen explores the possibilities of blood as a material. The objects made from it interplay between the strong symbolic meaning of blood and its physicality.

(thanks to tidmarshm)

As COVID-19 works its way through the human race, what are the Gothic aspects?

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A papal assembly:

A classroom:

Sports:

(thanks to Michael Huntsberger)

Odd things come from Canada at times.  Case in point:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents found the brain packed in a glass mason jar in a Canada Post shipment during a random inspection on Valentine’s Day, CBP spokesman Kris Grogan said.

The brain was packaged with bubble wrap and what appeared to be paper towel, Grogan said, but without any supporting documentation.

The only description along with the package – which originated in Toronto and was headed for Kenosha, Wis. – was that it contained an “antique teaching specimen.”

Somehow this sounds like the next step after all of those body parts appeared in Canada.

(thanks to Randy McCall and Steven Kaye)