Haunted Places: II Monte Cristo Homestead

According to Wikipedia, the Monte Cristo homestead is one of the most haunted places in Australia.

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It was constructed by a local pioneer named Christopher William Crawley in 1885 and it is literally the “mysterious house on the hill” being located on a hill in Junee, New South Wales. The house seem to have had a lot of ghostly residents but one of the most famous and most seen is Mrs. Crawley, especially since she was known to be a pretty harsh woman. Since she spent a lot of time in the Drawing Room and the Chapel she is always seen there, dressed in black and carrying a large silver cross. Also, her presence is felt like cold.

A maid fell from the balcony and the blood stained steps were cleaned and you can still see the colored stain from the bleach. There were also other deaths in this house, a woman dying giving birth and even Mr. Crawley himself died of blood poisoning. 

Footsteps have been heard walking through empty rooms, along the hall and down the stairs which is strange in itself. However, what is even stranger is that the steps sound as though the person is walking on hard wood or lino floors even though the entire house is now carpeted.

Different objects were seen moving around but also strange happenings hear the stairs. A baby fell from her nanny’s arms and down the stairs and it seems that young children become agitate near or around the staircase. 

Their website has stories about other gruesome deaths:

The Coach House/Stables was also the sleeping quarters for a stable boy named Morris, who was one day too ill to rise for work. The boss did not believe the boy, and set fire to his bedding. Unfortunately, Morris was too ill to escape and was burnt to death.

A mentally retarded man named Harold, the son of a housekeeper working at Monte Cristo, was kept locked in shackles in the Caretaker's Cottage for forty years. He was found curled up at the feet of his mothers dead body, and sent to a home for the insane where he died shortly afterwards.

The most recent death at Monte Cristo occurred in 1961 when caretaker Jackie Simpson was murdered by a local youth. After watching the movie Psycho several times, the boy made his way up to the grounds of the homestead with a rifle and shot the caretaker dead in his cottage. It is believed that he then scawled the words "DIE JACK HA HA" on the wooden door, a macabre inscription that can still be seen to this day.

So next time you find yourself in Australia and you want a bit of adrenaline, you can definitely visit the eerie Monte Cristo Homestead. 

4 Weird Fetishes (Part I)

Weird Sexual Fetishes

If you thought your foot fetish was weird, it’s not. A person’s mind is a dark place and some of the things we enjoy can be really creepy; but here’s a list with some of the weird sexual fetishes I found.

She's getting ready for a date.
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1. Apotemnophilia – when we look at ourselves in the mirror, most of us want to lose or gain some weight, get a new haircut, etc. But not people suffering from apotemnophilia. Nope, these guys want to lose a limb. This is a strange neurological disorder in which rational people have a great desire to amputate their own limbs and many of them manage to do it with the help of surgeons or simply hurting themselves and force emergency amputation. Why is apotemnophilia a fetish? Because there’s an erotic desire of looking like an amputee. The causes seem to be linked to abnormalities in the prefrontal cortex. These guys get along great with acrotomophiliacs, those who have a sexual desire for people with amputations. 

Just some domestic fun...
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2. Autassassinophilia – some of us like it when our partner talks dirty, some like it when there’s a little roughness involved, but not those who have autassassinophilia, they like to get killed or at least be in life threatening situations. If your wife has this, you might have to hunt her down and pretend to kill her with a chainsaw just to get her attention. 

This scene of Little Red Riding Hood is definitely
 porn vore lovers. Nom, nom, nom!
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3. Vorarephilia – if you ever had a strong urge to be eaten alive (with or without digestion), this is your fetish. But there’s more! There’s soft vore, for those who are more romantic, which only involves being alive and as a whole. However, hard vore describes scenarios where the person or animal is being chewed and ripped. Of course, there’s more! Vaginal vore is a scenario where a woman “performs?!” unbirth, which is the reverse of birthing. The partner is consumed by the vagina and ends up in the woman’s womb; of course, if you think about it this is a very hard fetish to put in practice and all these people have is stories, pictures and cartoons that may depict this fetish. Oh, and there’s also penis vore, anal vore and breast vore but I’ll let you figure out what those mean. 

I bet it takes a while until you warm her up.
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4. Agalmatophilia – this a paraphilia that concerns attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin or other similar figurative object (according to Wikipedia). Actually I don’t blame these people, some of those Greek and Roman statues are really hot. There are a few cases of people who, uhm, raped statues.  Actually there’s also a case of a man, who fell deeply in love with a Venus of Milo statue and was discovered having sex with it. Women devoted themselves to the god Priapus and virgins were penetrated by his statue and actually many statues had been “mutilated” by having their penises cut off because they were used as dildos (don’t you just love history?) by women. 

Weird phobias

Thought you had an irrational fear? Think again! There are people in the world who are trying to cope with weirder stuff than you do.

Nomophobia – If you are one of those crazy people who can’t live without their mobile phone, you might have nomophobia. Well…according to a study 53% of us have this (actually not us, the whole world, more like British people because the study was done on them) and it seems that you feel really anxious whenever you are out of network.   

Yeah, it’s time to use that cyanide capsule 

you've been keeping for such emergencies.  

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I don’t know how much of a phobia this is and maybe they confuse phobia with a bit of anxiety, but hey when you start hyperventilating because your phone screen says “Out of network” I guess you might have some issues. And while we’re on the subject should I tell you about telephone phobia? People who have telephone phobia are afraid of making and receiving calls.

Pedidophobia - this is a fear of dolls; I know porcelain dolls can be really creepy and sometimes seeing your girlfriend’s collection of 40 000 dolls will freak you out.  Actually pedidophobia also refers to mannequins, dummies and…well, children.

Nope, children are not scary.
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It seems to be caused by a traumatizing experience in our past, usually our childhood (of course) and it can be solved with therapy. There’s even a group on Facebook  and exposing the members to dolls will give them palpitations, trembling, shortness of breath, etc.

Come and play with us, Danny
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Papyrophobia – this is fear of paper. While I admit that I have mild papyrophobia every month when I get my bills, I can’t stop wondering how does one develop such a phobia, implying that there was a trauma related to paper (?!). It seems to come in different forms: while some are just scared of blank paper, others get panic attacks when they see crumpled paper.

He will eat your soul. Forever.
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Dextrophobia – having this phobia means that you are afraid of having objects situated at your right and that will probably imply some awkward moments in social situations.

Optophobia  – the origin of its name comes from the greek word opt which means eyes; nope, it’s not the fear of eyes, is the fear of opening your eyes.  

Sesquipedalophobia is the fear of long words and I do hope they stay away from German language.

Phobophobia – this is pretty logical, is the phobia of having a phobia. It’s like typing Google into google.com, it splits the internet in two(yes, yes I like IT Crowd)