#museum horror stories

[marzipanandminutiae]

If we’re sharing museum horror stories, a friend used to work at the Louvre and the amount of lipstick stains she had to remove from marble statues… I would have hunt the visitors for sport.

Yes, we should be allowed to hunt those people for sport, I think.

(I just. Your desire to feel all Lana Del Ray #coquettecore in the museum or whatever does not trump other people's right to enjoy and learn from and be inspired by the artistic output of bygone eras. And we're not trying to be staid and boring or kill your Free-Spirited Bohemian fun by saying that, as museum workers. YOU are being self-centered and entitled. Buy your own damn marble statue and stain it with oily lipstick as much as you want. End of.)

#ask #anon #museums #museum worker #museum horror stories

[violetharmonisgone]

I visited a museum few weeks ago. Museum is my second home,while the library is the first. These would look like a good addition to my room. (All pics are mine)

#ahs #ahs murder house #ahs coven #violet harmon #biology #aesthetic #dark aesthetic #butterfly #museum #dark academia #butterflies #american horror story #blog #poets on tumblr #photographers on tumblr #flowers #sad thoughts #zoe benson #lana del rey #tate langdon #2014 tumblr #2014 grunge

[fallbabylon]

A Tengu guards the entrance of a Yokai exhibition of historical Japanese Art- Bologna, Italy.

#tengu #folklore #folk horror #history #art #art history #japanese #japan #art exhibition #exhibition #museums #kappa #yokai watch #yokai #yurei #oni #ghost #ghosts #ghost stories #horror #demon #creature #myth #legend #Italy #bologna

[arsenicviolet]

-𖧷Great, so we're the Addams family now?

(Recently visited a museum, it had really cool stuff ngl.)

#violet harmon #mine #ahs murder house #ahs #american horror story #violet ahs #violet harmon style #tate and violet #ahs fandom #violet harmon aesthetic #ahs 1 #museum #insects #vintage #thrifting #grunge #violet harmon music #2011

[cryptvokeeper]

I think haunted museums are an underutilized concept

you take so many personal objects from peoples final resting places, at least SOME of that shit is gonna be haunted or cursed.

Night at the museum is the closest we as a society have come to a museum horror story and that’s a damn shame

#Give me a horror story in a museum #give me a theme abt the real horror being the way museums steal sacred or personal objects from their cultures #Give me a museum that knows it’s artifacts are malicious and killing security guards but they’d rather die than give up their status #I was gonna say movie but honestly make it an indie horror game #Fnaf doesn’t get a monopoly on security guard protagonists #Also cuz it’s be cool to run around a museum after dark #Recreate the entire British museum in blender and then make it spooky #I’m imagining a sort of walk around experience where you can read the plaques for different exhibits #And the plaques get more fucked up over the course of the night #Talking about how many people died to get it here or how a persons spirit is screaming for this to be returned #Idk what the gameplay would be maybe something a bit amnesia-esque #No weapon more of a run around and hide #Collecting key cards or codes you need to get to different areas and escape #I’ve never actually wanted to to make a video game but now I’m tempted nooooo #Ugh that’s be so much work #And yet #I’m thinking about all the statues with missing hands and heads and noses #Body horror potential #Museums are so big and twisty they’d be amazing

[anerol152]

Me during all of S2:

#the mistholme museum of mystery morbidity and mortality #tmmommam #mistholme museum #the tour guide #mistholme #podcasts #horror podcast #I dunno what are the proper tags for this yet but here #he be glitching #and dying right in front of me #and it's lowkey sad #but he's trying #guys he's trying #and he's sassy #and lowkey hates humans but is so earnest ab this job #I like this podcast so much more than I thought I would and ngl this ch is most of that reason #also the stories are funky #I like the stories #but mostly the tour guide

[katiajewelbox]

Halloween Countdown Day 7

HP Lovecraft's The Horror in the Museum

Gather around for a spooky story this Halloween season from the master of cosmic horror Howard Phillips Lovecraft! This beautifully written tale filled with evocative language and haunting descriptions is a classic example of Lovecraft's blending of science fiction and gothic horror. In this tale, we enter a mysterious wax work museum where the displays not only show horrors from history and folklore but eldritch beings from beyond space and time. Are these effigies mere artistic imaginings or are they the real thing? Listen and find out with reader Ian Gordon on the Horrorbabble channel on Youtube.

#Halloween#halloweencountdown#horror#shortstories#hplovecraft#museums#cosmichorror#literature#spookyseason

#halloweencore #halloween #happy halloween #halloween countdown #hp lovecraft #howard phillips lovecraft #the horror in the museum #museums #eldritch #eldritch horror #monsters #cosmic horror #horror #literature #american literature #short story #ian gordon #horrorbabble #science fiction #sci fi horror #gothic #mysterious #Youtube

[dongiovannitriumphant]

i love working at the museum but i love less how i will joke abt ghost stories to various colleagues and they will introduce me to a new fucked up one that allegedly is in the museum

#museum adventures w viktor #like yesterday having dinner w a friend who used to work there and being like yeah haha seems like there's a lot of stories #and her(a person i wouldnt ever think superstitious) just going oh have you met the one in early modern yet it bangs on the glass #she reenacted it for me and everyhing i was shitting myself closing that collection tonight send HELP #can someone also pls tell me why part of the exhibits is a horror walk through w pictures of ghosts and other spooky figures that i ALSO #have to close #tomorrow im being guard on a late night event in the room where there's allegedly a. a piano playing ghost and b. the weeping ghost #of a little girl who died on the staircase #fun!

[smile-files]

bearer of the curse (too many good ideas)

#melonposting #augh it’s so annoying!!! like i can’t do everything i think of #grt3d is reassuring in that now i know it’s possible for me to fully execute a story #but that still doesn’t help the fact that there are so many to execute :’D #like there’s the mothmen obviously. that one’s been simmering for a while #then there’s goody gardens if i ever decide to really ‘make’ anything with it (as it is it’s just a cast of characters to think about) #there’s the botanica story too (which still needs an official name) #and there’s my ii3 rewrite/au #oh not to mention whatever pokemon x&y rewrite i was planning way back when. don’t know if i really care about that now #i haven’t done much with arthropocalypse (i don’t even think i’ve posted about it here at all) but that has potential #and of course there are the middle school era stories like camp mercury and dark divinity which i don’t think i care to do anything with #(they’re just funny to look back at) #there’s my pokemon-inspired story/game/something revolving entirely around species of butterflies and moths #and there’s the very recent idea of a mascot horror type thing involving a museum and the exhibits coming alive and trying to kill you #(like night in the museum crossed with fnaf or something) #and a sitcom-type thing involving the dolls belonging to the children in a large family and the drama they get into #oh and wasn’t there some story i had about a rich guy living in a haunted mansion and supernatural creatures working there? #like he has a vampire butler and mothman gardener or something like that? #oh and my weird story with holmes-and-watson-inspired mad scientist supervillains #and what’s basically a high school au of sherlock holmes which was cute #hm there’s my dandelion-themed children’s book #and probably a handful of object show ideas as well #goodness gracious i am insane

[always-a-joyful-note]

All right. Time to ramble about a new thing that grabbed me by the neck and didn't let me go until I finished all available episodes.

That new thing, my friends, would be the Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality. And despite being terrible at writing proper reviews and hardly ever doing it, I'm gonna do my best to give a semi-coherent review of why you should listen to this funky little Australian podcast.

So! I see a lot of people comparing Mistholme to Magnus Archives. ..and while that definitely works, I also want to both compare it to Welcome to Night Vale and Wolf 359 for its at times very cavalier attitude towards the unexplained and its exploration on personhood and humanity.

Seriously, though. What I LOVE about this podcast, asides from the philosophical and discoursey tidbits that make the nerd in me go absolutely bonkers, is the way that while it is very much horror and mystery, it's just not that.

Like...it's a museum about supernatural occurrences and terrors, and while a lot of stories do end in creepy, bone-chilling ways, there's also stories that end ambiguously or happily. It's just people living in a world that happens to have alternatural items in it, and while many of the times things go horribly wrong, a lot of times things also can go right...or leave something good to think about. It's just...the best part about this podcast for me is how it's almost slice of life, but a slice of life that happens in a world of magic through the lens of a museum (literally ;)).

Moving on, though, I also seriously love how sometimes it gives off the feel of those educational shows where the characters talk to the audience. There's definitely some great meta moments (and y'all know how much I am wild over those), some stuff I DEARLY want to say about the second person voice but won't for coherence/spoilers. It blends genres - from sci-fi to horror to fantasy, etc. - and has an amazing meta mystery plot thread that just gets better and better as the show progresses.

More than that, though, I seriously just love the focus on worldbuilding. Ironically, this podcast is a MASTER at the show don't tell rule (with reasonable and very seamlessly woven ways of telling, too), and we gradually get to know of this world similar to our own but noooot quite right as the show progresses in a very organic way. And I'm also gonna seriously express the joy I feel in the ambiguity of the year in which the show is unraveling, as well as the ambiguity of how much the common public is aware of the alternatural and so many other things like that. Enough that you're not toooo curious about it but it still adds just another amazing element of story and FUN to this world.

The characters in this podcast - STARS THE CHARACTERS IN THIS PODCAST!! ATG (what I call the Audio Tour Guide)....well, other people have said it better than me but you WILL want to die for it and treasure it and protect it. The other characters that appear? Phenomenal, complex, just...people. And the VOICE ACTING IN THIS. I am....not a good judge of VAs, I'll admit, but just the voice acting in here. The subtle emotion and RANGE they give to their characters. How I'm able to almost SEE them all just from the way they speak. And the way they all develop, both silent AND speaking characters - I don't know how but Dom somehow made me love the mute or nonspeaking characters...or...just feel certain things for them ;)).

Just....plotwise, characterwise WORLDBUILDINGWISE (I am very much a fan of excellent, incredible worlds), performancewise, the themes and discourse on humanity and nature it invites, everything - solid 1000/10. It's really and seriously ranking up there with W359 as one of my favorite podcasts so far....

Now, of course, there will be some stuff that you may personally not find to taste like I did (what with the diverse stories and so on) but I don't think they belong in this review as they're more subjective opinions those up there were all objectively true despite my gushing I don't take arguments so we don't need that. I think the show really does its best in being respectful to all mythologies, religion, sociopitical issues, etc. that may crop up, and it keeps such an...objective? more hopeful? stance on almost every person narrated about (despite in-show opinions) that's kind of...well, refreshing I suppose? to hear? (Maybe the best way to explain it is that its neutral tone allows people, evil and good, to be people without betraying its show's own ethical code.)

Anyway, yeah....I love Mistholme. I love ATG and co. I love the VA and their voice and all other voices once again I ask why are podcaster voices so nice to hear? I love LOVE the individual stories and their unique way of just...revealing the world of Mistholme. And yes, again, I really love all its themes and the Thoughts(tm) they invite or that invade your brain space.

Anyway, with that, I'm still not forgiving the creator for s4 despite being on s5, how DARE -

And secondly, if I had a nickel for everytime an Aussie creator made an urban fantasy world with some of the best worldbuilding and character arcing and plot twisting I've seen, I'd have 2 nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice...

Comparisons and jokes asides, though, you really WILL love this world on its own. And maybe scream a little in wounded agony. But that's just the fun of visiting a museum of mystery, morbidoty, and mortality right?

#meta elements meta elements META ELEMENTS im so normal about them.... #can i just say this show saw the podcast format and went 'yeah we can milk it for all its worth' #im sorry for the lack of coherence or smooth transitions #anyway i just came from listening to ep 50 and eagerly await ep 51 #and thought might as well post a review about it #the plot is at a semistressful point but i honestly dont mind? #and also there are still asides and mini stories they tell but somehow despite being SO CURIOUS as to whats going ON with the big meta plot #i still wanna know about wire snakes and little research trips into the horrors #anyway i want to say so MUCH about the podcast format...the way this uses so many cool themes about voice and names and personhood... #and the second person voice combined with the audio format #but I'll restrain myself since I already put forth an opinion #anyway i would kill and die for ATG and want it to be okay #all right now im done... #excuse me rambling in the tags #fandom spamdom #note's nonsense #the mistholme museum of mystery morbidity and mortality #t5m #(that's my acronym tag for mistholme museum heh) #edit: oh yeah the other aussie media thing would be city between #tm5

[marzipanandminutiae]

In case you are interested in further museum horror stories, I was not working there, but here it goes: a small kid, aged about 24 months, was left to roam free by their parents, who were very obnoxiously taking pictures of themselves with some of the objects on display as if this were a professional shoot. This was on a tour, mind, so they were not only being a tad annoying, their behaviour was not very polite, too, given the tour guide was talking to the group. Their kid was extremely noisy, running around and at one point, went straight for their mother's legs and hugged her from behind, causing her to almost stumble into a huge 18th century silver tankard due to the unexpected force of the child crashing into the back of her knees. The entire room seemed to gasp, anticipating to become witnesses in a high-stakes insurance claim and police investigation. Now, this was a special event guided tour with a costumed interpreter in full 18th century Prussian regimentals, who, looking at the concerned face of the museum worker close by, and the annoyed ones of the visitors, took charge of the situation: he used his walking stick to point at the child in one astonishingly swift motion and grumbled something like "You! Eh, children...", giving the parents a very dirty look. The funniest thing was, this was the moment he seemed to be most believably in character. The little one turned to their mum, buried their face in her leg and remained quiet for the rest of the tour. I feel a little bad for the child, who should clearly have been better supervised (or not brought along to a tour for older children and adults at all) but I hope it was a lesson to the parents. You don't get to be the focus of negative attention by an 18th century king in full dress uniform every day, after all.

Good for him.

You're right, though, I will say- that's on the parents. If you can't find a babysitter or think your two-year-old will get something out of the museum (hey, start 'em young!), it is now your job to run interference on that two-year-old. You don't get to take Instagram pics if you elected to bring a toddler to the Fragile Priceless Artifacts Zone.

Like I said in an earlier ask, I've honestly had more issues with adults than kids only a little bit older than that and up. Children are used to hearing "don't do this" and following directions. Adults are more likely to think "why?" and even after having it explained, "that doesn't apply to me."

Most people of all ages are fine in museums, to be clear! It's just the small number of jerks that stick out in one's mind.

#ask #long post #museums #museum horror stories #acrossthewavesoftime

[t0xikon]

#viktor wynd museum #american horror story #obscure

[lengthy-artery]

🌹

for every "🌹" received in my inbox i'll post one random sentence of a random WIP i'm currently writing (all my current work is original stuff so enjoy that!)

He and Mary had a particular agreement, one that had begun when he’d found her kissing Maude Kingley behind the church when he was twenty and she nineteen, and had then been solidified when he asked her to marry him two weeks later.

#ask games #this one is from a different wip to the other one #tldr went to a living history museum and got a full plot for a queer horror 1910s coal miner story dropped directly into my noggin

[goatmilksoda]

A cowboy in the 1860's was cursed to be trapped in the vessel of a porcelain doll after he died. After 160 years of this, he's stopped the hauntings and has become comfortable and happy being a regular tea party attendee and beloved friend to his great-great-granddaughter.

#writing prompts #I'm never going to use this but I have so many ideas about this cowboy #like... maybe the little girl sees a horror movie and is suddenly scared of him #or he gets put in a museum/collected #thrift stored maybe? #the doll gets broken and his soul is released and he has to find his way back in or find a new vessel #it's like... Toy Story but darker #goat talk

[kittensintinytophats]

started The Mistholme Museum podcast and its really fun so far

#mistholme museum #its a tour guide through a museum #each item has a little short story attached to it #but theres also an over arching plot starting to emerge #sorta has scp vibes #defs spooky but wouldnt call it horror #if youre looking for something more light than other horror podcasts #also i would die for the tourguide #i love them so much theyre just a funky lil AI #tophat speaks

[unitedgoodsusa]

Secretos del espectro caníbal. Historia de audio de terror.

#horror stories #advertising #promoteyoutubevideocost #vimeo #movies #free #youtube #museums #mua #actors #nature