Mystery Manor : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Mystery Manor / Coco Mault
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Dispatch:OMAHA We’ve said it before: Omahans love Halloween. The moment the calendar ticks over to October, people start to transform their homes into cobweb covered relics.Mystery Manor is one such home — well, former home turned official haunted house — designed to induce The Willies. The history section of their webpage (www.mysterymanoromaha.org/history.php) describes some gruesome events, which had us at the Dispatch wondering how much is true. We contacted our friend Max Sparber, researcher at the Douglas County Historical Society, to help us parse fact from fiction."At the time the Halls were supposedly killing each other off in the manor," Sparber says, "it was actually inhabited by Mrs. J Sullivan, most famous for selling Pekinese puppies through the newspaper. As far as I can tell, neither she nor her dogs ever went on to haunt the house.Mr. and Mrs. Hall never existed.[But there are many opportunities for] some genuinely terrifying ghost stories. There was the Baby Farm, for example, on North 28th Street, run by Mrs. Maxwell, who managed to have multiple babies die under her care (I count at least four), as well as a mother who died when a gasoline stove exploded in 1888. ‘She is kind and honest,’ the World-Herald wrote, ‘but by some considered incompetent.’The woman who burned in the explosion was named Mrs. Dickinson. She was pulled from the flames by a man named Mr. William Hall, landlord of the Baby Farm — but he didn’t live in the Mystery Manor.So even if the people who built the attraction had searched for the name they made up, they would have found a story far more horrifying than the one they concocted.”Max Sparber is also author of The Happy Hooligan, a guide to the untoward, the forgotten, the perplexing, and the eccentric history of the Irish in America. happy-hooligan.blogspot.com/ |
| 撮影日 | 2014-10-01 19:45:44 |
| 撮影者 | Coco Mault , Omaha, USA |
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| カメラ | Canon PowerShot SD1300 IS , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.125 sec (1/8) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.2 |
| 焦点距離 | 6 mm |