The town of Salem, Massachusetts is no stranger to macabre record and disturbing legends, but for the first time perhaps something belonging to the towns supernatural facet has been caught on camera.
The Joshua Ward House has stood in mute witness to a dark history. The Georgian/Federal style building was constructed by Joshua Ward, a wealthy merchant sea captain, in the late 1780s on the remaining foundations of former sheriff George Corwin’s house on Washington Street. Corwin was a bloody figure whose zeal added to the unfortunate events surrounding Salem in the late 1600s. Nicknamed The Strangler after his preferred torture modus operandi (which included tying his prone victims’ necks to their ankles until the blood ran from their noses), he is said to be responsible for many of the witches deaths, including that of Giles Corey, a man who stood accused of witchcraft who Corey crushed to death by placing heavy stones on his chest in order to extract a confession. Despite the horrific treatment Corey never confessed, indeed he is said to have implored his torturers to pile on more rocks and hasten his departure.
Legend states that just before he died, Corey cursed Corwin and all sheriffs that follow in his wake for his despicable acts of barbarism. It should be noted here that every sheriff since Corey uttered his curse had died while in office or had been forced out of his post as the result of a heart or blood ailment. Corwin himself died of a heart attack in 1696, only about four years after the end of the trials. By the time of his death, Corwin was so despised that his family had to bury him in the cellar of their house to avoid desecration of the corpse by the public.
In the early 1980s a real estate company named Carlson Realty had bought the house with the intention of turning it into their headquarters. After moving in, a realtor by the name of Dale Lewinski began the task of taking photographs of the staff members to add to a welcome display. Lewinski was using a Polaroid camera to snap the head-and-shoulders, passport-style pictures. Upon photographing a colleague by the name of Lorraine St. Peter a peculiar sight greeted Lewinski.
The Polaroid was developed and, instead of showing St. Peter, it appeared to depict a frightening image: a strange, black-haired, feminine figure. St. Peter was nowhere to be seen, the photograph has not been cropped at all; St. Peter has been entirely replaced by the apparition.
This reproduction was originally published in the book Haunted Happenings by Robert Ellis Cahill (himself an ex-sheriff) in which he describes St. Peter as “both genuinely frightened and embarrassed by the picture.”
A hoax is of course, always possible, but unnecessary considering the rich nature of other paranormal occurrences that are reported to take place within the Joshua Ward House: aportation (objects moving of their own accord), candles that leap from their holders and subsequently melt, candles that are found bent into S shapes, alarms that go off by themselves (one alarm was triggered over sixty times in two years), phantom strangulation’s and the sightings of a myriad spirits including an elderly-looking spirit sitting by a fireplace and along with the photograph in questions subject, another ghostly woman roams the upper floors.
One room in particular seems to be more haunted than the rest. An employee would lock her office door nightly only to return in the morning to find books and papers thrown across the floor, the wastebasket upside down and lamp shades askew.
Sheriff Corwin’s body was eventually moved to the Broad Street Cemetery, but it is said that his spirit too lingers in the Ward House.
It is truly a bizarre photograph, certainly containing a degree of menace and so starkly strange as to create fright in the onlooker, especially upon first viewing.
What’s hilarious about the “Tony is the True Villian [sic] of the MCU” hot takes is that none of these people crafting these “think-pieces” have actually thought about what they’re saying.
Have they well and truly considered how fucked everyone would be if Tony really wanted to go full big bad? If Tony embraced the god-given powers of his goatee and went supervillain?
If Tony Stark truly was a villain…
He wouldn’t have stopped producing weapons. In fact, he’d probably use the arc reactor technology to make even more powerful weapons of mass destruction. These weapons he could then use to line his pockets, becoming even more insanely wealthy – or…?
He could’ve enacted the Iron Legion protocol and successfully taken over the world because the other heroes wouldn’t have been around (or were too inexperienced/weak to fight someone as formidable as Iron Man at the time). Like, imagine if Tony had started work on his project to put Iron Man suits “around the world.” We saw just a glimpse of that in Age of Ultron. It was hella scary.
And if none of that happened? If Tony just up and decided to turn coat outta the blue? Then he could’ve killed all his “allies” (the Avengers) at any time he wanted, because he knows all their weaknesses, where they live, etc. He makes their tech. If he wanted, he could exploit it and end their lives. Clint’s arrows? Suddenly go boom in his quiver. Nat’s widow bites? Suddenly overcharge, electrocuting her to death. You get the picture.
Tony wouldn’t have bothered stopping the Mandarin. Wouldn’t have bothered saving the President of the United States.
Could’ve easily killed Cap and the others in Civil War if he’d really wanted them “out of the way” to further his own agenda.
Hell, he’d probably do such an efficient job cleaning house, Thanos might even be impressed. Adopting him as a “Child of Thanos.” Do you think evil Tony would care about half the population of Earth getting wiped? No. Not if he was guaranteed safe.
My point? Supervillain Tony would have wiped. the. floor. Tony has the mental acumen, financial capital, and tech to cause massive damage. Even take over the damn world.
It’s lucky for Earth that Tony has such a strong moral compass and decided to be a hero. Because if Tony were a villain? Earth would be beyond screwed.
Gintoki: anime memes, police memes, samurai memes, just memes
Kagura: cute dresses, pastels, selfies, sending “get yourself a life” to gintoki on anon everytime he reblogged a meme
Shinpachi: Otsuu, just otsuu that’s how much otsuu trash this boy is, also gets “get yourself a life” on anon (from Kagura)
Hijikata: news about the shinsengumi doing great, gordon-ramnsey-like reviews on food but all his comments are “it lacks mayonnaise”, trying to answer in a funny way to all the anon hate he gets
Sougo: weapons, pictures of hijikata doing embarrassing things, gore, every selfie is 10,000+ notes, sending anon hate to Hijikata
Kondou: its just pictures of otae, self loathing text posts, his only two followers are sougo and hijikata, sougo softblocked him
Katsura: “rate my conspiracy theory” game, news of the shinsengumi fucking up, cute cats every now and then, adding unnecessary comments to every post he reblogs, gintoki never followed him back
I don't know if you seen it, but there is a Petition at change-org for Marvel to bring Loki back to us I'm totally devastated by his death. I hope if they hear his fans they would choose his fate more carefully next time.
But they’ve already filmed A4, so this petition is kind of pointless.
At
the base, Loki was to die in Thor The Dark World and finally when they
saw the popularity he had in SDCC, they added that scene of him on the
throne. So nothing is said.
I don’t think Loki died. And I have theories/proves.
1) He called himself “Son of Odin” and doing so he glanced at Thor. Now, Loki hates Odin and would never define himself as his son and Thor knows it so this must be like a meaningful “message” he sent to his brother.
2) Loki is one of the most intelligent characters. Did he really think he could kill Thanos with a dagger? With the whole dark order present? Of course, no. He is not that stupid.
3) Tom Hiddleston was asked what would he say to the worried fans and he replied “Don’t worry, Loki is the God of Mischief.” Also Tom is in Avengers 4 cast.
4) There’s a whole scene where he’s not present. When Hulk is fighting Thanos and then Heimdall dies. He appears then from nowhere and goes to suicide. That might be a charm, just like in Thor 2. It has to be. He must have known that there could be no chance against Thanos.
Guys, Loki knew Thanos. He knew what he was capable of. He has always a plan. He does everything for a reason. He had already given the Stone and they were leaving, he could have been safe if only he didn’t step forward at that point. That has to have a reason, all of that. Because Loki is not stupid and does everything for a reason.
But if Marvel confirms that he died just this way I will be disappointed honestly. This character would have deserved a better treatment.
Thoughts?
The character definitely deserves better. I don’t know if Marvel care enough to do anything that you/we think they should have done though. All these lying to ourselves are great therapy, I guess. But we have to face the truth in the end.
Also, I think Loki absolutely would call himself Odinson no matter his feelings towards Odin. There’s a closure in Ragnarok after all.
