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Your hosts watch the 2014 movie Oculus then Cayla brings you the history and horror of haunted mirrors. Get ready for a dose of dark mirrors, tales of spectral reflections, and bizarre occurrences that will make you question whether that face in the glass is really yours. So grab your headphones, turn down the lights, and let's dive into the terrifying world of haunted mirrors. Are you sure it's you, smiling back from the glass?
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Sources
- Caputo, Giovanni B. “Strange-Face-In-The-Mirror Illusion.” Perception, vol. 39, no. 7, Jan. 2010, pp. 1007–1008, https://doi.org/10.1068/p6466.
- christy kessler. “8 Intriguing Funeral Customs from the Victorian Era.” Funeral Basics, 26 May 2020, www.funeralbasics.org/8-intriguing-funeral-customs-victorian-era/#:~:text=Curtains%20were%20closed%20and%20mirrors.
- Golembiewski, Kate. “The Spooky Science of Why Mirrors Can Freak Us out so Much.” Atlas Obscura, 14 Oct. 2022, www.atlasobscura.com/articles/haunted-mirrors-strange-face-illusion#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIt. .
- Kaye, Don. “Interview: Oculus Director Mike Flanagan.” Den of Geek, 14 Apr. 2014, www.denofgeek.com/movies/interview-oculus-director-mike-flanagan/.
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- Newkirk , Greg. “The Dark Mirror: The Haunted Object Terrifying Hundreds.” Weekinweird.com, 17 Aug. 2017, weekinweird.com/2015/08/17/the-dark-mirror-haunted-object/.
- “The Rise of the Mirror as Commonplace.” Www.brown.edu, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World, www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/13things/7306.html#:~:text=Reflective%20surfaces%20made%20of%20polished.
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- Newkirk, D & J. “The Dark Mirror.” Traveling Museum of the Paranormal & Occult, paramuseum.com/pieces/the-dark-mirror/.
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