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Found this today while researching urban legends about phone numbers. This is delightfully creepy and I'll be very disappointed if none of my writer friends ever sneak some of these into a horror novel or something..
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/audio/harvard.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_sentences
https://gizmodo.com/the-harvard-sentences-secretly-shaped-the-development-1689793568
(tl;dr: it's a carefully formulated series of phonetically balanced phrases for use in testing phones; out of context, most of them are rather creepy in a way that I find... pretty awesome, honestly, this is my kind of horror)
linguistics; communication; esoterica; urban pseudo-occult; creepy; awesome
"This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within."
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that is one scary horse.
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The scene that series of phrases originates from is one of the most genuinely disturbing things I've ever seen on television.
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@Phorm @001zlnv Found one of the clips! I really need to break down and watch the rest of S3, don't I...
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Yes - You absolutely should watch The Return if you have the stomach for it. It's very slow, it's not at all what people expected, and Lynch takes it in a weird direction that I'm not sure I fully liked. But I appreciated it, and it's very well done.
Also, ABSOLUTELY yes to the voice mail idea. Heck that's good.
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If you do, I'd love to know what you think!
(Also, if you need some 'sourcing' on The Return *wink wink nudge nudge* Feel free to let me know privately)
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@Phorm "Fire is coming... fire is coming... fire is coming..."
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That feels particularly creepy and ominous today, as the South San Francisco sign (Akin the the HollyWood sign, but more local to me) went up in a blaze.
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@Phorm Incidentally, I snagged S3 and immediately skipped straight to E8. This is EXACTLY the kind of nightmare I wanted, thank you. <3 God, this is perfect surrealist horror and I need to get into an Over The Edge campaign with a competent GM as soon as humanly possible, because that's the single closest thing to a Twin Peaks RPG.
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I'm so glad you're enjoying it! S3E8 is actually a super great place to jump in, given it's disconnected narrative. If you're liking that, you might enjoy the way the whole season begins.
There's bit of a slow pace throughout the whole thing, but there's plenty MORE surrealism than Twin Peaks had in S1 or S2. Let's just say if the series started out this way, it never would have gotten mainstream traction (and I say that as a positive thing).
linguistics; communication; esoterica; urban pseudo-occult; creepy; awesome
@zebratron2084
Reminds me somehow of Winograd Schema sentences (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_Schema_Challenge).