Honoré de Balzac’s portraits of society are collectively known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy), a vast sequence of nearly 100 interconnected novels and stories. Written over two decades, it serves as an encyclopedic, realist panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, #BookWormSat 🧵

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Rooted deeply in legend, this iconic Nicaraguan ghost story tells the spirit of an indigenous chief's daughter who wanders the jungles and caves (such as those near Las Peñitas or Masaya) as a vengeful spirit after being betrayed by her Spanish lover. es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocuana #PhantomsFriday

Durán Sanatorium (Sanatorio Durán): Located near the Irazú Volcano in Costa Rica, this former tuberculosis hospital and asylum operated from 1918 to the 1970s. Visitors consistently report experiences #PhantomsFriday 🧵

The historic graveyard of Taboga Island in Panama where graves from as early as the 1700’s hold the remains of Spaniards and French, and townspeople of the island. Keep a careful watch for an old man sadly riding along on his mule with his head in his hands. #PhantomsFriday 🧵

Raining rats during a particularly violent storm. In: “Der Wunder-reiche Uberzug [sic] unserer Nider-Welt” by Erasmus Francisci, 1680. #WyrdWednesday

The Kentucky meat shower was an incident that occurred for a period of several minutes between 11 a.m. and 12 noon on March 3, 1876, where what appeared to be chunks of red meat fell from the sky in a 100-by-50-yard (90-by-45-meter) area near #WyrdWednesday 🧵

Millions of spiders dropped from the sky in the Southern Tablelands region in Australia, blanketing the countryside with their webs. "They fly through the sky and then we see these falls of spiderwebs that look almost as if it's snowing," local resident Keith Basterfield told. #WyrdWednesday

Immi Hellén: "Sinivuokko (On kaunis, kirkas huhtikuu)"(Blue anemone (It's a beautiful, bright April)) It is a beautiful, bright April, the tree is still bare and there is a lot of snow on the ground. But look, a blue eye now on the sunlit mound is already opening in our home yard. #BookWormSat 🧵

Saima Harmaja: Kieloniityllä (In the Lily-of-the-Valley Meadow) When I closed my eyes, exhausted from weeping, straight away I walked into the dusk of the lily-of-the-valley meadow. In its cool springtime, fronds swayed above my head. #BookWormSat 🧵

OMENANKUKAT(Apple Blossoms) Eino Leino(1878-1926) My love flowers like an apple tree on bright spring nights, when the crowns of firs are bending and maidens are dreaming. #BookWormSat 🧵

Paranapiacaba is a misty, British-built railway village in Santo André, Brazil, famed as the "Brazilian Silent Hill". Its abandoned train yards, Victorian architecture, and dense, rolling fog #PhantomsFriday 🧵

Castelinho do Flamengo is a symbol of eclectic architecture, as the building features different references, such as art nouveau, neo-baroque, rococo, French neo-gothic, among others. #PhantomsFriday 🧵

In the 70s, a deadly fire broke out at the Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brasil, killing many people. Later, the building is reported haunted, and the ghosts of the victims are crying for help from beyond the grave. moonmausoleum.com/the-joelma-b... #PhantomsFriday

Rev. Hans Egede,[a] a Dano-Norwegian clergyman who was an early explorer and surveyor of Greenland, gave an 18th-century description of a sea serpent witnessed by his party. In his journal he wrote: On the 6th of July, 1734, there appeared a very large and frightful sea monster, #WyrdWednesday 🧵

The sonar dome of US Navy frigate USS Stein, was probably attacked by a colossal squid in 1978. USS Stein was underway when her anti-submarine sonar gear suddenly stopped working. On returning to port and putting the ship in a drydock, #WyrdWednesday 🧵

On April 30, 1918, in the waning days of WWI, the British patrol ship Coreopsis, while sailing off the Belfast Lough in Ireland, came upon a disabled German submarine, the UB-85, floating on the surface of the North Atlantic. #WyrdWednesday 🧵

Bridge to Terabithia is a children's novel written by American author Katherine Paterson. The novel tells the story of fifth-grader Jesse Aarons, who becomes friends with his new neighbor, Leslie Burke, after he loses a footrace to her at school. Leslie is a tomboy #BookWormSat 🧵

The Phantom Tollbooth is a children's fantasy novel written by Norton Juster, with illustrations by Jules Feiffer, first published in 1961. The story follows a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth that transports him to the once prosperous, #BookWormSat 🧵

Siri Pettersen: "Bubble" Abbie feels like a trapped slave. Everything she does, she feels she is forced into. Every morning she is forced to get up, she is forced to go to school, forced to study things she does not need, forced to live with the nickname Bubble, #BookwormSat 🧵

El Caleuche or The Caleuche (Spanish pronunciation: [kalˈeutʃe]), also known by other names such as Buque de Arte (the Magic Ship) or the Barcoiche, is a legendary ghost ship from Chilote mythology in southern Chile. #PhantomsFriday 🧵

David Alleno was an Italian immigrant who worked as a night watchman at La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires in Argentina. Obsessed with being laid to rest alongside the wealthy elite he served, he spent his entire life savings to buy a plot #PhantomsFriday 🧵

The Palacio Salvo, located in Montevideo, Uruguay, is one of the city's most iconic buildings and a symbol of early 20th-century architecture. Designed by Italian architect Mario Palanti and completed in 1928, #PhantomsFriday 🧵

Alatyr , also known as latyr – a mythical stone appearing in East Slavic folklore. It is the "father to all stones", the navel of the earth, containing sacred letters and endowed with healing properties Alatyr is associated with an altar located in the "navel of the world", #WyrdWednesday 🧵

Kummakivi (lit. 'odd stone' or 'strange stone') is a large balancing rock in Ruokolahti, Finland. The 7-metre-long (23 ft) boulder is a glacial erratic that lies on a convex bedrock surface with such a small footprint that it almost appears to be moving, #WyrdWednesday 🧵

Sieidis (Northern Sami: sieidi, Finnish: seita, Swedish: sejte, Russian: сейд) are Sami cultural items, usually a rock with unusual shape. Sieidis are found in nature in certain sacred places, for example at the sea or river beaches or on the mountain. #WyrdWednesday 🧵

Saima Harmaja: Kesäkuun sade(June Rain) The sky grows overcast. The earth still glows, but colder now the wind begins to blow, and young birch trees, their hair all turned awry, stand grey and filled with anger. The lilac bushes are tousled by the wind. #BookWormSat 🧵

Uuno Kailas: Keskikesällä(At The Height of Summer) Translated into English by Erhard Hans Josef Lang How wonderful to be lolling about here. Spreading one's limbs on the palm of a rock's hand. In the nude. Just back from a swim. Strands of wet hair still on my forehead. #BookWormSat 🧵

Eino Leino: Nocturne Translated from Finnish to English by Rupert Moreton Hark! My ears are catching corncrake’s clicking, Silver moonlight shines on cobhead corn; Summer evening’s blessing me, enriching, Valley’s wreaths of smoky slash and burn. #BookWormSat 🧵

The Church of Terror is a ruined structure located in the Paso Correo area of ​​Limpio(Greater Asunción),Paraguay. The site attracts paranormal enthusiasts and the curious due to local urban legends that claim that at nightfall, heart-wrenching wails and strange noises can be heard. #PhantomsFriday