• We have updated the guidelines regarding posting political content: please see the stickied thread on Website Issues.

Fortean Headlines

Sorry, it's in italian: click the right button to translate
https://www.open.online/2024/11/14/venezia-venduto-palazzo-maledetto-proprietari-morti-falliti/
Ca’ Dario in Venice, the “cursed” palace has been sold. Its owners are dead or bankrupt: from Raul Gardini to the manager of The Who​
Ca' Dario has a sad reputation. The buyer paid 18 million euros, but remained anonymous
A thousand square meters of surface area, a 170 square meter garden at the back and then the location: in front of the Grand Canal and a few meters from the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute. A description like that would be tempting for any magnate or celebrity eager to have a luxury residence in Venice, but Ca' Dario had remained unsold for some time. Until a few days ago, as Giorgia Zanierato writes in the Corriere, when the building was sold to an anonymous buyer for the sum of 18 million euros. Even the largest auction house in the world, Christie's, wanted to get rid of it and for this reason had commissioned the Tuscan agency Romolini Immobiliare.
Click to expand...
I can't find the details of the curse on the English Wikipedia, but in Italian you can find the names and surnames:

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca'_Dario#La_presunta_maledizione
The architectural beauty of Ca' Dario contrasts with its reputation as a "cursed palace", a reputation relaunched by an article in the Gazzettino in the 1970s and then by the national press, which wanted to attribute a connection between the alleged curse of the building and the tragic fate of many of its owners.[16] This legend, although lacking complete historical evidence,[16] would have origins far back in time, namely when Marietta, Giovanni Dario's daughter, died at the age of thirty-two and probably by suicide in the Grand Canal following the expulsion of her husband Vincenzo Barbaro from the Council of Ten and the consequent economic collapse, which culminated with her killing plotted in a probable conspiracy, while their second-born son Giacomo died in a similar ambush in Candia, during a military expedition on the island of Crete. According to the legend brought back to life by the Gazzettino, these three alleged deaths in quick succession caused a stir among the Venetians of the time, who even reinterpreted the inscription on the facade by anagramming the words VRBIS GENIO IOANNES DARIVS and transforming it into SVB RVINA INSIDIOSA GENERO (in Latin: "I generate under an insidious ruin"). Therefore, the common rumor about the alleged curse of the building began to spread to the point of suspecting that it had probably claimed many victims.
Click to expand...

1731594688298.png
1731594710314.png


This and other cursed houses:
https://www.idealista.it/en/news/lifestyle-italy/2024/10/31/2592-5-scary-places-celebrate-halloween-italy-2023
 
Piloton.it said:
Sorry, it's in italian: click the right button to translate

I can't find the details of the curse on the English Wikipedia, but in Italian you can find the names and surnames:



View attachment 84034 View attachment 84035

This and other cursed houses:
https://www.idealista.it/en/news/lifestyle-italy/2024/10/31/2592-5-scary-places-celebrate-halloween-italy-2023
Click to expand...

Fear has won! :oops:

https://www.lavocedivenezia.it/palazzo-dario-non-e-stato-venduto-e-in-manutenzione/
Palazzo Dario has not been sold, “It is under maintenance”​
A denial is required regarding one of the most fascinating and mysterious symbols of Venice. Ca’ Dario, also known for an unfortunate reputation, has not been sold. The news, reported after the sale by local newspapers, confirms that the property has not found a new owner, contrary to what was hypothesized in the last few hours.
Everything started with the withdrawal, which took place yesterday, of the real estate advert that presented the building as available on the market at a price of 18 million euros. The Tuscan agency in charge of the sale, acting on behalf of Christie’s International Real Estate, had initially aroused the public’s interest, leading them to believe that the property had been sold. However, an official statement to ANSA by Arnaldo Fusello, general manager of Dimore Italia – the Italian partner of the Christie’s group – clarified the situation: “The property has decided to remove Ca’ Dario from the market. The property requires some maintenance work, which is usually carried out during the winter months to allow visits in the spring and summer.”
Click to expand...


https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/no-takers-for-palazzo-haunted-by-tragedy-f8xtxvkvm
No takers for palazzo haunted by tragedy​
Potential buyers were ghosting Italian estate agents over the sale of the notorious 15th-century building, of which previous owners have met untimely ends
Click to expand...
 
cycleboy2 said:

Ghost-training? Ian Holloway suggests ground Swindon Town use is haunted​


Then again, Ian Holloway has always been mad as a box of frogs. One of his many quotable lines: "Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish."

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...y-suggests-ground-swindon-town-use-is-haunted
Click to expand...
A quote from the article:

I’m absolutely devastated so I’m going to try to cleanse the training ground area because people are telling me it’s haunted,” Holloway told BBC Radio Wiltshire. “Seriously, there’s a graveyard somewhere near. I’m not joking."


:rofl: I have several graveyards somewhere near me. Oh, no!
 
ramonmercado said:

'We booked a £99 stargazing break - all we got was an empty field'​


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mzxe4dvw3o
Click to expand...
A good case of 'if it seems too good to be true it probably is'. £99 for a pod like that? Anyway hindsight is easy and I felt very sorry for the people who were conned after all it can happen to any of us no matter how careful we think we are being.
 
brownmane said:
I actually like it. Anyone looking at it as shown in the picture can see it's a snail (I don't really know what a periwinkle is).
Click to expand...
I don't dislike it or like it. I'm sure the council could have chosen some other emblem to get the point across.
 
hunck said:
If you ever find a pile of poo with a spiral arrangement like that please post a photo. I’d love to see it.
Click to expand...
Exactly. Seeing as how a periwinkle existed long before emojis, the poo emoji looks like a periwinkle :nods:

Edited to add: when I first saw the poo emoji, I just thought it was one of the food emojis and that it was ice cream.:dunno:
 
Scientists Baffled by Orcas Wearing Dead Salmon as Hats


It appears that these snazzy cetaceans are fond of wearing "hats" in the form of dead salmon on their snouts, and sometimes other fish.

First observed in 1987, the morbid fashion trend quickly came and went like so many questionable choices in dress — but like baggy trousers, it now it appears to be back in style again.

…photographers have spotted killer whales donning salmon hats off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, reigniting debate about why orcas exhibit this puzzling behavior.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-baffled-orcas-hats

maximus otter
 

‘Italian’ purees in UK supermarkets likely to contain Chinese forced-labour tomatoes​

A total of 17 products, most of them own-brands sold in UK and German retailers, are likely to contain Chinese tomatoes - testing commissioned by the BBC World Service shows.

Most Chinese tomatoes come from the Xinjiang region, where their production is linked to forced labour by Uyghur and other largely Muslim minorities. The UN accuses the Chinese state - which views these minorities as a security risk - of torture and abuse. China denies it forces people to work in the tomato industry and says workers’ rights are protected by law. It says the UN report is based on “disinformation and lies”.

All the supermarkets whose products we tested dispute our findings.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crezlw4y152o
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top