WontonSushi: Abandoned Buildings, Gore Orphanage, and Cuil

I had to do an image search for yesterdays post on The Orphanage. Being honest here, but normally, when I look for images online, I just use the basic google search. I don’t need anything fancy I my search engines, that techno field will be left to my husband, who is forever telling me about the latest way to sort through the same info. Like this new engine called Cuil (pronounced Cool for some reason). Apparently it stinks and crashed the first day it was up and running. So I, being the studious wife, listened intently

to him tell me all about the implications of this.

What’s my point? Simple. I tried out Cuil for myself. If I’m going to be a savvy bloggess, then I should try and keep up on all this new stuff too. I never thought I’d be one to use StumbleUpon, but now I can’t imagine a day without it.

I type in “The Orphanage“. Same search I had just seconds ago performed on google, for comparison. This time though, I can’t even find the images filter. There is a little tab, ominously reading “Gore Orphanage”. Huh? I

take the bait and learned way too much about some eerily creepy orphanage (duh!) in Ohio. Three different legends surround this place from torture, to two different version of a fire.

Put more elegantly (thanks to The Vermillion Ohio News):
Were the spirits of the helpless children extinguished with the flames, or do they still cry out in the middle of the night from beyond the grave? Do the lost souls wander the area, forever tortured by a reality too difficult to accept? Was the fire sparked by an orphan boy dropping a lamp? Or perhaps it was intentionally set by Old Man Gore, the abusive man who ran the institution, for insurance or just plain sadistic torture?

If I am ever forced to drive through Ohio again, I’m going to have to take a side tour.

Back to google for my image searches for my movie review. Easy enough o find, but I also accidentally clicked on a link of a real abandoned orphanage, which linked me to what has to be one of the coolest sites I’ve happened upon recently.

I tried to sort through the best of them to show you here, but there are just too many. So I’m sure that I’m breaking all sorts of codes here, but these are my favorites. All images are provided by WebUrbanist.