| ID | #1708967118 |
| Added | Mon, 26/02/2024 |
| Author | July N. |
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| Phenomena | |
| Status | Hypothesis
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Initial data
Ovosso, July 28th. The incident, which, according to superstitious people, is a harbinger of some terrible event, occurred at the home of Peter Mohan, who lives seven miles northwest of Chesaning. A black spider has spun a web two feet wide, and in the heavy mesh the word "Murder" appears so clearly that it can be seen across the room. Underneath it is a series of incomplete letters that are impossible to make out. The spider is apparently busy completing its work. The network is a source of curiosity about the neighborhood and surroundings: it has been viewed by hundreds of people.
Mrs. Mohan, who first discovered the spider and its work, is very worried and ready to leave the house.
Original news
A SPIDER’S WORK
It is Causing Residents of Owosso Much Alarm.
Owosso, July 28. An incident which, to the minds of the superstitious, contains a forewarning of some dire event has occurred at the home of Peter Mohan, residing seven miles northwest of Chesaning. A black spider has woven a web two feet across, and in a heavy mesh the word “Murder” appears so plainly that it can be seen across the room. Underneath that is a number of letters which are incomplete and cannot be made out. The spider is busy apparently completing its work. The web is a source of curiosity to the neighborhood and vicinity, hundreds of people having viewed it.
Mrs. Mohan, who first discovered the spider and its work, is very much alarmed, and is prepared to vacate the house.
Saginaw [MI] News 28 July 1902: p. 8
Hypotheses
Pareidolic illusion
A variety of visual illusions (the so-called "sensory illusions additions"); is the formation of illusory images, as a basis which are the details of the real object. Thus, the vague and obscure the visual image is perceived as something distinct and defined — for example, figures of people and animals in the clouds, the image of a man on the moon, "a hidden message", audible when you reverse the audio recordings, the shadows formed by leaves or complexes of objects in certain lighting (sometimes at a certain angle).
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Deliberate falsification
This version includes any falsifications that imitate unexplained phenomena both from the outside: practical jokes, flash mobs, fake news, witness fraud, staging, etc.
There are many ways to make something similar to a ghost or a flying saucer from improvised materials, without using video and photomontage.
Many homemade things made for the sake of a joke, a practical joke or a direct imitation of a mystical being or event can be taken as unexplained not only in photos and videos, but also in reality.
Investigation
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