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[lexin]

I was looking through my Photobucket account when I found this picture:



I have no idea when, where or why this photo was taken, but it is of my mother, probably at some stage in the 1960s or early 1970s apparently getting rid of a corpse. Guesses welcome.

Comments

[clanwilliam]

So *that's* what happened to Elvis!

[lexin]

I hadn't thought of that...

[clanwilliam]

The big question is - did your mother kill Elvis or was she leading a double life and was, in fact, Elvis?

[lexin]

I don't think she sang well enough to be Elvis. Must have done away with him...I always knew there was something suspicious.

[dancing_serpent]

And a headless corpse, too! Scary!

[lexin]

No idea what they did with the head. You're right, scary!

[marahmarie]

If you look not too far down down into the collar, seems a monkey's head is in there with a little black spike of hair along the top and some teeth showing. Also, the rest of it looks like a scarecrow. That's one damn spiffy scarecrow if you ask me.

[lexin]

I hadn't noticed any of that until you pointed it out. Weird stuff. It is a very spiffy scarecrow. If that's what it is.

[marahmarie]

Yeah, I used Firefox's built-in magnification button to blow the picture up (though I can see what appears to be a monkey without magnifying) and...yeah. Your mom has this look on her face, though, like an angel. Can't imagine how that look could intersect with disposing of anything that was once alive. Not under most normal circumstances, anyway. :)

[watervole]

Getting ready for Guy Fawkes night?

[lexin]

It could be, but it doesn't look the right time of year - the trees are still leafy and the grass is very long for November.

I'm also puzzled by the little monkey's head that marahmarie spotted by blowing the picture up. That doesn't seem very Guy Fawkes-y, either. So all very odd.

[doire]

I was trying to read the tax disc (to pin down a date) and realised the photo is flipped.

My best guess is that there was a tragic accident at a scarecrow festival and its head is stuck in the radiator grill.