Tag: Terror

The Topography of Terror

Walls march from the outside into the corridors inside The Topography of Terror by rows. Manmade chambers house tourists walking along ash-seams binding each floor tile. Real events from wars and happenings leading up to World War ll are discussed using made-up objects. Topography compa...

Great Translations: Terror in Argentina

The Setting: There’s a lot going on in this Argentinian novel set in Buenos Aires in 1977, during the days of the iron-fisted military dictatorship that terrorized its own people. Thousands of people were imprisoned, tortured and ‘disappeared.’ The story is told in flashbacks by a ...

False: Video depicting bus passengers screaming in terror is manipulated

A video circulating widely on social media depicts passengers on a bus screaming in terror as the driver swerves down a mountain road at high speed. They are shouting in Cantonese to the driver to stop. A version of the video titled “Der Bus zur Hölle” (The Bus to Hell)...

Bird of Beauty, Flight of Terror

October 25th, 1945. Nearly two months after the Japanese surrender, the island of Taiwan was placed under the rule of the Republic of China (ROC). This handover would end 50 years of Japanese colonisation and put the people of Taiwan under a government it had not known before — the N...

Unveiling the Giants of the Ancient Seas: Timorebestia, the Terror Beasts

In the depths of North Greenland’s Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fossil locality, a ground-breaking discovery has sent shockwaves through the scientific community. Fossils belonging to a previously unknown group of ancient predators have emerged, shedding light on a dynasty of creatures that ro...