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Andrija Puharich - Beyond Telepathy - Anchor - 1973 (cover design by George Giusti)
#witches#telepathists#occult#vintage#beyond telepathy#anchor books#doubleday anchor books#andrija puharich#ira einhorn#george giusti#1973#telepathy
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AAAAA okay these films WHACKED the mini-hyperfixation button!!! here we go
SO Cecelia Condit (the director of both Possibly In Michigan AND Beneath The Skin) based both short films off her real life experiences??? I watched an interview with her and went wiki diving and WOWZA
uhhh TW for like. murder? and a suicide attempt.
so from what I can find online, Cecelia dated a guy for about four years. His name was Ira Einhorn, but in her video Beneath The Skin she calls him Ike. Before she dated him, he had an ex girlfriend named Holly Maddux. They had split it off not long before Ike got with Cecelia, but in her video she says it was pretty mutual. So Ike and Cecelia date for about two years, at which point Ike tells Holly that if she doesn't come get her things from his house he'll throw them out. So Holly comes from New York to get her things and isn't seen after that. Ike is investigated for obvious reasons, but police don't have enough evidence to search further.
Two years later, an investigator hired by Holly's family finds out the people living under Ike's apartment have been complaining about a "rotting smell coming from the closet ceiling". Presumably he brings this to the police, because not long after that Ike's house is searched and they find a trunk in his closet that has the decapitated and partially mummified remains of Holly. Cecelia says that the head was shoved so far down into the chest cavity that it was originally thought to be missing.
Cecelia says in an interview that her art projects (in particular PIM) really helped her heal and move on from things, which makes me think the scenes of Sharon dreaming of being a corpse is probably a representation of survivor's guilt (though that's just my personal, non-professional thoughts) because Cecelia goes into how she wasn't mad about Ike killing Holly, but how she was mad about what Ike did or didn't do to her. Even though I've never personally experienced survivor's guilt, my long term SPIN about psychology has given me enough information that it's awful and takes a long time to heal.
Anyway, Ike (aka the Unicorn Killer because Einhorn means unicorn in German) skipped bail and was a fugitive for 17 years. He lived in Europe, married, and was finally extradited to the USA in 2001 after a lengthy and complicated extradition process. He tried to kill himself at one point to avoid jail. He just recently died in jail in 2020.
Cecelia says in her video how the blankets that Ike would give her when she'd stay over laid on the chest that Holly's body was in. The only reason she couldn't smell the corpse was because she was on medications at the time that took away her sense of smell.
Despite that all being extremely fucked up, it puts Possibly in Michigan in a whole new light. A lot of the strange symbolism suddenly makes a lot more sense and I'm glad Cecelia has found healing through her films.
Also, some more light hearted funfacts.
Cecelia only got permission to film in the mall before opening time by sitting in the mall office and refusing to leave before she got permission.
The guy who plays the Prince Charming was a friend of one of the actresses. Cecelia mentioned they'd need a knife and he pulled one out of his boot. Cecelia jokingly said "oh, do you have a gun too?". He did.
According to one comment on YouTube, Cecelia is down with the idea of Sharon and Janice being in a wlw relationship. I haven't checked this for myself because there's a bajillion comments and it's 3:30 AM.
Cecelia named Arthur that because it sounds like "Art Her" and she wanted to represent that art is sometimes used against women to put them down. She is also the person who wears the creepy mask in the mall scenes!
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Do not let the world remember Earth Day without remembering the name "Holly Maddux". Ira Einhorn may well have been a prominent figure in environmental activism, and claimed to be the co-founder of Earth Day, but he's also the "Unicorn Killer"! He brutally murdered his girlfriend, Holly Maddux, and stuffed her body in a trunk in his apartment, where she was left to rot! This man is not a hero. He's a sick, sadistic demon.
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Earth Day Trivia
One of the fun things about earth day is that if you look for the origins of it in google search, google will prompt you to finish your search with the phrase ‘founder composted girlfriend’.
Which, yes. Sort of. This isn’t the senator, Gaylord Nelson, who got things rolling in 1970. Girlfriend composter was Ira Einhorn. There’s some debate as to whether or not he actually founded Earth Day, but…
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Aloha kākou. It’s Earth Day, or so I’m told. I don’t believe in Earth Day because it was created by the deranged leftist psychopath Ira Einhorn, the Unicorn Killer, who murdered his girlfriend, dismembered her body, and stuffed her in a suitcase. Plus, it gives the environuts an excuse to riot and destroy. Stopping traffic and holding up emergency vehicles. Mehem. Nuff said.
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Les parents ont dit : "si c'est un garçon on ira en Palestine, si c'est une fille on immigrera aux USA"
Enfant, on ne lui a pas parlé de la Shoah, ce n’est que plus tard qu’il a été exposé aux horreurs que ses parents ont vécues. Shoki Einhorn a joué pour les grandes équipes de Ramat Gan et Beitar Netanya, il a écrit neuf livres et se souvient que tout cela s’est passé presque miraculeusement, grâce à la capacité de survie de ses parents.
“Père et mère sont nés dans les Carpates, le père Alves en…
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UN KILLER HIPPY CHIAMATO UNICORNO
UN KILLER HIPPY CHIAMATO UNICORNO
Nel settembre del 1977, in un condominio di Filadelfia, Holly Maddux sta riflettendo sul da farsi. La bella trentenne è arrivata alla conclusione che deve dare un taglio netto al passato, perché Ira Einhorn, l’uomo che credeva di amare, si è rivelato un egocentrico sempre più brutale nei suoi confronti.
Dopo aver raccolto lo stretto necessario, la donna approfitta dell’assenza del compagno per…
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The Films of Cecelia Condit
This is my deep dive on the works of Cecelia Condit (Image 1, source: her own website), she is an American video artist whose work was brought to my attention by a post with a gif from POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (1983) that @murphypopart posted on Twitter (image 2). Much of her works are on Youtube.
This is going to be a long post covering all her (currently) available works
POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (1983)
"One, I can eat you now. Two, I can cut your arms and legs off."
"Why?"
"For love."
Two women deal with their cannibal murderer stalker. Complete with low-fi weirdness for a score. Some truly disturbing imagery honestly.
fjslfjfkl essential viewing
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BENEATH THE SKIN (1981)
"How do I meet the strangest men? They always seem to find me"
Faces projected on faces, nightmare imagery flashing by, a girl rolls in the grass, and a skull warbles by our vision. All while the narrator talks about her relationship with a real murderer, Ira Samuel Einhorn AKA The Unicorn Killer.
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NOT A JEALOUS BONE (1987)
"You're looking for yesterday?" "Yeah. I'm looking for yesterday"
A film about a wish granting bone and the fear of dying. I found parts of this to be extremely upsetting, especially the middle part with the elder care stuff.
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SUBURBS OF EDEN (1996)
"I had a face for everyone, for my husband, my child, my mother, my job. and it made me so tired."
A suffocating, claustrophobic look at womanhood and I think it may be just as essential viewing as POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (1983)
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OH, RAPUNZEL (1990-2008)
"Mother, where are you going?" "I am looking for something I lost!"
Male violence, the fragility of life, aging with dignity, and our often tumultuous relationships with our maternal figures. The final minutes really deeply moved me.
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WHY NOT A SPARROW (2002)
"I wonder how many sparrows I am worth today? How many crows?"
Hard for me the quantify my thoughts on this one. Actors out in the woods running around acting like birds, the layered images evoking that of a caged bird yearning for freedom.
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Ira Einhorn, The Unicorn Killer
Ira Einhorn, the Unicorn Killer, continues to deny killing his former girlfriend Holly Maddux. However, authorities found her body in a trunk in his closet.
Holly Maddux was done with her relationship. She and Ira Einhorn had been together for five years, but things weren’t working out. She left Philadelphia and moved to New York City, but when she returned to her former home to collect the rest of her belongings, she would never leave again.
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#054: EARTH DAY'S HIPPIE KILLER + THE APOSTLE OF THE CACTI
#054: EARTH DAY’S HIPPIE KILLER + THE APOSTLE OF THE CACTI
Let’s tell some Campfire Stories, shall we? How about an Earth Day murder story? Listen on the radio, 10PM in the High Desert Z107.7FM. Are the Orcs on the way?
Subscribe to the podcast wherever you get ’em: iTunes or Stitcher or Spotify or etc. And did you know we are, despite our better judgment, take part in the Instagram situation? We do.
Soundscapes as always by Joshua Tree’s own RedBlueBla…
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Honestly the real story behind Possibly in Michigan is scarier than the film itself.
It’s actually part of a trilogy which the director Cecelia Condit created to help her process the trauma of having dated Ira Einhorn, The Unicorn Killer.
In the first part, ‘Beneath the Skin’ she talks about how she was seeing him and living in his house at the same time he was stashing the body of his ex-flatmate, Holly Maddux, in a trunk in his closet. She was on medication at the time that took away her sense of smell, so she had no idea something was amiss. She slept under the same blankets he used to hide the trunk. They were handmade by the victim’s mother. This went on for two years.
I see a lot of people frame ‘Possibly in Michigan’ as a power fantasy - the two women turn the tables on the man attacking them and get away with it. But I think it’s really a window into Condit’s psyche: she wonders aloud if ‘some kind of animal cannibal... made an impression on me’. She wonders if being close to such horrible violence for such a long time has made her a monster, too.
Anyway that’s something to think about, huh
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The Unicorn Killer
As an adolescent, Ira Einhorn gave himself the nickname of “The Unicorn”: the English translation of his German surname. The killer was an environmental activist and part of the anti-war movement when he murdered his ex-girlfriend, Holly Maddux.
Maddux disappeared in early September 1977 after stopping by Einhorn’s Philadelphia apartment to collect her things following their break-up. Several weeks after Maddux’s death, police questioned her ex-boyfriend about her whereabouts, to which he stated she had disappeared on her way to the neighborhood co-op. Eighteen months later, after neighbors began reporting a rancid smell, police found Maddux’s body stuffed in a trunk in Einhorn’s closet. Several days before Einhorn was supposed to stand trial, he fled to Europe.
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Using newspaper stuffing to identify the corpse of the missing Holly Maddox in a trunk in the apartment of hippie cult leader Ira Einhorn, in an episode of People Magazine Investigates.
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The Bronfman family obviously have a thing for abusive men, Barbara Bronfman funded and protected ‘the Unicorn killer’ Ira Einhorn in Europe whilst he was on the run from US officials after he had been charged with murder in absentia….lovely family
Evil and money go hand in hand in many cases....😔❤️❤️❤️❤️
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The Earth Day Killer
Earth Day was founded in 1970, and the very first Earth Day celebration was hosted by a man named Ira Einhorn; Ira was a college professor who dubbed himself “The Unicorn”, because Einhorn translates to Unicorn in German. Some claim he is one of the founders of Earth Day, though the other founders staunchly deny this. But, considering what later transpired, it’s no wonder that they deny Ira’s…
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Excerpt: “[T]wo organizers of Philadelphia’s Earth Day celebration, Edward W. Furia and Austan S. Librach, wrote to TIME after the magazine’s article on the case ran, explaining that in fact — no matter what else [Ira] Einhorn may have done or said — he wasn’t the founder of Earth Day, and there was no meaningful link between Earth Day and this convicted murderer.They also explained what was really happening in that photo: ‘He was not even a member of the committee of 33 men and women who did [organize the event]. The photo you ran was taken during a one-hour period when Einhorn literally occupied the podium, refusing to get off the stage and delaying Senator Edmund Muskie’s keynote speech...’
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