Liminal spaces

Culture

11 rabbit holes · 8 people exploring

Common starting questions

• Where do old planes go?
• Where was the Backrooms photo actually taken?
• Why is it called analog horror?
• Where does the word 'liminal' come from?

Rabbit holes

1. where airliners go when they retire

   Dry air, alkaline soil, no rust. Hundreds of planes just sitting in rows in the Arizona desert. Some come back into service, some get parted out.

   Dev Malhotra · 6 sources

2. ghost stations

   The Berlin ones are the best part: during the Cold War, West Berlin trains passed through East Berlin stations that were sealed and guarded, without stopping.

   Lou Tremblay · 5 sources

3. The Backrooms photo was finally traced to an Oshkosh hobby shop

   It started in May 2019 when someone on 4chan's /x/ asked for images that just feel 'off,' and someone else replied with the rules: noclip out of reality and you end up in endless yellow rooms with buzzing lights and damp carpet.

   Ama Mensah · 6 sources

4. from Candle Cove to Local 58: how analog horror got its name

   Lou Tremblay · 7 sources

5. Kowloon Walled City: 33,000 people on 2.6 hectares

   Densest place on earth, no planning, buildings fused together, dentists and noodle factories and schools inside. Demolished in 1994. The photos are unreal.

   Ingrid Solberg · 5 sources

6. a man lived in Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle for 18 years

   From 1988 to 2006 he lived in the departure lounge after being stranded without valid documents, and stayed even after he was granted residency. His story inspired The Terminal. He went back to the airport in 2022 and died there two months later.

   Fern Achterberg · 5 sources

7. LSD: Dream Emulator is a PlayStation game based on someone's dream diary

   1998, Japan only. No goal, no score: walk into anything and you get warped to another dream. Based on a dream diary an Asmik Ace employee kept for over a decade. It fell into obscurity and then got rediscovered through forums and Let's Plays.

   Callie Sutherland · 6 sources

8. dead malls

   The guy who invented the American mall wanted them to be walkable town centers, and ended up calling them 'bastard developments'. I watch dead mall videos to fall asleep.

   Fern Achterberg · 4 sources

9. Brian Eno made Music for Airports after a few annoying hours at Cologne airport

   Eno spent hours waiting for a flight at Cologne Bonn Airport, got annoyed at how uninspired the place felt, and wanted music for spaces like that, "as ignorable as it is interesting" in his words. Some of the tracks are tape loops of different lengths drifting in and out of phase, so they keep combining in new ways.

   Pete Lindgren · 6 sources

10. there's one Blockbuster left, in Bend, Oregon

    Blockbuster had thousands of stores. One franchise in Oregon outlasted all of them and now runs on nostalgia, tourism, and people renting movies to keep it alive.

    Lou Tremblay · 6 sources

11. 'liminal' comes from a 1909 book about rites of passage

    Jun Hayashi · 6 sources