Comments on: The Creepiest Thing Ever: L’Inconnue de la Seine

By: Morbid Morag

Morbid Morag — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:58:35 +0000

I’ve been fascinated by this story ever since I read The Savage God. Today I picked up what seems to be an authentic 30s or 40s copy of it & it is eerie. It’s Parian ware & it seems to glow. Photographs like a dream. Should add that some versions of the story say that the whole suicide thing was hooey & that somebody who tried to trace L’Inconnue down met her in the flesh, alive & well.

By: Pelle

Pelle — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:40:13 +0000

Nice info! I actually grew up with that face, it hanged on the wall next to my fathers writing desk. My parents told me the story about the suicide in Seine. Ahhh… I loved it! And i was only 11 when i heard it. Beauty and death – kicking ass!

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:36:01 +0000

OH GOD! I did CPR training last year, and today, it feels so dirty. I need to brush my teeth again, and gargle some bleach or something!

By: Nikky

Nikky — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:56:28 +0000

I can’t resist commenting because…
ReCaptcha: sealing riverside.
Sealing lips with the girl pulled ashore riverside :)

By: el

el — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:51:50 +0000

Ewww. Now I can’t retake the CPR test! Gross

By: Yo

Yo — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:57:06 +0000

it’s also kind weird…about the rescue annie thing. its like you are practicing giving cpr to someone who could have used it. she did drown…

By: Ransom Riggs

Ransom Riggs — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:07:59 +0000

Now thaaaaat is cool.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:25:36 +0000

B- You’re right. I was thinking how creepy it was to use that face and wondering what kind of sicko would have chosen to use that one instead of a live person’s face. But when I think of it like you, it is kind of nice. The likeness of that long dead girl’s face is responsible for saving LOTS of people.

Then I was grossed out a little again because I took a really intensive CPR class and we had to learn to do it on children and babies,too. Were the little boy and the baby based on unidentified dead kids? Yuck!

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:09:26 +0000

“Creepiest thing ever”? That might be the most hyperbolic description ever. ;) It’s a little creepy, but honestly on the entire continuum of creepiness, it’s nowhere near the extreme.

By: B

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:05:21 +0000

In a way, I think that using her face on the CPR dummies could be kind of a respectful legacy, along the lines of “maybe something good can come of it…”

And this doesn’t particularly get my vote as “The Creepiest Thing Ever.” The blog last week about Foreign Objects Found in Food might be a contender, though – now THAT was creepy.