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KILLER MOM DRESSES

This Belgian guy lost his leg fighting for the Germans in the war, which didn't exactly make him popular back home. After the war he came back to live with his mother. He became increasingly paranoid, imagining the Germans were coming after him because he had moved back to Belgium. He was sure they were going to kill him and his mother. To ensure this didn't happen, he killed his mother himself. That way the imaginary Germans could never hurt her. Later he returned to his mother's house and when he died, his family found stacks and stacks of pinafores and dresses in the house, all neatly wrapped in plastic and a huge series of photographs of him wearing these dresses, usually in the same spot and with a similar pose. He made all the dresses himself, but he only had a few patterns so he just kept making the same dresses over again in different kinds of fabric.

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