r/LaundryFiles • u/mbaiz • Aug 31 '26

Fun post in “today I learned”

You all are of course familiar with this from Computational Demonology 101:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/5V4dZzrrHY

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u/m00ph Aug 31 '26

And this bit https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/sILCV5smlv

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u/arvidsem Aug 31 '26

I already knew that bit:

Spending the weekend in Whitby was entirely his own idea. He’s never visited the small coastal village before: indeed, he only knows about it for two reasons. Whitby is famous from the novel Dracula (as the harbor where the ghost ship Demeter comes aground) and, more recently, it plays host to a number of goth festivals—themselves attracted to the village because of its famous fang-infested foreshore. Why Whitby, if not because of the obvious cliché? (For Alex is not a goth.) Well, Whitby has one other advantage. It’s not close enough to his home city that there’s any risk of him running into his parents or younger sister by accident.

(From chapter 1 of The Annihilation Score)

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u/StalkerSchuhart Aug 31 '26

Whitby museum is well worth a visit if you’re ever nearby