20 Times the Question 'What Is This Thing?' Was Answered by the Internet
In this collection of photos, that was the exact scenario for these people. So they did what any modern-day human would do, they turned to the internet and finally got answers to the question "what the heck is this thing?"
Published 1 year ago in Wow
The world has no shortage of odd and interesting things. Sometimes you know what said object is but other times, you may have no idea at all what the item is or what it is used for. In the days of old, you would have had to ask someone who you thought may know, or go to a library and do some good old-fashioned manual research. Thankfully in the golden age of the internet that we live in, most questions can be solved in a matter of seconds with a quick Google search.
In this collection of photos, that was the exact scenario for these people. So they did what any modern-day human would do, they turned to the internet and finally got answers to the question "what the heck is this thing?"
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The world has no shortage of odd and interesting things. Sometimes you know what said object is but other times, you may have no idea at all what the item is or what it is used for. In the days of old, you would have had to ask someone who you thought may know, or go to a library and do some good old-fashioned manual research. Thankfully in the golden age of the internet that we live in, most questions can be solved in a matter of seconds with a quick Google search.
In this collection of photos, that was the exact scenario for these people. So they did what any modern-day human would do, they turned to the internet and finally got answers to the question "what the heck is this thing?"8
This is some kind of measuring tool. The wheel on the bottom spins as you run it across a surface and the dial spins. Not sure what it’s measuring or what measurement it uses. Anyone have any idea what this thing is used for?
A: It’s an opisometer, also called a curvimeter, meilograph, or map measurer. It measures a curved line (on a map) and allows you to translate the map’s scale to the distance the route covers.11
Found in a cemetary while geocaching. The doll was wrapped in the paper which was wrapped in the cloth cross and bound with twine. Overall very creepy.
A: I’m originally from Mexico and grew up hearing about different kinds of “brujeria” (witchcraft, not sure how to translate). Based on what I can make out of the written note, this is called an “amarre entierro”, a burial binding. Not sure if it’s tied up to Santeria or some other magic based religion, I’m not knowledgeable about this practices. I only know an entierro is used to curse a person and consists in making a doll representing that person with the damage you want to inflict upon them and burying it in a graveyard. Looks like the second photo of the note gives instructions on how to break the curse! It was too deteriorated to make out but I can read “to break the curse burial…you must find…3 crosses… and it will break the curse….you will never do it
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