Haunted Mirror

A haunted mirror is folklore's favourite antique: reflections that lag, figures that cross behind you, the glass nobody in the family will hang. Mirror superstitions are ancient — covering them after a death, seven years for a break — so any old mirror arrives pre-loaded with narrative. Perception research adds that staring into a dim mirror reliably produces distorted faces (the strange-face illusion). The accounts here start after the estate sale: the bargain mirror, the corner-of-the-eye movement, and the photograph that shows one head too many.

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