CREEPY Clip: OCULUS (2013) Origin of the Lasser Glass *Karen Gillan*Brenton Thwaites
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00:00 The origin of the Lasser glass is unknown,
00:02 so I can't provide a complete history,
00:04 but the trail starts in London in 1754.
00:09 Philip Lasser, the 17th Earl of Leicester,
00:12 acquired the mirror and hung it over his fireplace.
00:14 [phone rings]
00:16 Another precaution.
00:17 Hi, sweetie, how are you?
00:19 - Well, I'm checking in, uh, as requested.
00:23 You all right? - Everything's fine.
00:25 Oh, I know this is silly to ask,
00:26 but could you try and call on the hour?
00:28 It's about 7 past.
00:31 - Uh, sure.
00:33 - I'll talk to you in 53 minutes.
00:35 And I love you.
00:37 I'm expecting regular calls from my fiancé, Michael Dumond.
00:41 I told him I'm nervous to be spending time
00:42 with my recently unincarcerated brother
00:44 with instructions to notify the authorities immediately
00:46 if I do not answer the phone. - Wow.
00:48 In the room. - Nothing personal.
00:51 So in 1755, Philip Lasser was found at their grand fireplace.
00:55 Burned beyond recognition.
00:58 While his estate was dismantled and scattered
01:00 throughout southern England,
01:01 one of the family's stewards claimed to see Philip
01:03 reflected in the mirror,
01:04 an allegation apparently taken seriously enough
01:06 to warrant a church investigation into the house.
01:08 The glass thereafter, known as the Lasser glass,
01:10 is sold in public auction in 1758.
01:13 The next known owner is an American railroad tycoon
01:16 named Robert Clancy, 1864.
01:19 Clancy apparently weighed over 300 pounds.
01:21 In fact, while attending university in Connecticut,
01:23 he was known as the South Windham Whale.
01:25 He hung the glass in his ballroom in Atlanta.
01:28 Later that year, Robert Clancy is photographed
01:30 by a local newspaper and, uh, well,
01:33 he's dropped a few pounds.
01:35 His old bit was printed a few weeks later.
01:37 Doesn't list a cause of death.
01:38 Unfortunately, he and his estate and the glass
01:41 are presumably destroyed in Sherman's March to the Ocean
01:43 in 1865, and after that, the glass is lost
01:47 until it resurfaces in turn-of-the-century New England.
01:50 The next case of note is Mary O'Connor, 1904.
01:53 She hung the mirror in her private bathroom.
01:55 Two weeks later, her niece Beatrice
01:57 finds Mary dead in the bathtub.
01:59 Now, the official coroner's report
02:01 lists the cause of death as, get this, dehydration.
02:04 The woman died of thirst while soaking in a full tub
02:07 for three days.
02:08 The next case of note is Alice Carden
02:10 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 1943.
02:13 Neighbors reported hearing screams
02:14 and loud bangs from the house.
02:16 The police found the children drowned in a locked cistern.
02:19 Alice herself is in the nursery,
02:21 and both of her legs are completely shattered.
02:23 Her left arm is broken in four places,
02:25 and six of her ribs are crushed.
02:27 In her right hand is a large hammer
02:28 she's been using to break her own bones.
02:30 They find her just as she's going to work on her skull.
02:33 Her right arm, though, is completely unharmed
02:35 because she needed it to wield the hammer.
02:39 Alice later says she believed she was tucking the children
02:41 into their beds as she sealed them in the cistern.
02:43 She never recovers from her injuries,
02:44 and, oh, the family kept several dogs at the farm,
02:46 including an Australian shepherd, for the children.
02:51 [fire crackling]
02:54 [alarm blaring]