When traveling and vacations resume, there’s now one less thing to worry about when you’re boarding a flight to your next sunny locale — or really just anywhere you intend to spend time outside. 

According to a recent announcement from the Travel Security Administration (TSA), airplane passengers can now travel with full-sized bottles of sunscreen in their carry-on bags. This small but significant change is thanks to the Department of Dermatology at Brown University, which challenged the TSA on the 3.4-ounce liquid limit because sunscreen is a necessary protectant against skin cancer, thus should be policed under the same regulations as carry-ons such as inhalers, contact solution, and medications.

As of April 7, sunscreens and SPF products are considered by the TSA to be “medically-necessary liquids,” which means they’re permitted in larger quantities in carry-ons as long as you declare them to security officers at the TSA checkpoint for inspection. Provided you do that, you’re free to bring a full-sized bottle of sunscreen without concerns of confiscation.

This new amendment comes ahead of National Skin Cancer Awareness Month in May. Currently, skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. According to the National Foundation For Cancer Research, 9,500 people are diagnosed with skin cancer in the United States every day. However, the organization also says that it is one of the most preventable and treatable forms of cancer. Given skin cancer’s strong correlation to exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays, the National Foundation for Cancer Research advises that everyone use at least an SPF 15 or higher for regular use and 30 or above for outdoor activities.

Re-applying sunscreen regularly — not just once a day — is essential to ensuring it’s an effective protectant against the sun, which makes being able to pack plenty of sunscreen all the more important.

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Gwyneth Paltrow made her first appearance on the official Goop TikTok account over the weekend with the help of her daughter, Apple Martin, and some light shade.

In the video shared to social media over the weekend, Apple, the 16-year-old daughter of Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, narrates her mother’s morning routine of Goop supplements and topical products. The caption reads fittingly, “When you get roasted by your Gen Z daughter.”

Martin begins the video by describing how her mom likes to start her day: drinking her Goopglow Morning Skin Superpowder. “She eats nothing except for dates and almond butter, so she will have that,” Martin teases. “I suppose the Goopglow is part of her cleanse, which she’s been on since… the day I was born, apparently.”

As Paltrow moves into her bathroom to start her skin-care routine, Martin continues with her commentary. “It’s 8:00 a.m., and she’s been doing this since 7:00 a.m.; she just prances around the bathroom, putting on her millions of Goopglow products for her glowing skin,” she says. Paltrow types away at her laptop as her daughter deadpans, “Then, she gets to work, making some more vagina eggs and candles, vagina candles and vagina perfumes — just everything vagina.”

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Good-natured trolling aside, the mother-daughter duo actually worked together to launch Goop’s newest product; the video was all a part of its public release. Goopglow Glow Lotion, which dropped yesterday, is described as “super hydrating and featherweight,” leaving skin with a “subtle, dewy, beautiful glow.” (The formula does not contain SPF, so BYO sunscreen for daytime.) Leave it to Gen Z to use a TikTok roast as an #ad.

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A new HIV vaccine, based on the Moderna COVID-19 inoculation, has shown a 97% antibody response rate in Phase I clinical trials. Currently, HIV affects more than 38 million people globally. If approved, this vaccine could become the first stage of a multi-step strategy to combat HIV and other viral diseases.

The vaccine successfully stimulated the production of rare immune cells needed to generate antibodies against HIV, which causes AIDS and interferes with the body’s ability to fight infections, reported non-profit organizations IAVI and Scripps Research. 

“This study demonstrates proof of principle for a new vaccine concept for HIV, a concept that could be applied to other pathogens, as well,” said William Schief, a professor and immunologist at Scripps Research and executive director of vaccine design at IAVI’s Neutralizing Antibody Center (NAC). 

The vaccine is meant to act as an immune primer that triggers the activation of cells via a process called “germline-targeting,” according to The European Pharmaceutical Review. Its purpose is to act as the first step in a vaccine regimen that would elicit the production of a variety of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs). Stimulating this type of response has reportedly been pursued in HIV research for decades because it targets a structural aspect of the virus that does not vary much from strain to strain. The surface of HIV cells has proteins called spikes. The vaccine works to disable them from entering human cells.

While a 97% response rate is exceptionally positive, it is important to note that this is representative of an initial study of 48 adult volunteers who enrolled in the trial. Phase I testing marks the first time a vaccine is tested on a small group of adults in order to evaluate its safety and measure immune responses. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the next step, Phase II, would be to expand the clinical study and give the vaccine to people similar to those for whom the new vaccine is intended. By Phase III, the vaccine is given to thousands of people to test efficacy and safety before being submitted for a rigorous approval and licensing process. Often, vaccines undergo a Phase IV in which the vaccine would go through a formal, ongoing study even after it’s been approved.

“As a next step, IAVI and Scripps Research are partnering with the biotechnology company Modern to develop and test an mRNA-based vaccine that harnesses the approach to produce the same beneficial immune cells,” the organizations said in a joint statement. “Using mRNA technology could significantly accelerate the pace of HIV vaccine development.”

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The two-shot coronavirus vaccines have been shown to have considerable efficacy rates even after a single dose, but there’s still a chance you can contract COVID-19 after receiving your first shot. This is why the time between shots (and immediately after) is so important: That is when your immune system is learning how to protect you properly — and unfortunately, you’re not completely in the clear.

“Especially between the two doses of a two-dose vaccine like Pfizer or Moderna, it’s important to make sure that you still take precautions because you’re not fully vaccinated and you could get infected in-between those two doses,” Amesh Adalja, MD, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Refinery29.

The reason for this has to do with the effectiveness of a single dose in a two-dose system. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is only 52% effective after the first shot, according to one study. While the Moderna vaccine shows 80% effectiveness after the initial dose, both of these vaccines start working at their optimal levels about two weeks after the second dose, when their efficacy rates jump to over 90%. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it takes about 14 days for your immune system to fully respond to the coronavirus vaccine. That’s why the second shot is so important.

It also seems to matter at what point during your vaccination schedule you get infected. “If you got COVID between doses of the vaccine, when you got it in that interval would likely influence how severe the symptoms might be,” Adalja explained. “If it was two weeks post your first dose, I suspect that the vaccine-induced immunity would have some impact on how bad the infection might be. So it’s likely to be a little bit less severe if it’s two weeks or more past the first dose. And I think if it’s before that, you probably don’t have much vaccine-induced immunity. Maybe some after a week, but it could be more like a normal case of COVID-19 that you would have had were it not for the vaccine.”

So what should you do if you get sick in-between shots? The advice will sound familiar, as it is pretty much the exact same thing you’d do if you got the virus without a vaccine. First things first: Isolating yourself will keep you from spreading the virus to others. And, you should still go for shot #2. “You should get your second dose as planned,” Adalja said. “But only if you’re not still contagious. So it should be 10 days or so since you developed symptoms or tested positive before you get your second dose so you don’t expose anybody when you’re getting vaccinated.” However, it is important to note that this time frame may vary for people. Abisola Olulade, MD, a physician in San Diego, told Refinery29 that someone who is immunocompromised may take longer to recover fully before being able to safely receive the second dose. “Possibly for up to 20 days, and you should discuss this with your doctor,” she added.

Once you’ve recovered and are symptom-free with the all-clear from a medical professional, you are able to receive the second dose of the vaccine as planned. There’s no evidence that having COVID would impact the effectiveness of the second dose, Dr. Adalja said. If this all takes place before your original booster appointment, then stick to your original appointment time as long as you get the go-ahead from your doctor. But if the three or four weeks between doses have passed, you should try to reschedule your appointment as soon as possible. 

Currently, there is limited data on what happens if you wait too long between vaccine appointments. “The CDC has stated that you can wait up to six weeks before getting a second dose of the mRNA vaccines,” said Dr. Olulade. “Beyond this time frame, there is limited data available on efficacy. We don’t have a lot of evidence on how it would affect the efficacy at this point.”

It’s important to remember that even at full efficacy, no vaccine currently on the market completely prevents you from getting coronavirus. Even after you get the second dose, you could still become infected. What the vaccine does do, though, is make that possibility rare, and most importantly, it keeps symptoms from becoming severe. In fact, studies have shown that your risk of contracting a serious case after being vaccinated is incredibly low. 

“Two weeks after [your] second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, I do think you can become much more open about the activities that you engage in because you are definitely protected from severe disease, symptomatic disease, and highly unlikely to be a transmitter of the virus,” Dr. Adalja said.

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In an interview that absolutely no one asked for, Piers Morgan spoke with Tucker Carlson for over an hour about how it was the “woke mob” that forced him to leave Good Morning Britain in early March and not his racist comments and unsettling obsession with tearing down Meghan Markle.

“Now, is she deliberately lying? Is she completely delusional? I don’t know, but frankly, I don’t care,” Morgan — who clearly cares — said of Markle in the beginning of the interview, which aired on Tucker Carlson Today, the host’s new show on the Fox Nation streaming app. 

“Well, I’ll tell you, it’s very interesting, because if you believe Twitter,” Morgan continued, “I got my comeuppance rightly and deservedly. You know, the woke mob, their court had met. I’d been convicted summarily. Meghan Markle had complained to my boss, complained to the government regulator, and I was gone for not apologizing for disbelieving her.” Carlson supported Morgan’s spin on the story by framing Morgan as the victim of a “scam” concocted by those in power to silence dissenting opinions.

Throughout the interview, Morgan repeatedly accused Markle of implying that Queen Elizabeth II is racist. For context, Markle never accused the Queen in her interview with Oprah Winfrey in March. After the interview, Prince Harry confirmed that the Queen was not the unnamed member of the royal family who had expressed concerns over the skin color of their child, Archie, before his birth. But that didn’t stop Morgan from calling the couple’s remarks an “appalling smearing of the Queen.”

Since walking off the set of Good Morning Britain last month, Morgan has argued that his freedom of speech was impinged upon. Taking advantage of his opportunity to be labeled the victim rather than examine his own actions, Morgan said it was “terrifying” that “people feel so cowed by the fear of the woke mob that they can’t express an honestly held opinion without being immediately branded a racist.” He followed this up by reiterating his grievances with Markle, which all seem to stem from the fact that she “ghosted” him after grabbing a drink in London several years ago.

Later in the interview, Morgan said that he shouldn’t have walked off the set of Good Morning Britain after co-host Alex Beresford called him out for obsessing over Markle. “I understand that you’ve got a personal relationship with Meghan Markle, or had one, and she cut you off… Has she said anything about you since she cut you off? I don’t think she has, and yet you continue to trash her,” Beresford said on air at the time.

According to Morgan, he walked off the set for only a few minutes. “Then I realized, This is stupid,” explained Morgan. “I shouldn’t have walked off. You know, you should always be able to have a debate. I was angry in the moment that he was trying to personalize this, make it some personal vendetta I have with Meghan Markle, which I don’t.” 

But, just a reminder: This is coming from the man who, earlier in this same interview, took time to reiterate his criticisms of Markle that he frequently shares whenever given the chance, after — just to drive this point home — she got a drink with him and then didn’t, for whatever reason, want to continue a relationship with him in a way that he desired. He has disparaged her whenever given the chance on the air in front of millions ever since.

Somehow, taking over an hour to speak at length about how he’s not obsessed with Markle didn’t come off with the breezy, nonchalant tone Morgan thought it would. We wonder why.

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Kerry Washington made a splash at last night’s SAG Awards — literally. For the virtual show, the actress went for a glamorous mermaid-inspired look, wearing a sequined blue Etro gown with a custom beaded swimming-cap headpiece. In true mermaid fashion, Washington waded into her pool to get the shot — and her glam team even took the marine theme one step further, giving the star an ornate, crystalline blue manicure.

Designed by celebrity nail artist Kim Truong, the nail art is a creative reinterpretation of the “deep French” trend that’s been everywhere the past year. To complement the jewel tones in Washington’s gown and headpiece, Truong used an array of OPI nail polishes, adding beads and blue rhinestones to give the manicure an embellished edge.

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To begin, Truong applied a strong base coat to Washington’s nails before getting to work creating the asymmetrical bedazzled manicure. For the base, she applied OPI Gel Color polish in the shade Passion, a warm-toned pale pink, to just two fingernails, and painted the remaining nails with the shade Tile Art to Warm Your Heart, a vibrant blue.

For the finer details, Truong used a thin liner brush dipped in the blue shade and created a colored French tip on the pink nails. Then came the crystals: She placed a single blue rhinestone at the base of the French manicure-painted nails and then let her creativity run wild on the other nails, freehand painting swirled, dotted designs on each individual nail bed. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, Truong finished off the manicure with a clear, shiny top coat in order to seal on the crystals and edges. The look had to be completely waterproof, after all.

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On Wednesday, Travis Barker‘s daughter, 15-year-old Alabama Luella Barker, posted a makeup tutorial featuring the former Blink-182 drummer she calls dad — and the result is blowing up online.

The Instagram video shows Alabama using the new TikTok-famous KVD Beauty Good Apple Skin-Perfecting Foundation Balm to cover Travis’s face tattoos. “My dad let me give him a makeover,” Alabama captioned the clip, adding a preview of the finished product. “The coverage of this formula had us both shocked…” she wrote.

Alabama started by finding Travis’s shade match, settling on Light 015. As she blends the foundation into his skin, covering up the ink just below his eye which reads “Blessed,” she asks her dad about his favorite tattoo. “Probably the one you just covered,” Barker replied.

Next, Alabama went in to cover a tattoo under his other eye, a small anchor on his right cheek. “Okay, now we’re going to get this little handkerchief,” she says, before Barker lovingly corrects her. “That’s an anchor, babe,” he tells her.

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After the foundation was dabbed and set, Alabama included closeup before-and-after photos — and the transformation is legitimately impressive. Not only is the KVD foundation an excellent color match to Travis’s skin tone (props to Alabama for that), but it completely concealed any evidence of ink underneath.

Thanks to TikTok, the KVD Beauty Good Apple Foundation is hard to come by at the moment; it sold out everywhere in most shades after people praised the buildable balm for its formidable coverage. If covering face tattoos isn’t proof of just how full-coverage this stuff is, we don’t know what is.

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After initial fears that even vaccinated people could carry and spread coronavirus, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that vaccinated people may be far less at risk for transmitting COVID-19, not just being protected from serious symptoms.

“Vaccinated people do not carry the virus — they don’t get sick,” CDC director Rochelle Walensky, MD, director of the CDC, told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday. That’s “not just in clinical trials, but it’s also in real-world data.”

The study, published on Monday, is the CDC’s first analysis of how well the current vaccines on the market work among adults with front-line occupations, who are at a higher risk of exposure to the virus. “These findings should offer hope to the millions of Americans receiving COVID-19 vaccines each day and to those who will have the opportunity to roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated in the weeks ahead,” Dr. Walensky said in a statement. “The authorized vaccines are the key tool that will help bring an end to this devastating pandemic.”

Researchers collected data from nearly 4,000 healthcare workers, first responders, and other essential workers across eight locations around the United States. The study looked not only at the original coronavirus strain vaccines were developed against, but at more contagious variants as well. After a single dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine, participants’ risk of infection was reduced by 80%. After the second dose, their risk was reduced by 90%, similar to what scientists saw in clinical trials, which showed a two-dose vaccine efficacy rate of around 95%. Without infection, a person cannot spread the virus. 

The CDC did not go so far as to suggest new guidelines on which precautions vaccinated people should still take. Currently, the CDC advises that those who have been inoculated still take safety measures such as wearing a mask. 

This isn’t the only promising coronavirus-related news emerging this week. A clinical trial released on Wednesday found that the Pfizer vaccine was 100% effective in children ages 12 to 15. Depending on regulatory approval, vaccination of older children and teens could begin before the start of the next academic year, reports The New York Times. For elementary school children, vaccines could come shortly after that.

It’s not often that there is such good news to share about COVID-19, but both of these findings could signal a speedier return to normal life for millions — and help usher in the freer, less isolating post-pandemic world we have all been eagerly awaiting.

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Despite obviously being a very good boy, Major Biden, the younger of the Biden family’s two German shepherds, has reportedly had a second biting incident at the White House. This comes just days after he was reportedly taken away for behavioral training for injuring a Secret Service employee.

This most recent biting incident took place on the White House South Lawn on Monday afternoon. First Lady Jill Biden’s press secretary Michael LaRosa told CNN that Major “nipped” a National Park Service employee during a walk and is “still adjusting to his new surroundings.” The employee was seen by the White House medical unit and was able to return to work without injury.

After the initial biting incident, President Joe Biden described Major as “a sweet dog.” In an interview with ABC News, Biden explained that Major had “turned a corner, there’s two people he doesn’t know at all, you know, and they move and [he] moves to protect.” But he added that Major was not sent home exclusively because of the biting. “He was going home,” Biden explained. “I didn’t banish him to home. Jill was going to be away for four days. I was going to be away for two, so we took him home.”

According to the White House, Major has received training within the past two weeks after injuring a Secret Service employee who also needed treatment from the White House Medical Unit, but it seems like he may still be getting used to his new home. Neither the Secret Service agent nor the National Park Service employee have spoken publicly about the incidents.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki referred to the Secret Service employee’s injury as “minor,” and explained that Major is still “getting acclimated and accustomed to [the dogs’] surroundings and new people.” She said Major was “surprised by an unfamiliar person.”

Major, who is three years old, was adopted by the Bidens from the Delaware Humane Association in 2018. Champ, the Bidens’ 12-year-old German shepherd, has already spent time at the White House as a younger dog when Biden was Vice President.

Clearly, Biden loves his dogs and wants them around. And sometimes, even good boys need time to adjust — hopefully Major will get used to his new presidential home very soon.

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Two weeks after the massacre of eight people — including six Asian women — in Atlanta, GA, violence against Asian-Americans is still a massive, ongoing problem. The latest, horrific example was an attack on a 65-year-old woman in midtown Manhattan in broad daylight, as bystanders failed to intervene.

According to law enforcement, the attack happened around 11:40 a.m. Monday outside an apartment building only a couple of blocks from Times Square. Surveillance footage released by police shows an unidentified man kicking the woman as they passed by each other on the street. After the assailant kicked her in the stomach, she fell to the ground, and then he repeatedly kicked her in the face before walking off. Police say the man also shouted anti-Asian insults at the woman.

A person who appeared to be a worker in the building is seen on the video witnessing the attack and not stepping in. Instead, they close the door after the attacker takes off, leaving the woman on the ground. The Brodsky Organization, the building’s management company, released a statement saying that the staff members in the security footage have been suspended “pending an investigation in conjunction with their union.” The woman, who has not been identified, was hospitalized with serious injuries. A hospital spokesperson confirmed that, as of Tuesday, she was in stable condition.

The New York Police Department’s hate crimes task force is asking for the public’s help in identifying the attacker. A warning to anyone watching the video, which is linked here: The footage is graphic.

At a news conference on Tuesday morning, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the video of the attack was “absolutely disgusting and outrageous,” adding that it was “absolutely unacceptable” that no one helped the woman.

“I don’t care who you are, I don’t care what you do, you’ve got to help your fellow New Yorker,” said de Blasio.

The Manhattan attack is the latest in a yearlong surge of anti-Asian violence across the country that has been linked in part to the misplaced blame for the coronavirus and former President Donald Trump’s use of racist terms like “China virus.” The NYPD has seen at last 33 hate crimes victimizing Asian-Americans so far this year, reports The Associated Press. Across the country, more than 3,795 incidents were reported to Stop AAPI Hate, an organization that tracks incidents of discrimination, hate, and xenophobia against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States, from March 19, 2020, to February 28, 2021. 

The organization says it is “only a fraction of the number of hate incidents that actually occur.”

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Over 60 anti-transgender bills are currently being considered in 28 states across the country, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Just this month, bills in three states — Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas — have already been signed by state governors. LGBTQ+ advocates are warning that the influx of this type of legislation will harm trans and nonbinary youth.

The bills being proposed this year fall largely into two categories. The first focuses on removing trans girls’ and women’s ability to participate in sports programs in accordance to their gender identity. The second category attempts to restrict trans youths’ access to gender-affirming healthcare.

In Tennessee, Gov. Bill Lee recently signed an anti-trans sports bill into law that requires students to prove their assigned sex at birth in order to play in middle and high school sports. According to this law, students can only compete as part of teams of that gender, regardless of how they identify.

Last week, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.” Similar to the bill signed in Tennessee, this piece of legislation bans trans girls and women from participating in school sports on teams consistent with their gender identity. In order to participate, students must show the sex listed on their birth certificates. This act applies to all sports sponsored by public schools, from elementary through college. Private schools must adhere if they compete against a public school. A similar bill was passed in Idaho last year, but it was blocked by a federal judge over the summer.

“This law simply says that female athletes should not have to compete in a sport against a student of the male sex when the sport is designed for women’s competition,” Hutchinson said in a statement, denying that trans women are women.

“This has been a significant part of my work at the ACLU for the past six years and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Chase Strangio, deputy director for transgender justice at the ACLU, told CNN. “There have never been this many bills targeting trans youth voted out of committee and then making it to the floor.”

So far, only legislation around sports bans has made it into law this year, but trans advocates warn that legislation aimed at targeting access to healthcare is worrisomely close to passing in some states. One such bill is the Arkansas SAFE Act, which would ban in minors the use of gender-affirming treatments that enable trans people to change their physical appearance to be more consistent with their own gender identity. Arkansas State Rep. Robin Lundstrum, who originally proposed the legislation, has made public comments contradicting the science of gender identity to falsely position trans and nonbinary identities as a “choice.”

The bill does allow for limited “exceptions” for select instances of intersex people with unspecified chromosomes and hormone production, and those with difficulties resulting from previous gender-affirming treatments. The proposed bill contradicts medical guidelines from several reputable associations including the Endocrine Society, which states, “Youth who are able to access gender-affirming care, including pubertal suppression, hormones, and surgery based on conservative medical guidelines and consultation from medical and mental health experts, experience significantly improved mental health outcomes.”

Trans advocates and experts argue that bills like this do not protect young trans people, and recent studies support this. In February, the Center for American Progress (CAP) released a report which argued that banning the trans community from certain sports programs would deprive an entire group of people of the benefits of athletics, including lower risks of depression, anxiety, and drug use. Despite so many states introducing legislation targeting trans youth in sports, the report also found that the argument of an “unfair advantage” does not actually hold up to data-driven scrutiny. 

“These bills cloak transmisogyny in inflammatory language and scare tactics that distract from the policies’ discriminatory intent,” reads the report. 

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Are you goth? But no, like are you really goth? Do you fancy yourself a modern-day Wednesday Addams? Does the prospect of living in a haunted mansion excite you? If so, there is a place for sale in Baltimore, MD that might be your dream home — or maybe nightmare.

Located just south of Baltimore’s downtown, this house features at least four coffin-shaped fixtures — including an actual coffin. Filled to the brim with guillotine art (yes, that’s a thing), Grim Reaper decor, and a faux hearse embedded into the wall, for just $225,000, you could make this your final resting place. Or at least your home for now. The one-bedroom home boasts a modern, monochrome funeral home aesthetic throughout. And don’t worry, as far as realtor Matt Godbey knows, the previous owner was not a vampire. Probably.

The 1,514-square-foot, one-bedroom and one-bathroom home was built in 1940, and while there’s no guarantee there’s a ghost in-residence, there’s no guarantee there’s not a ghost — it would just not be a super-old ghost, so, like, a boomer ghost. If somehow you are still not planning your move to this haunted house in the making, what if we told you that we looked it up on Google Maps and it was only a short distance from a park? See? Even the spookiest places have to have some charming features in order to lure you in. Even funeral homes are all about curb appeal.

dont want to spoil the surprises but new weird house just droppedhttps://t.co/RXokRVfcG5

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Haunted or not, we would be remiss to skip over the outdoor space. Did we mention the giant spider web above the large, 14-foot stone wet bar? Imagine the backyard parties you could host! There are even a fire pit and a haunting mural along the side of the detached garage. This is definitely the home of someone who hosts the best Halloween party every year.

If you’re still not sold on the place just yet, what if we told you that the lofted bedroom has an entire mirrored enclave perfect for a gothic, four-poster bed? If funeralcore is your thing, we can’t imagine wanting to live anywhere else. 

In an interview with Slate, Godbey said that the home listing photos are actually a toned down version of how the place is normally, noting: “Well, you should have seen it before.” We imagine he said that in a haunted lilt before staring off into the distance for dramatic effect, then continuing: “He somewhat neutralized it. Some of the things in there, I told him, will frighten people. There were about 25 mannequins in the basement and some upstairs.”

Did he say basement? Yes, he did. Rounding out the house is a finished basement which we think is meant to be turned into a home theater for legendary horror movie marathons. It is that room’s destiny and we cannot be convinced otherwise. Did he say 25 mannequins? Yes, he also did, but we’re not even going to touch that because it’s actually too scary for us to contemplate.

You know what they say: Nothing haunts us like the things we didn’t buy. And, you know, the thought of more than two-dozen mannequins in a basement.

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