Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| San Cristobal, Estado Táchira, Venezuela

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Inside, the space was lit by 100 burning candles. Through the window you could see the tied up bodies of me and Frank De Busscher, a pointed wooden stick placed between their bodies and the door. It took four hours, until all the candles were burned up. Johan Desmet made music with tapes and found footage sounds.
(28 December 1979)

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San Cristobal, Estado Táchira, Venezuela.

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Friday 12th of February 1999 (x) — Serial killer and cannibal Dorángel Vargas is arrested when 8 bodies are found on a piece of wasteland near his shack.
An inspection of the shack Vargas was living on near the area revealed several vessels containing human flesh and viscera prepared for consumption, along with three human heads and several feet and hands. Vargas confessed to having killed and eaten at least 10 men over a period of two years.