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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"I hate the serial killer wall of death."''|'''Seeley Booth'''
One of the standard symptoms of insanity as it is portrayed in television and film media is paranoia accompanied by graphomania, usually expressed by writing on walls, tables, body parts, etc. It can be the [[Madness Mantra|same phrase written dozens of times]], or an [[String Theory|elaborate theory detailing a]] [[Conspiracy Theorist|supposed conspiracy]]. Confessions, mathematical equations, rants, and [[Word Salad Philosophy|screeds]] are also popular. These can be supplemented with pictures, newspaper articles, official documents, etc. Usually, a character will find some room in their environment upon which to fully express the terms of their obsession. And don't expect these characters to be deterred by the fact that they [[Couldn't Find a Pen]]; they'll write with their own blood if they have to.
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Characters who display this kind of behavior are not always dangerous or even fully insane, but they are always obsessed.
A detective/doctor/family member can stumble across rooms full of these kinds of paranoid obsessive ramblings and realize that they are [[Alone
It should be noted that a character doesn't have to cover the walls with writing to make this an effective trope. A neatly typed ream of crisp white paper reading "[[The Shining|All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy]]" will work just as well.
If the
Not to be confused with a [[Wall of Text]], which is about something else entirely. [[The Big Board]] is the non-insane version of this.
{{examples
* Schwartzwald in ''[[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* One of the rooms in {{spoiler|Kotomi's house}} in ''[[Clannad (
▲* Schwartzwald in ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]'' has apparently discovered the secret behind Paradigm City's mass amnesia, and what happened to the rest of the world forty years ago. His reaction is to wrap himself up in bandages, murder aristocrats via arson, commandeer a giant robot (and verbally harass its new pilot ''after'' his death), and leave typewriters - sometimes dozens of them - wherever he goes, filled with rantings to curse the foolish and blind residents of the city. Depending on interpretation, the bit about the giant robot may not count; it's well-established and even invoked by another character at this point that {{spoiler|the mecha of [[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]] partially think for themselves and have a brotherhood-like preference for their pilots,}} so Schwartzwald laughing in Alan Gabriel's face for {{spoiler|trying to pilot Big Duo}} could be the most logical thing he ever says.
* An odd version of this trope turns up in the anime film adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's ''[[Metropolis (
▲* One of the rooms in {{spoiler|Kotomi's house}} in ''[[Clannad (Visual Novel)|Clannad]]'' is covered with newspaper articles and so forth about {{spoiler|her parents and their deaths in an airplane crash}}.
* [[Monster (
▲* An odd version of this trope turns up in the anime film adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's ''[[Metropolis (Anime)|Metropolis]]''. Tima, after being taken into the custody of the man who had her created in the first place and being denied access to Kenichi, the boy on whom she'd imprinted, proceeds to scrawl his name all over the walls and windows of the luxury bedroom she was given. This was especially powerful, given how innocent Tima's character is, and scares the maid that brings her a change of clothes witless. All the same though, it was more Tima sulking than anything truly horrific or psychological.
▲* [[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]: Johan leaves behind a number of messages, some bragging, some asking for help.
* A mild form seen in [[Fruits Basket]] when {{spoiler|Kureno's curse broke}} and Akito started going...even more crazy.
** Not forgetting the crazy room Akito {{spoiler|made for Yuki when he was a child}}, filled with black and darkness to slowly drive him insane.
** "Room of the Cat", anyone? Specially when {{spoiler|Rin}} is kept prisoner there.
* Alice first appears in one of these in [[Pandora Hearts]]
* In ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. A subtle use of this trope is Doctor Ritsuko Akagi, NERV's resident [[Hot Scientist]]. At first her tendency to leave post-it notes all over her cubicle and the MAGI computer makes Ritsuko seem like she's just a [[Workaholic]] with a [[Crazy Cat Lady|liking for cats]], but in the second half of the series we realise she's [[Mad Scientist|seriously disturbed]].
** Her mother, Naoko, [[Generation Xerox|is almost exactly the same way.]] When they have to get inside the Caspar core, its entire inside is covered with post-its, with almost no space left free. At least one reads "Ikari! YOU JERK!"
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* After {{spoiler|Kamina is killed by Thymilph}} in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', one of the signs that Simon's grasp on sanity is slipping is his tendency to lock himself in his room and use his drill to obsessively carve statues of the deceased over and over until the room is literally filled with them.
* Reki paints her nightmares into such a room in ''[[Haibane Renmei]]''.
* In surreal anime film ''[[Paprika]]'', Himuro has an entire apartment full of crazy. There are shelves filled with broken toys and dolls (all of them move and make noises), walls coated with photos of himself and his friend Tokita (with Tokitas's face cut out) and little lit-up signs that say "help me." {{spoiler|This signifies the fact that the dream world has overwhelmed his mind.}}
* One character in ''[[Oniisama
* Lucia's cell in ''[[Rave Master]]'' which probably wasn't done in blood because several of his messages implied that he had yet to harm anyone, and there's no way he had enough blood to fill that cell.
* Old Cho's room in ''[[Domu: A Child's Dream]]: A Child's Story" is completely filled with little trinkets that he has collected from every person he killed.
* In Kaori Yuki's manga Boy's Next Door, Adrian has one of these when his backstory is revealed. After {{spoiler|stabbing his mother}}, he doesn't want her staring at him, so he {{spoiler|covers her eyes and then scratches the eyes out of every picture in the room.}} The police find him five days later.
* In ''[[Koharu no Hibi]]'' Koharu's descent into [[Love Makes You Crazy]] mode is especially evident after we see her [[Stalker Shrine|put up photo's of Akira]] all around her room.
== Art ==
* Deb Sokolow's piece [http://debsokolow.com/section/30827_Someone_tell_Mayor_Daley_the_pirates_are.html Someone Tell Mayor Daley The Pirates Are Coming] is an example. The piece is a 12-foot long piece of blue copy paper detailing the increasing paranoid delusions of the narrator, accompanied by sketches and doodles, of his fear that pirates have secretly infiltrated Chicago and are planning to take over.
== Comic Books ==
* [[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', the title character punishes author Richard Madoc by giving him a sudden, manic barrage of story ideas. Being on the street and having no writing materials on hand, Madoc transcribes the ideas on the sidewalk with his fingernails and blood.
** Another schizophrenic man (who is recruited to rescue Delirium) has a compulsion to write warnings on any available wall ("DO NOT ERASE THIS MESSAGE!")
* [[Enfant Terrible|Ashley's]] unfortunate mom in ''[[
* Poor little Todd's cell at the end of [[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac|Squee!!]].
** Johnny's entire house could also count as an example of this. Stuffed animals are nailed to the walls, rooms are covered with philosophical meanderings, posters are stuck all over the place, as well as macabre little messages (Enjoy your stay-the management). Of course, considering that Johnny is [[Axe Crazy]], this makes a lot of sense.
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* In a recent [[Batman]] comic, Two-Face is shown to have news clippings covering one of his walls.
** He says jokingly that compared to some of his other obsessions, that one is only about a 2 on the Richter scale.
* [[Firefly
* During ~Dwayne McDuffie~'s run on ''[[Fantastic Four]]'', the team discovers a secret lab that only Reed Richards has ever entered before, every surface covered wall to ceiling with various equations. This lab, it turns out, is where Reed Richards had started what he called "Plan #101", a plan to solve all the problems in the world.▼
* ''[[Fantastic Four]]'': {{verify|reason=MOD: Are these two the same example? One can't tell with comic books unless one is a fan.}}
▲* [[Firefly (TV)|Serenity]]: Those Left Behind shows {{spoiler|Dobson}} living in a room decorated with [[Dartboard of Hate|pictures of Mal]] and phrases like "Kill Reynolds" scrawled over every surface. As he explains to the men sent to find him; "I don't want Serenity... I want Reynolds. You could say I'm... [[Understatement|preoccupied]] with the idea."
▲** During
** [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Reed Richards]] has a secret room in the Baxter Building where he constantly writes every idea that comes to his mind, all across the wall and floor (and possibly the ceiling too, given that his power allows him to do it). Among them some of the guidelines he was following during the [[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]. Johnny points this out when they first see the room (in a rather ''recent'' comic): "Dude, if you'd asked me, I'd buy you a notepad."
== Fan Works ==
* The main character in the CG [[Fan Film]] ''[http://noescape.rateofinjury.com/main.htm Silent Hill: No Escape]'' is a man whose slow descent into his own [[Self
* The phantasmagoria from ''[[Dept Heaven Apocrypha]]'' is filled with [[Nightmare Fuel]] as
* The [[
* In the ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4724859/1/God_Rest_Ye_Merry_Gentlemen God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen]'', Ken, investigating a target's room, stumbles upon a ''wardrobe'' full of crazy.
* In ''[[
* In the terrifying [
== Film ==
* Ray Finkle's room in ''[[Ace Ventura]]: Pet Detective'', covered with scrawls of "Laces Out" and "Die Dan Die," left Ace (and the audience) in no doubt that Finkle lost his mind following the disastrous missed field goal that cost the Dolphins the Super Bowl and that he's got some rather ugly designs on Dan Marino, whom he blames for the whole thing. Ace would later say of the room, "Cozy, if you're Hannibal Lecter."
* In ''[[The Adventures of
* Used in ''[[American Psycho]]'' when a prostitute, while being chased by [[Axe Crazy]] [[Serial Killer]] Patrick Bateman, enters a room in his apartment that has the words "yuppie scum" written all over the walls in an erratic and disturbing manner.
** Also used at the end of the movie when Patrick's secretary looks through his planner to see that, instead of having dates written down for important meetings and the like, he's filled the entire book up with macabre drawings of people being killed and other such disturbing things.
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* Detective Eddie Walenski in ''[[Dark City]]'', after going mad, covers the walls and floor of his rooms in endless spirals.
* In ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'', the doodles General Jack D. Ripper writes out on a sheet of paper (Peace On Earth, Purity Of Essence, POE) are not only a key to understanding his conspiratorial paranoia but also an important clue to figuring out the all-important "Recall Launch" codes that can stop [[World War III]].
** This scene was parodied in a skit during the ''[[
* Harold Oxley in ''[[Indiana Jones and
* In the [[Jim Carrey]] film ''[[The Number 23]]'', {{spoiler|the final chapter is scrawled all over the wall of Fingerling's motel room.}}
* Played with in ''[[
* ''[[Quills]]'': The main character is in prison, but obsessed with finishing his book. He continues to find more and more innovative ways to write it, on his sheets in blood, and culminating in scrawling it all over the walls of his cell in his own filth.
* In ''[[REC]]'', {{spoiler|the closest anyone gets to an explanation is a
* ''The Return of the [[Pink Panther]]'' ends with Clouseau's boss, the former Chief Inspector Dreyfus being driven mad by his obsessive hate for his underling. He spends the last scene in a strait jacket holding a crayon between his toes, writing "Kill Clouseau'' over the walls of his padded cell.
* In the horror film series ''[[Saw]]'', [[Diabolical Mastermind]] Jigsaw has nasty headquarters seen in the first movie, and one of detectives tracking him, who has gone more than a little crazy, also has a room covered with thousands of newspaper clippings about the case.
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* Esther's room in ''[[Orphan]]'', with a slight twist: her decor and paintings appear normal until viewed under a blacklight, which reveals disturbing overlays depicting fire, blood and murder {{spoiler|(and erotic images reflecting her sexual obsession with her adopted father).}}
* In ''[[Conspiracy Theory]]'', Mel Gibson's room is plastered with clippings from every whacko newspaper in the country. It's also wired up to self-destruct, in case "they" come after him.
* ''[[
** "Don't believe his lies. {{spoiler|'''He is the one - KILL HIM!'''}}"
** Even worse, but seemingly more innocent: "Remember Sammy Jenkis." {{spoiler|This is Leonard's way of [[Mind Rape|using his own condition against himself]], to continue perpetuating the lie that is Sammy Jenkis as a existing person. By putting it on his hand, he ensures he'll look at it every so often.}}
* In ''[[Trick
* In the film ''[[
* Howard Hughes, from ''[[The Aviator]]'' and in real life, in his more [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU80GNiKbMA&feature=related reclusive months].
* In the latest [[Sherlock Holmes (
* In ''[[One Hour Photo]]'' Sy makes extra copies of pictures of one particularly family that develops their photos in the shop where he works, and he plasters the pictures all over the walls of his [[Stalker Shrine]].
* ''[[Tower of Terror]]'' features a variation of this: {{spoiler|Abigail has a trunk fill with photos and mangled dolls of her sister, with "I hate Sally" written over everything}}.
* The wife (She) in Lars von Trier's ''[[
* In the Spanish thriller ''[[
* In ''Mad Love'', Drew Barrymore's bipolar character spends a night cutting out magazine pictures of eyes and taping them all over the walls of a motel room, telling her boyfriend that the eyes will "protect" them.
== Literature ==
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* In [[Chuck Palahniuk]]'s novel ''Diary'', the protagonist's husband {{spoiler|used to hide (yes really) rooms in houses he worked in and write insanities on the walls before he attempted suicide}}.
** {{spoiler|Subverted : it wasn't a suicide attempt, and he wasn't really insane but trying to warn future inhabitants of the danger they were in.}}
* [[Discworld]]
** In
** While in ''[[
** And in ''[[
** Rascal, the [[Mad Artist]] whose masterpiece was stolen in ''[[Thud!]]'', lived in fear of either being attacked by, or transformed into, a chicken. After his death, his landlady found sacks full of notes he'd scribbled to himself, most of which read: "You are not a chicken".
* The Robert Louis Stevenson book ''[[The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' is supposed to be the notes of Dr Jekyll himself - made harder to read because of Hyde's insane scribblings all over them.
* Zampano and {{spoiler|Johnny Truant's}} rooms in ''[[House of Leaves]]''. Paper everywhere, notes on ''The Navidson Record'', Tape Measures taped to the floor, {{color|red|and in Zampano's room, a set of unexplained claw marks on the floor}}.
* In a ''[[Sweet Valley High]]'' mini-series, [[Complete Monster|crazy stalker]] Margo had one of these dedicated to Elizabeth Wakefield.
* In ''[[John Dies
* The short story ''[[
* While [[Nightside|Suzie Shooter]]'s residence resembles this trope, it's not because she's nuts, but because she doesn't have a desk and honestly couldn't care less whether or not it's appropriate to write on walls. More of a Room Full Of Doesn't Give A Shit, really.
** Also from the ''[[Nightside]]'' series, any room that Madman remains in for long becomes a ''literal''
* In ''[[Peacebreakers]]'' by Mindy MacKay, inmates of Fleischer prison scrawl poetry on the cell walls in their own blood, which eventually evolves into a tradition referred to as "Bloodletting".
* In ''[[
* ''[[The Laundry Series]]''. When the protagonist visits an asylum set up for Laundry operatives who've [[Gone Mad From the Revelation|gone insane in the line of duty]], he notes that many of the inmates aren’t allowed writing implements or even blank
* Deborah Blau does this in a bathroom in ''[[I Never Promised You A Rose Garden]]''. She writes the words for "extreme loneliness" and "extreme anger" over and over in her personal language. It's a very important moment to her, to her psychiatrist it's a good sign, but to the orderlies she's just another lunatic. She overhears them making fun of her later.
* In the
== Live
* In episode 2.2 of ''[[
* In ''[[Happy Town]]'' the newly appointed Sheriff discovers a crazy wall in the basement of a friend who has been trying to track down The Magic Man.
* Dr. Rush in ''[[
** Later he's shown to have set up a real one in a corridor of the ship.
* After learning that [[Captain Obvious|Sheriff Buck is the Devil Incarnate]] from [[The Plan|none other than his own mother]], Dr. Crower of ''[[American Gothic]]'' becomes so obsessed with Buck that he starts acting like a crazed stalker. When Gail, Ben, and Dr. Peele becomes suspicious of his personality changes and investigate his house, they discover a room straight out of this
* ''[[
** Lampshaded later when she momentarily writes formulas on the glass window of her office:
{{quote|
'''Fred''': No, er, I just ran out of blackboard... }}
** In a later episode ("Sacrifice", s04e20), it is revealed that before the goddess Jasmine came to Earth, she was being revered in other dimensions and her previous followers are obsessed with bringing her back. In the sewers, Wesley is dragged away by one of the Spider Monsters into its lair and discovers that the demon has been creating an elaborate summoning mandala out of flesh and blood of its victims along one wall, using blood magic because "''She'' is older than words".
** Earlier on Angel also encountered a vampire he'd sired who performed the same set of murders over and over again and considered himself an artist. Angel mocked his endeavors and guessed that he even had the cliched wall covered in photos of his victims. He did.
** A milder example: when Lindsey first got his [[Evil Hand|evil hand
** Wesley's office in Season 5 after {{spoiler|Illyra takes infects and kills Fred}}, Gunn has this little convo with Lorne:
{{quote|
'''Lorne''': Well, we've exchanged words. I wouldn't exactly call it talking. He's still reeling since Our Lady of the Blue Bummer arrived.
'''Gunn''': Yeah, I was just in his office, and--
'''Lorne''': Oh, God, don't go in there! That's where he keeps his full-strength crazy.
'''Gunn''': (chuckles) Yeah. Caught a whiff of that. }}
* ''[[
** <s>Ironic</s> Fitting that Booth and Angel, above, who complained about the same thing, were played by the same actor.
** There's also the Gorgomon's lair, which manages to be creepy without having a single [[Madness Mantra]].
* Seen in the first episode of ''[[Castle]]'': the room is covered in covers from Castle's books, drawings of the death scenes, and pictures of the victims and Castle himself. {{spoiler|Somewhat [[Averted Trope|averted]], in that the owner and maintainer of the Room Of Crazy ''was'' crazy but didn't actually commit the crime.}} Walls of Crazy appear numerous times thereafter in the series.
** Averted in "Ghosts", where the person with a Wall of Crazy is actually a writer. The wall organizes her background research. She {{spoiler|didn't do it, but it's a mystery so I feel like there ought to be some kind of spoiler text here}}.
** Appears again in "Boom!" {{spoiler|The serial killer stalking Beckett has one of these. Unlike the earlier example, this guy certainly ''is'' guilty.}}
** ''Doesn't'' appear again in "Inventing the Girl", and for good reason: the "stalker" wasn't really a stalker at all. When [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|Castle]] notices this he even says, "Where's the big creepy wall of Jenna?"
** Beckett's home murder board, where she obsessively tries to solve her mother's case, isn't precisely a
* While not using words, one [[Serial Killer]] in ''[[
* Pretty much every UnSub (Unknown Subject) on ''[[Criminal Minds]]''
** In one episode dealing with a OCD Unsub upon entering her room to find the walls plastered with hand coppied religious matierial Morgan quips "OCD? I'm thinking more OMG"
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* The ''[[CSI New York]]'' episode "Jamalot" features a killer who writes the last chapter of a novel across a victim's entire body.
** And in episode "The Ride In", a man building an ark in his backyard has a the walls of his room covered in quotations from the Bible, the Koran and Nostradamus.
* There's a really great scene in the ''[[
** This is accompanied by an earlier scene where The Doctor, Rose, and Jack find the Child's room in the hospital, which is covered entirely with drawings of domestic scenes - a boy and his mum.
** The drawings in Chloe's room in "Fear Her".
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**** Plus, all those tally-marks the characters drew on their own skin.
** {{spoiler|The 8th Doctor}} wallpapers a room with increasingly abstract crayon drawings in the novel ''Seeing I''. He also spends almost all of Interference going crazy while being tortured and writing on the floor in his own blood.
* Crichton does this at one point late in ''[[
** And in an earlier episode. He does ask for paper at first, but of course the rest of the crew have no idea what paper is.
* ''[[Fringe]]'' recently did this with a mathematical equation. For a fun twist, they added a kid obsessed with a tune that was the musical counterpart to the mathematical progression of the equation.
* [[Serial Killer]] Sylar's graffiti in his apartment on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' begs for forgiveness. Also, Future!Hiro's string "map" of cause-and-effect in Isaac's apartment.
* One of the funniest examples appeared in ''[[
** What makes this even funnier is that Alan, accompanied by a couple of writers he's trying to impress, has been trying to pretend that this is ''his'' house. And even tries to pretend that the ''room'' is his. ("I am ''such'' a big head!") It backfires; the writers think he's crazy and, when they make a break for it, leave him there.
* Charlie's diagram of the supposed mail-room conspiracy in ''[[
* In the ''[[Kate Modern]]'' episode "The List", Gavin covers the wall of his bedroom with pictures of all the people he hates, many of them with black scribbles over their eyes.
* ''[[Law and Order]]'', "Atonement." Briscoe and Curtis get a warrant to search the apartment of a suspect in a supermodel's murder... and find it covered with photos of the dead woman.
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** Another incident with a note pad happened when she was drawn into the case of a Zodiac Killer-expy and wrote an entire letter in the killer's code. Things got worse after the code "bled" into the real world.
* In the first-season episode "Sub Rosa" of ''[[NCIS]]'', including a ''screensaver''.
* ''[[Numb3rs]]'': Charlie is prone to
** The particular problem, P vs. NP, is not necessarily unsolvable (in the sense that no independence proof has been given showing that neither it nor its negation contradicts arithmetic), but it is actually one of the most famously unsolved problems. In short, it asks if every problem whose solution can be ''verified'' in polynomial time (some finite polynomial in 'x' (the size of the set of data) independent of what 'x' happens to be) can also be ''solved'' in (a probably much larger) polynomial time.
** No mention of his serial-killer theory in the fifth season, where he fills his office with papers hanging from strings to try and track one killer he believes to behind over thirty murders? They even bring in a conspiracy nut to help him! {{spoiler|He's right, of course}}.
* Michael's apartment in ''[[Prison Break]]'' is the sane version of this, but he later built a version of this, making patterns with his blood and parts of clothes when in solitary confinement {{spoiler|in order to get sent to the mental ward to recover a missing piece of his plans}}.
** Seeing all of the marks on the wall made by the thumbtacks Alexander Mahone, the FBI agent put in charge of capturing the escapees, realizes the depth of Michael's plan to get Lincoln out of Fox River. Mahone would later recreate Michael's plans on his basement wall in an attempt to get one step ahead of Michael and catch him. Mahone's was much of a
** Michael would use a wall plan again in the fourth season, this time his plan was to find {{spoiler|the person who killed Sara}}.
* ''[[
* In the fourth season of ''[[Skins]]'', Effy is suffering from psychotic depression (incidentally, a case of the writers [[Shown Their Work|giving Effy a real mental illness]] instead of a simple case of [[Sanity Slippage]]) and covers her wall in morbid collages, including newspaper clippings about deaths.
* On ''[[Smallville]]'', Lionel Luthor writes all over his cell walls in Kryptonian glyphs during his crazy/possessed period.
** Chloe's various Walls of Weird are a somewhat more innocuous variant.
* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Far Beyond the Stars" Sisko hallucinates himself as a science fiction writer in the '50s who dreamed up the events of the show and has a nervous breakdown when, because of his race, he can't get it published. He returns to the real world at the end of the episode, but at a pivotal moment in the later episode, "Shadows and Symbols," Sisko is about to open a box which can change the course of the war with the Dominion, of his life, and of a literal Holy War between Gods (or [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]). He then blacks out to a
* Cmdr. Tuvok does this to a certain extent in the [[Voyager]] episode "Endgame". He has an unnamed neurological illness that causes him to write obsessively in addition to being extremely light-sensitive and paranoid.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Supernatural]]'' when tracking down a Doppleganger, the Winchester brothers meet a guy who is convinced one previous Doppleganger case was a robot, and was obsessed with catching it.
* In ''[[Lois Therouxs Weird Weekends|Lois Theroux's Weird Weekends]]'', when getting acquinted with infomercials and Home Shopping Network, Lois meets fitness entrepaneur Win Paris who jots down his business ideas and motivational phrases on the walls of his apartment and any other available surface, including a bible.
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** Nicole Kirby's mom spends a lot of time gluing pennies to the wall in one of the rooms of her house. The pennies are all from the year Nicole was born.
* When one of the thieves of ''[[Leverage]]'' had to play a conspiracy theorist they replicated a Room Full Of Crazy with every conspiracy they could think of.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Burn Notice]]'', the episode "Signals and Codes," Spencer Witawski does this in his living room with newspaper articles.
* ''[[Inspector Morse]]'': At least two examples, one (dedicated to the proposition that all women are harlots) created by the Reverend Geoffrey Boyd, and the other (dedicated to an obsession with Morse himself) created by Hugo DeVries.
* In ''[[
* [[Nightmare Fuel
{{quote|
* In the episode "Love Never Dies" of ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'', there are two examples of this. One is the written variant all over the walls (and any ornament attached to the walls) in red in the apartment of the deceased, and the second is the paper-scraps variety full of pictures all over the office of a related party.
* In [[Dexter]] we see a tragic version of this with Lumen, who had been gang-raped by 5 men for a month. When Dexter enters her motel room, he sees a wall ''covered'' with newspaper clippings about rapes and a map with pinpoints all over it. He also realizes that she is sleeping in her closet, as it is the only place she feels safe.
* [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]] season 2 where they had a basement with names, numbers and dates written on the walls, in blood.
* When Claudia Donovan of [[Warehouse 13]] is first introduced, she had recently checked into a [[Mental Hospital]], and the walls of her room are covered in scraps and the like, trying to locate her presumed-dead brother. Of course, [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|he isn't actually dead]].
* [[John Doe]] keeps a room like this in his apartment. It's full of {{spoiler|all the hints to his identity}}.
* ''[[Luther]]''. A satanist killer abducts a woman from her home and leaves the corridor leading from the front door covered in [[Couldn't Find a Pen|words written in blood]] such as DO NOT FEAR THE ABYSS, I AM THE ABYSS. Likely a deliberate use of the trope to add to his reputation and creep people out.
* Mr. Oswald Bates in ''[[Shooting The Past]]'' leaves one of these at his {{spoiler|(failed) suicide attempt}}, along with a cryptic hint that somewhere in this mess is the vital evidence. He's written a key word over and over on bits of paper and cardboard. It's deliberate; inspired by his native flair for the dramatic rather than any mental illness on his part, although arguably everyone who works for the Fallon Collection is slightly off their rockers.
== Music and Music Videos ==
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* The Kidcrash named their album, ''I Haven't Had a Date in 4 Years'', after a diary they found that had the sentence written all over it.
* [[Radiohead]]'s artwork mostly consists of layers over layers of random phrases, weird drawings and repeating symbols, all meant to match (and supplement) the music's angst and paranoia.
* The video for [[Incubus (
* The video for Poe's ''Hello'' uses this trope.
* Alice Cooper's [http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=c2nK0aMdK7U "Vengeance is Mine"].
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* The eponymous character from the [[The Residents|Residents]]' album and webseries "The Bunny Boy" has one of these. It's described in the song "Secret Room", pictured in the liner notes and recorded on video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f4R3M1g1AI here] (watch at [[Nightmare Fuel|your own risk]]).
* Every single room in the video for [[The Prodigy|The Prodigy's]] song 'Breathe'. Flickering lights, rats, giant centipedes, hair growing from the walls and even the band themselves.
* The video for [[
* From The Crystalline Effect's song "Poetry": "She writes poetry of places she's been/She paints words all over the wall".
* Combine ''[[
* The video to ''Bedshaped'' by [[Keane]] ends up with something like this in a toilet cubicle with the lyrics to the song on the walls
== Radio ==
* Parodied [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSd7nd48tI8 here] by Adam Buxton of ''Adam And Joe'' in a Halloween edition of Song Wars.
== Tabletop Games ==
* A fairly common sign of Warp-inspired madness in ''[[Warhammer
** One of the ''[[Ravenor]]'' novels had madness-induced frescoes spanning through several apartments, getting more elaborate and detailed as they went with the last one {{spoiler|depicting two of Ravenor's companions encountering the painter, the image he was painting as the two of them walked into the final room.}}
** And as with most things Chaos-related in that universe, the crazy is generally also a [[Brown Note]], as seen in the [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel, ''The Traitor's Hand'', among other places.
** Also appears in the same way in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]''. One footnote describes a Nurgle-tainted landowner who locked himself in his room and inscribed verses of reverence to the Plague Lord all over his study...in his own blood. "The mewling wreck that was found gibbered and moaned ceaselessly, crippled in mind and mutilated in body. He cradled and caressed many self-inflicted wounds, but none dared to dwell upon the cause of his missing hands."
*** "''Nurgle's Children, our pretties, our pets...How Nurgle loves his little children! How Nurgle loves his little pets...''"
* The [[Ad Mech]] Magos Genator who goes crazy over the course of Xenology, influenced by the {{spoiler|Necron}} living in a sealed cell in the centre of the (spiral-shaped) facility. Halfway through his final report, he abruptly loses it, writing "The metal lives. The metal lives. The Metal Lives. THE METAL LIVES. THE METAL LIVES" over and over again, first in ink and then in his own blood, as he begins cutting spiral shapes into his own flesh...
** Games Workshop is actually very good at fulfilling this trope. Read the book Liber Chaotica if you want a really good example of Crazy (the book is written in 1st person perspective, and details all 4 of the Chaos gods. It goes from sane to full-blown [[Axe Crazy]] before the end of the book). It's a surprisingly good read, but weighs in at about 500 pages long.
* Used in ''[[Pathfinder|Rise of the Runelords]]'' by the Scribbler, who fills the walls of his entire lair with gibberish. {{spoiler|1=Gibberish, except for the poem that the PCs need to decipher.}}
* ''[[
▲== Theme Park ==
* [[The Dark Knight]] coaster at Six Flags Great America and Six Flags Great Adventure, based on [[The Dark Knight|the movie of the same name]], pulls this trope in the preshow room. You enter, watch a short film of Harvey Dent giving a speech, and then {{spoiler|the Joker hijacks the feed and various words ("[[Evil Laugh|Ha Ha Ha]]", "[[Catch Phrase|Why so serious]]?", etc.) randomly appear all over the walls as [[Nightmare Fuel|a different and much more disturbing video plays.]]}} The effect is quite unnerving, to say the least.
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[
** Sledge's Safehouse in its entirety is one massive house of crazy. "THEY GOT ME" written in blood on the walls, presumably written by the victims in their own blood at the command of their captors, bodies chained up all over an strung up like chandeliers leaking pools of blood, huge blood splatter everywhere,) bodies stuck to the walls and ceilings via steel rods jammed through their eyes, a room with an armless body along with several dismembered appendages and a body stuck up on the ceiling, a small 'colosseum' where victims were presumably forced to fight the cannibalistic 'Psychos' for sport, and on and on. In many cases, fresh blood still drips down from strung up bodies.
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth]]'', in the first mission, you eventually reach the basement of a cult's house, only to find a man completely gutted, strung up in a machine with his arms at his sides and his various organs beating away in dozens of other containers across the room. To top it off, corpses in various states of decay and with various missing organs are scattered around, indicating this victim isn't the first.
** Earlier in the same mission you also find a room plastered with newspaper clippings, surveillance photos, and a detailed itinerary - of YOURSELF.
** It arguably [[It Got Worse|gets worse]] later, including {{spoiler|a subterranean temple to Cthulhu, where you eventually go insane and possibly kill yourself if you spend too much time near the statue of the [[Eldritch Abomination]]}}, and a {{spoiler|room, also used as a sort of preaching room for cultists, where the walls seem to waver as if made from water}}.
* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'' contains at least 2. First one encounters a serial killer who has various rooms in his home filled with torture equitment, limbs, and textbooks, ultimately ending with you in his main dungeon as he beats you with a severed arm. Second one encounters a flesh-wizard, who's home is a big blood-filled pit with bodies literally everywhere in big fleshy piles. He had tarps to keep the more loose bits from getting away though.
* ''[[
** This is also seen in Boyd's "house" inside his mind, where various newspaper clips and photos are connected by string and covered in mad scrawlings.
*** They're not mad, he [[Milkman Conspiracy|is just the only one who sees it...]]
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* The cell from which Amy frees Sonic in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Adventure 2]]'' is filled with equations that make a [[Colony Drop]] possible. While the identity of its previous owner is never explicitly stated, it was most likely Gerald Robotnik.
** We do see Gerald being executed in the exact same room at the end of the game. Also, at this point, Gerald was crazy so it fits this trope well.
* ''[[Portal (
** Hey, at least the crazy guy who was there before you had the good intent of writing you instructions on how to escape the place. (In rather blood-like red ink, but still.)
** The audio commentaries that get activated when you've finished the game only make it weirder. Inside many of those same rooms are audio clips by GLaDOS' fantastic voice actress, who delivers her random anecdotes with a certain frantic, hysteric edge to her voice that just makes it freaking creepy. This player assumes it was fully intentional on the part of Valve.
** Let's not forget the username and password for the Aperture Science Fully Operational Internet Database Site. (cjohnson, tier3 respectively)
* The adventure game ''[[Barrow Hill]]'' has one, with writing and drawings across the walls and on torn paper and notebooks scattered over the room. Particularly effective since about half the writing is insane ranting, and the other half is the writer realizing they're going insane, but unable to stop it.
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]'', an insane murderer wanting to avenge the Dark Brotherhood for the death of his mother has a pretty nice place in the cellar of a lighthouse. Among other things, the place holds:
** A rabid living dog.
** The decayed head of said mother.
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** A paranoid Wood Elf suspects his neighbors are plotting against his life and asks you to investigate them. If you go into his basement, you may find the notes he's been keeping about your investigation - including his belief that ''you're'' "one of them," depending on how you respond to his concerns.
** One fellow apparently thought it would be swell to swipe a sacred artifact of a ''nightmare goddess'' and explore the depths of terror within one's own mind. Tasked to retrieve the artifact, you find a pocket dimension with a room of over-sized furnishings, doors to ledges over endless oceans of lava, and naturally blood and organic bits of things strewn all about. The subject himself is asleep in a bed in a shattered room, with his notes nearby. At first they reflect his scholarly and fanatical delights over discovering such wondrous agonies to experience, but they finally end with him simply writing, [[Apocalypse Now|"THE HORROR,]] [[Heart of Darkness|THE HORROR."]]
* In the previous ''[[The Elder Scrolls|Elder Scrolls]]'' game, ''Morrowind'', some of the Sixth House bases contain their share of crazy. The House's insignia, a beetle, is drawn on several of the floors and
* In ''[[Painkiller]]'s'' "Asylum" level, the interior of the titular asylum contains writings and claw marks carved into the various walls with blood. Aside from that, it also contains ritual circles complete with candles and Pentagrams, not to mention that the entire place is messed up and filled with toppled furniture, rusted and filled with blood, contains leaping and acid-vomiting handless and footless psycho zombies as well as large, straight-jacketed torture victim zombies with their heads being zapped by detached, electric chair helmets which explode when you come in close contact with them, AND contains large, ghostly, skeletal spirits flying around the place, which hurt you if you get near them. Oh, and did I mention that [[It Was a Dark
* The framing areas of ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'', with various mathematical equations and a {{spoiler|map to the Pieces of Eden around the world are written in the previous Animus victim's ''own blood''.}} The effect is a bit creepy once you figure it out.
** Made worse {{spoiler|by the flashes of the writing in your dreams throughout the first game culminating in [[The Reveal]] at the end. The second game makes you feel worse for the guy as you find more information about him through the glyph puzzles.}}
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* In the original ''[[Resident Evil]]'', one of the files you find is the diary of a man who has been bitten by a zombie. His writing degenerates into incoherence until finally it's nothing but "Itchy. Tasty." {{spoiler|When you put the diary down, he attacks from the closet.}}
* ''[[Condemned]]'' features these in spades.
* ''[[Dead Space (
** And, in a subversion, or lampshading or.. something, one will occasionally find amidst the deranged wall-scrawl such oddities as, 'Sorry, family emergency. Where were we again?'
** This carries over in the animated comics and I think it also appears in the anime movie too.
** ''[[
* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' has frequent messages written on the walls of the safe rooms, but a genuine
** One of the lines appears to be scratched out, though. Spelling error perhaps?
** [[Crowning Moment of Funny|I miss the internet.]]
* The Medical Pavilion section of ''[[
** When you finally reach Andrew Ryan - {{spoiler|there's a wall with pictures of Jack, Fontaine, Tennenbaum, Suchong, Ryan, and Jasmine Jolene, two recordings from Suchong about Jack's real childhood, and the words WOULD YOU KINDLY?}}
** And in ''Bioshock 2'' every freaking room in the entire game is covered with scribblings about Doctor Lamb and Andrew Ryan.
*** WE WILL BE REBORN IN THE COLD WOMB OF THE OCEAN
* In ''[[Silent Hill]]'s'' "Nowhere" part (which seems to be a [[Journey to
** Looking closer, you can see that dozens of eyes are drawn all over the room; this makes it even creepier.
** "There was a hole here. It's gone now."
** ''The Room'''s Forest World is full of crazy writing on stones. Only {{spoiler|Elaine, after she's been possessed by Walter}} can read it.
* Tatsuya Sudou's cell at the asylum in ''[[Persona]] 2: Eternal Punishment''. The only readable part is a prophecy that was central to ''[[Persona]] 2: Innocent Sin''
* In ''[[Persona 4]]'', during your first trip into the other world, you find a room created by the murdered announcer's repressed emotions, plastered with photos of Namatame's wife with her face cut out, and a noose hanging smack in the middle of the room. [[Completely Missing the Point|Also, Yosuke almost peed there]].
* In ''[[Mitadake High]]'' you can write on notes, with pen or with blood. You can also use cans of spraypaint to make pretty pictures. Combined you can be as creepy as you want, providing you don't run out of paint or paper.
* The Strogg processing plant levels in ''[[
* The flash game ''[[
* In ''[[Batman
** It also contains a couple of nods to ''[[Arkham Asylum:
* In ''[[
* Similarly, Nathaniel in ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' has a whole apartment full of crazy. One room is covered in crosses, while another has Biblical passages scrawled all over the walls. While he is deeply religious, the fact that he hears voices may suggest that he is insane as well as obsessed.
* Taken to extremes in ''[[Dark Fall]]: Lost Souls'', in which the entire Station Hotel is a variant of this trope. Rooms with writing on the walls (hundreds of eyes; a [[Creepy Child]]'s drawing of the hotel in black crayon; neat rows of writing in an ancient mystical language) are just the beginning: try rooms {{spoiler|with hundreds of scissors or syringes stuck into the walls}}, or a {{spoiler|buffet where a homeless man has laid out roadkill dinners for mannequins, complete with menus that list dogs, pigeons, squirrels and rats by their Latin names}}.
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** Also, {{spoiler|Weaver}} is obsessed with {{spoiler|light}}. In one chapter, she reveals that {{spoiler|she has a room (appropriately dubbed the Well-Lit Room) inside the dam that she completely covered with lights. This is understandable given that she knows about the Taken and their weakness to light, but she obsessively maintains the room and knows - by their assigned number - which specific bulbs need replacing. It's not until the player gets to this room that they understand just how obsessed she is.}}
* Almost every room in the cult mission of ''[[SWAT 4]]'' is one of these to some extent, but the cap on the whole thing is the basement, in which {{spoiler|the cult members have buried all of their children, which were sacrificed to their gods, and crazy messages are written all over the walls.}}
* In ''[[Penumbra (
* During one mission near the end of ''[[Cyberpunk 2077]]'' the player will pass a room (numbered "800") which can only be glimpsed through a door that is slightly ajar, but cannot under normal circumstances be entered. [https://youtu.be/-G99aCtoK-4?t=35 However, no-clipping into the room will reveal its walls are covered with scratched-out writing -- and the words "I AM NOT ME", written ''very'' large.]
== Web Comics ==
* In one ''[[Nukees]]'' storyline, the protagonists are trying to find a kidnapped Danny and eventually track him down to a house whose walls are completely covered with equations. They know he's still in there because the equations keep changing as they return to previous rooms. {{spoiler|It turns out that a completely different crazy person is being kept there, though.}} Later referenced when King Luca finds that every surface in Danny's office is made of whiteboard, including the desk, so that he has a place to write.
* ''[[
** In another ''[[VG Cats]]'' comic, [[Naruto|Orochimaru]] is fired from Akatsuki by Deidara for several reasons, one of them being that Itachi found out [[Memetic Molester|the walls of Oro's room is covered in disturbing pictures of a half-naked Sasuke.]]
* ''[[Something
* Mana in ''[[Haru
* This is actually a fairly important plot point in ''[[Homestuck]]''. The surpressed parts of {{spoiler|John's Rose's and Dave's}} subconscious are expressed by writing on their walls while sleepwalking. This alone wouldn't necessarily qualify for crazy, until you realize that [[Paranoia Fuel|none of them could actually SEE their own graffiti.]] Jade doesn't have this problem because she's already aware of her Dream self in Prospit.
* ''[[Kagerou]]'': [http://www.electric-manga.com\]{{Dead link}}. Kano's interior life IS a Room Full of Crazy.
* ''[[
* Iceland's [http://satwcomic.com/the-collection penis room] in ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]''.
* [[Sonic the Comic Online]]: In the first chapter of ''Sunrise'' (#245), Tekno has covered the wall of the cave she and Shorty are living in trying to locate a way back to Mobius. Lampshaded when the largest of what she's written is "I'M NOT CRAZY."
* The trope is used in [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/ones-you-should-trust/ this] strip of ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' as a visual aid when Monica was talking about her days "just this side of a rubber room."
* In [[Fafnir the Dragon]], Stepanie Meyers (yes, [[Twilight (
* In the [[Nuzlocke Comics]] Fire Red arc, the [[Wham! Episode]] shows {{spoiler|Mewtwo}} in a cave with the scratched-out names of [[The Cameo|various other trainers]] on the wall. Biggest, center, and intact is "Ruby". {{spoiler|This confirms that Mewtwo created the illusion of Nuzleaf's ghost to manipulate Ruby.}}
== Web Original ==
* {{spoiler|Red's death room in}} ''[[
** Which is downright ''mundane'' compared to what you find in cold storage.
* Those unfortunate enough to run into [[The Slender Man Mythos|the Slender Man]] often resort to this, but the crowning example is Alex's ''entire house'' in ''[[Marble Hornets]]''.
* The Queen's Quarters in [[
== Western Animation ==
* The Question from ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''. His grand-unification conspiracy theory diagram covers the walls of his room on the Watchtower. Several members of the League think he's got mental issues, but it's subverted in that he's often right about ''parts'' of the conspiracy. It could also be he's pulling off a bit of [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Obfuscating Insanity]]. At least, we hope so.
* [[Double Subversion|Subverted twice]] in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' parodying ''The Shining''. In the original, Jack at one point had typed an entire pack of sheets with "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" arranged like it was actual text. In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', seeking to understand Homer's newfound madness, Marge walks up to a typewriter he's been using and pulls out his paper, which has a single phrase typed on it; "Feelin' fine." After breathing a sigh of relief, a lightning strike illuminates the room, which is covered with scrawls of "No TV and no beer make Homer go crazy." Marge is ''less'' encouraged:
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'''Marge:''' ..."Go Crazy"?
'''Homer:''' Don't mind if I do! }}
** Another time, the words "Bart Simpson will die" are written all over Sideshow Bob's prison cell. {{spoiler|This is actually a subversion, because it was meant as a warning from the guy [[It Makes Sense in Context|who had Bob's face at the time]]. It's lampshaded by Marge when she points out that his choice of words left a lot up to interpretation.}}
* The failed detective in ''[[
* in ''[[Teen Titans (
* In ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', Edd creates Fences Full of Crazy in "Cleanliness is Next to Edness" when he is driven temporarily insane by [[Neat Freak|lack of shower facilities]].
* Abbot Cellach's room at the top of the tower in ''[[The Secret of Kells]].'' It's covered from floor to ceiling in drawings and plans of the Abbot's beloved wall which encircled the city, with eerie lack of perspective.
* Used in ''[[South Park]]'' when Butters discovers the true identity of [[Asian Store Owner]] Tuong Lu Kim. He is actually {{spoiler|one of Caucasian Dr. Janus' split personalities, the strongest one}}. Butters finds in {{spoiler|Dr. Janus'}} house a room covered with pictures of the sushi chef (Tuong Lu Kim's "enemy") with the word "Kill" scrawled in red paint over them.
== Real Life ==
* The inscriptions written in blood ("Pig", "Rise" and "Helter Skelter") left by the Manson family during the Tate/La Bianca murders. (While the murderers were primarily interested in leaving a message to society, their actions certainly ''were'' a window into their demented mindset. )
* "Le plancher de Jeannot" (The floor of Jeannot) is a 15 square meters wooden floor carved with a rather disturbing rant about the Church creating machine to control the brain. It was created in 1971 by Jeannot le Béarnais, a war veteran whose father has committed suicide and whose mother had just died. He confined himself in his house and died of starvation the year after [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Plancher_de_Jeannot
* British/Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. once confronted one of these in the warehouse of a crazed fan. She started laughing because it was "so clichéed [[Serial Killer]] movie-looking." The full story is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWwDeqorbH0 here], if you've ever wanted to see a beautiful woman tell you something insanely creepy while smiling and laughing the whole way through.
* Pay to the order of Sirhan Sirhan...Kennedy must die...must die...must die...
** It was actually almost exclusively "R.F.K. must be assassinated" and "5 June 68"
* Francisco Goya spent the last years of his life half-crazy from encephalitis, and painted horrible things all over the walls of "The Deaf Man's House." Without titling them or telling anybody. They have been called "the Black Paintings". [
* [http://englishrussia.com/?p=1583 This] Russian apartment. Owned by a compulsive writer who covered every flat surface with etchings and words.
** This is known as [
** See also [https://web.archive.org/web/20130625063618/http://free-parking.tumblr.com/post/22176077796/an-anonymous-authors-novel-written-on-the-walls a novel in Chinese] written on the walls of an abandoned apartment by an anonymous author.
* William Heirens, aka the Lipstick Killer, wrote the following message on a victim's mirror: "For heavens sake catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself."
** Unless the cops wrote that. There's still a lot of controversy about that case.
* American musician [[Michael Jackson]] spent his last days in a cluttered room, kept very hot, with a life-size porcelain doll of a small child in a dress, and with the walls covered with hand-written [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/michael-jackson/5929565/Michael-Jackson-slept-with-child-sized-porcelain-doll-in-dress.html notes] saying things like 'Children are sweet'. You have to remember, this is a man who had no childhood. He was attracted towards the innocence of children because he was living out his lost childhood through them. This was not a stable man, but not a pedophile either. He was just crazy.
** Though it is uncomfortably close to the condition of a Lovecraft character who lived past death so its also creepy as hell.
* [
** And the fact that the caption explicitly states it's by a schizophrenia patient.
** There are several examples of [
* Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, probably best known today for the novel that became the movie ''[[Gigi]]'', as a young girl married Henri Gauthier and moved from her country home to a tiny dark apartment in Paris. The walls of each room were completely covered with tiny bits of paper carefully cut into diamond shapes. "The thought of living in these rooms, in the presence of walls that had witnessed so secret a madness, so evil a joy, appalled me... No light, no air, the dark enchantment that sometimes lingers in places that have crushed and stifled many souls."
* [[Time Cube]] is this in website form.
* ...as is [http://uncyclopedia.
* This is guy is so fan obssessing of P.Diddy just look all work he did for him [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehYAsiYURYs\]
* Go right now and take a look at your refrigerator.
* The little known and aptly named forum [https://web.archive.org/web/20150318192811/http://z11.invisionfree.com/WOAM/index.php?act=idx "Words of a Madman"] might be considered a [[Fridge Horror]] version of this for the internet: Aside from the occassional real person that dropped by, it's mostly one guy and his [[Yuri Fan|(all female)]] imaginary friends talking amongst themselves...''since 2006.'' Nearly 4,000 posts, the vast majority of them by one person talking to himself. And as of 2011, it still lives on, having become little more than a miserable katamari of shattered dreams and seething hatred for humanity.
** The weirdest part is that he wrote an entry for himself on [[TV Tropes]].
* In art, there is a term called [
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