It started with someone listing "places with uncanny energy," like gas stations on a road trip, empty movie theaters, etc.

Then someone reblogged it and said those are called "liminal spaces," defining liminal as in-between, neither one thing nor another.

Tomorrow (July 4th, 2026) is the 10 year anniversary of the-crepes-of-wrath's comment, which:

Predates the 2020 spike in interest by four years

Predates the original backrooms post, and the the creation of r/liminalspaces by three years

Predates the earliest mention that KnowYourMeme attributes to Twitter by two years

I'm pretty sure this is the moment the term "liminal spaces" was attached to this sort of imagery, and it's TEN YEARS OLD TOMORROW!

2026: Young nuns prepare to serve breakfast to elderly sisters at the Little Sisters of St. Francis premises in Uganda.

Photographs of Brian Epstein on the screen‑printed collage made for Paul McCartney’s LP The Boys of Dungeon Lane (2026)

The photos of Brian were taken by Paul himself; the first one in Liverpool, 1963 and the second (with camera) in Paris, 1964.