Spooky! Scary! (spoookyscary.tumblr.com)
submit your pics
A tuberculous mother, on strict bed rest, leaves her room at the sanatorium for a Sunday walk with her family…. but she does not leave her bed.
Post-mortem
Smallpox-Hospital-Ruins, reportedly haunted
Tombstones
As the moon rises in the foothills of the Ukraine, misbehaving children are told stories of Dr. Nighty Night. They tell of a man who is very old but will not die. This man tapped into a sinister secret… that if one desires eternal life, it must be stolen
Columbus Ohio Lunatic Asylum confinement crib
cemetery cat
Restraint chair for violent patients This chair was used to control violent patients at the New York State asylum in the early 20th century. An unruly patient’s arms were strapped into the wooded wells, feet secured to the floor, and a belt tied
live cockroach being removed from a man’s ear
Bearded Tooth mushrooms
https://64.media.tumblr.com/84726712508f409bbcd97bf3d3883506/tumblr_mlbc09CrPn1s9jkgko1_500.jpg
https://64.media.tumblr.com/68bab2a707a2933f59a1c3f37b2d8cc0/tumblr_mlbbzevjLY1s9jkgko1_500.jpg
Severe frostbite
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – A poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951 and now called HeLa cells—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning,
Guanajuato: Plagued by the Bubonic Plague.. bodies all buried alive
https://64.media.tumblr.com/97b15c0a3fe43c2f5cb173ec733e6998/tumblr_mlbbqgXw7d1s9jkgko1_500.jpg
A clock in Hiroshima, destroyed during the atomic bombing of the city on August 6, 1945. Its time marks the moment when the bomb exploded: 8:15 AM.
lion playing the viella Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305. Verdun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 107, fol. 26r
Death as a Drummer, ca. 1670-1680 Attributed to Joachim Henne. Northern Germany. Carved elephant ivory
U.K. - Her lover did it. Richard Remes threw sulfuric acid on Patricia Lefranc. Her nose and eyelids were melted away, she lost sight in one eye and hearing in one ear, she also lost a finger. She came close to death, as the corrosive substance nearly
An oven at Buchenwald.
Iron Torture Mask
Twenty-one-year-old woman Kamilat Mehdi’s life was changed forever when a stalker threw sulphuric acid in her face. Ismail, Kamilat’s brother said: “The man who attacked her stalked her for a few years. He gave her a hard time but she didn’t tell
Beauchene-style vintage bear skull made by taxidermist Rob Reysen.
devil on the dress Miracle XXXI: Comment saint Jherome et son conpaignon veirent ung dyablot dessus la queue de la robe d’une bourgoise de Bethleem (‘How Saint Jerome and his companion beheld a devil under the train of the dress of a woman of Bethlehem’)
Dracula Tour
The DAHOMEY AMAZONS are the only documented all-female front-line combat arms military unit in modern history. Tough, uber-intense asskicking women single-mindedly devoted to hardening themselves into ruthless instruments of battlefield destruction, these
Akhenaton (Amenhotep IV) was an Egyptian pharaoh who ruled from 1367 BCE to 1350 BCE. This statue shows one of his daughters with an elongated skull. It is thought that both the pharaoh and his daughters had this condition. Henry Wellcome did his utmost
Plaster model showing internal organs displaced due to tight corseting, Europe, 1901-1925
Persistent pupillary membrane (PPM) is a condition of the eye involving remnants of a fetal membrane that persist as strands of tissue crossing the pupil.
She was buried 9000 years ago in Bäckaskog at the age of 45. The Bäckaskog woman is the oldest and most famous skeleton found in Sweden. In her grave a spear head was found, suitable for hunting and fishing, made of bone and sharp flint blades. She
“This guy is a truck driver, 69 years old, who’s been exposed to 25 years of direct sunlight thanks to his job–but only on the left side of his face. So we get a first-hand view at how much more aged human skin looks when bombarded with
mausoleum doors in a Philadelphia cemetery
Vintage Ads
Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are living underground beneath the streets of major U.S. cities? It is happening in Las Vegas, it is happening in New York City and it is even happening in Kansas City. As
The face of Sokreun Mean, who was blinded and disfigured by an acid attack. Carsten Stormer, a German journalist & photographer said, “Acid attacks deprive people of more than their looks and sight. Families are torn apart. Husbands leave their
Gravestone of sisters, Mary and Emma Hartman, ages 9 and barely 6 months.
Hof van N., Belgium: Abandoned castle that once belonged to a noble family. Nowadays the chateau interior is in a very dangerous state of decay.
Why is baby cross? Kansas State Board of Health, ca. 1920
Message box with hand-painted print, Germany, 1490s
Psalter. England (Gloucester?), 1st quarter of the 13th century
When asked about her motive for a killing spree at an elementary school in 1979, which claimed two adult lives and injured eight children, then-16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer replied, “I don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day.”
Lavinia Fisher – the first woman serial killer in the US, early 1800’s, Charleston, SC
Spooky! Scary! anniversary
A series of photographs from the 1870s of a woman apparently “suffering” from female hysteria, that is, “a tendency to cause trouble,” whilst under hypnosis.
Victorian women were, for one of a number of possible reasons, frequently afflicted by fainting fits. Whilst indoors this might be easy enough to remedy, however, a sudden fit whilst out and about might prove more perilous. Thus, Police constables of
Creepy: King Henry IV’s partially preserved head, which was separated from its body during the French Revolution, when monarchs’ graves were desecrated.
Chocolate Skulls - Edible Solid Dark Chocolate Skull. What better thing to give your zombie sweetheart for valentines.
deformed child skeleton
Foggy Night, Bran Castle, Transylvania
The Chase Family Vault in Christ Church Parish, Barbados. Unexplained moving coffins in the crypt were attributed to leakage in the crypt, but that’s A LOT of leakage to move four coffins and leave no sign. Neither were there signs that human tamper
A post-mortem photographer at work. 19th century.
Awakening from Keto-acidosis: The scientists went to a hospital ward with diabetic children, comatose and dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. This is known as one of medicine’s most incredible moments. The scientists went from bed-to-bed and injected
A Danish memento mori
Marti Enriqueta was a self-styled witch who kidnapped, sexually abused, and ritualistically butchered small children in Barcelona, Spain. She cannibalized her victims, then boiled the leftovers as an ingredient in the “love potions” that she
https://assets.tumblr.com/images/default_avatar_16.png
Podophyllin Pills by Clinton Worden & co. S.F. California, 1800s - Antique Amber Pharmacy bottle. Podophyllin was used to treat genital warts.
Vessel for holding ritual wine used in initiation ceremonies. Human skull trimmed in silver. Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet.
Barnes Hospital, also known as Barnes Convalescent Home, in Cheadle, Greater Manchester
Mortsafes. Mortsafes were contraptions designed to protect graves from disturbance. The necessity for medical students to learn anatomy by attending dissections of human subjects was frustrated by the limited allowance of dead bodies - the corpses
