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Haitian Voodoo Doll.
Jacobs Well - Wimberley, Texas
Haunted Lake Shawnee Amusement Park - Princeton, West Virginia. It was initially opened in 1926, but closed in 1966 after the accidental deaths of a couple of kids. It was reopened in 1985 then again closed in 1988. Paranormal activity includes disembodie
Professor Mack’s Chin Reducer and Beautifier, 1890s
Fingernails
A woman who was once addicted to growing the nails on her hands has now grown her toenails to a staggering four inches.
Congenital syphilis, pre penicillin (it was a devastating disease).
Tintinnabulum. In ancient Rome, a tintinnabulum was a wind chime or assemblage of bells. A tintinnabulum often took the form of a bronze phallic figure with wings, or fascinum, a magico-religious phallus thought to ward off the evil eye and bring good
Selkup Christian graves with communication holes, normally the hole in the wooden dead humans house for contacts with other world is closed by special wooden stopper (cork), it can be opened when communication is needed and then closed again. Khanty make
Nicolae Minovici - The Doctor Who Hanged Himself for Science - During the first decade of the twentieth century, while employed as a professor of forensic science at the State School of Science in Bucharest, Nicolae Minovici undertook a comprehensive
Long Forgotten Temple of Lysistrata, Greece
Interior of a German submarine.
450 years before BodyWorlds was invented, there was St Bartholomew, an early Christian martyr who was skinned. If you look closely, you’ll see that’s not a robe, but actually his removed skin hanging around him. By Marco d’Agrate, 1562 (Duomo cathedral,
Gecko tenacity transcends death. Gruesome, awesome.
Tunnel of Light
Bullet wound skull
Hockomock Swamp sits in the middle of a paranormal hot spot known as the Bridgewater Triangle in southeast Mass. It’s believed that Native Americans cursed the swamp centuries ago as a result of a dispute with Colonial settlers. Activity includes
In 1924, the SS Watertown was en route to the Panama Canal from New York City when James Courtney and Michael Meehan were killed by gas fumes in a freak accident while cleaning a cargo tank. Soon after, crew members saw two faces in the water following
Long ago, when the trains were still the main commerce transportation in the state, an accident occurred on the tracks of Budd Lake. Now these tracks, which run through Netcong, Flanders, and Budd Lake, were said to carry coal, and other industrial fuel
Osmia Avosetta are solitary bees that build their nests by biting petals off of flowers, flying them back one by one, and gluing them together often using nectar as glue. Each nest is a papermache work of art that houses a single bee egg.
Tornado Damage, Kentucky
1917. “Radiation burn to the hand Note the necrotic dermatitis present in this burn. This signifies either an extremely high one-time dose, or continued exposure to a moderate dose of gamma radiation. Even with a one-time exposure to the radiation,
Surface of the brain
Bat Embryo
The Lycanthropy (werewolf) research of Edward Harrell, The Specimens of Alex
Branchial cleft cyst
Mental asylum restraint. This device was used to restrain the insane in mental asylums. Photographed at the Fool Tower, in Vienna, Austria. Also called the Madhouse Tower (Narrenturm), the Fool Tower, which was constructed in 1784, was one of the first
Calcified teratoma found in pelvis of Roman woman. Archaeologists working in the necropolis in Spain have found the 1,600-year-old remains of a Roman woman with a calcified tumor in her pelvis. The tumors come from germ cells, which form human eggs and
A triphalangeal thumb (TPT) is a congenital malformation where the thumb has three phalanges instead of two.
The Indus Valley Civilization has yielded evidence of dentistry being practiced as far back as 7000 BC. This earliest form of dentistry involved curing tooth related disorders with bow drills operated, perhaps, by skilled bead craftsmen. The reconstructio
Collapsed nose resulting from cocaine addiction
Want to know what was in this amazing syrup? Well, one grain (65 mg) of morphine per fluid ounce, cannabis, heroin, powdered opium which are the active ingredients to put your little one to sleep. It also had sodium carbonate, spirits foeniculi, and aqua
Lightning tattoos or Lichtenberg figures, which are burns as the result of being struck by lightning. Trees can also have similar patterns after being struck.
Ozena: Tuberculosis of the Nose, Circa 1870.The dreaded infection ‘Ozena’ was an ailment of much prominence in the pre-antibiotic era because it accompanied many infectious diseases of the nose. The infection of the nasal cavities resulted in a foul
Ben Underwood (1992-2009) lost his eyes to retinal cancer at the age of 3. He developed a type of echolocation allowing him to “see” by using his tongue to produce clicks and listening for the echoes as they bounced off objects. In this way
Nursery in the old Yorktown Memorial Hospital
The grave of opera singer Jane Margyl in Batignolles Cemetery, Paris. The appearance of blood stains is from fallen petals.
Ruins of Russia’s Catherine Palace following World War II.
Abandoned Sacracy by Eric Van Hannen
The Cakewalk was a dance that was performed by slaves at get togethers on plantations. There are many theories as to its origin, one being that slaves borrowed the dance from the Seminole Indian tribe. The dance caught on in society in the late 1800&rsquo
Oh, children!
Artificial arm from the 1800s.
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Arrow remover. 1500s
Wow! Body scan of 250 pound woman and 120 pound woman. If this isn’t motivation to work out, I don’t know what is!! Note to self: Look at the size of the intestines and stomach; how the knee joints are rubbing together; the enlarged heart;
Hernia Tool (1850s) This unique tool was used after the restoration of a hernia. It was inserted into the body near the affected area and left there for a week to produce scar tissue that would help seal off the hernia.
Mercurochrome…prevent infection! Too bad this and so many other treatments were never tested. FDA pulled this topical after linking it to mercury poisoning!
One of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims. This is an actual photograph of one of his victims that he posed. He began to inject his victims in the head with Hydrocloric acid or boiling water hoping to turn them into zombies and sex slaves.
Two artificial noses, 17th-18th century
Frog-hopping gravestones. Glasgow, 1948.
City Hall interior, San Francisco, 1906
One dentist, self-dubbed “Painless Parker” claimed to have pulled all 357 teeth in this necklace in one day. - From the Dental Museum in Philadelphia, PA
‘Jelly Ear Mushroom aka Auricularia Auricula-Judae’
The man who owned the Merry Go Round decided to close it down because he didn’t have enough customers coming to the amusement park where he held the ride. Instead of buying the owner out, the park simply boarded up the carousel and this part of the
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Coffin in an abandoned psych hospital in NY
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Examples of the some of the various deformations of the fetus known to cause dystocia
Patient in restraint chair at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire, c. 1869. Poor souls that had to be subjected to this stuff seems so inhumane now
