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Cambridge Graveyard, England
This particular specimen belongs to UCL Pathology Collections, and is currently on display in the Foreign Bodies exhibition. The anonymous woman patient underwent a hysterectomy most likely sometime in the early 20th century, in order to remove the sizabl
arsenic poisoning
Ludwig van Beethoven ~ Death Mask
A page from the 12th-century York Psalter, produced in the north of England c.1170 in an angular, stylized but vigorous English Romanesque. Above, as the body of Mary is laid to rest in the tomb angels swoop down swinging censers. Below, the Virgin Mary
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An American Concentration Camp This is in AMERICA. During the Civil War, “Camp Sumter” as it was officially known was built east of Andersonville in February of 1864 & received roughly 45,000 Union prisoners. Nearly 13,000 soldiers died.
Verano Cemetery, Rome
“Cyclops baby”…one eyed baby. These never survive long past birth.
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This prisoner’s feet rest on pieces of wood or stone, which would have been removed one by one over the course of a few days. A piece of rope was wrapped around the victim’s neck, and finally, when they could no longer stand, either their neck
Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident - On 01/25/1959, nine skiers headed out on a journey to the Otorten Mountain Range in the Urals. They never made it. Several theories abound but because the incident occurred in the USSR during the height
Congelier House Pittsburgh, PAColloquially known as the “house that hell built,” the Congelier has a strange and bloody history. It started in 1871, when Lyda Congelier stabbed her cheating husband to death and beheaded his paramour. The house
Phrenology head, by unknown wood carver, ca. 1870
Captain Hook gravesite in Old Brick Cemetery in Morgan County between Stockport and McConnellsville (Ohio). Legend has it that he designed the tombstone to be rounded so his wife couldn’t dance on his grave when he died, as she said she would!
Surface of the human tongue.
Instructive View into the Ribcage, 1944 Photographer: Herbert List
surgery of the lung, c. garre and h. quincke, 1913.
1928 newspaper ad.
La Rossie - La mort de l’érotomane
Still going strong: Pensioner David Latimer from Cranleigh, Surrey, with his bottle garden that was first planted 53 years ago and has not been watered since 1972 - yet continues to thrive in its sealed environment. More info available here - http://www.
Quick Death; Insecticide And Deodorant. Victorian
Nurse Preparing for electro-convulsive therapy, 1951
Masks showing the work done by Anna Coleman Ladd of the American Red Cross for WWI soldiers. The top row are casts taken from soldiers’ mutilated faces, the bottom row shows masks of their faces before their injuries, made from pre-war photographs.
The Hours of Jeanne dEvreux, Queen of France Jean Pucelle (French, active in Paris, 1319–1334) Date: ca. 1324–28 Geography: Made in, Paris Culture: French Medium: Grisaille, tempera, and ink on vellum Dimensions: single folio: 3 5/8 x 2 7/16 in. (9.2
In some parts of the world ants are used to close up wounds! In both Africa and South America, large army ants are used as surgical sutures. The wound is pulled together, and the ant grabs the edges of the wound with its mandible. Then, the body is cut
The Oak Island Money Pit. Oak Island is an uninhabited Canadian spot of mystery just off the coast Nova Scotia. It’s a small, wooded piece of land that totals only 140 acres and rises no higher than 36 feet from sea level. Hidden in this lush green
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey This is a real book published in the 1960’s! It’s awasome and I like it! full resolution here – http://s51.radikal.ru/i133/1304/67/9971e56d4fc7.jpg
Mel’s Hole, Ellensburg, Washington. This nine-foot-wide bottomless hole on Mel Waters’s former property is awash in mystery. Waters reported sinking a fishing line some 15 miles into the pit in an attempt to find the bottom. He never found it.
A perplexing artifact was recovered by sponge-divers in 1900 off the coast of Antikythera. Among the findings was a hunk of corroded bronze that contained some kind of mechanism composed of many gears and wheels. An x-ray of the mechanism, however, reveal
The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use.
Ancient single-seat rocket-ship hidden away in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum in Turkey for a quarter of a century. Zecharia Sitchin describes this object as, “a sculpted scale model of what, to modern eyes, looks like a cone-nosed rocket-ship…
In December 1998, a common octopus was captured in Matoya Bay, Japan, which had a whopping 96 tentacles. The unusual octopus had the normal 8 appendages attached to the body, but each one of those branched out to form the extra tentacles. The specimen
The Overtoun Bridge is an arch bridge located near Milton, Dumbarton, Scotland, which was built in 1859. It has become famous for the number of unexplained instances in which dogs have, apparently, committed suicide by leaping off it. The incidents were
Books decaying on shelves in an abandoned castle in Spain. Love the light!
Somewhere in Georgia back in the 1800′s a poor farmer and his wife were expecting their 5th child. The farmer knew that he and his wife could not provide for this child because crops had been bad that year and he could barely feed his family of six.
“bare bones” chandelier
Worn by British crews in tanks during the First World War.
Morbid Anatomy: The San Gaudioso Catacombs and Basilica Santa Maria della Sanità, Naples, Italy
Morbid Anatomy: “The Macabre and Little Known Sight of Saint Victoria of Rome”
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Stonehenge-like structure found on sonar at the bottom of Lake Michigan! Researchers looking for shipwrecks at Lake Michigan found ancient Stonehenge-like structure 40ft beneath the waters surface! This could be as much as 10,000 yrs. old! Lots of riddles
The Mütter Museum, a collection of medical oddities, anatomical and pathological specimens, wax models, and antique medical equipment.
Grotesque Mummy Head Reveals Advanced Medieval Science- The preparation of the specimen was surprisingly advanced. Radiocarbon dating puts the age of the body between A.D. 1200 and A.D.1280, an era once considered part of Europe’s anti-scientific
Natchez - 10 yr old Florence died in 1871. She was extremely frightened of storms and her grief-stricken mother had Florence’s casket constructed with a glass window at the head. The grave was dug to provide an area, the same depth of the coffin,
Morbid Anatomy: “Held,” Jane Fradgley, Guy’s Hospital, London, Through March 2013
Morbid Anatomy: “Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy”
anatomic theatre online museum –http://www.astropop.com/anatomical/
Laugh Getter, “Has a Wonderful Way with the Ladies,” 1924
The Rabbit Test - an early pregnancy test in which a rabbit was injected with urine from a potentially pregnant female human and then sacrificed to observe ovarian changes.
antique porcelain teeth
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“In this year 1348 in Melcombe, in the county of Dorset, a little before the feast of St. John the Baptist [that is, around the 25th June 1348], two ships, one of them from Bristol came alongside. One of the sailors had brought with him from Gascony
One day, on their regular route home from school, a school bus full of children was crossing over the railroad tracks on their way to the next stop when something went wrong and the bus stalled straddling the tracks. As the driver struggled to restart
In 1961, Leonid Rogozov, 27, was the only surgeon in the Soviet Antarctic Expedition. During the expedition, he felt severe pain in the stomach and had a high fever. Rogozov examined himself and discovered that his appendix was inflamed and could burst
Skull viewed from below
wooden Anatomical Eve
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