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A head stone for two cows; Eugenie, a Jersey cow who had seventeen calves and produced over 100,000 gallons of milk. Then there’s Princess, an Aberdeen Angus cow who was the Dublin Champion three times
Joseph Crocé-Spinelli and Henri-Théodore Sivel, lovers and adventurers, set out in 1875 to break the world record of the highest altitude ever reached via balloon, using supplemental oxygen to overcome the altitude sickness. After floating up to nearly
Famous funerals infographic
Shame Flute. The round part goes around the neck and the finger are smashed beneath the iron bar to give the illusion that the musician is playing his instrument.
The world’s oldest condom, dating back to 1640, has gone on display at a museum in Austria. The reusable condom dates back to 1640 and is completely intact, as is its orginal users’ manual, written in Latin. The manual suggests that users immerse
Mary (1888-1916) Circus elephant who, being fed up with the mistreatment by her handler in 1916 lashed out against the humans. In response, the humans decided to hang her
in denmark, 1950, two brothers were digging peat to be used as fuel when they came across what is now known as the tollund man. he still had hair, skin, and a five o'clock shadow, so they assumed it was a recent murder victim and called the police. upon
Reliquary Bust, Belgium, 17th Century, Stedelijk Museum, Vander Kelen-Mertens, Leuven.
Death infographic
San Severo Chapel Museum (Naples - ITALY) -artery and vein systems almost perfectly intact.
Campo Maior, Portugal ossuary chapel (Capela dos Ossos)
The trend for jewelled skeletons began in the late 16th century. The Roman catacombs, which had been abandoned as burial sites and largely forgotten about, were rediscovered in 1578 by vineyard workers. This coincided with the initial phase of the Counter
On the island of Sulawesi, in Indonesia, newborn infants who die are buried in the trunks of giant trees. The people there believe that the child’s soul will rise up into the heavens through the tree
Zombie Boogers :)
After the civil war Fairfax County, Virginia became more populated and eventually an insane asylum was built there. No one wanted to live near the asylum and because of the public outrage the institution was shut down. The administration transferred the
Humanoid freaks
Hair of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, clipped from her head at the opening of her tomb in 1784 encased in a locket.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, by Walter L. Pyle and George M. Gould, 1896.
Flying Fox, Henry Horenstein
Children singing in a snow cave, 1956.
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ohhhh Victorians!
Majority of today’s Christians do symbolic things to show their devotion to Christianity. But in the Philippines, it is taken one step further by ritualistically hurting themselves with the act of their own crucifixion. Basically, participating
Betty Lou Williams (1932-1955), the youngest of 12 children, was born with a parasitic twin and had 4 legs and 3 arms. She entered the sideshows at age 2 and made enough money to send all 11 of her siblings to college. The pretty and curvaceous Betty
Hand brand, for use on felons or deserters, England, 1642-1649
“Edward Mordrake was a 19th century English nobleman who had an extra face on the back of his head. According to the story, the extra face could neither eat nor speak, but it could laugh and cry. Edward begged doctors to have his ‘devil twin’
This is the only example of the extinct Fiji bar-winged rail, The Secret World of Museum Science
A skeleton in the Capella Sansevero, an ancient Italian church which has been turned into a private museum of anatomical petrification. The skeleton was given an injection before death which somehow preserved all veins, arteries and capillaries. (Photo
“Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory” located in Rome | A collection of Bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.
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Stone gate cemetery gates, Yorkshire // Stones & Souls
Early mourning jewelry such as rings and pendants with skeletons or skull and crossbones reflects Memento Mori or As I Am So Shall You Be. The earliest depictions of these items are thought to go back to the late Middle Ages during the virulent plague
A Hindu devotee with his neck pierced with a knife attends the “Chadak” ritual at Krishanadevpur village, north of Kolkata April 13, 2012. Hundreds of Hindu devotees attend the ritual, held to worship the Hindu deity of destruction Lord Shiva, on
hyperdontia or supernumerary teeth
dress made entirely of human hair
Teke Teke is the ghost of a Japanese schoolgirl who roams the train stations of Japan. In life, this girl was a scardey cat and people are always playing practical jokes on her. One day at the train station after school, her friends decided to put a cicad
The ‘Bagelhead’ is currently the hottest body modification in Japan,“injecting saline solution into the forehead to create a temporary bagel-like shape". The saline solution is injected for two hours and the ‘bagel/donut-head’ look is created
1 head 2 body fish - do they live near a power plant?
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Human skin mask found in the house belonging to Ed Gein. Ed Gein (August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984) crime scene. He was an American murderer and body snatcher.
“WORM” removed from woman’s eye. “Anterior Orbital Myiasis caused by Human Botfly,” published in the July 2000 number of the Archives of Ophthalmology, a journal of the American Medical Association.
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The Table, “Created by Efisio Marini - This table is formed of petrified brain, blood, bile, liver, lungs and glands on which sits a foot, four ears and cut vertebrae which are also petrified.” taken @ Musée d’Histoire de la Médecine, Paris
This rare bizarre condition is called Anencephaly Syndrome. The baby was born without brain, neck and reproductive organs. The first image was born in Luxor General Hospital in Al Akhbar, the baby died after 2 hours. These deformed babies do not have
Anencephaly c. 1890’s. (Anencephaly is a neural tube defect that occurs when the cephalic end of the neural tube fails to close, resulting in the absence of a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp.)
A must for the book collection
“Altar of Castration” (Detail) Marc Leviton - 2009. For 350 years the Catholic Church castrated young boys to stop their voices breaking, instead of simply letting women sing in their choirs. The lives and testicles of hundreds of thousands of
BY D.L. MARIAN–Victorian Mummy Series. Poor sisters Aurora and Venus were found in a Philadelphia attic. The girl's beauty can still be seen through the decay. 35"tall. antique clothing and wrappings were used to create them.
Madame Dimanche, also known as Widow Sunday, was a French woman living in Paris in the early 19th century. At the age of 76 she began to grown a 24.9cm horn from her forehead before it was successfully removed by a French surgeon. A wax model of her head
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Photo diary of plastic surgery
A Gibson Girl in her corset in the early 1900s. Those poor women!
Jarlshof, the best known prehistoric archaeological site in Shetland, Scotland
Due to the perishable nature of cloth, there are few rag dolls that have survived the ravages of time over the centuries and throughout the cultures. They are one of the most ancient children’s toys in existence a Roman rag doll, found in a child&rs
In life, German knight Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz, felt he was entitled to any woman (virgin or wife) he wanted. When the wife of a shepherd refused him, he took his revenge on the woman’s husband and murdered him. At his trial he swore an
Who put Bella in the witch elm? In 1943 the remains of a murdered woman were found, stuffed into a hollow tree. The graffiti “who put Bella in the witch elm?” has been appearing in the area ever since. The question has never been answered,