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In 1983, the Natal shark Board brought up in its nets a formidable Bull Shark, weighting 116 Kg and 1.74 meters in length. During the autopsy, its stomach was found to contain 2.3 Kg of human flesh such as these dismembered feet.
The Cleveland Torso Murderer aka Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. An unnidentified serial killer active in the Cleveland, Ohio, area between 1935-38. Eliot Ness was the Public Safety Director of Cleveland. Failure to apprehend the murderer was perhaps the
Bleeding dish, 18th c. When blood was taken from patients in the 18th century, it was usually drained into small bowls with a single handle, known as porringers. These bowls were chiefly used for soft foods like soup and porridge, but those made specifica
Jack the Ripper. Some of the rumoured victims.
In 1698 a man was imprisoned in the Bastille. This man had been a captive of the government since at least 1687 and for all that time his face had been hidden by a mask. He died in 1703, but rumors about his existence continued to circulate. The prisoner
Antithesis Christi et Antichristi (Jenský kodex/Jena Codex), Bohemia ca. 1490-1510 (Praha, Knihovna Národního muzea, IV.B.24, fol. 80r)
Zahra Aboutalib, Morocco, carried her child in her womb for almost half a century. Lithopedion, calcified fetus.
Biomedical Ephemera
circa 1675 Illustration of a woman having a breast operation, accompanied by a close up of the surgical instruments used. From a compendium of popular medicine and surgery, receipts, etc., in German. Compiled for the use of a House of the Franciscan Order
underwater graveyard?
According to Jim McDowell of www.blackpotter.com: UGLY FACE POTTERY. First made for African-American rituals to place on graves to scare evil spirits away so the soul could go to heaven, they have become a folk art collectible for those that enjoy the
The Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC is the first cemetery where you can scan the QR codes on tombstones with your I-phone and it takes you immediately to the wikipedia article about the person buried there. (Now even the ghosts are bar-coded!)
Overtoun Bridge, Dumbarton, Scotland- built in 1859 - something unexplained and evil compels hundreds of dogs to leap off this bridge to their deaths in the exact same spot each year, people to commit suicide, and even a murder of a young child by his
The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use.
Ghostly face, appeared in the floor of a haunted house in Bélmez de la Moraleda, Spain. The appearances in Bélmez began on August 23, 1971 when María Gómez Cámara saw a face appear on her cement kitchen floor. Her husband took a pickaxe and destroyed
Baby found in river.
Little People Village The legend of Little People Village varies slightly. Some say that years ago a man started to hear the voices of fairies and at their urging built the little people a series of houses and a throne in the woods. Others claim that
Terracotta dice from the Indus valley…India …2500 - 1000 BC
An extremely rare view of a Ku Klux Klan meeting at night in Union County, Arkansas, in the 1920s. The Klan’s resurgence in the 1920s partially stemmed from their role as the extreme militant wing of the temperance movement. In the lawless oil boomt
Quinine-Whiskey
The skull of a young boy with a second imperfect skull attached to its anterior fontanelle. Hunterian Museum in London, England (late 1780s)
“Mammatus clouds are most often associated with the anvil cloud and severe thunderstorms. They often extend from the base of a cumulonimbus, but may also be found under altocumulus, altostratus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds, as well as volcanic
Nick Hilton watched in horror as his wife Jamie stepped backward and tumbled 12 feet down into a culvert, hitting her head hard on a boulder at the bottom.Doctors told him that her brain was rapidly swelling & the only hope was to remove part of her
Brain Salt
(Blue People of Kentucky) Fugates: The genetic form of methemoglobinemia is caused by one of several genetic defects. The Fugates probably had a deficiency in the enzyme called cytochrome-b5 methemoglobin reductase, which is responsible for recessive
The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia Was originally opened in the 1900s for medical students to come and see in person ;extremely rare conditions, and the effects of diseases that had been cured or eradicated. It still stands today as the best place for
A Hong Kong cemetery
The Amityville Horror Everyone knows about the large, beautiful house that sets right on the shore on Ocean Ave. in Amityville, New York. Was it real or a hoax? Most people seem to think that it was just a hoax, but most famous paranormal investigators
Beware of the Thing. Hah?
In 1835 Mr James Newlove lowered his young son Joshua into a hole in the ground that had appeared during the digging of a duck pond. Joshua emerged describing tunnels covered with shells. He had discovered the Shell Grotto; 70ft of winding underground
Anneliese Michel was a German Catholic woman who was said to be possessed by demons. Her family and priest tried to get her to undergo an exorcism but it didn’t appear to work. She died. An autopsy revealed that she died from starvation and dehydrat
The nurses behind the Nazi ‘Super Race Children’: Inside the Aryan breeding wards where boys and girls were given UV treatment if their hair turned brown
Koyasan Cemetery in Japan
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.
Human and Gorilla skeleton side by side
Just beneath the skull is a tough, leathery layer called the dura mater.
Filarial Worm, a horrible parasite that can live in your eye. Even worse, there are some leeches which will latch onto your eyeball. The filarial worm is so common that it’s the second most common cause of blindness in the world. My eyes itch just thinkin
Frontal Lobotomy: It involved…Brain slicing! Essentially, it involved the insertion of the “ice pick” tool through the eye socket and into the prefrontal cortex of the brain. When the pick was in the right place, the protruding end was struck with
Medieval Tree of Life
Vintage Whiskey Dispenser
Apothecary Jar - Dragon’s Blood, circa 1900. Clear glass jar containing Dragon’s Blood used in the pharmacy of a mental health hospital, Victoria, Australia, circa 1900. Dragon’s blood is a red resin prepared from fruits of climbing
This mill was abandoned in 1866. - Sorrento, Italy
About 7000 years ago in what is now Southwest Germany, was a city called ‘Herxheim’, a city that was mysteriously abandoned. A few years ago, Dr. Bruno Boulestin and his team were investigating the region, when they hit a grave containing
A crib from the Pennhurst State School and Asylum for Children, a place that is notorious for ghostly activity, originally called the Eastern State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic (Spring City, Crab Hill).
A Japanese woman awaits treatment, her back scarred by the patten of the dress she was wearing when the world’s first atomic bomb used in warfare fell on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Since white colors repelled the bomb’s heat and dark colors absorbed
LAMPREY DISEASE Not a real disease. This is a photoshopped picture. But a creepy one, right?
Announcement for an 1855 slave auction in Kentucky.
Ball and chain found in Thames. The world’s only known complete ball and chain, dating back to the 17th or 18th century and believed to have once been attached to a convict who drowned trying to escape, has been found in the Thames.
Mummies for sale, Egypt, 1870s
17th-18th Century Executioner’s Mask
Photograph of found bog body of 1873. The body had been found in 1871 in the Heidmoor near de:Rendswühren and is now on display at Gottorf Castle, Schleswig Germany. Dated around 1st or 2nd century AD
Back in the 1950s a medieval skeleton was found in England with metal spikes through its shoulders, heart and ankles. It was believed to be a ‘deviant burial’, where people considered the ‘dangerous dead’, such as vampires, were interred to prevent