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One of the most odd piercings I’ve ever seen.
A mother’s 200-year-old gift to anatomy. The body handlers proceeded according to customs of the era: mud was applied and a mold created; this mold was filled with wax, and today it remains the most striking sculpture of those at the Complutense Universit
In several wooded areas around Cumbria and Portmeirion in the UK, people have been hammering small denomination coins intro trees for centuries. The practice is said to date back as far as the early 1700s, in Scotland, where ill people would stick florins
Fall of the Rebel Angels, Naples, early 18th century, ivory - Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Pregnancy Doll, Japan
Grave dolls were sometimes made and left at the grave of a deceased infant. It was made of wax, and had locks of hair from the deceased child. It sounds morbid by today’s standards, but it was not too uncommon in the 19th century.
Elena Milagro de Hoyos, 21, was diagnosed with consumption in the 1920’s. Her Doctor, Carl Tanzler, fell in love with her. She died in 1931 & he stole her body from the mausoleum 2 yrs later & attempted to repair her with glass eyes & skin
Evelyn McHale, the most beautiful suicide. On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death. More info here –
Cocaine-Induced Palatal Perforation
Alastair Mackie’s sphere of intricately connected mouse skulls collected from regurgitated barn owl pellets found around his family farm.
“This model head is reportedly an executed Chinese Yangstze river pirate. It is made of plaster. The long ponytail is real human hair. It is particularly gruesome because it depicts the head in great anatomical detail. Arteries, veins and spinal
19th-century pregnant dolls - Fetus model set (circa 1877) - Toyota Collection
Amazing narrow stone path, definitely not for the claustrophobic
As with a fine wine, it took some years for Galileo’s finger to age into something worth snapping off his skeletal hand. The finger was removed by one Anton Francesco Gori on March 12, 1737, 95 years after Galileo’s death. Passed around for a couple
This is a awesome bullet collection from the civil war
Hooded Inmate. Eastern State Penitentiary was the world’s first true “Penitentiary.” In order to encourage penitence - or true regret - in the hearts of criminals, inmates would spend their entire sentence in solitary confinement. On
19c 8-leg walking doll
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The Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle, United Kingdom. This is the skull of Joan Wytte, she was born in 1775 in Bodmin, Cornwall. She was sometimes called the “Fighting Fairy Woman” or the “Wytte (White) Witch”. Her bones were disinterred and used
Hospital restraints
Teeth…and more teeth
“Coins taken off the eyes of a corpse are considered good luck, but to spend these coins is very, very bad luck indeed”
cool X-Ray :) http://xray-guides.blogspot.com/
This model of the eye is made from horn, ivory, wood and glass. The glass is used to show the eyeball, although no iris is present. The model can also be dismantled to show the optic nerve at the back of the eye. Anatomical models were important teaching
This ofrenda was constructed in remembrance of women killed along the Texas/Mexico border. I believe there is one sugar skull for every women who has been found dead. The symbolism is strong, powerful and controversial. Each skull has the name of one
When a fertilized egg attaches anywhere outside the uterus (an abdominal or ectopic pregnancy), the fetus may begin to grow but cannot survive. Under very rare conditions the miscarried fetus is neither expelled nor reabsorbed. Instead, it calcifies—effec
Gaston Durville, Hand of a Corpse Mummified by Mesmerism, 1913
Ladies of the Krakow Crypts. This is a 12 year old girl that died in the 1800’s.
Gluttony ~ one of the 7 deadly sins http://www.hauntedhousestartup.com/transworld-halloween-attraction-show-2012
Hell’s Cafe.
Photo of the “Llullaillaco Maiden”, a 15 year old girl sacrificed during the Inca Empire for both purposes of religious rite and social control. She was chosen a year prior to her death, fed a ritualistic diet for an approximate twelve months to make
Frederik Ruysch and Cornelis Huyberts - Infant with hydrocephalus, from Thesaurus anatomicus, 1701
Lividity, or livor mortis, represents the postmortem settling of blood within the dependent skin, due to gravitational forces. Note that areas of skin exposed to pressure do not develop lividity.
Statue
In 1972, eight remarkably preserved mummies were discovered at an abandoned Inuit settlement called Qilakitsoq, in Greenland. The “Greenland Mummies” consisted of a six-month old baby, a four year old boy, and six women of various ages, who
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This ghostly photograph taken by Grace Lamb, shows her husband Hugh, and their two children.Experts are examining what appears to be a figure in the window at the top of the picture. She seemed to be wearing period costume, including a frilled ruff. A
First off, note the spelling – it is Elephant-iasis not Elephant-itis as many people wrongly think. Elephantiasis is a thickening of the skin (as opposed to proteus syndrome which is a thickening of the bones as well as the skin). Unfortunately, this
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Infected piercing
A 23 year-old woman developed a left facial cellulitis which progressed relentlessly with necrosis. Debridement was performed on several occasions to halt the spread of the necrosis.Examination revealed poor ocular movement, an urgent CT scan revealed
Ghost Baby The photograph to the right was taken by a woman mourning her 17 year old daughter who had passed away. She stated that she did not even recognize the child. She also states that it does not resemble her deceased daughter as a child. So the
Alien from the Roswell incident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident
In May of 2007, a small animal was caught in a rat trap in Mexico. The farmer that caught it drown it out of fear. Researchers have done numerous tests on the creature. It was first thought to be a skinned monkey but the tests proved not only did it have
The Pear of Anguish - brutal instrument used to torture women who performed abortions, liars, blasphemers & homosexuals. The pear-shaped instrument was inserted into one of the victim’s orifices: vagina for women, anus for homosexuals &
Italian Automaton (The Devil), carved in wood, 15th and 16th centuries,it could “roll its eyes and move its tongue, emit a noise and spit smoke from the mouth.”
Brown recluse spider bite
H.P. Lovecraft Headstone http://www.halloweenforum.com/halloween-props/89631-h-p-lovecraft-tombstone-beyond.html ..but the real one is – http://boingboing.net/2008/08/23/writer-who-photograp.html :(
No, that’s not a taffy floor painted to look like wood grain, and it’s not the work of one man and a chisel. These footprints were actually worn into the wood by a Buddhist monk who stood in that spot to pray every day for 20 years
Doll
Willie Vicarage, suffering facial wounds in the Battle of Jutland 1916 Naval Battle was one of the first men to receive facial reconstruction using plastic surgery. Doctor Harold Gillies created the “tubed pedicle” technique that used a flap
Remains of a pregnant Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) woman and her unborn baby excavated from the mass grave Suha in Srebrenica region, near Bratunac. Baby’s undeveloped head, fingers, and legs are clearly visible. The massacre was committed by Serbs
Facial expressions triggered by electric stimulation. From “Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine” by Guillaume Duchenne, 1862.
How would you like to find a Creepy Hidden Room in your House with blood stains?
The Jugum Penis was intended to cure “spermatorrhoea”, a Victorian-era name for nocturnal emissions. The device was fashioned out of a metal ring, which would fit at the base of the penis and was attached with a clip. Essentially, a bear trap
An entire family gathering to pose for the final picture of the deceased child.
Ron Goldman throat sliced
Sokushinbutsu - Buddhist ritualistic self-mummification - For 1000 days the priests would eat a special diet of nuts and seeds, while taking part in rigorous physical activity that stripped them of body fat. They ate only bark and roots for another 1000
Ivory anatomical model
Anatomical fugitive sheet 1566
