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16th Century Vampire Blood
GEORG HAINZ, Cabinets of Curiosities 1666
‘Til death do us part. Coffin ring box.
Abandoned Church
Stone House (aka Witches Castle) in the towering pine trees in Forest Park, near downtown Portland Oregon. Covered in green lichen, moss, and ferns. An abandoned structure from the early-1900’s. Photo by Laurelhill
If you dare..
A famous spot in France, St Etienne abandoned church. And it’s NOT a photoshop.. Amazing!
Restorative mortuary makeup
Reminds me of a Howl’s Moving Castle :)
Photo of baby born via cesarean in the caul (a peek of life inside the womb)
Spontaneous human combustion
Spanish Donkey - The naked victim was placed astride the main board as if riding a donkey, and various numbers of weights were attached to his or her feet. The agony could be ‘fine-tuned’ by using lighter or heavier weights. Sources relate that on
Clonycavan Man (around 392 BC) is a well-preserved Iron Age bog body found in Clonycavan, County Meath, Ireland in 2003. Only his torso and upper abdomen are preserved. He was found in a peat harvesting machine, which was possibly responsable for the
Albert Einstein’s brain, removed by pathologist Thomas Harvey shortly after the great scientist’s death, segmented and preserved in celloidin.
Heads and baby arms in the Mutter Museum, Philadelphia.
Mermaid Baby (by Museum of World Wonders (Dr. Takeshi Yamada))
This penis is made out of animal bone and has wings on it. Phallic symbols, including versions with wings, are commonly seen throughout the Roman Empire.
The missing head of French King Henry IV, who died in 1610, was discovered in an attic in 2010. Get the story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338777/French-kings-lost-head-Mummified-400-year-old-head-Frances-King-Henri-IV.html
Prehistoric footprints of Bronze Age people escaping from the Avellino eruption
Chocolate-coated Strychnine
Skull-like aquilegia plant pods
Scottish stone, perhaps depicting the deceased of an entire family.
Mortuary makeup
Bridge to Infirmary Ward, Taunton State Hospital, Massachusetts
Death and Gravestone Symbolism full format here – http://old.dongxi.net/upload/attached/2011/11/03/224904_67810.jpg
Headstone at Dryburgh Abbey, near St. Boswells , Scottish Borders, Great Britain. Post - Medieval
Downtown Dallas – copper thieves were trying to pull a 13,200 volt live wire out of a conduit
The oldest worked gold known found in a grave near Varna, Bulgaria. 4400BC
“The Scold’s Bridle, a British invention, possibly originating in Scotland, used between the 16th and 19th Century. It was a device used to control, humiliate and punish gossiping, troublesome women by effectively gagging them. Scold comes
Early 19th century french vampyre hunting kit. The Specimens of Alex CF.
Sharpening teeth is a very painful form of change that the tribes of South Asian women have endured it for many years. It is considered the ultimate form of beauty in those parts. Women Bagobo of Mindanao, the easternmost island of the Philippines, must
That looks like it will hurt! - Torture Instruments.
Why we call it “the living room”: In years passed, it was the habit to hold a deceased person’s viewing and wake at home in the front parlor. During that time it was referred to as “the death room”. The Ladies Home Journal
Post mortem. Both are deceased.
Amongst a collection of medical oddities housed at the Surgeons’ Hall Museum in Edinburgh lies a tattered pocketbook. It is dark brown—nearly black—with a pebbled texture and gold lettering that has begun to fade with age. Upon closer inspection,
Opium Den
Secret poison case disguised as a book, 17th century
Bellows 1500s.
How beautiful this must have been!
Ice stalagmites in the basement of Greystone Park State Hospital.
Removed eyeball
Inside one of the Gas Chambers at Mauthausen. The original text reads: “This is the gas chamber, note how it looks like a shower room.” The Nazis went to great pains to keep up the deception that the Jews were being “resettled”
Three circular diagrams, the central of which is a table in red and black, likely for determining the date of Easter. The lower diagram appears unfinished, while the upper circle contains a line drawing in brown of two Franciscan friars and an angel (Lond
Wood carving from Urnes Stave Church in Norway.
Wandjina Petroglyphs - Kimberly, Australia, approx. 5000 yrs old.
Detail of the Ishtar Gate, Babylon (now in Pergamon Museum, Berlin)
18th C. Turkish dental book. Beware of devils in your teeth.
The Faustian cross The physical manifestation of a lesser daemon, bound in a wooden cross. Whatever you do, don’t break the glass!
Joel Peter Witkin “began his career as a war photographer and later moved on to working with corpses, physically deformed models, found objects and unconventional compositions that often mirror religious or classical paintings.”
The Goebbels children, dead by cyanide that was administered by their parents in the Führerbunker, photographed after being discovered by the Soviets.
Totentanz Dornai – Danse Macabre Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre (French), Danza Macabra (Italian and Spanish), Dança da Morte (Portuguese), or Totentanz (German), is a late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. “And now Nineteen persons having been hang’d, and one prest to death, and Eight
A crypt overtaken by nature, Katmandu, Nepal .
Macabre
Egyptian Sheet gold finger and toe coverings, plus sandals, from the tomb of three minor wives of Thutmose III at Wady Gabbanat el-Qurud, circa 1479-1425 B.C.
Nabta, Egypt is the oldest known site with astronomically aligned stones. Over one thousand years before the creation of Stonehenge, people built a stone circle and other structures on the shoreline of a lake that has since dried up. Over 6,000 years
Honorius Augustodunensis “Imago mundi”. 12th century world map
Eaten by mountain rats
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Pitcairn Island, New Zealand - 1934. Local farmers are trying to hide pieces of a giant skeleton found near ‘Christians cave’. Three of the men were later found dead under strange circumstances. The forth man disappeared soon after this photo
