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Sky burials were an exclusive and unusual religious ceremony in Tibet. The practice involved dissecting the deceased’s body and scattering the pieces on a mountaintop to decompose or be consumed by birds. Most Tibetans follow Buddhist traditions, which
Old Mexican skull mask from Guerrero, Mexico
Ras al-khaimah djinn, UAE. A young man went in the caves in Ras el Khaimah to take pictures in caves known to be deserted, with a friend. The person who had been with him called the police saying he had seen his friend’s flash go off and then his friend
Relic of first recorded possessed nun.
18 Giant Skeletons And Pyramids Found In Wisconsin @ http://www.24hgold.com/english/contributor.aspx?article=4228102784G10020&contributor=Charleston Voice
This giant skull was discovered in the India Desert in an area called the Empty Quarter. More info available @ http://www.hoax-slayer.com/giant-skeleton.html
Lady of the Krakow Crypt, 1787. A woman who was poisoned by her father on her wedding day for marrying a man he disapproved of. She’s still in her wedding dress.
Vintage Japanese Apothecary Shop Mannequin
Wooden anatomical figure with removable parts and container, German, c. 1700 L0036318 Credit: Wellcome Library, London
Heikegani ‘Samurai Face’ crabs. Heikegani is a species of crab native to Japan, with a shell that bears a pattern resembling a human face
Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa, Italy
Grave of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband. The Protestant Colonel of Cavalry, JWC of Gorkum married the Catholic damsel JCPH of Aefferden. This “mixed” marriage, at that time (the 19th century), would have given them trouble. The
One of many things Ed Gein made using flesh from humans
Spooky house
Jewish Cemetery in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic: the oldest cemetery in Europe
Those with leprosy, known as ‘lepers’, were made to wear distinctive clothing and carry a bell or a clapper (like this) to warn people of their approach. The clappers may also have been used to attract attention for donations.
One crazy looking amulet; a sheep’s heart, stuck with nails and pins. It was said to have been used to break a spell cast by a witch over a farmer’s cattle.
Infant with Harlequin Ichthyosis - Harlequin infants are born with thick, plate-like keratin “armor”, often accompanied by ectropion (out-turned eyelids). Historically, they would generally die before 14 days of age, due to dehydration, overwhelming
The mummified heart is said to be that of vampire Auguste Delagrance, responsible for the deaths of more than forty people back in the 1900, a period of vampirism in the USA. When identified, Delagrance was hunted down by a Romano Catholic priest and
Unknown Artist, Graveyard, Sculpture Above Grave, early 20th c. Graveyard is a sculptural installation in a public cemetery. Urban legend dictates that it is made for a family that was poisoned during dinner. In each chair the name of the family member
Swedish Hustomte: The Naturally mummified body of a swedish “Hustomte” or housegnome. dated 1866 ~Hustomten comes from scandinavian folklore and is a gnome that is said help the farmer and cares for the lifestock, he has a fierce temperament
“Tthe hand that never stopped painting ” Morten Viskum used a hand from a corpse as a paint brush.
Owl skull
Several human skulls with horns protruding from them were discovered in a burial mound at Sayre, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in the 1880’s. With the exception of the bony projections located about two inches above the eyebrows, the men whom these
The remains of a female ‘vampire’ from 16th-century Venice, buried with a brick in her mouth to prevent her feasting on plague victims
Incredibly, they would often keep the body of an infant and, once it was mummified, they would dress the baby’s body and keep it as a memento. It was the equivalent of the modern day taxidermy of a treasured pet.
Dead young woman. Note her hands. The frameworks fastened at the waist and neck with heavy gauge wire to position and hold the arms. The clothes were left unfastened at the back.
During the Victorian era, mourners sometimes collected their tears in gold decorated “tear bottles” to keep as a remembrance for the next of kin. It has also been said that the widows would go to the grave on the anniversary of the first year
Morbid 19th century chandelier
Rosalina died in 1920 at the age of 2. Hers is the best preserved body in the world.
‘Taken from the catacombs of Rome in the 17th century, the relics of twelve martyred saints were then attired in the regalia of the period before being interred in a remote church on the German/Czech border.’ - Immortal, Toby de Silva
Early Medieval Grave, Barevan Chapel, Cawdor district, Scotland. There is a question as to whether or not the round stone was placed because it was believed to be a witches grave.
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The ‘Louvre Doll’ found in a jar with an inscribed tablet. It depicts a nude woman in a kneeling position pierced by thirteen needles. An experiment of coercion dating back to ancient times. In other words, it was the French who invented &ldqu
Cherry of an eye :)
Hand, under the skin
A pediatric brain surgeon in Colorado removed a small foot growing inside the brain of a 3-day old. The cause was thought to be a twin that began to form within the fetus.
agnathia [no jaw] holoprosencephaly complex
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Unfortunately, this is the only post mortem photography anyone does these days
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Mother holds dead child as she is being beheaded, after the child was stabbed with a bayonet during the Nanking Massacre. Horrible!!! http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f226/baby-stabbed-bayonet-25574/index17.html
Deadly shark attack
Guinea worm disease, aka Dracunculiasis, is one of those horrible stories that people tell you about traveling to third world nations. Usually the baby worm is swallowed with dirty water, then it sits in the digestive tract for a year. It then migrates
abandoned mental hospitals
Used in Victorian Asylums to prevent masturbation.
CABINET // The Museum of the Dead - The catacombs of Palermo, province of Palermo , Sicily region , Italy. Photo by Marco Lanza
Antique carved Tibetan skull
Baby Monster Tombstone
King Tut’s feet
Suicide by ingesting hydrochloric acid.
In the summer of 1998, Russian scientists who were investigating the remains of a meteorite 300 km southwest of Moscow discovered a piece of rock which enclosed an iron screw. Geologists estimate that the age of the rock is 300-320 million years. At
Brain flowers
A monster? An alien? Nope, this is a macroscopic image of a Polychaete, or bristle worm. They can survive intense sea pressures and some live around deep sea vents, miles below the surface.
From the “Anatomie des Vanités” exhibit at the Erasmus House in Brussels, Belgium. “Venus,” medical mannequin. Ridiculous fig leaves!
Bit by a cat with the plague. Although the plague is generally connected to the Middle Ages, Paul Gaylord is the 17th person sickened by the disease in Oregon since 1934.
Maxine Mina was born in the philippines in 1896. She was born with a parasitic twin that produced 2 extra legs. She had complete control of her extra legs, but they eventually became attrophied from disuse. She was called “the four legged latina&rdq
HYPERTHYROIDISM – EXOPHTHALMOS, 1908 Hyperthyroidism - the same disorder that causes goiters - can also cause bulging eyes, as shown in this 1908 photograph. As the eyes protrude, the tend to dry out, sometimes resulting in scarring, infection, and
yperlordosis, or excessive inward curvature of the lumbar vertebrae. The cervical and lumbar vertebrae are normally lordotic, but excessive inward curvature can be caused by pregnancy, weak hamstrings, excessive visceral fat (disproportionately distribute
“The Angel Makers of Nagyrév” were a group of women living in the village of Nagyrév, Hungary who between 1914 and 1929 poisoned to death an estimated 300 people (however, Béla Bodó puts the number of victims at 45-50). They were supplied
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