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Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced ‘Hume’) (20 March 1833 – 21 June 1886) was a Scottish physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will.
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Future Birthplace of James T. Kirk, 361 E. 1st St., Riverside, IA http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2081
Not a good sign….on multiple levels.
Sweet glorious pleasures of life! Nature intended that you should enjoy them. With Radium!
“Gottfried von Berlichingen (c. 1480-1562) also known as Götz of the Iron Hand, was a German Imperial Knight and mercenary. “During the siege of the city of Landshut, he lost his right arm when enemy cannon fire forced his sword against him. He had
Soviet Scientist Vladimir Demikhov surgically attached the front half of one dog onto the neck of another dog by combining their two circulatory systems. Yep, that happened. A pioneer in organ transplant surgery, Demikhov’s experiments may seem
The crystal skulls, for example, which were “discovered” in the jungles of Belize in the 1920s and said to be 3,600 year old Mayan artifacts, but were actually carved in the 1840s, or the Voynich Manuscript, an undecipherable coded and illustr
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Funeral scene with mourners from Brabantsche Yeesten by Jan Van Boendale (c.1280-1351)
funeral rituals of Toraja According to one, in the ancient past, it was believed that a dead man must be buried in his village of origin, and not at the place of his death. Since villages then were far apart and extremely isolated, it was difficult for
The Oregon Vortex (Though it’s only 100 feet in diameter, the Oregon Vortex is apparently very scary. Animals refuse to enter it, and people who go inside report seeing very strange things.) The Oregon Vortex is a roadside attraction located in
Every second 50 trillion of them fly through our bodies without so much as a trace. Their neutral electric charge and miniscule mass allow neutrinos to pass through ordinary matter practically undisturbed. This characteristic of neutrinos also makes the
Salem witch tombstones - people who were put to death for religion-based lies.
Velvet mask or vizard, worn by Tudor women to protect their fair complexions from the sun.
in the trenches, June 22, 1916
Horse’s gas mask, found at a German equipment dump in Rozières, France, in August 1918 by the British Army.
Vintage sperm whale photo. “The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the
Teeth Displays - Berkó Ferenc: Fogászat, Bombay, 1939.
The Demented Dollhouse
In Guizhou, China, a 64-year-old man has a bizarre facial anomaly. According to the article, at the age of eleven, while in the mountains, he was licked in the face by a wolf and was supposedly infected by something, causing his facial disfigurement over
This innocuous looking scene is actually the disposal pit for the ashes of people murdered at Auschwitz and incinerated at Crematorium IV. Even though cremation negated the need for burial, the sheer volume of the murdered meant that huge pits had to
Ghost Nebula
Over three thousand people perished that day, but the photographs from 9/11 do not show mangled corpses and bloody carnage. There was an agreement among print media and television broadcasters not to show any corpses in connection with the attacks, and
Vincenz Czerny (1842-1916) with Dr. Levi Cooper Lane in surgical amphitheater at Cooper Medical College by Stanford Medical History Center 1901
python swallowed a deer
Nerocila acuminata is a parasitic isopod related to Cymothoa exigua, the infamous tongue-replacer. This isopod clings onto the skin of its fish host, feeding on blood and tissue. When it detects a potential host, it launches itself at the target fish
The Butterfly Nebula - NGC 6302 (also called the Bug Nebula, Butterfly Nebula, or Caldwell 69) is a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius. The structure in the nebula is among the most complex ever observed in planetary nebulae. The spect
Serenity Nebula
Parcel Gilt Silver Scent Victorian glass, gilt, silver France 1850
Bisected Pregnant Cat, Grant Museum
Princeton students after a Freshman / Sophomore snowball fight. Princeton, NJ, 1893. What the heck was in those snowballs. :O
The North Wales Lunatic Asylum was the first psychiatric institution built in Wales; construction began in 1844 and completed in 1848 in the town of Denbigh. The U-shaped Tudorbethain style hospital was built due to the spreading word of mistreatment
19th century psychologists enforced the theory of dressing one or more parents in horrifying nightmare costumes to discourage sleepwalking in their children. Unfortunately, the practice created a generation of bed wetters…
Bat embryo
Bats are so amazing! Bat embryo.
Attributed to Nicolaus Gerhaert von Leyden Netherlandish, active in Germany, 1462/73 Reliquary Bust of Saint Margaret of Antioch, 1465/70 Walnut, with traces of polychromy
This is the headstone of Elijah Bond the man who patented the ouija board. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija
“Mad as a hatter” is a colloquial phrase used to refer to a crazy person. In 18th & 19th century England mercury was used in the making of felt, which was used in the manufacturing of hats. People who worked in these hat factories were exposed
Major General Horatio Gordon Robley with his collection of tattooed heads (Mokomokai). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Gordon_Robley
Parco dei Mostri (Park of Monsters) below the town of Bomarzo, Italy (1.5 hours north of Rome). This was the park of the 16th century Villa Orsini and is filled with grotesque sculptures. Fuji Velvia, Zeiss 50mm lens.“ philip.greenspun.com.
Death Crowns- In Appalachian folklore Death Crowns are curious discs of interwoven feathers that were found in the pillows of the dying or deceased, that is, in times when feather pillows were more abundant. If discovered in the former, they were seen
The Asaro Mudmen come from just outside the village of Goroka in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Legend has it that they were defeated by an enemy tribe and forced to flee into the Asaro River. They waited until dusk before attempting
Maskull Lasserre, “Lexicon (City of Ottawa)”, human spine and ribcage carved into a compressed stack of daily newspapers, 2008, carved newspapers, mechanical press
A deep dissection of the side of the head shows the many blood vessels (red arteries, blue veins) and nerves (graying white) in the facial region. The hole is the external ear canal. The temporal muscle, used for chewing, is the prominent fan shaped muscl
Underwater tornado ~ Amazing
bear attack
Don Decker Poltergeist The year was 1983. In the laid back borough of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, twenty one year-old Don Decker had just been sent to serve his sentence of a full year in prison for receiving stolen property. He had been quietly serving
In February, eighteen year old Jacquelyn Cadow of Paradis, Louisiana began hearing wolf whistles outside her bedroom window at night. The home she shared with her mother was also broken into by an intruder. She reported the incidents to the authorities,
Beginning just before Halloween, the citizens of Provincetown, Massachusetts were startled by the sudden, eerie appearance of a mysterious Black Flash—an impossibly tall, impossibly fast human-like creature who appeared dressed all in black, with a
The Martin family’s ordeal in Methuen, Massachusetts began in October when Francis, his wife, and children first noticed a damp patch on the wall in the den. While they watched, the patch grew larger. A moment later, they heard a popping sound and a
New Mexico CB radio operators were shocked and concerned on August 7 to hear transmissions from a young boy pleading for help. His name was Larry, he told them, and he was trapped in a red and white pickup truck with his father, who might be dead. Accordi
Freak show performer, contortionist, and a man possessing a strange and unique power, Angelo Faticoni’s singular talent was reflected in his nickname—the Human Cork. Faticoni was unsinkable, and he made his living demonstrating that fact. Faticoni
At the age of twelve, frightening events began to occur to Eleanore Zugun. When she visited her grandmother’s cottage in Romania, stones smashed against the structure. Pins and needles flew across the room to scratch her and bury themselves in her arms.
Around April 8, the Bowen family in Guyra, New South Wales, Australia, was terrorized by heavy thumps and bangs on the walls, followed by showers of stones striking the roof and the outside of the house, sometimes breaking windows. The apparent poltergeis