In China, it’s never too late to find love, even after death. While few and far between, ghost weddings are an old tradition for those who died single. It’s believed that they’re a way to appease the spirits; in other words, they think the ghosts will be too busy honeymooning to haunt anyone. The way […]
A man creates a museum, and later he becomes a part of that museum himself… on display there at Lombroso Museum in Turin is his own head in a jar. Great psychiatric authority of the nineteenth century, Cesare Lombroso, an Italian who founded the field of criminal anthropology, as it was known. Lombroso thought criminality was […]
“Rover’s Leap” has claimed the lives of over fifty dogs so far, who while crossing this bridge, leapt to their own tragic deaths. And more mystifying still is why people continue to walk their dogs across it in the first place, honestly. I don’t believe this bridge is haunted. Let’s try it on my dog! […]
This book may be the eeriest ever written. Written by G. Mackenzie Bacon, medical superintendent at the Fulbourn Asylum near Cambridge, England, the book contains the complex diagrammatic writings of an asylum patient who filled every centimeter of his pages with wild musings and diagrammatic text. He was asked to abandon this writing style, to […]
Is there a more amazing graveyard? Don’t think so… Besides having such famous people buried there as Karl Marx, Douglas Adams, and the parents of Charles Dickens, Highgate Cemetery has long been known for its ghosts, sinister activities, and other strangeness, including: The most famous spook in this cemetery is The Highgate Vampire, who is […]
Get ready to piss your pants and scream like a little girl that’s discovered a spider colony in her closet. Poveglia Island is a secluded little piece of land that even the macho-iest of Italians stay the f**k away from. The final restless place of thousands of diseased, murderous and insane people, Poveglia is the […]
It has recently been discovered that the most storied set of dentures in all of history – George Washington’s famous “wooden teeth” – were in fact not made of wood at all, but (in large part) hippo ivory! As finely crafted as they were, dentures of the mid to late 18th century were still archaic […]
In Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, USA Ventriloquist dummies may seem kitsch and antiquated, taking us back to the days of old vaudeville acts and carnivals, but take a closer look- they are extremely frightening. The fact that they appear to take on a life and personality of their own is obviously a well-practiced trick, but there […]
Stephan Bibrowski (1891–1932), better known as Lionel the Lion-Faced Man, was a famous sideshow performer. His whole body was covered with long hair that gave him the appearance of a lion; this was likely due to a rare condition called hypertrichosis. Bibrowski was born in 1891 near Warsaw in Poland with one-inch hair covering his […]
Like every profession, dentistry has had its share of challenges and somewhat unappealing methods. During the 18th and 19th centuries the reputation of dentistry was challenged by the demand for dental prosthesis and the practice of recycling teeth became popular. It hit its highest level of prominence after the Battle at Waterloo. When artificial materials […]
