Science / forensics / medical / pathology

Antique Prayer Cards.

A 392 year-old shark found in the Arctic. This guy was wandering the oceans back in 1627.

Burial of a woman at Teotihuacan with a jadeite tooth that was cemented or attached with fiber to her mandible. 350 to 450 AD

It’s the fact that, these dummies lay torn in half admist the debris of their own bodies with smiles on their faces, that makes these images so creepy.

Attendants from the Royal College of Surgeons packing up human skulls to send to the Natural History Museum in London, England, on the 1st of July, 1948.

People in many culture have been modifying their teeth for several thousand years and for numerous reasons. Vikings, for example, carved lines deep into the enamel of their teeth. Skeletons at several Viking-era burial sites in Sweden and Denmark have shown evidence of such carvings. The motivation behind the carvings is unknown but one theory is that they represented some kind of achievement. “Maybe they were brave warriors who got a furrow each time they won a battle or tradesmen who travelled together,” said an archaeologist. Another theory is that the Vikings simply found the appearance aesthetically pleasing and gave them a more terrifying appearance.

from Czerny’s International Auction House

Tree Pareidolia

Mushrooms growing on the skeltonised corpse of a deer.

Of course the age, the body part being eaten, and the cooking method shall affect the taste of the meat. Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal who killed and ate a willing man that he discovered online, reported that human flesh tastes like pork “but a little bit more bitter, stronger. It tastes quite good.” Issei Sagawa, a Japanese cannibal who killed and ate a female classmate that he had a crush on, described human flesh as “odorless” and not “gamey.” Arthur Shawcross, a serial killer who targeted prostitutes in Rochester, New York, claims that cooked human flesh tastes like a “nice roast pork.” Omaima Nelson, an Egyptian model who bludgeoned her husband to death before skinning, castrating, and eating his ribs, described eating them as “so sweet, it’s so delicious… I like mine tender.”

Vampire bats drinking blood.

For over four hours, the body of a 69-year-old man lay by the playground of a block of houses in Szczecin, Poland. The body was carelessly covered with a blue blanket. Children saw the corpse and continued to play with their friends.