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oraclesofthefortuneteller: Philip Obermarck brings us the mummified heart of a Norse giant. While going through his famous grandfather’s belongings after his passing in 1937, violinist Lars Sigerson discovered this casket with its gruesome contents. It appears to have been passed from generation to generation within his family for hundreds of years. The explanation and whatever story that goes with it has been lost to the ages. The inscription on the casket is written in old Norse runes and reads: “Behold! Within this casket lies the heart of the fierce and terrible giant known as Hrungnir, slain this day by Fafrd the Red whose bravery and cunning shall live forever!”
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tripfingerless: Skull wall by John Donges on Flickr.
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prettyshake: Mutter Museum, Philadelphia.
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spiritualinversion: Fritz Haarman’s Preserved Head Haarmann’s victims largely consisted of young male commuters, runaways and, occasionally, male prostitutes whom he would typically encounter around Hanover’s central railway station. The victims would be lured back to his apartment and then killed by being bitten through their throats, sometimes as they were sodomized. All of Haarmann’s victims were dismembered before they were discarded, usually in the Leine River. The possessions of several victims were either sold on the black market or retained by either Haarmann or his younger lover, Hans Grans. Rumor also had it that Haarmann would peddle meat from the bodies of his victims as canned black market pork. Although no physical evidence was ever produced to confirm this, Haarmann was known to be an active trader in contraband meat.
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Amityville horror. The first time that picture was shown was on the Merv Griffin show back in 1979. It was discovered 3 years after it was taken. Gene Campbell, who was a professional photographer, was brought into the house in 1976 when the Warrens went in with their team. He set up an automatic camera on the 2nd floor landing that shot off infrared film, black and white, throughout the night. There are literally rolls of film with nothing on them. There’s only one picture of the little boy.
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electrocardiogramme: Conjoined Twins by Curious Expeditions on Flickr.
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collective-history: Today basal cell carcinoma is considered a relatively benign form of skin cancer - doctors can easily remove the lesions. But in the 1800s, the cancer often went unchecked until it produced horrific injuries, like the one captured by a photographer in London in 1864. The condition was known as “rodent cancer” - and no wonder. Patients looked as if their skin had been gnawed by hungry rats.This patient actually fared reasonably well after surgery, ultimately succumbing not to the cancer but to a fatty heart - caused, apparently, by the poor diet he had been forced to eat as a result of the loss of most of his mouth. Credit: Dr. Stanley B. Burns