“Cult Of Weird”: This Twitter Page Only Posts Creepy Stuff, And Here Are 30 Uneasy But Captivating Pics
Interview With OwnerHow have you been celebrating October? Horror movie marathons, trips to pumpkin patches and visits to haunted cemeteries in the wee hours of the night? Spooky season is well under way, and we here at Bored Panda are in the mood to embrace all things creepy, bizarre and unsettling. The perfect place to start? The Cult of Weird Twitter account.
Cult of Weird shares exactly what you’d expect: weirdness. From alien encounters to foliage that looks like it’ll grab you as you’re passing by, we’ve gathered some of our favorite strange and spooky tweets from Cult of Weird down below to help you pandas embrace this season of falling leaves and spooky stories. Keep reading to also find an interview with the creator of this strange community, Charlie Hintz.
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Kitten : I got eight more where that came from, how many you got? ... Just the one? Aww, that's too bad for you M.F..
The Cult of Weird Twitter account has nearly 11k followers and has been sharing creepy and gruesome stories since 2011, but where you can find an even larger treasure trove of oddities is the Cult of Weird website. This site focuses on all things bizarre, spooky and strange, sharing stories that fall into various categories such as Aliens and UFOs, Weird Art, Cabinet of Curiosities, True Crime, Cryptozoology, From the Grave, Occult, Paranormal, Freak Show, Travel and Weird Book Club.
Visitors to the site can even purchase items to help give their homes the spooky and strange vibe they’re looking for. The site notes that it’s updated frequently with fascinating items of vintage weirdness like medical oddities, skulls, taxidermy, preserved insects, wet specimens, vintage funeral ephemera, Ouija boards and other occult objects. The first item that’s currently on sale at the shop is a “Victorian Child’s Viewing Coffin”. If I didn’t know what it was, I would think it’s just a beautiful piece of woodwork!
Also, those priviliged, rich "un-alivers" with their gardens. Not everyone is rich enough for a garden, some of us have don't even have a garden to bury our un-alived victims in, do they ever think of that?
Some of us just have to leave the bodies under our beds, fill the room with air-fresheners, and hope for the best. count yourself lucky if you actually can get a decent hiding spot.
Load More Replies...I know! These new found "murderers" don't understand how hard it is to find a good spot! And uphill both ways. :(
Not everyone has a spacious freezer, it's a luxury. Besides, the garden plants get free fertilizer, which saves money.
Well, I grind my victims into a fine mince and use it to make burger patties and hot dogs. Which I sell in downtown Manhattan. The public shits the evidence and I make mint!!
Load More Replies...Ugh, think of the smell! Ask yourself, are you REALLY willing to live with it? Seriously?!
Yeah cuz dead people are more important than trump
Load More Replies...To learn more about how Cult of Weird began in the first place, we reached out to the site's creator, Charlie Hintz. We wanted to know where Charlie's fascination for these bizarre topics came from and what inspired him to turn that into Cult of Weird. "I live in Wisconsin, where there is one legend or another around every corner," he shared. "Ghosts, monsters, UFOs. I was raised on these stories. As a child, I lived on a lake in the Kettle Moraine State Forest area near a grouping of Native American burial mounds. My neighbors were divers, and one day they found a skeleton in the lake. Another neighbor would apparently hear phantom drum sounds in the night."
"In the 80s, hikers and horseback riders encountered naked people and the remains of animal sacrifices in the Kettle Moraine," Charlie told Bored Panda. "Apparently, there was a known cult conducting rituals in the woods. In 1988, the first season of Unsolved Mysteries featured the story of a haunted house I drove past frequently (and still do) because I have family in the area. My aunt knows that family."
No, this outbreak was much, much worse insofar as it killed 3 times as many people as died in the 1914 - 18 war (also a little known fact is that it also killed as many as 40 % of all men under the age of 30 in Australia and New Zealand). No vaccines back then either.
Load More Replies...My cats would never let me put a mask on them 😝
Load More Replies...Well, pets can get certain diseases like Covid as well, there were fears at the time that pets could get/spread the Spanish flu too. I am curious about why the people in the photo did this: were they scared the cat would get ill, were they scared the cat would infect them, or were they just having some fun?
The cat obviously did not actually wear a mask. It's just for the pic. But the people did. Makes me wonder if there were also deniers of the pandemic back then as there are now. Just without the internet as their platform...
There were. There are photos of stores with signs that say no mask, no service.
Load More Replies...Seeing this? Im kind of thankful I live in the 21st century. This picture reminded me that this couldve been us 🙄
This is so darn cool! It has the aura of an abandoned house (maybe Victorian?) Perfect for a story where somebody gifts it to a child who finds they can actually go inside the house, and meet the people there by travelling back in time! Maybe solve a murder myster that happened? Okay peeps, I'll be back after writing a story!
Not even joking but I need to read this the very second you're finished writing it
Load More Replies...Just FYI there is a woman who is creating a whole gothic story in a dollhouse on TikTok? It's beautiful and amazing
do you know the username or smth? I'd love to check her out!
Load More Replies...I totally want to do this! I have an old Victorian doll house from when I was an kid that I've been meaning to refinish. I really love this idea.
Maybe he is thinking in his sleep, a fine multitasker.
Load More Replies...If anyone ever cuts that down, I hope the punishment is swift and painful.
Probably still thinking about what to say. After all it takes a long time to say anything in old Entish, so they never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.
Charlie went on to share even more examples of the strange occurrences that have happened in Wisconsin. "There’s Goatman and the Beast of Bray Road. Three Wisconsin towns claim to be the 'UFO Capital of the World', and each one has had their share of unexplained occurrences," he noted. "In one town, a retired police officer allegedly died of a mysterious illness just months after being struck by a blast of light from a UFO. In another, a local tavern owner kept a binder full of photos of UFOs photographed from the top of a nearby hill he believed concealed a pyramid."
"Wisconsin resident August Derleth, who published the first collections of H.P. Lovecraft’s work, believed there were 'Cthulhu power zones' of ancient cosmic energy in Wisconsin," Charlie explained. "It’s been written that occultists conducted rituals on the shores of certain Wisconsin lakes in an attempt to awaken the eldritch 'Deep Ones' from their depths."
My dad and his dad apparently watched these films, and my dad and I did as well. These are names well-known in my household to my children!!
I love this. I hope Mr. Lugosi heard and had a nice giggle in the afterlife.
For people who don't know what otd means - like myself a few moments ago - it means "on this day"
Bless Bela Lugosi for making his stint in rehab public, making it a sympathetic event instead of a true shame.
That’s the coolest headstone I’ve ever seen!! Flowers for you, Ms. Caroline. 💐
If you like the artwork on gravestones, you have to visit the big graveyard in milano!!! After viewing less than half the Park we had been so overwhelmed and were so "full" just from looking to so much beautyful artwork, we had to pause and leave. My camera was full of pictures and if i were an Art Student i could draw pictures there my hole life and would not have drawn All the pictures i saw worth to be drawn
Load More Replies...Headstone or Carbonite victim? Ahh just put in the corner with that Solo guy.
Add a spilled bag of potato chips and this is me in about 10 minutes.
They hatin' tryinn to catch me ridin' dirrtaayy..
Load More Replies...I would sure love to be carted around like that. Waving to all my fans!
Load More Replies...I don't smoke, but as I wouldn't mind lounging in a horse drawn hearse just for the drama of it all.
"So many roads of the strange and unusual lead to Wisconsin," Charlie told Bored Panda. "I eventually became interested in why that was. I launched Cult of Weird in 2010 because it seemed like a good excuse to research the history, legends and folklore that spawned them."
We then asked Charlie what he likes to feature on Cult of Weird and how he decides what to share. "I try to cover the whole range of Fortean subject matter - anything mysterious or difficult to explain, especially if it has cultural or historical connotations," he shared. "I love history, particularly when you can find modern connections to disturbing things that really happened in the past, and I’m a sucker for a good story."
Amazing how we've turned to apathy in the last 100: years 😢
Load More Replies...The birth of reconstructive surgery followed shortly. While the masks allowed the men to function in society, they were still masks. I personally would much rather have my face back than to have to hide behind a mask if I want to leave the house without people screaming in horror when they see the real me—-including the gaping hole in my face by a battlefield surgeon.
There's an incredible book about the evolution of plastic surgery due to WWI, it's called 'The Facemaker' by Lindsey Fitzharris. Highly recommend!!
That's incredible. Just seeing the molds after the war, the injuries actually inflicted are surreal. I don't know how anyone goes to war and does not get PTSD.
How did they know to make masks of people before their injuries? I have so many questions.
Assuming this is no sarcasm - the masks were made according to pictures taken before the injury.
Load More Replies...I wonder how many times the Police have been called out to fungus?
If I remember correctly, they move when disturbed. Like wiggle. Like horror movie wiggle.
I have a mental picture as if I've known him all my life now
Load More Replies...I mean the angel told Mary "be not afraid" for a VERY good reason, turns out
Biblically accurate. I want to read the passage. Please provide me the exact passage please. Thank you
And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight.8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” – Revelation 4:2-8
Load More Replies..."I like to explore legends that have grown around certain places, objects, or ideas, and what the historical basis for them might be," Charlie says. "Those stories are even more compelling when there are multiple witnesses or experiences, especially over long periods of time. Even better is when you hear from a skeptic, and they say, 'I didn’t want to be one of those people, but...'"
"A lot of 'high strangeness' type of phenomena, however, like synchronicity, portals, stories of Indrid Cold or extraterrestrial ghost sasquatch…those often seem to me to be pareidolia at best and I tend to avoid them unless it relates to something more tangible."
It gets even better: It comes to your door, singing in rhyme, and the person opening the door has to sing back with excuses why it can't come in. They have to keep singing back and forth, until one of them gives up. If the one person answering the door gives up, the horse skeleton goes into your house and drinks all your beer. (Or so I've read, I have unfortunately never witnessed this tradition myself yet.) I have a suspicion that a lot of beer was involved in creating this tradition too.
aside from the rap-battling and pantry raiding, it also snaps it's jaws at kids who get too close
The musical battling is called "PWNCO" .... Once inside, the entertainment continued with the Mari Lwyd running around neighing and snapping its jaws, creating havoc, frightening children (and perhaps even adults) while the Leader pretended to try to restrain it. The Merryman played music and entertained the householders...including those dressed as Punch and Judy
Can someone tell us how to pronounce Mari Lywd? Welsh always confuses me with its lack of vowels. :)
Ahh, so that scene in "Time Bandits" makes so much more sense now. It's just Welsh Christmas!
Basically you have to rap battle a horse skeleton to keep your alcohol
Poor horse would be so disappointed at my house - no beer at all... Can I offer you a hot cocoa made with oat milk instead?
They also rent out empty spots to grow veggies or the like: https://time.news/urban-gardening-at-the-vienna-cemetery-graves-resemble-mini-vegetable-gardens/
Not an official LEGO set, even though it has LEGO bricks. Regardless, I love it!
"I definitely get some unusual experiences submitted by readers, and really they’re some of my favorites," Charlie noted. "But a lot of what I feature on Cult of Weird comes from random conversations I’ve had where someone mentions something strange, and I have to backtrack and say, 'Wait, what did you just say?' Or I find obscure details in old books that demand more attention, and ultimately lead to strange stories I hadn’t previously heard of."
"I was wandering around a cemetery a few years back, photographing graves associated with various legends there, when someone approached me and said, 'You want to see the oldest grave here?' Naturally, I said yes, and followed them up a hill to a family plot from the 1850s," Charlie shared. "The engraved words on the stones (Born into Spirit-Life) lead to me uncovering the story of Nathaniel Tallmadge, third governor of the Wisconsin Territory, who once lived on that land and believed spirits taught his daughter how to play the piano."
Do you want a zombie apocalypse? Because this is how we get a zombie apocalypse.
If this were a precaution against accidental live burial... why lock the tomb at all? This is a prevention against grave robbing. Leaving the key with the corpse would be a "just in case" measure.
Sadly, you are 100% correct. While the fear of being buried alive was indeed real, the reality was that it was exceedingly rare. Most people in the 19th century could not afford a coffin, let alone a tomb with a lock and key. These keyed tombs we're for the very wealthy, and often the bodies were embalmed prior to burial. So they were dead AF. They key was more symbolism than anything.
Load More Replies...Also fear of grave robbers commissioned and paid by medical schools to supply fresh as possible corpses for dissection (and, of course, keeping all jewelry and other items of value that were buried with the deceased as their bonus).
Thank you RafCo for all the interesting details on expressions such as saved by the bell, graveyard shift and dead-ringer, next to facts about these bells and grave locks
This was one of the first recorded phenomena that we might classify as a "meme" nowadays :p
Said it before and I'll say it again: 1562699946...f8dc00.jpg
Many churches in Europe, especially those built in gothic style have figurines carved into their walls in surprising poses, such as naked butts hanging above unsuspecting bypassers, as well as tongue-showing and other obscenities
When municipalities don’t monitor groundwater levels, but sanction overdevelopment to increase property taxes (and then use the tax dollars for showboat projects like stadiums or Disney-like central businesses cores instead)
And also mines. In Chile a large sinkhole formed above a mine... and it's still getting larger.
Load More Replies...One of my nightmares. Happened to a family not far from here several years ago. Sinkhole opened under their house while they were sleeping. Everybody got out except one man. They never found him.
That's the part that gets me- often stuff on a sinkhole disappears, never to be seen again. But where does it actually GO? It has to end up somewhere, is it just that the holes are too deep to make retrieval possible or practical? Also, what does that do to your property value? You can't rebuild your house there, or can you?
Load More Replies...Sinkholes are such an oddly fascinating phenomenon. Obviously it's terrible to those involved, but it's just like.. how do they happen? Why after so long do they just finally collapse?
Science stuff - it has to do with groundwater and soil stability. Don't quote me as an expert though. :)
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Load More Replies...We were also curious what Charlie's favorite topics to cover are. "Modern civilization has a lot of skeletons in its closet, both literally and figuratively. I love the dark corners of history and archeology the most," he shared. "Also, I have a soft spot for ridiculous offbeat news stories. I still share them frequently on Cult of Weird. I read an article in the early 2000s about a fisherman who caught a talking fish. After he pulled it from the water, it issued a dire warning that the end of the world was near, and then he ate it. I don’t care what the reality of that story was - that article changed my life."
The frog ate the spider, and choked, the spider was stuck exclaiming "what the f**k" but all the frog could do was croak
I assume the spider was venomous and poisoned the frog while the frog nommed it to death.
Reminds me of that picture of the giant Anaconda that swallowed a huge crocodile which ended up bursting. Google it.
it has been updated, and is now known as the Chick-fil-A menu
Load More Replies...I'll bet there's a recipe in there that includes a dead spider eating frog.
I don't know how old that book is, but green pigment used to be made from arsenic and was quite toxic.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/these-green-books-are-literally-poisonous
Load More Replies...people say my house is haunted i have lived there for over 200 years and never seen a ghost
"Four states specifically mention paranormal activity in their real estate disclosure laws: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Minnesota". https://krbhk.com/are-sellers-required-to-disclose-that-their-house-is-haunted/
After Amityville, realtors now MUST disclose whether or not a property is purported to be haunted, or the buyers could sue them. It’s actually the law in many states (not sure if it’s now nationwide—-been a while since I had my realtor’s license)..
Hmmm... I dunno here... all seems a lil' 'spicious but hey if they say it's not haunted, then it must not be haunted!
But just because Charlie runs Cult of Weird does not mean he expects everyone to understand and believe in some of the topics they cover. "I’m a skeptic, too. I have human remains and vintage Ouija boards in my house, and I’ve never experienced anything remotely paranormal," he shared. "These objects may have traumatized a visitor or two, but there aren’t any spirits or demons wandering around my house moving stuff and flipping light switches."
"People will sometimes go to great lengths to convince you of a thing they’ve made up for whatever reason," Charlie told Bored Panda. "But some stories are compelling and difficult to brush off so easily. You may not believe in ghosts, but when you make an effort to believe people, I think you start to see that there are more realities and perceptions than your own."
Is this what led to his assassination? Ugh, sorry, could not help myself.
Ok...he's the one that was assassinated which led to WW1, right? I need some confirmation here, help!
I was suicidal..... then my parents said they would off themselves if I did.... Biggest NOPE
Your name freaks me out because my real name is also Sarah K
Load More Replies...I worked as a florist for 15 years and something similar happened. A really lovely guy came in and organised flowers for a funeral, picked out exactly what he wanted, paid and then said someone will call with the exact date when they know. A week later the police contact the shop to tell us that the man was planning his own funeral and that he had killed his self. I was only 18 when this happened & it freaked me out for a long time.
Slightly off topic here, but reminds me of an elderly couple I knew in their 90's (been married 70+ years) who died in the same hospital on the same day, unbeknownst to each other. They each had their own coffin but were buried in one huge grave side by side. Strangely, just about the most romantic thing I ever saw!
They probably did kill themselves but didn't think about how they would bury themselves.
This story said that they didn't actually go through with it. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2226
Load More Replies...I'm, not sure which is creepier: the three-person casket, or the museum deadicated to funeral history.
Parr was the only lucky one out of all his wives. Although Anne of Cleves didn't fair too badly in the end either - despite him rudely deciding she was unsuitable as his wife. :)
Don't forget his first wife, Katherine of Aragon (sorry if I butchered that). She "survived" him too.
Load More Replies...who wants to come with me to the lake District? lone traveller. please don't be stabby
~~5 down I'm the final wife / I saw him to the end of his life / I'm the survivor, Catherine Parr~~ (from Six The Musical)
That is actually quite beautiful. It makes me think of something from mythology. I love all the lichens and moss growing on it.
Henry VIII's wives: Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. She was the one who survived.
I am a direct descendent of Catherine Parr. Maybe I could be king someday. I'm much more chill than Charles III.
"I’ve never seen a flying saucer, but I had a conversation with my grandmother a few years ago about several sightings she’d had over Lake Michigan throughout her years that still perplexed her. It’s hard to discount that," Charlie says.
"We have many beliefs and superstitions today that originated hundreds or thousands of years ago when we didn’t have science to make sense of things. Yet there are still things - prophetic dreams, for example - that myself and others close to me have experienced, that scientific explanations just don’t seem to satisfy," he noted.
"My point is, I don’t think Bigfoot is out there throwing rocks at people in the woods, but I’m not going to assume I know what’s going on."
In times past, crime scenes were recreated in dollhouse size for courtroom display
Don't take the skulls with you. People used to steal them to put on display at home.
Load More Replies...I understood Paris catacombs as Paris subway (no, I don't know why!) making this sign so utterly weird and confusing. I think I need a nap.
Yeah, this is not creepy at all... This is not going to give me nightmares at all... is what I'll be trying to convince myself of, all day.
Didn't Terry Pratchett write about this in one of his books? Never thought this was real.
Wait... do American clowns register here too? Like for instance, is John Wayne Gacy registered here??? Now that would be nightmare fodder.
I believe so. Because I see Emmett Kelly's face up there and he was an American clown.
Load More Replies...My eyes keep drawing me to the OG Joker and my mind is churning ideas for an epic origins story!
Please write it!!! It sounds great and so much better than the weak a*s remakes going on lately!!! :)
Load More Replies...This is kind of awesome! But why does the whole top row look like Nicolas Cage? :)
great, next time i eat an omelette i am going to have an anxiety attack
We hope you're enjoying this list of fascinating, strange and disturbing tweets from Cult of Weird. Keep upvoting your favorites, and feel free to share your own inexplicable encounters in the comments down below. And although we're in the spooky mood here at Bored Panda to embrace October, strange happenings don't stop after Halloween. If you'd like to delve deeper into any of these topics or hear about plenty of other weird stories, head on over to Cult of Weird's website right here.
Originally it didn't work for me, but once I stared longer and let the periphery of my vision get blurry, then it worked.
Load More Replies...maybe my brain is just really judgmental or something but i still see the mistakes
lol, that's what my brain was trying to do. It was insisting there's an image there.
Load More Replies...Didn't work, I actually saw more imprfections. These things never work, at least for me. Lol
Nothing like sitting on your great grandpas bones when you feel lonely
Well, in the other post, people were talking about hiding the body....
This isn't exactly hiding it... more like disguising it
Load More Replies...I was gonna say Phantom of the Opera but yours is better
Load More Replies...You see in actuallity death isnt scary, it's... *takes off mask to reveal he is andrew scott* a thing of beauty ;) and a part of life
Fear is the greatest controller of the masses (no pun intended but aqurate)
Lol, not a good thing if you're looking for consumer trust, the last thing i want os for the loaf of bread i'm gonna cut for brakefast hás R.I.P. " written " on it....
My dad accidentally built a fireplace with a headstone, because he sometimes helps his church's groundskeeper clean up the cemetery. Over the years, stuff had gotten piled up in one corner of the cemetery, and he offered to help them haul it off. They put it all in the back of one of his fields, and later, he was looking for various stones for the fireplace. It wasn't until after it was built that someone noticed that a couple of the stones, which he had cut, spelled 'George' with very faint letters. He was able to figure out what must have happened afterwards. So, unfortunately, there is probably an unmarked grave somewhere in that cemetery, but at least George will always be remembered.
Were they really stolen, or were they the mistake stones? You can find lots of mistake stones around that people used because they couldn't be used on the real grave.
So, was the idea that the police aren't gonna care anyway, or were they really dumb criminals? There is something cool about having epitaphs imprinted on your bread (apart from the hygiene aspect and creepiness). I don't know, it's kinda poetic. Like, every day around breakfast time, lots of people will be reminded that some woman named Margaret was a beloved mom who will always be missed.
well hopefully it'll just be rock-type and not ground-type or it'll be super-effective on me
She’s the only known person to ever have been struck by a meteorite.
What do they even want the council to do? Put up signs that say 'abductions not allowed'? Declare war on aliens? Actually, that sounds like it would be a pretty cool movie, some local British council declaring war on aliens, and then there's a full blown war with aliens in some cute British little town, while the rest of the world is completely unaware of everything. With Simon Pegg maybe?
Because of firearms restrictions, not even the local police have guns. There are three hunting rifles and one tazer in the district. Improvised weapons are needed. The local lawn care company forms a squad armed with strimmers and hedge trimmers. The Woman's Institute make molotov cocktails in jam jars. The Girls Lacrosse team launch them from lacrosse sticks. The allotment gardeners are armed with hoes, and one of them has converted a weed-sprayer into a flame thrower. The cricket club are armed with bats and three buckets full of cricket balls. Their best bowler can bean one alien on the head every 6 seconds.
Load More Replies...The council cannot even mend potholes, these guys have no chance of a result.
I don't mind at all, as long as we are not competing for the same coffin.
Besides our annual birthdays, each year we pass the day of our eventual death.
but, this one is just common sense. Though some of us will in some form meet a urn or now become a tree or soil
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Exactly. As soon as it entered the house it transformed into a clothes hanger.
Load More Replies...I'll happily accept demons if I could find the things I've been looking for in thrift stores!
*sends out drifblim, gengar, dusclops, and another three drifblim out to investigate* (as you can probably see, i'm doing a ghost monotype run of pokemon legends arceus)
Actually, some of them say: "Romance is death..."
Load More Replies...Reliquary for St Valentine? (Not really, or at least I don't think so.)
Fun fact - she's Mariska Hargitay's (Law & Order SVU) mother. Mariska has a scar from the car accident that killed Jane.
EDIT: I was wrong in saying the Church of Satan was exempt from abortions. It was the Satanic Temple. Thank you Miles for the correction
That's the Satanic Temple you're thinking of, not the Church of Satan. (completely different organization)
Load More Replies...He's the guy who wrote The Satanic Bible, no? That book kinda makes sense, Satanist or not.
That's actually just a myth. and at LEAST the kids in the back survived, but how terrible.
Load More Replies...Devil: You whizzed on the electric fence, didn't you...
Load More Replies...Forget the stupid kid urinating without thinking - what the unholy fuuck is that thing the baby has in it's mouth and why the morphine-drip-button-looking-thingy? And why does it need to be plugged in? Is that a heroin spoon? What kind of dumb fuckery were these people getting up to? I'm so bewildered right now.
Totally random guess, but maybe a milk warmer? And those two things plug into the prongs in the bottom of the container to run a current through to warm?
Load More Replies...The top one was investigated by Mythbusters, seems it's more or less impossible (a pee stream is not a continuous link).
That was peeing on a third rail, and they found that you would have to be within two inches of the rail for it to electrocute you. That's unlikely if you're standing up, but maybe an electric fence is a bit different here, as you could well be right next to it.
Load More Replies...I swear this story is true. One time when I was young, I was out walking around the neighborhood with some other kid. We managed to convince one kid to pee on an electric fence. OMG, funny.
If I'm not mistaken this is an example of trepannation, which seems to have been invented independently in various parts of the world in ancient times. However, it is not brain surgery. The skull is opened in order to release pressure and remove pooling blood, but no parts of the brain are removed.
I suppose to be accurate we should say that we don't know if parts of the brain were removed, as it wouldn't show in the archaeological record. But trepanning as carried out in medieval times (for which we have records) did not touch the brain.
Load More Replies...People in ancient history used trepanation to remove blood clots, tumors or treat skull fractures and brain inflammation. Apparently they also used it to treat migraines, epilepsy and mental illnesses. Not sure about success rate though.
Here’s a story in the medieval times a father told his son to hide his allowance from robbers. The boy put it in his mouth and when the father got home he took him to a doctor they drilled in his wind pipe and got it out. There were coins in a bag. I think the robbers did not get the money. The boy also survived.
In the second picture you can see bone growth, which indicates that the patient lived long enough to start to grow back some of the bone removed.
Load More Replies...It's really cool but I would find it terrifying to walk under that 😖
I have been here! It is totally awesome inside! I would definitely recommend you stop here. Piercy, California , United States.
This is your annual reminder that correlation does not equal causation.
I'm more surprised by the fact that something that looks like THAT will just heal up on its own 😳
It's tuberculosis. The lesions may shrink without treatment, but the underlying disease doesn't go away. Instead, it progresses to the lungs, and is also highly contagious.
Thank you. I have dormant tuberculosis, my doctor says not to worry, but I do wonder what happens if it changes and becomes active?
Load More Replies...Reminds me of George Bernard Shaw, who was a vegetarian and reportedly wanted his funeral procession to consist of all the animals he didn't eat in his lifetime. They were probably not supposed to eat him tho.
Some historians' theory is that the inscription might be part of an "infinitely repeating apotropaic demon trap". Now I need to know what that is. Never know when you might have to trap some enterprising demon. Oh, you rabbit holes.
Hey now, please no trapping me, I'm perfectly fine as is.
Load More Replies...That's quite a morbid word search game! The guy must have had a wicked sense of humor. ;)
the stitch one at disney world is horror movie fuel
Load More Replies...Yeah that foam latex rots really quickly. None of the Spitting Image puppets survive.
I could have happily lived a long time without seeing that. The movie already creeped me out, this made it worse.
I believe that most of the cases of "spontaneous combustion" involved people who drank to excess and had fireplaces in their homes.
I remember hearing of one case where it happened in front of a witness. The woman was not smoking or drinking. She was sitting on a sofa with no flames around. She did have some sort of illness, however, and they believe that her body somehow managed to produce just the right combination of chemicals that they self-ignited. The witness tried to put her out, but they said fire was shooting out of her mouth like was all down inside of her. I saw the interview of the witness on a documentary years ago. The only thing I can find on it now is Case #1 on the link below, and unfortunately it doesn't mention the names. https://www.google.com/amp/s/gizmodo.com/10-cases-of-spontaneous-human-combustion-5855700/amp
Well, back before safety matches were a thing, people's pockets DID have a nasty habit of catching on fire... not sure if that's what this is referencing, though...
Remember that one woman who got cremated from spontaneous combustion but one of her (I can't remember if it was a hand or foot) was completely unscathed and nobody knows how or why
I find this fascinating! Notice how we haven't had the phenomenon occur in recent history at all? In each case, the room around them was unburnt. Nothing else showed any signs of burning, only the person. I think it was a foot left in that one case. No one has definitively discovered the source! All angles were looked into.... Very interesting.... I wish I knew how to spontaneously combust someone else, that must be quite a skill to have.
I thought this was how i was going to die when I was 12. I thought just by thinking about it, I would make it happen.
The explanation for most cases - that people died or became unconscious and then got set on fire (by a cigarette say, or a fire in the room) and then their body fat acted like candle wax and their clothes like a wick - is considerably more disturbing IMHO.
This should be next to or inside the "anatomically correct" a**s house that was at the beginning of this web page.
Anyone care to explain what it looks like? I am pretending I am innocent and that the internet has not ruined me.
It's called a christmas tree but it was purposely designed to look like an a**l plug. It was made for a temporary exhibition. It made a lot of people laugh and was mostly well received. But some tight assed people demanded that it be taken down, one a*****e attacked the artist and the sculpture was eventually destroyed at night by some morons.
Load More Replies...I’ve seen this in Harry Potter with the third use and I’ve never understood what “give light only to the person holding it” means
Draco used it at some point. It means you could use a spell or item like darkness powder to blind your enemies, and the hand would provide light for you. So everyone else would be totally blind but you'd be seeing just fine.
Load More Replies...Do I want to know how they discovered those magical properties?? Who even decided that making a candle out of that guy would be a good idea?
House with a Clock in its Walls! Now I'm going to have to go read it again.
Never heard of it preventing flu but I remember a very old person saying it was supposed to help clear a stuffy nose if you already had a cold or flu.
One of the ingredients in Vicks VapoRub, which is still used for colds and flu today.
Load More Replies...I haven't thought of that for many decades, but back in the early 70s my gran crocheted necklaces with a pouch for camphor to ward off meningitis. I even remember mine was red with a baby pink trim. We were all vaccinated of course so goodness knows what she was thinking.
My mom made me 1 of these when I got laryngitis the night before I had a huge solo in a church production. Got my voice back enough that I could pull it off during the performance, then my voice gave out right after. Whew!
Getting shocked wouldn't have had anything to do with the suit itself, it would be from a leaking capacitor and floating chassis ground in one of his amplifiers.
Scopophilia, the opposite of scopophobia, a fear of being watched or stared at.
Over a span of 20 years. Oh my heart aches for the pain those parents endured.
Thank you! I was unsure what the year range meant here
Load More Replies...Infant mortality rate back in those days was incredibly high in thosedays
So they buried all 8 of their dead infants in the same spot for 20 years? I know the infant mortality rate from that time was very high, but this seems excessive. Was she a serial baby killer? Did they have genetic issues? I would imagine sids or shaken baby syndrome must have been impossible to prove back then..... So baby's died all the time, how many were helped to be unalived? That seems so dark...
The 1973 book Wisconsin Death Trip is full of morbid 19th C. tidbits. Madness and goiters aplenty
I feel like that hair isn't that weird for the 60s! What is weird is that thing that looks like a fish on the top left corner.
At first I creeped out because I thought these were dog heads with swollen eyes. Enough internet for today.
As a stylist, the amount of time and materials that go into something like this would cost a LOT of money. Booking a stylist for at least an entire day can costs them potentially thousands if dollars is being taken into consideration as well as the amount of money to purchase the extra hair. Then factor in color matching said hair to clients own natural hair could take several attempts to perfect. Then attaching and creating the silhouette with that amount of height would be a trial and error process all it's own. Dang. If I walked into work and this was on my books I'd take an immediate FMLA for anxiety to avoid it. 💯
If I'm not mistaken Buddhists minimalists/live with as few worldly possessions as possible, it just seems ironic and wrong to me to cover his remains in gold.
The gold isn't his possession, though - it's a sacrifice of the people who provide it post-mortem as a sign of reverence/respect. Buddha images are often crafted out of precious materials or covered in them; there are even Buddha images made of solid gold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Buddha_(statue)
Load More Replies...Isn't it a bit disrespectful to exhume a corpse like that and decide to put gold leaf on it and display it?
By whose standards? Different cultures treat their dead differently. It would be pretty disrespectful for me to eat my dead grandma but for the Fore people it was a sign of respect and an important funerary rite.
Load More Replies...Usually reliquaries held body parts or hair or whatever from a saint, though I’m sure people did the same thing for loved ones.
Load More Replies...Yea..... No i do not have neither the curiosity nor the will of sleeping in someones a*s.
Atm, a magpie skull, sparrow skull, super long snake skin, a couple of fox vertebrae, random fossils, etc...
is it normal that i read scare as scarce, and scarce as scare? and no, i wasnt diagnosed with dyslexia
Load More Replies...In the later stages of syphillis, the nose would decay away, causing. Well.
Check out The Libertine with Johnny Depp as Lord Wilmot. He progresses through several stages of syphilis with really well-done makeup application. Nasty.
Load More Replies...If you want to hear something even more awful about "cupid's disease" look up "The Virgin Cure".
The virgin cleansing myth. It says that having sex with a virgin will cleanse you of STI's and/or HIV / Aids. It is completely disturbing and sick.
Load More Replies...Well f*ck... I'm a little disappointed. No one remembered that if you put a bunch of dogs together they'll create a pack, and then behave as a pack, which includes hunting as a pack, and pack pecking orders? Dottie knew what was up when those dogs rushed out, and she sent them all a clear message. Sucks - but there it is.
I completely agree with you on all points except that it was a single dog that ran out towards them, but dottie probably felt that she had to protect her family and she may have sensed the intent of the corgi very quickly. The type of dog that dottie was is not usually aggressive but is protective of their family.
Load More Replies...Behaviour problems can happen with any dog, they definitely dont have to be spoiled brats.
Load More Replies...The nipping (not the actual biting incidents) is because they're bred to herd cattle and they nip at the heels of cattle to get them to go where they want to. As with other herding dogs they will tend to try and herd the humans in their family.
Reading the part about the Queen trying to break up a fight between 10 corgis is quite the visual.
Corgies are vicious little dogs! When we were little, my sister was 3, I was 7. The neighbors had a corgi. Was a very friendly dog. One day my sister was petting it, she was sitting on her knees. The little demon for no reason attacked my sister and ripped her face up. Needed a lot of stitches. This was 30+ years ago. She's fine now with minimal scars, but Holy cow! That was terrifying!
I'm curious whether it helped a bit or whether it was complete nonsense, but it's difficult to find info. The only thing I could find is how supposedly worked: "The apparatus, operated by electricity, is attached to the patients head, and the nose is strapped to tiny heat conducting plates which fit like spectacles. A high frequency current is applied for a few minutes and this heat penetrates to the tissues of the mucous membranes of the nose. The congestion is immediately relieved and the germs causing the cold are killed by the current which, however, does not injure the tissues. "
The principle seems sound, though the ability of the device to execute that principle seems unlikely.
Load More Replies...Doctor: He's dead! Professor: Ah, but does he still have a cold? Doctor: Well, technically, no. Professor: It works!
I live in the middle of nowhere and the closest McDonalds is almost 3 hours away. Fast food is a super rare treat and it’s caused me to get really weird about McDonalds - especially quarter pounder BLTs 😍
maccas is great, BLT is great, quarter pounder is great, no controversial material found!
Load More Replies...I don't see it in the list, so perhaps it has already been removed, but the cover image for this post on the main page depicts a skull with mushroom-like features with the caption "The skull of a victim of the 1806 Mycelium infections. The fungus grew into the bones and broke out of the skin to spread spores". This was a fictional tale and photoshopped image posted to a the Imaginary Horrors subreddit. It's pretty cool and would be terrifying if real, but it's not real.
I think they removed it. Some pandas pointed out that it's fake.
Load More Replies...I don't see it in the list, so perhaps it has already been removed, but the cover image for this post on the main page depicts a skull with mushroom-like features with the caption "The skull of a victim of the 1806 Mycelium infections. The fungus grew into the bones and broke out of the skin to spread spores". This was a fictional tale and photoshopped image posted to a the Imaginary Horrors subreddit. It's pretty cool and would be terrifying if real, but it's not real.
I think they removed it. Some pandas pointed out that it's fake.
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