Another children’s medicine, Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, did contain morphine. In these photographs, people would take a recently deceased family member and stage them, either in a family portrait or alone, as if the deceased was just sleeping or resting.
There was a belief in the Middle Ages that corpses retained a tiny spark of life and were therefore magical, which justified the practice of ‘cruentation’.
As such, you probably think there's no gruesome detail of that fateful day with which you're unfamiliar, and to that we emphatically say, "No, you are wrong. The horror came full circle when parents stopped allowing their children out onto the streets after dark for fear of them being abducted and eaten by roving bands of cannibals, sort of like The Warriors if all the gangs spent less time on decorative themed outfits and more time violently eating screaming toddlers. You’ve probably heard of the Salem witch trials, but the hunt for witches goes back much further than that. For example, tattoos were very popular, especially with Victorian women.
Parker was so convinced of his theory that he rounded up three "deputies" (one of them his own son) to revenge-kidnap Wendel, carry him to a house in Brooklyn, and beat the ever-loving shit out of him until he talked. They only had enough oxygen left to survive for three days. By the time they got to him, he was dead. That mustache can begrudgingly be added to his list of accomplishments. World War II is an embarrassment of riches for anyone who gets off reading about unrelenting horror.
–Darclite, Some people in the Victorian Era made jewelry out of their deceased loved ones. While not gross or scandalous, this history fact is still something of a downer. The Normans coaxed them into charging by sending a juggler out.
The Albigensian Crusade of 1209 to 1229 had nothing to do with the Holy Land, but rather targeted a Christian sect in Southern France.
No one knows how famed creepy writer Edgar Allan Poe died. Not a single person was killed.
The king continued to slip into catatonia periodically for the rest of his life.
If you lived in the 1340s, you would have had only a 50% chance of survival—and that’s not counting all the other stuff that could kill you! It was a massive advance in the science of behavioral conditioning and dog pranks. In some cases, the noses, lips, or other body parts of the affected people were essentially gone, and several of the victims eventually died from the disease. Robert’s tale formed the basis for the film Child’s Play.
There are many ghoulish stories of corpses rising from the dead in the Middle Ages. He was never coherent enough to explain what had happened, and he kept shouting “Reynolds” the night before his death. The material on the race track was most of his brain. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
In January of 1919, an enormous molasses tank burst in the North End of Boston. You may have hit on the major points of humanity's past, but there are plenty of gory details to be uncovered, ranging from fascinating to absolutely gruesome.
The worst part is that the victim would not bleed as long as the spikes were in, and so they would be alive for the whole ordeal—until they were removed. Sometimes, criminals would have to wear scary animal masks around in public or in the stocks. While that’s just a legend, The Devil’s Bible does exist as a real text, and it appears to have been written completely by the hand of a single scribe…. John Mercer Langston was also the great-uncle of Langston Hughes, famed poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Even if it’s your best friend, you would no longer be able to distinguish a face from anything else. When we picture the establishment of the U.S. National Park System, we imagine President Theodore Roosevelt thundering in atop a wild moose, marking off the territory to be preserved with a weighty stream of presidential urine, and willing the stone from the surrounding countryside to form itself into an elaborate entranceway beneath which future generations would pass to take in nature's splendor. As late as 1902, edible wafers containing arsenic were sold to improve any facial imperfection—you know, because that’s what you think of when you think ‘arsenic.’ The wafers were supposed to be most effective with constant use, which definitely didn’t help its users’ health.
President Lincoln’s assassination had a lingering effect on one survivor of the attack.