Jonathan Gerlack of Pennsylvania is facing over 500 criminal charges after he was caught digging up local graves for human trophies. More than 100 sets of skeletal remains were found inside of his home and a storage locker.
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The public may take the candy, but it represents the societal contribution to a slow, arduous death to AIDS. The sweetness of the candy, however, represents the essence of the man who died.
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1991, “Untitled”. A pile of free candy, the pile can be staged in any art gallery anywhere but must weigh 175 pounds, which was the healthy weight of Gonzalez-Torres’ partner Ross Laycock, who died of AIDS.
Sandie Wood had a terminal cancer diagnosis so she knew what she had to do.
Hire a flash mob to dance to "Another One Bites the Dust" at her funeral.
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The final children, Alexei and Maria, were found in 2007.
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The skulls of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, their four daughters (Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia), and three servants (doctor, cook, footman) recovered from shallow Graves in Russia.
81 years after their deaths, the bones of Nicholas II and his family were found by an amateur archeologist and confirmed by DNA. They were interred with honors on 7/17/98.
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The Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana is a manmade lake of death thanks to its toxic pH levels. This body of water was created to manage acidic overflow from the copper mine that functioned on the spot until 1982.
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The tilberi, the Icelandic witch's familiar created to steal milk.
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"For the next three Sundays, at the communion table, she spits sanctified wine onto the bundle, slowly bringing it to life with each ritual. Finally, to complete the creature’s birth, she lets it suckle from the inside of her thigh, leaving a wart-like mark as a permanent reminder of the dark deed."
"The ritual to create a tilberi is both chilling and secretive. At dawn on Whitsunday, a woman must steal a rib from a freshly buried body. She then wraps this rib in grey wool—wool that must also be stolen, plucked from a widow’s sheep just after it has been sheared..."
We are NOT the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn.
Historians pushing back against a flawed narrative.
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Franklin Roosevelt was given a gift of a letter-opener made of a Japanese soldier's arm by U.S. Representative Francis E. Walter from Pennsylvania in 1944. Roosevelt called for its proper burial.
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Antique Doctor Table, $425. It's wooden and in a weird position. Drawers. It's a nightmare.
No thanks, Facebook Marketplace!
The hoopla about Bonnie and Clyde was so great, though, that their corses were put on display for public viewing until dark after their deaths.
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There's an incorrect post circulating that Bonnie Parker's body was never claimed. Bonnie's family did claimed her, in Dallas, but they refused to bury her beside Clyde as they blamed him for their daughter's corruption and young death.
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The White Star Line stopped its employees' wages the moment the Titanic sank.
Further atrocity, if a body was found and a family wanted a plot burial, they were required to purchase two first class rail tickets for transport. One for the escort, one for the corpse.
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A tuxedo cat dressed up with horns and a kramous outfit beside an electric candle.
Shout out to catcosplay who does real photography shoots with their cat for this Krampus outfit.
In 1861, Florence Ford passed from yellow fever at age 10. Her mother requested Florence's casket have a window and an adjacent chamber so she could comfort her daughter during the thunderstorms that had scared her in life. People continue the tradition today.
www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-g...
Ed Binkley has created fantasy artwork for three decades. His client list includes Lucasfilm, Ltd., Tool, Suntup Editions, Wizards of the Coast, ImagineFX, among others.
www.edbinkley.com/gallery
"On December 8, 1976, a television production crew filming The Six Million Dollar Man at The Pike needed to move what they assumed was a hanging mannequin. When a prop man grabbed the figure’s arm, it broke off, revealing not wax or plastic..."
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Saint Munditia, patron saint of spinsters, died circa 310 AD, beheaded by a hatchet. She was transferred from the Roman catacombs in 1675 and put on display in Munich, her bones encased in a bejeweled shroud, her hands clasping a glass container of dried blood.
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A group of crows is a murder of crows.
A group of ravens is a conspiracy of ravens.
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My favorite line is, "This is worth 30,000-40,000 but if the child had been attractive it would have been worth 60,000-70,000."
