Creepy history

A human body could be skeletonized in less than four days in highly oxygenated deeper water.

As we have explored before, taking old-timey photos out of context is a recipe for awesomeness. But there is a dark side, too. Some of what passed for everyday life 75 or 100 years ago would send you running screaming in the other direction today. And when those scenes are captured on grainy old-school film, you get the stuff of nightmares. #Creepy #photography #history #wtf

Rogues Hollow is Ohio's very own version of "Sleepy Hollow" and most Ohioans don't even know it exists. Read on if you dare.

TIL you can substitute human blood for eggs in baking.

Spook yourself awake.

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The twins began to speak only to each other and their younger sister. Therapy didn’t work, and sending them to boarding school caused them to go completely catatonic when separated.

With the first photographs being produced over a century ago, the world captured in them looked very different from now. We can feel slightly disconnected from it and imagine we’re looking into a strange reflection of the past instead.

01. Despite being built in 280 BCE, the Colossus of Rhodes was approximately as tall as the Statue of Liberty. #architecture #france #usa #history #beforechristera #christ #jesus #serialkiller #crime #prince #death #king #monarch #chinese #didyouknow #interesting #fascinating

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Compiled by April Slaughter and Troy Taylor If spirits are truly the personalities of those who once lived, then wouldn’t these spirits reflect whatever turmoil might have plagued them in life? And if hauntings can sometimes be the effects of trauma being imprinted on the atmosphere of a place, then wouldn’t places where terror and insanity were commonplace be especially prone to these hauntings? As an answer to both of these questions, we need point no further to the crumbling remains of…

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1. In the late 1800's you could buy a mummy from street vendors in Egypt and Victorian era parties that were the highlight of the social season were called “A Mummy Unwrapping Party!”

1. Before people knew the full extent of the harmful effects of x-rays, women would get face x-rays in order to kill bacteria which would make their skin look healthy and beautiful. In the 1930s high dose x-ray machines were a popular method for hair removal. Women needed upwards of 15 treatments a year to induce permanent hair removal. After a while, people who underwent these treatments started developing tumors on their faces and some even died.

Wow.