Fiendish Curiosities
February 16th, 2010
Enthusiasts of the bizarre will find plenty to love at Fiendish Curiosities:
Thanks to Pamazon for the link.
Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 15, 2010
February 15th, 2010
Today’s Modest Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
The issue of female modesty arose during the first electrocution of a woman at Sing Sing in New York in 1899. Martha Place of Brooklyn strangled her pretty stepdaughter, then attacked her husband with an axe. The National Police Gazette reported that authorities took special precautions during the execution: “The warden beckoned to two women physicians to stand close, and their gowns hid the scene of the buckling of the electrode on the woman’s leg near the knee. When the work was done one of the woman doctors pulled down the skirt so that the electrode and leg were covered.” In less than seven minutes, Mrs. Place was pronounced dead. “The execution had been successful in every way. The first woman to be killed under the law had been put to death humanely.”
Culled from: An Underground Education
Somehow the idea of electrical currents coursing through my body, singeing my skin and causing my blood to boil, doesn’t sound particularly humane… but maybe that’s just me?
Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 14, 2010
February 15th, 2010
Today’s Repetitive Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
In 1991, a 57-year-old Thai woman Yooket Paen was walking in her farm when she accidentally slipped on a cow dung, grabbed a naked live wire and got electrocuted to death. Soon after Paen’s funeral, her 52-year-old-sister Yooket Pan was showing her neighbors how the accident happened when she herself slipped, grabbed the same live wire and also got electrocuted to death!
Culled from: Neatorama
Generously submitted by: Bex
Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 13, 2010
February 14th, 2010
Today’s Mercurial Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
One of the saddest deaths of a scientist was that of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) who suffered with prostrate trouble. At a royal banquet in Prague he dare not leave the table to relieve himself, with the result that his bladder split and he died a few days later. Analysis of a strand of his hair, which had the root intact, showed that the day before he died he was given a mercurial medicine in an effort to safe his life. It is now believed that mercury poisoning may have been the actual cause of death.
Culled from: The Elements Of Murder
The Autopsy You’ve Been Waiting For…
February 10th, 2010
The full Michael Jackson autopsy is available for your perusal. Don’t you think that the best part about celebrities dying is getting to read every little tidbit about their bodies after they’re dead? Or maybe that’s just me?
Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 8, 2010
February 8th, 2010
Today’s Negative Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
When asked if he had any last words, Cherokee Bill, a hoodlum hanged in 1896, replied, “No. I came here to die, not make a speech.”
Culled from: Death: A History Of Man’s Obsessions and Fears
Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 7, 2010
February 7th, 2010
Today’s Burnt Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Joseph Strutt, in his Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of England (1775), described the execution of Catherine Hayes at Tyburn in 1726 – which didn’t quite go as planned:
“The letter of the law to this very day, I believe, condemns a woman, who doth murder her husband, to be burnt alive… In the case of Catherine Hayes (who, for the murder of her husband, some few years ago, was adjudged to suffer death at the stake), the intention was first to strangle her; but as they used at that time to draw a rope which was fastened round the culprit’s neck, and came through a staple of the stake, but at the very moment that the fire was put to the wood which was set around, the flames sometimes reached the offenders before they were quite strangled – just so it happened to her; for the fire taking quick hold of the wood, and the wind being brisk, blew the smoke and blaze so full in the faces of the executioners, who were pulling at the rope, that they were obliged to let go their hold before they had quite strangled her; so that, as I have been informed by some there present, she suffered much torment before she died. But now they are first hanged at the stake until they are quite dead, and then the fire is kindled round, and the body burnt to ashes.”
Culled from: The History Of Torture
New Albert Fish Shirt
February 7th, 2010
In my continuing collaboration with Juror2.Com, we introduce a new Serial Killer Quotes shirt: The Albert Fish!
“I like children – they are tasty.”
- Albert Hamilton Fish
(The Werewolf of Wisteria)
On the sleeve is the Morbid Fact Du Jour skull & crossbones logo. Available where all fine MFDJ shirts are sold: The Etsy Morbid Fact Du Jour shop. Get yours today!
Crafty!
February 6th, 2010
Here’s something you can do with those disembodied baby doll parts you have lying around your pad.
Thanks to Faith for the link.
Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 6, 2010
February 6th, 2010
Today’s Yellow And Blue Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
In 1991, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude put up an environmental installation art of thousands of giant yellow and blue umbrellas in California and Japan. The giant umbrellas, which measured about 20 foot (6 m) in height, 28 foot (8.7 m) in diameter and weighed about 500 lb, became a huge tourist attraction. Less than two months after the installation opened, Lori Rae Keevil-Mathews, a 33-year-old woman drove out to see the umbrellas in California. A wind gust uprooted one of the umbrellas and blew it straight at her, crushing her against a boulder and killing her. Christo immediately ordered all of the umbrellas taken down. The umbrellas, however, took another life – this time in Japan. Crane operator Masaaki Nakamura was electrocuted when the machine’s arm touched a 65,000-volt high-tension line when removing the umbrellas.
Culled from: Neatorama
Generously submitted by: Bex
