Did you, pandas, know that a breast implant once saved a woman from a bullet? Well, you learn something new every day. I’m sure this list of strange and scary facts is a treasure trove for enthusiasts of curiosities.TheMorbid KnowledgeX account has over 1 million followers and only a year has passed since its inception in October 2022. The account also has a website calledMorbidful, “the ultimate destination for those who love to delve into the dark and morbid world of true crime, horror, and everything in between.” We warn you, though – some entries in this list are not for the faint of heart, so proceed at your own risk, pandas.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Did you, pandas, know that a breast implant once saved a woman from a bullet? Well, you learn something new every day. I’m sure this list of strange and scary facts is a treasure trove for enthusiasts of curiosities.
TheMorbid KnowledgeX account has over 1 million followers and only a year has passed since its inception in October 2022. The account also has a website calledMorbidful, “the ultimate destination for those who love to delve into the dark and morbid world of true crime, horror, and everything in between.” We warn you, though – some entries in this list are not for the faint of heart, so proceed at your own risk, pandas.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
In 2006, a man offered a hitman $50,000 to eliminate his wife, Susan Kuhnhausen, using a hammer and staging it as a failed robbery. However, when the hired assailant arrived and assaulted her, Susan fought back, ultimately strangling and killing the hitman.
The Morbidful universe is not just the aforementioned website and the X page. They also share stories on Instagram under the account namedMorbidfull. There’s also aYouTubechannel where you can find videos of unsettling and spooky stuff in their signature style.The Morbidful team describes themselves as a dedicated team of writers and researchers. They aim to bring their readers “the most fascinating and bone-chilling stories from around the world.”
The Morbidful universe is not just the aforementioned website and the X page. They also share stories on Instagram under the account namedMorbidfull. There’s also aYouTubechannel where you can find videos of unsettling and spooky stuff in their signature style.
The Morbidful team describes themselves as a dedicated team of writers and researchers. They aim to bring their readers “the most fascinating and bone-chilling stories from around the world.”
Grover Krantz was an anthropologist who donated his body to the Smithsonian Museum to show how skeletons can be educational tools. His only condition was that he wanted his loving dog next to even after death.
Born on September 23, 1988, Matthew Robinson faced significant challenges from birth, being blind and paralyzed from the neck down due to oxygen deprivation.Despite doctors' grim prognosis of only a few hours, Matthew defied expectations, living a remarkable 10-and-a-half years.When Matthew passed away in 1999, his dad decided his gravestone should depict Matthew in his truest form and signify hope rather than grief.
The project operates on the premise that there are people who are intrinsically interested in the darker side of the human psyche. It’s for people interested in exploring the psyches of serial killers, the supernatural, and haunted places. Historical stories with macabre and bizarre elements also have their place in the Morbidful universe.“Our blog is not for the faint-hearted, but for those who are brave enough to explore the depths of human darkness,” the website’s bio reads. “With regular updates and new stories added every week, you can be sure that there will always be something new and fascinating to discover on Morbidful.”
The project operates on the premise that there are people who are intrinsically interested in the darker side of the human psyche. It’s for people interested in exploring the psyches of serial killers, the supernatural, and haunted places. Historical stories with macabre and bizarre elements also have their place in the Morbidful universe.
“Our blog is not for the faint-hearted, but for those who are brave enough to explore the depths of human darkness,” the website’s bio reads. “With regular updates and new stories added every week, you can be sure that there will always be something new and fascinating to discover on Morbidful.”
During a medical procedure in 2020, Dagmar Turner performed her violin while surgeons operated to remove a tumor from her brain’s right frontal lobe. This unique act aimed to help surgeons avoid harming the brain region responsible for coordination and delicate hand movements, crucial for her musical abilities. Thankfully, the surgery was successful.
Morbidful has 1.2 million followers on X and 136k on Instagram. They’re part of the booming interest in true crime and supernatural stories. According to thePew Research Center, 34% of adults in the U.S. who listen to podcasts say they regularly listen to shows about true crime.
Photo from 1999, taken amid the Kosovo War, shoes Mustafa Xaja, an Albanian man who had lost his two children and was desperately trying to find them.Sometime after, the Newsweek journalist who took the photo, returned to Kosovo and journeyed to Mitrovica, Mustafa’s hometown.The reporter located Mustafa and inquired about his family. Astonishingly, Mustafa confirmed that his wife and children were alive and they reunited.
A note containing the final request of 50-year-old former NFL safety Dave Duerson that he left when he ended his own life on February 27, 2011. His brain, as he suspected, was found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy as a result of the concussions he suffered during his playing career.
In 2017, Yang Ming, a 37-year-old, was thrown backward onto a protruding metal rod after accidentally coming into contact with a live wire at a construction site.His coworkers opted to leave the pole in place and quickly transported him to the hospital, where surgeons could safely extract it.Ming underwent a successful seven-hour surgery at Sichuan University West China Hospital, during which the protruding rod was safely removed. Fortunately, the rod missed all vital organs, and he survived.
Assistant professor at the University of OregonWhitney Phillipsteaches three reasons why people are so drawn to the genre of true crime. First, it’s the mystery element. Differently from books and movies, “true crime allows audience members the chance to feel invested in a real mystery unfolding before them.”
The Siberian Ice Maiden, also known as the Princess of Ukok, is a mummy of a woman with tattoos from the 5th century BC, Republic of Alta, Russia.The Body of Princess Ukok, who died aged 25, had several tattoos on her body, including a deer with a griffon’s beak and a Capricorn’s antlers. The tattoos have been perfectly preserved for 2,500 years.
In 2016, a 26-year-man from the U.K., named Ben Innes, was on an EgyptAir flight to Cairo.During the flight, a passenger named Seif Eldin Mustafa, hijacked the plane, wearing a vest packed with explosives and carrying a detonator.The hijacker demanded that the pilot land the plane in Cyprus instead of Egypt. The pilot obliged fearing the terrorist would detonate the bomb if he didn’t.Upon arriving in Cyprus, Seif Eldin released 52 out of the 55 terrified passengers but kept 3 passengers as well as 4 of the plane’s crew on board as hostages.Among these remaining 7 was Ben Innes.Ben decided to walk up to the hijacker and then ask him if he could take a selfie. Although slightly bewildered, the hijacker allowed him to take the picture.Thankfully, the bomb turned out to be fake. Seif Eldin was arrested and the remaining 7 people on board were freed.When questioned about why he took the photo, Ben explained that he was attempting to remain optimistic. He reasoned that if the bomb turned out to be real, he felt he would have nothing to lose anyway.
Secondly, there’s an element of interactiveness in the experience. You can be sitting on your couch at home and trying to solve the mystery. The third explanation, according to Phillips, is the reason why true crime’s biggest demographic is white women.
On 19th of September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps, the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC was found. According to researchers, Ötzi, also called the Iceman, was killed due to the presence of an arrowhead embedded in his left shoulder and various other wounds.
A U.S. marine gives a cigarette to an injured Japanese soldier, buried in the sand at the battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.
In the 1930s, two scientists, Winthrop Kellogg and his wife Luella conducted a cross-rearing study, in which a 7 month old chimpanzee named Gua was raised alongside their 10 month old human child, Donald.For nine months, Gua and Donald were raised as “brother and sister,” and the parents recorded their development.At around the 6 month mark, Gua was recorded as being able to learn many human behaviors quicker than Donald, but unlike Donald, Gua was unable to speak or form any words.The experiment was abruptly stopped 9 months in because Donald started to mimic the noises Gua made and had started behaving more like a chimp.
This is the last known photo taken of raggae legend Bob Marley before he succumbed to cancer on May 11, 1981. He was on his way home to Jamaica, but never made it. He passed away at a hospital in Miami at the age of 36. His final words to his son Ziggy were “Money can’t buy life.”
Whitney Phillips usesone piece of researchin her Media Ethics class to confirm the theory of why white women are more likely to be fans of true crime podcasts. That theory is this: women turn to true crime because they have anxiety about potential threats. By listening to and watching such shows, they feel more prepared in case something similar happens to them.
In 2009, a man sued Pepsi alleging that he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew. However, Pepsi attorneys stated that Mountain Dew will dissolve a mouse in 30 days, and showed that his can was purchased 74 days after being manufactured.
Ghosts, haunted houses and other unexplained phenomena are regularly featured on Morbidful as well. Associate professor Eddy White from the University of Arizona says our fascination with the supernatural comes from searching for meaning in a complicated world. It also has to do with mortality, and that’s where fortune tellers, psychics and ghosts come into play. Other people turn to the supernatural due to feeling insignificant.
In the year 500BC a corrupt judge who took a bribe, named Sisamnes,was skinned alive. The King ordered his skin be used to upholster the chair that his son Otanes would sit on as his chosen successor, to be reminded of his Fathers corruption, and ensure fairness in all his hearings and sentences.
In 1945, a B-25 bomber accidentally crashed into the Empire State Building due to intense fog, claiming the lives of 14 people.Amongst other damages, the plane severed the cables of the elevator and the operator inside, Betty Lou Oliver, fell 75 stories to the basement, somehow managing to survive. She still holds the world record for the longest survived elevator fall.
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“The world of science makes us feel smaller and smaller as we realize that the universe and the cosmos is much, much larger,“White explained. “Science is discovering what is out there, but not our place in it. So people look to other areas where they can find some answers to those questions.”
In 2004, two brothers from Austria called Andreas and Christopher, fell through the ice of a frozen lake near Vienna.They were submerged for at least 30 minutes before being rescued. Both of them had stopped breathing, their hearts had stopped, and they were both clinically dead.Despite no hope that either could be saved, emergency services tried to revive them and after working for 30 minutes heard a faint heartbeat coming from Andreas. Half an hour later Christopher also began to show signs of life.After nearly an entire month in a coma, Andreas recovered fully and bud Christopher was on his way to a full recovery.At the time, Dr Arnold Pollak, the head of the paediatric clinic at the Vienna General Hospital, said: “Andreas’ recovery happened so quickly it borders on a miracle.”
These are human hands, suffering from extreme gout. Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter saved them off of a deceased patient to study. He’d been suffering from the condition himself. Gout is a form of arthritis, where your joints become inflames and swollen.
There’s also a much simpler explanation for why we might love ghouls, the Slender Man, andAmerican Horror Story. It’s just entertaining – sometimes it’s fun to be scared. “We’re in a state of heightened awareness, but we know at the same time that we are safe,” Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of ArizonaJerry Hoglesays. “We can take pleasure in the endorphins going off like this without actually being threatened.”
In 2015, Aitabdel Salem, a 41-year-old from Queens, spent 5 months in jail at Rikers Island, one of the country’s most notorious prisons, not knowing that his bail was just $2.Salem was initially jailed on a $25,000 bail for allegedly attacking a police officer who was arresting him on charges of shoplifting on November 21, 2014.Prosecutors for the case, however, failed to land an indictment, and a judge ordered Salem’s release on November 28, 2014, just one week after his arrest.Salem, however, still had to pay two $1 bail charges for two unrelated tampering and mischief charges.The only problem: Salem didn’t know just $2 could set him free. He remained in the overcrowded prison until May 2015.
In 2014, three people died inside a flight simulator in a flight safety building at the Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport, Kansas, when a real plane crashed into it. The pilot of the Beechcraft King Air B200 twin turboprop was killed along with three people in the building; six more people in the building were injured.
Dissection shows a nut lodged in the trachea of a child that unfortunately resulted in child’s passing.
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This is a picture of the diary of Clive Wearing. In 1985 he contracted contracted herpesviral encephalitis, a herpes simplex virus that attacked his central nervous system.Since then, he has been unable to store new memories. He has also been unable to associate memories effectively or to control his emotions, exhibiting unstable moods.Wearing developed a case of total amnesia as a result of his illness. Because of damage to the hippocampus (an area required to transfer memories from short-term to long-term memory), he is completely unable to form lasting new memories.His memory for events lasts between seven and thirty seconds. He spends every day ‘waking up’ every 20 seconds or so, ‘restarting’ his consciousness once the timespan of his short-term memory has elapsed.During this time, he repeatedly questions why he has not seen a doctor, as he constantly believes that he has only recently awoken from a coma.If he is engaged in conversation, he is able to provide answers to questions, but he cannot stay in the flow of conversation for longer than a few sentences and is angered if he is asked about his current situation.Wearing remembers little of his life before 1985. He knows, for example, that he has children from an earlier marriage, but he cannot remember their names.
Photo from 1997 of 14-month old Thai infant, Chanayuth Nim-anong, being rescued from the crash site of Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on September 3rd. Of the 66 people onboard the aircraft, the infant was the only survivor.
Photo taken on May 23rd, 1933, shows Bonnie and Clyde’s last kiss just a few hours before they were killed.
This Paul Karason. He was an American man who became famous for his unusual blue skin color. Karason, born in Washington State in 1950, developed a condition called argyria after he self-medicated with colloidal silver.He believed the silver would help cure his dermatitis, sinus problems, and other ailments. Argyria is a condition that happens as a result of silver exposure; it tends to turn the skin a bluish-gray color, and Karason’s skin was no exception.After his condition became public, Karason became known as the “Blue Man.” He appeared on many television shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show.He lost his life at the age of 62 in 2013 after suffering a heart attack.
Shahzada and Suleman Dawood on June 13, 2023, just days before they both lost their lives on the Oceangate Titan Implosion.
In 1989, Dr. Ole Bentzen, a 56-year-old Danish audiologist who was reportedly in good health, watched the 1988 comedy film “A Fish Called Wanda.“The film includes a scene where actor Michael Palin has French fries stuffed up his nose. Bentzen found this scene so amusing that his heart rate surged to an estimated 250-500 beats per minute, ultimately resulting in a fatal heart attack.
In July 2009, Jeffrey Locker, a father of three and a motivational speaker, was discovered deceased in his car in East Harlem. He had suffered seven stab wounds to the chest, and his credit card was absent.The perpetrator of the crime, Kenneth Minor, used Locker’s ATM card on five occasions at different locations, enabling the police to swiftly locate and apprehend him.Minor claimed that Locker hired him to help him end his own life and stage his death as a robbery. This was so that Locker’s family could claim his $18 million life insurance.Initially, Minor was sentenced to 20 years to life. But in 2014 his sentence was reduced to 12 years.
Mike the Headless Chicken, aka “Miracle Mike” was an American chicken that lived for 18 months after a failed slaughter attempt in 1945.When Mike did not die after being struck with an axe, farmer Lloyd Olsen instead decided to care for the bird. He fed it a mixture of milk and water via an eyedropper, and gave it small grains of corn.After nearly 2 years of nationwide fame, Mike choked to death on a corn kernel in 1947.
Jimmy Savile once tricked Boxing legend Frank Bruno into being photographed shaking hands with serial killer Peter Sutcliffe. Bruno was visiting Broadmoor hospital to open a gym more than 30 years ago.Bruno stated that had no idea that the bearded patient he was meeting was in fact a notorious serial killer who had killed 13 women.Bruno said Savile had orchestrated the whole thing and then sneered at him afterwards once he admitted who Sutcliffe was.
On June 3, 2011, 20-year-old Indiana University student Lauren Spierer disappeared following an evening at Kilroy’s Sports Bar in Bloomington, Indiana.At 12:30 am Lauren left her apartment with a friend named David Rohn. The pair went to Jay Rosenbaum’s apartment, and she met up with Corey Rossman, Rosenbaum’s neighbor. Just over one hour later she was seen entering Kilroy’s bar.After leaving the bar less than one hour later, multiple witnesses recounted seeing Lauren and described her as being very intoxicated. Lauren also left her cell phone and shoes at the bar.At 4:30am Lauren was seen leaving an apartment and hasn’t been seen since.
In 2019, 35-year-old Mikhail Prokhorov, leaped from an Mi-8 helicopter during a routine training jump. Unfortunately both of his parachutes failed to open and he plunged 2,600ft to his death.
Morten Viskum is a Norwegian artist that used severed hands as paintbrushes to paint his series called “The Hand that Never Stopped Painting.” Viskum also substituted paint for animal bloods in some of his paintings.
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