30 Creepy Historical Artifacts To Shiver Your Timbers
Humans like stuff. One could argue that most of human history can be interpreted as a singular quest for more stuff, better stuff, and increasingly addictive stuff. Heck, they didn't name it the Iron Age because of an overabundance of a micronutrient -- we've named entire spans of human history after the kind of stuff we were generally preoccupied with at the time.
So it should come as no surprise, as we fish things out of the strange gumbo of human history, that we find some generally inexplicable and bizarre things.
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Mechanized Gorilla Teeth And Head Gear Worn By Gorilla Impersonator Ray 'Crash' Corrigan In White Pongo (P.r.c. Pictures, 1945)
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Ok, Are You Ready To Cry? About 4500 Years Ago, Ancient Egyptian Parents Put This Homemade Ball In Their Child's Grave As A Toy For The Kid To Play With In The Afterlife
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Dummy Head Used By Scientific Educators Around The Turn-Of-The-Century To Demonstrate Static Electricity
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Boots Worn By Children Who Were Struck By Lightning At St Eata's Church In The Village Of Atcham In Shropshire, England On 13 July 1879
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Frans Snyders (1579-1657), 'Studies Of A Cat's Head', Oil On Canvas. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
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When The Lid Is Opened On This Victorian Gold Charm, A Little Demon With Sparkling Rhinestone Eyes Pops Out
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Rosamond Purcell's Unsettling Photographs Of Monkey Specimens With Cotton Ball Eyes, From The Collection Of Harvard's Museum Of Comparative Zoology
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Late Victorian Art Pottery Known As Martinware, Which Depicts A Horrifying Crab With A Grotesque Human Face
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If You Need A Gift For A Child You Hate, Look No Further. These Creepy Chocolate Babies Were Made As Christmas Presents In 1923
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The Impression Of A Supernatural Face In A Tray Of Putty, Made By Italian Psychic Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918)
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This Valentine's Day, Give Her What She Really Wants: A Tissue Sample From The Shower Of Mysterious Meat Chunks That Rained Down On Bath County, Kentucky In March 1876
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Hendrick De Keyser (1565-1621) Was A Dutch Sculptor And Architect Inspired By The Timeless And Majestic Beauty Of A Screaming Baby's Forehead Veins
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Hard Plastic Dolls From The 1940s And 50s, Who Are All Suffering From Sad Doll Disease. This Is A Real Thing And It Is Actually Infectious
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