Morbid Fact Du Jour For April 25, 2008 |
Today's Monstrous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
What could be more horrific than creating a two-headed dog? (See the previous morbid fact.) What about keeping the severed head of a dog alive apart from its b...
Posted by The Comtesse DeSpair on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:39:00 PST |
Morbid Fact Du Jour For April 20, 2008 |
Today's Monstrous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
In 1954 Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world by unveiling a surgically created monstrosity: A two-headed dog. He created the creature in a lab on the outskirts...
Posted by The Comtesse DeSpair on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:23:00 PST |
Morbid Fact Du Jour For April 17, 2008 |
Today's Motionless Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A window cleaner drowned in his bucket of water after suddenly collapsing while he worked, an inquest heard. Mark Fairhurst, 35, of Wigan, Greater Manchester...
Posted by The Comtesse DeSpair on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:07:00 PST |
Morbid Fact Du Jour For April 15, 2008 |
Today's Vintage Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
From the October, 1921 issue of National Geographic:
The Jivaroan tribes inhabit the tropical forest of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon. The Jivaro Indians h...
Posted by The Comtesse DeSpair on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:16:00 PST |
Morbid Fact Du Jour For April 14, 2008 |
Today's Trampled Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
When the Sassanid king Chosroes II, who had a harem of 3,000 wives and 12,000 female slaves, demanded as wife Hadiqah, the daughter of the Christian Arab Na'am...
Posted by The Comtesse DeSpair on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:18:00 PST |
Morbid Fact Du Jour For April 1, 2008 |
Today’s Circumstantial Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
The explosion at Demag Riggers and Cranes in Williston, Vermont on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 that killed a worker was caused by powerful fireworks sto...
Posted by The Comtesse DeSpair on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:24:00 PST |
Morbid Fact Du Jour For March 31, 2008 |
Today’s Undigested Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
King Adolf Frederick of Sweden loved to eat and died from it too! The "King Who Ate Himself to Death" died in 1771 at the age of 61 from a digestive pr...
Posted by The Comtesse DeSpair on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:14:00 PST |
Morbid Fact Du Jour For March 26, 2008 |
Today’s Unwed Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Between 1576 and 1617, nineteen women in Germany were subjected to the following brutal routine: an unwed mother, suspected of killing her newborn, was arre...
Posted by The Comtesse DeSpair on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:20:00 PST |
Morbid Fact Du Jour For March 25, 2008 |
Today’s Sunk Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
K-141 Kursk was a Russian nuclear cruise missile submarine which was lost with all hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000. She was launched...
Posted by The Comtesse DeSpair on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:54:00 PST |
Morbid Fact Du Jour For March 24, 2008 |
Today’s Remorseless Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
James Carl Lee Davis was executed on September 9, 1997 in Texas by lethal injection for beating to death three children with a lead pipe. When police ...
Posted by The Comtesse DeSpair on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:20:00 PST |
