Rogue Taxidermy is a folk-art form where you use dead animal parts to create some new, unique creature that never could have existed... but...

You can't tell me this wasn't Cyriac's first classroom project.

In Crouch End, North London, Trebus was constantly at odds with police over his hoarding behavior . He would come home with wheelbarrows of ...

During the height of witch-hunting in the 15th century, there was a book published in Germany that was a sort of "Witch-Hunting for Dum...

TIL folks of a few centuries ago believed that sperm cells contained little tiny people, perfect replicas of the humans they would become....

Jesus gets thrown out of town: Matthew 8:34 "And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, ...

Heaven's Gate was a UFO cult famous for their 1997 mass suicide, in which 39 members quietly laid down in bunk beds with plastic bags...

I don't usually post stuff of this nature here, but this is an exception just for the bizarre psychology of all three participants. It...

Not many artifacts from 500 years ago strike this kind of balance between "astounding" and "skin-crawlingly creepy", ...

From the Wikipedia article on the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, 305-30 BC. Either this chart is too confusing or there was some nausea...

Here is the perfect Industrial Gothic set-up: A city with only 90 residents, told whom to vote for, tightly controlled, existing as a par...

Public Access TV in the 1980s - they were desperate for content! "It's the law." - Anybody could air their videotape and ...

Can't have a blog called "Mind--Blown" without tossing in a Cyriak video every now and then. His whole Youtube channel here...

Startling little bit of sculpture by Evan Campbell, detailed on Deviant Art .

Just in case you were thinking that the New Age hippies had backed off from the dolphins, this LiveJournal observer has bad news: ...

I've often defined "Industrial Gothic" as a genre I sort of thought of on my own, to mean "horrors specific to the ind...

Francis E. Dec was a New Yorker who had a relatively normal life as an Air Force radio operator, Bachelor of Arts graduate, and lawyer, unt...

The Hole Pictured above: "The Hole", a private prison run by the members of Scientology. This facility in Riverside, Ca...

If the 400-pound guy in the photo gives you the creepers, you don't know the half of it yet. This is James Julius Beaudrie, now in cou...