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Scientists have been known to do some not so ethical things over the
years in order to get the results they need. In particular, there have
been many eyebrows raised and arguments had over animal experiments.
From crazy drug experiments, to surgical head switches, scientists seem
to make no exception when it comes to science. Take a look at this list
of some of the most bizarre scientific experiments involving drugs,
surgeries, and things you wouldn’t even imagine done on animals over the
years.
1. Robot Monkeys
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In an order to perform and demonstrate brain-machine interface technology, In 2008, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University,
used two monkeys with small devices in their brains have learned to
control a robotic arm with just their thoughts. They used it to reach
for food and even adjust the size and stickiness of morsels when
necessary. This experiment was done to shed new light on prosthetic
limbs for human patients who can benefit from more high tech artificial
limbs. (source)
2. Zombie Dogs
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In 2005, American scientists created a pack of zombie dogs by using technique similar to ‘cryogenation’.
The team killed the dogs by flushing all the blood from their bodies.
Three hours later, the team gave the dogs a blood transfusion, and
electric shock. The dogs were resurrected, and while some had permanent
damage, most were fine. (source)
3. Human Ear Grown On Mouse
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In 1997 American scientists were able to attach a human ear to the
back of a mouse. This was done to see if it was possible to grow limbs
and organs outside of the human body. Science is moving forward now and
testing other resources. (source)
4. Pig Powder
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According to University of Pittsburgh’s McGowan Institute of
Regenerative Medicine, researchers have conducted a way to scrape the
lining of a pig’s bladder, decellulize it, dry it into a powder. They
managed to regrow a human finger using this powder. This powder could be
the answer for those seeking an answer to lost limbs. (source)
5. Sexually Stupid Turkeys
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Martin Schein and Edgar Hale of the University of Pennsylvania did an
experiment on Turkeys in which they killed a female turkey and slowly
removed limbs and body parts until all that was left was a head on a
stick. Never did the male turkey lose any sort of sexual interest what
was shown to it. (source)
6. Monkey Head Transplant
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On March 14, 1970, Robert White performed a head transplant on a
monkey to out do another surgeon who had already performed a dog head
transplant years earlier. Soon after the monkey awoke, it became angry
and tried to attack Dr. White. The monkey survived less than two days. (source)
7. Glow in the Dark Cats
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In 2007, South Korean scientists transformed a cat’s DNA to make it
glow in the dark and then took that DNA and cloned other cats from it —
creating a set of fuzzy glowing toms. (source)
8. Web Spinning Goats
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According to Nexia, “Researchers inserted a spiders’ dragline silk
gene into the goats’ DNA in such a way that the goats would make the
silk protein only in their milk. This “silk milk” could then be used to
manufacture a web-like material called Biosteel.” (source)
9. Rats on Ecstasy
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A scientific study showed that rats who were given ecstasy (MDMA)
demonstrated having more sex while loud bass heavy music was playing
while control rats who were also listening to the same music did not
demonstrate as much sexual activity. (source)
10. Trippin’ Tusko
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Unfortunately in 1962 when Tusko the elephant was injected with LSD,
he died within two hours. There is much debate about what actually
killed him but I’m sure we can all agree that his dying moments were
INSANE. However, recently elephants were tested again with LSD in their
water with much better results giving hippie elephants like Tusko hope
all around the world. (source)
It’s a story that has seen so much speculation as to what could have
killed nine young students on holiday, skiing in the Ural Mountains,
Russia. They never returned and when their bodies were found days later,
five of them had been frozen to death and four more had mysterious
injuries. One had a missing tongue while another had a smashed head.
They all seemed to have fled in terror in the middle of the night from
their camp. They left behind their food, skis and warm coats and ran
towards a thick forest down a snowy slope. Here, their survival chances
were minimal with temperatures of around -30°C (-22° F). Investigators
on the case termed the cause of death as “a compelling unknown force”.
They filed the case as top secret and closed it.
Smiling
before disaster: (Left to right) Nicolai Thibeaux-Brignolle, Luda
Dubinina, Semyon Zolotarev and Zina Kolmogorova image source: www.dailymail.co.uk
“If I had a chance to ask God just one question, it would be: ‘What really happ¬ened to my friends that night?’“,
says the only survivor of this expedition, Yury Yudin. He had turned
back due to illness a few days into the expendition. What happened to
his friends remains a painful mystery to him.
Yudin and his friends started the journey on 23rd January 1959.
Ortoten Mountain was their destination, in the Northern Urals. Yuri and
eight of his friends were students in Ekaterinburg, at the Ural
Polytechnic Institute located in Sverdlovsk. They were led by Igor
Dyatlov (23), an expert in mountaineering, cross-country and skiing.
The group consisted of Dyatlov, Yudin, Georgy Krivonischenko (24),
Zina Kolmogorova (22), Yury Doroshenko (24), Rustem Slobodin (23),
Ludmila Dubinina (21), Alexander Kolevatov (25) Nicolas
Thibeaux-Brignollel (24) and Alexander (37) who was the only
non-student.
The students travelled by train, road and on foot to get to their
destination. Yudin became ill on the way and turned back and that was
the last time he ever saw his friends alive. The rest of the journey was
documented in the diaries and photos they left at their final camp.
The group skied across uninhabited areas, frozen lakes and arrived at
river Auspia where they set up base. Here they left food and equipment
for their return journey. From here on, they began climbing towards
Otorten. They got lost form here, probably due to bad weather and ended
up on the slopes of mountain Kholat Syakhl, at 3, 600ft height. They
pitched tent for the night. Their diaries, photos and the Evening
Otorten (a newspaper they produced), show them in good spirits at this
point.
A rescue team was sent when the students failed to return home. The
volunteers found the camp, but it was half torn and covered with snow.
All their belongings were there, but the tent was cut open from the
inside, and had slashes that were big enough to get through. They found
footprints that matched the students.
The first two bodies (Yury Doroshenko and Georgy Krivonischenko) were
found one and a half kilometers from the tent. They were dressed in
their underclothes and barefoot under a pine tree near the edge of the
forest. Their hands appeared burned and charred remains of what appeared
to have been a fire nearby. 300m further, they found Dyatlov’s body
lying on his back, clutching a branch in one hand and facing the camp’s
direction. 180m further towards the tent, they found Rustem Slobodin
while Zina Kolmogorova lay 150m from him. They appeared to have been
trying to crawl back to the tent. Cause of death according to doctors
for the five was hypothermia. Slobodin had a fractured skull, but this
was not the cause of death.
Tent as the rescuers found it on Feb. 26, 1959. Photo credit: The St. Petersburg Times (taken from)
Two months later, the other four skiers were found. Their bodies were
buried under 4m of snow in a forest ravine that was 250ft away from the
location of the first bodies. The deaths of Nicolas
Thibeaux-Brignollel, Alexander Kolevatov, Ludmila Dubinina and Alexander
Zolotaryov looked traumatic. The skull of Thibeaux-Brignollel had been
crushed while Zolotaryov and Dubunina had several broken ribs. No
external wounds were found on the bodies however. Strangely though, bits
of clothing they wore contained higher than normal levels of radiation.
Some anomalies after postmortem were that some were fully clothed
while others were nearly naked. Dubinina’s body was also missing her
eyes and tongue. The investigation was closed by the end of that month
and files kept in a secret archive. Adventurous and skiers were barred
from the area for three years after this incident.
Half a century later and the deaths of these students are still a
mystery. What was the “unknown force”? Was there a cover up? Why did the
students leave their tent? How and why was the second group buried in
the snow?
Different theories have come up including an attack from a hostile
tribe or criminals, aliens, snowmen and secret military technology. They
have however been discounted since no other footsteps except those from
the students were found. Others have suggested an attack from bears but
animal tracks were not found either. An avalanche too, but no snow was
found pouring over the tent. Others have suggested being caught up in a
bizarre military accident but no experimental weapons were found at the
site.
We probably will never know what happened on those mountains and the
mystery on the Mountain of the Dead will still go on unresolved and as
intriguing as ever.
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There are a lot of reasons that make a place creepy: it could be a
terrifying history, the eerie sense of unease a place gets when
abandoned or its ominous architecture. That however does not deter us,
especially the adventurous type, from wanting to visit these places.
There’s something fascinating about checking out a creepy place and the
adventurer in us just wants to confirm that we don’t scare easily. So just in case you are in the mood to taunt death in the future, Here are some terrifying places you can visit.
This place ranks among the freakiest places you could ever find
yourself in. Thousands of old battered dolls can be found hanging from
trees and they cover the entire island.(source)
2. Winchester House
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The Winchester house looks like a relatively normal old mansion from
the outside, but Sarah, widow of the former residence of gun magnate,
William Manchester, believed the house was haunted by gun victims of his
husband. She kept building bizarre stairs and doors that led nowhere so
as to try and keep the ghosts from ever finding her.(source)
3. Leap Castle in Ireland
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Located in Ireland, the castle has a bloody history of violent
rivalries and executions. It is thought to be haunted to this day,
especially after a team of renovators discovered a pit full of spikes
and human remains, not so long ago.(source)
. Matsuo Mine in Japan
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Matsuo mine was once a bustling sulfur mine before it was abandoned.
If you would like to check it out now, you would be met by a giant wall
of mist constantly hiding it from view. This makes it look like a scary
ghost town.(source)
5. Centralia in Pennsylvania
image source: www.wikipedia.org
A mine fire in Centralia has been burning since 1962 and has left the
town abandoned almost entirely. The place looks like a cut scene from
the Silent Hill game. In fact, Centralia was one of the inspirations for
the game.
Read more here: 50 years on, the fire still lingers..
6. Candido Godoi in Brazil
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On first sight, Candido Godoi looks like a fairly normal town in
Brazil but if you take a closer look, you realize the town is swarming
with twins. In fact, rumors say that a Nazi geneticist fled to this town
after the war. He started experimenting on the population and this is
what triggered the phenomenon.(source)
7. Kabayan in Philippines
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Kabayan is home to several caves that contain hundreds of mummified
corpses. It’s a good place to visit if you really want to have
nightmares.(source)
8. Overtoun Bridge in Scotland.
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You may want to avoid this place if you are a dog lover. Dogs leap to
death for no apparent reason and dozens of them have killed themselves
over the last half century.(source)
9. Body Farm in Tennessee
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“Body farm” is actually a facility in Tennessee used as a training
ground for the FBI and other forensic experts. They use it to determine
time of death, cause of death etc., and they use real donated cadavers.
This means that the place is full of dead bodies.(source)
10. Bannerman Castle in New York
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Bannerman castle is a long abandoned residence that sits in the
middle of the Hudson River, New York. It was built by Francis Bannerman,
a man who spent his time in this fortress, collecting a huge amount of
military grade weaponry.(source)
People go missing without a trace every day. Sometimes these people
are found but sometimes they disappear completely. Where they went or
what happened to them remains a mystery yet to be solved. Most of the
times, investigators will piece together evidence they find and then
track the missing person down. If in the unfortunate event these people
are found dead, the friends and family get some form of closure. But
what happens when no traces can lead the investigators to these people
and no one finds them ever? These are some of the most famous and
bizarre disappearance cases in history.
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1. Glenn Miller
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He was an American big band musician, composer, arranger and
bandleader in the swing era. He was known as the best-selling recording
artist from the year 1939 to 1943. On the day of his disappearance,
Miller was flying from the United Kingdom to Paris, France, to play for
soldiers. His plane departed from RAF Twinwood Farm, Clapham and
disappeared while flying over the English Channel. The theory that his
plane was hit by a jettisoned bomb by the Allied planes returning from
an aborted raid in Germany, was discredited by a plane-spotter log that
implied that miller’s plane was headed in a direction that would avoid
the zone where these bombs were jettisoned.(Source)
2. DB Cooper
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For more than 40 years, this case has baffled authorities. Dan Cooper
boarded the Northwest Orient Flight 305, in 1971. He got into the plane
and lit a cigarette. Then he passed a note to Florence Schafner, a
flight attendant, written ‘I HAVE A BOMB IN MY BRIEFCASE. I WILL USE IT
IF NECESSARY. I WANT YOU TO SIT NEXT TO ME. YOU ARE BING (sic)
HIJACKED.’
Cooper asked for $200,000 and four parachutes so that he could allow
36 of the passengers to leave the plane when it landed. The FBI agreed
and the plane took off again and under Cooper’s orders, it was to fly to
Mexico at an altitude of under 10,000 feet. Cooper jumped with a
parachute strapped to his back somewhere over the lower Cascade
Mountains found in Southwestern Washington. He has never been found.(source)
3. Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce was a famous American Writer and social critic. He is
known for The Devils Dictionary and many other numerous short stories on
ghosts and the civil war. He was a famous writer of The San Francisco
Examiner where he got the nickname “Bitter Pierce”, for his relentless
sarcasm and cynical opinions. He decided to go on a tour of South
battlefields in 1913.
He got to Mexico and spent time with Pancho Villa’s army during the
Mexican Revolution. He disappeared somewhere near Chihuahua in Mexico,
either in late 1913 or early 1914. No one ever found him even after
investigations were done. He did leave an oft quoted passage though, in
one of his final letters, reading “Good-bye — if you hear of my being
stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I
think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age,
disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico—ah,
that is euthanasia!” (source)
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The 41 year old judge disappeared while on a night out. On August
6th, crater left his office to share a meal with his friend William
Klein and a showgirl, Sally Lou Ritz. They claim they last saw him
walking outside the streets of the restaurant. News of his disappearance
broke out on September 3rd and a manhunt ensued. Rampant speculation on
his disappearance spawned due to the judge’s suspicious behavior days
before he disappeared. His law clerk claimed that the judge had
destroyed some documents on August 6th, moved some portfolios of papers
to his apartment, and arranged for $5,000 to be withdrawn from his
account.
The phrase ‘pulling a carter’ was born as a synonym for going AWOL and he became known as the “missingest man in New York”. (source)
5. Malaysian Plane MH370
Source: www.theweek.co.uk
On Saturday, 8th March 2014, the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370
disappeared while traveling from Kuala Lumpur airport, Malaysia to
Beijing and finally to the People’s Republic of China. What is known of
the flight is that its transponder had manually been switched off and
that it changed paths sharply. Passengers, crew and pilots didn’t send
any distress call and no wreckage was found. The planes black box also
went completely missing and there were many bizarre theories on what happened to the plane. (source)
6. The missing village
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Reporter Emmett E. Kelleher, wrote the story on the Danville Bee on
November 27, 1930. Kelleher had been regaled by the story of Joe
Labelle, a northern trapper who told of an entire village of Inuit that
went missing. Labelle says that he frequented the village of Inuit, on
the shores of Lake Angikuni and expected a warm welcome as always. As he
approached the village however, he got a creepy feeling. On entering
the village, he found dogs that had starved to death but no one was in
the village. When he entered the huts, he found cooking pots and
utensils with food still in them. He also found a rifle that surprised
him because the Inuit valued rifles and leaving such a tool behind was
unheard of. Authorities were notified but no one was ever found. (source)
7. Amelia Earhart
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Amelia Earhart was a pilot with numerous records in aviation, in the
1920s. She set out in 1937 with her navigator Fred Noonan, for a flight
around the world. This was to be her crowning achievement. Earhart
encountered some weather problems while near the end of her 29,000 mile
journey, in the South Pacific. She could not find the Island she was
meant to refuel at. All contact with her plane was lost around July 2nd
and a search for the two began. It covered 250,000 miles of ocean but
not even the wreckage from Earhart’s Lockheed Electra was found. (source)
8. Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince
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Le Prince was an inventor. He was the first person to shoot a moving
picture on paper using film and a single lens camera. He was heralded
“the father of cinematography”.
On September 1890, Le Prince was to go to the UK, to patent his new
camera. This was to be followed by a trip to the US to promote the
camera. He decided however to first visit friends and family at home. He
took a train to Paris on 16th September but when the train arrived, he
was not aboard. No luggage or corpse was ever found and no one had
noticed any strange behavior on the Dijon-Paris express. Exhaustive
searches were done but they couldn’t find him.(source)
When it comes to making memorials for people who died, a very common
practice is using a headstone as a marker where the person is buried.
Usually, they have the name of the person, along with the date of their
birth and death. Sometimes, there is an epitaph, which is just an
inscription that embodies the person who has passed on. Then there are
the headstones that are just bizarre, shocking and downright creepy.
1. Josep Llaudet Soler
Josep Llaudet Soler. Image Source: KuriositasThis creepy statue is found in Barcelona’s Poblenou cemetery.
It is hidden in the back corner of the cemetery and it is unclear
who exactly sculpted it. However, textile manufacturer Josep Llaudet
Soler is interred at the site of the statue and the inscription is
equally as haunting:
“The blood in his veins grows cold. And all strength has gone. Faith has been extolled by his fall into the arms of death. Amen.”
Inez Clarke. Image Source: Flick River
The story goes that Inez Clarke was just 6 when she died in 1880. The
girl was killed during a storm while on a family picnic and was buried
in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. After her death, her parents
had a life size sculpture made in the likeness of their dearly departed
daughter. It was put in a glass case to protect it from the elements.
If the statue of a young girl, wearing old-fashioned clothes in a
cemetery wasn’t frightening enough, there are many ghost
stories surrounding the grave site. People have heard weeping coming
from the area. Other people claim that during thunderstorms the statue
disappears, only to reappear later, back in its glass case.
It’s also interesting to note that it may not even be Inez Clarke
buried there, as there are no records of a girl dying and being buried
in that area. It is believed an 8-year-old boy named Amos Briggs is
actually interred at the foot of the statue.(source)
3. Fernand Arbelot
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Fernand Arbelot was an actor and musician who lived from 1880 to 1942
in France. He was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery with a very unusual
statue as a marker for his headstone. It is a man, holding a disembodied
head and staring at it. It is supposed to represent Arbelot looking
into the face of his wife for all of eternity.(source)
4. Lilly E Gray
Lilly E Gray. Image Source: Flickr
At first glance the tombstone for 77-year-old Lilly E. Gray, who was
buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery in 1958, may just look like any
other tombstone. However, there is a stark message written as the
epitaph, which is “Victim of the Beast 666”. Gray had died of natural
causes and no one is sure why that is written as her epitaph. One other
interesting thing to note is that Gray’s husband is also buried in the
same cemetery, but far away from his wife’s grave.(source)
5. The Tazacorte Martyrs Memorial
The Tazacorte Martyrs Memorial. Image Source: VisualizeUs
While this may look like a grave site that is flooded, it is in fact
an underwater memorial to a group of Jesuit missionaries who were
travelling from Portugal to Brazil in 1570. A French pirate named
Jacques Sourie boarded their ship and then he and his men killed all the
priests; some of the priests even had their limbs cut off and then were
thrown overboard. Only the cook on the ship survived the massacre.
The memorial was set up near La Palma Island, which is part of the
Canary Islands, near the area of the massacre. The memorial is 18 meters
below the surface and features 40 crosses, one for each of the victims.(source)
6. Georges Rodenbach
Georges Rodenbach. Image Source: Wikipedia
Born July 6, 1855 and dying December 25, 1898, Georges Rodenbach was a
Belgian poet and writer who worked in the Symbolism movement. Which is
probably why his tombstone in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France
depicts a man breaking out of the grave. While it’s meant to symbolize
how not even the bonds of death could hold him, however, it is always
kind of creepy to see a body trying to break out of a grave.(source)
7. St Vitalis of Assisi
St Vitalis of Assisi. Image Source: BBC
While not a headstone per say, this is a memorial with an actual head
in it. The skull apparently belongs to St Vitalis of Assisi, who, and
we kid you not, is the patron saint of venereal disease.
Born in 1295 and dying May 31, 1370, Vitalis was a Benedictine monk
who lived most of his life in poverty. After his death, his head was
apparently kept as a relic. Since the 17th Century, it has been housed in a Queen Anne case. In 2011, the skull was sold in an auction for 3500 euro ($4100 USD) to a movie star living in Los Angeles, California.(source)
8. The Mafia Cemeteries of Yekaterinburg, Russia
The Mafia Cemeteries of Yekaterinburg, Russia. Image Source: France 24
In Russia’s fourth largest city, Yekaterinburg, there are two
cemeteries, one at each side of the city. The cemeteries are filled with
the bodies of the cities two rival gangs; one cemetery for each gang.
The tombstones are elaborate and over-the-top, often pictures of the
dead men are etched in stone and the images are larger-than-life with
some of tombstones being 10-feet tall. The ghostly images of the young
men who died violent deaths haunt the cemetery, which is monitored
around the clock by cameras.(source)
9. The Child’s Bed
The Child’s Bed. Image Source: She Walks Softly
It was the late 19th Century and mortality rates of
children were high. One of the creepiest tombstones from the time is
found in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston. It is there, that visitors can
find a child-sized bed as a marker for a child who passed away. The
tombstone, complete with a pillow that fell off the side of the bed, has
deteriorated over the century making it a creepy and heartbreaking
memorial for someone who died too young.(source)
10. Harry Thornton
Harry Thornton. Image Source: View Finder
In the flu pandemic that ravaged the world in 1918, one of the people
who lost their lives was a British man named Harry Thornton, who was a
pianist that entertained troops during the First World War. While it may
have been a loving tribute to the 35-year-old man, the piano has since
decayed and the top of the piano has been lost. It is a haunting image
that reminds us that nothing lasts forever.(source)
