Morbid Minute
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Weird, macabre, morbid things from history, science, pop culture, and beyond.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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When the Princess of Sarazm died 5500 ears ago at the age of 37, she was adorned in beads made of lapis lazuli, turquoise, and limestone.
adventuresoflilnicki.com/sarazm-tajik...
adventuresoflilnicki.com/sarazm-tajik...
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
When the Princess of Sarazm died 5500 ears ago at the age of 37, she was adorned in beads made of lapis lazuli, turquoise, and limestone.
adventuresoflilnicki.com/sarazm-tajik...
adventuresoflilnicki.com/sarazm-tajik...
A child's skull pre tooth evictions. This is the least troubling picture.
TW: teeth/trypophobia
dangerousminds.net/history/gnar...
TW: teeth/trypophobia
dangerousminds.net/history/gnar...
November 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A child's skull pre tooth evictions. This is the least troubling picture.
TW: teeth/trypophobia
dangerousminds.net/history/gnar...
TW: teeth/trypophobia
dangerousminds.net/history/gnar...
February 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Artwork by Ana Ciorcila.
January 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Artwork by Ana Ciorcila.
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Laroche booked another liner to cross the Atlantic but when they discovered the liner disallowed eating with your children, they switched to the Titanic to avoid separation. Mr. Laroche would perish at 25, but his daughters and pregnant wife escaped on lifeboat 8.
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January 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Laroche booked another liner to cross the Atlantic but when they discovered the liner disallowed eating with your children, they switched to the Titanic to avoid separation. Mr. Laroche would perish at 25, but his daughters and pregnant wife escaped on lifeboat 8.
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January 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
John Collier's "The Witch"
January 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
John Collier's "The Witch"
[Child Death]
Amelia Dyer, 1837-1896, earned the nickname the Ogress of Reading after killing countless children over thirty years. In 1869, she started baby farming--the practice of adopting children to make an income, as each child came with a sum. Eventually, those children died.
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Amelia Dyer, 1837-1896, earned the nickname the Ogress of Reading after killing countless children over thirty years. In 1869, she started baby farming--the practice of adopting children to make an income, as each child came with a sum. Eventually, those children died.
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January 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
[Child Death]
Amelia Dyer, 1837-1896, earned the nickname the Ogress of Reading after killing countless children over thirty years. In 1869, she started baby farming--the practice of adopting children to make an income, as each child came with a sum. Eventually, those children died.
#morbidminute
Amelia Dyer, 1837-1896, earned the nickname the Ogress of Reading after killing countless children over thirty years. In 1869, she started baby farming--the practice of adopting children to make an income, as each child came with a sum. Eventually, those children died.
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A mortcage, or mortsafe, is rumored to keep vampires inside of their graves, but the reality is they were invented to keep grave robbers away and most common in the United Kingdom.
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December 28, 2024 at 7:28 PM
A mortcage, or mortsafe, is rumored to keep vampires inside of their graves, but the reality is they were invented to keep grave robbers away and most common in the United Kingdom.
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(I'd forgotten about this.)
December 16, 2024 at 3:39 PM
(I'd forgotten about this.)
We might be kittens.
December 16, 2024 at 2:58 PM
We might be kittens.
France had eliminated public execution in 1937, after beheading serial killer Eugen Weidmann, but jailhouse beheading remained for another forty years.
December 14, 2024 at 8:39 PM
France had eliminated public execution in 1937, after beheading serial killer Eugen Weidmann, but jailhouse beheading remained for another forty years.
Saturn Devouring His Son, by Goya, is a morbid depiction of the Greek Titan Cronus (later called Saturn by the Romans) devouring one of his children. Goya painted this directly onto a wall in his house. It was moved to canvas and then to the Museo del Prado in Madrid after his death.
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December 13, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Saturn Devouring His Son, by Goya, is a morbid depiction of the Greek Titan Cronus (later called Saturn by the Romans) devouring one of his children. Goya painted this directly onto a wall in his house. It was moved to canvas and then to the Museo del Prado in Madrid after his death.
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Philibert Aspairt, d: 1793, has the distinction of being the only official casualty of the Paris Catacombs. A doorkeeper at Val-de-Grâce hospital, his reason for going into the tunnels is unknown, but his body was found eleven years later, remains identified by his hospital tags.
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December 6, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Philibert Aspairt, d: 1793, has the distinction of being the only official casualty of the Paris Catacombs. A doorkeeper at Val-de-Grâce hospital, his reason for going into the tunnels is unknown, but his body was found eleven years later, remains identified by his hospital tags.
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Patents for safety coffins--coffins that would allow a person accidentally buried alive to survive and signal for rescue--were popular through the 1800s, with many iterations up for consideration. The bell above the grave is most famous, but it was merely one design.
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December 3, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Patents for safety coffins--coffins that would allow a person accidentally buried alive to survive and signal for rescue--were popular through the 1800s, with many iterations up for consideration. The bell above the grave is most famous, but it was merely one design.
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Under Candlelight, watercolor by John Butler Yeats.
December 3, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Under Candlelight, watercolor by John Butler Yeats.
You were only supposed to snuff the flame with milk.
Various guides existed on how to properly prepare, and use, your dead-guy-hand-candle.
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Various guides existed on how to properly prepare, and use, your dead-guy-hand-candle.
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December 1, 2024 at 5:46 AM
You were only supposed to snuff the flame with milk.
Various guides existed on how to properly prepare, and use, your dead-guy-hand-candle.
#morbidminute
Various guides existed on how to properly prepare, and use, your dead-guy-hand-candle.
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New York City has America's first complete-body Catholic relic in the remains of an obscure Christian martyr named Saint Datian, encased in a deathlike wax sculpture. A wealthy Italian widow could no longer afford to keep them so she donated them to an East Village church.
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November 27, 2024 at 2:04 PM
New York City has America's first complete-body Catholic relic in the remains of an obscure Christian martyr named Saint Datian, encased in a deathlike wax sculpture. A wealthy Italian widow could no longer afford to keep them so she donated them to an East Village church.
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Vultures in groups can be called a flock, venue, or volt UNLESS they are feeding, then they're called a wake.
The largest condor is the Andean Condor, which weighs over thirty pounds and has a wingspan of ten feet.
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The largest condor is the Andean Condor, which weighs over thirty pounds and has a wingspan of ten feet.
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November 25, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Vultures in groups can be called a flock, venue, or volt UNLESS they are feeding, then they're called a wake.
The largest condor is the Andean Condor, which weighs over thirty pounds and has a wingspan of ten feet.
#morbidminute
The largest condor is the Andean Condor, which weighs over thirty pounds and has a wingspan of ten feet.
#morbidminute