# Cult of Weird

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Online museum of oddities

## Posts

- [The Radioactive Death of Eben Byers](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/eben-byers-radithor-poisoning/): By the time Eben Byers realized what the Radithor was doing, it had already eaten away his jaw and much of his skull. Learn about his tragic radioactive death.
- [The Radium Girls, Radium Jaw and the Women Doomed to Die](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/radium-girls/): The tragic story of the Radium Girls who painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials with radioactive paint that caused Radium Jaw and other horrific illnesses.
- [Casket for Three](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/casket-for-three/): Learn the sad story behind the 'triple casket,' the family-sized Casket for Three on display at the National Museum of Funeral History in Houston, TX.
- [Is Ed Gein's Cauldron Haunted?](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/ed-gein-cauldron/): Did Ed Gein use this cauldron for human remains? Is it cursed? Here's the story behind the ghoulish artifact on display at Zak Bagan's Haunted Museum.
- [Ed Gein Tour: 6 Things to do in Plainfield](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/ed-gein-roadtrip-plainfield/): From the Ed Gein house of horrors to the graves he robbed, explore the locations around Plainfield, WI where he carried out his deranged crimes.
- [What Happened to Ed Gein's Gravestone?](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/ed-gein-gravestone/): Visitors to Ed Gein's grave in Plainfield Cemetery have found the Wisconsin killer's burial site unmarked for 20 years. Where is Gein's gravestone?
- [The First Millennial Saint is Here to Bless Us in the Digital Age](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/carlo-acutis-millennial-saint/): The body of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006, is being venerated by Catholics in Assisi. The church is about to make him the first Millennial saint.
- [What is the Story Behind this Mysterious Abandoned House in Fond du Lac?](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/abandoned-house-fond-du-lac/): What happened inside this abandoned house in Wisconsin to give it such a sinister and bizarre reputation? The Witherell House has a long and mysterious history.
- [December 2019 Newsletter: A Decade of Weird](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/decade-of-weird/): Dead frog bikinis! Mummified ship captains! Human skin pants! A look back at the last decade of Cult of Weird.
- [Mt. Vesuvius Victim's Brain Turned to Glass](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/vesuvius-glass-brain/): The eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE turned this young Roman man's brain to glass, a rare occurrence never seen before or since. Here's how it happened.
- [Hands Resist Him: Haunted Ebay Painting](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/ebay-haunted-painting/): This now infamous painting was auctioned anonymously on ebay in 2000 claiming it was haunted and wreaked havoc on the owners.
- [Rasputin's Penis: The Mythical, Magical Manhood of Russia's Mad Monk](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/rasputin-penis/): The legend of Rasputin's penis has grown far beyond the jar it is pickled in. But is this museum specimen really the venerated member of Russia's mad monk?
- [In Search Of: Hotdogs & Crop Circles](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/hotdogs-and-crop-circles/): Wherein a supernatural southern Gothic horror novel inadvertently inspires a trip into rural Wisconsin where hotdogs, UFOs, and peacocks run amok in the wild.
- [American Gods and the House on the Rock](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/american-gods/): Neil Gaiman brings the American Gods to House on the Rock, the bizarre roadside attraction in Wisconsin where the gathering of the Old Gods takes place.
- [Cursed by Death: The Mystery of the Witherell House](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/witherell-house/): The Witherell House has some surprising connections to Jeffrey Dahmer, the formation of the Wisconsin Territory, and a disturbing practice of divine healing from the Middle Ages.
- [Nosferatu Director's Skull Stolen From Grave](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/nosferatu-skull-stolen/): The skull of Nosferatu director FW Murnau has been reported stolen from his grave in Germany.
- [Haunted Whitewater - Witches, Spirits and Lake Monsters](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/morris-pratt-institute-of-spiritualism/): Did experiments to commune with the dead at Morris Pratt's Institute of Spiritualism leave the town of Whitewater, WI haunted and cursed?
- [Ed Gein Collectibles](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/ed-gein-collectibles/): Your collection won't be complete without these weird, unique, and rare Ed Gein collectibles from t-shirts and comic books to souvenir dirt and model kits.
- [Zak Bagans of Ghost Adventures Takes Home Ed Gein's Cauldron](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/zak-bagans-ed-gein-cauldron/): Ghost Adventures star Zak Bagans gets the winning bid on the cauldron once used to hold human body parts by Wisconsin deviant Ed Gein.
- [Ed Gein Cauldron Up for Auction in Wisconsin](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/ed-gein-cauldron-up-for-auction-in-wisconsin/): It's not often that artifacts from Wisconsin deviant Ed Gein hit the market. You have to hear the story behind this antique cauldron!
- [VIDEO: Ed Gein Tour of Plainfield, WI](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/ed-gein-plainfield-tour/): See where Ed Gein's house was, visit his grave, and see the crime scenes in this video tour of Plainfield, WI where he murdered and robbed graves
- [Ed Gein Reanimated with Deep Nostalgia](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/ed-gein-deep-nostalgia/): Ed Gein is back from the dead thanks to a creepy new AI tool called Deep Nostalgia that brings old photos back to life through animated deepfake videos.
- [13 Weird and WTF Moments from Amityville: An Origin Story](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/amityville-horror-origin-story/): The real Amityville Horror is here. From the ghost boy photo to the telepathic death of George Lutz, explore the strangest moments of the MGM+ documentary.
- [Tracking Down the Haunted Tallmann House of Horicon, Wisconsin](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/haunted-tallman-house-horicon/): Tormented by a seemingly haunted bunk bed, the Tallmann family endured a horrific series of events before fleeing their home in the middle of the night.
- [Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Passed Away at 92](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/lorraine-warren-passed-away/): Lorraine Warren is known for her investigations of the Amityville Horror house, the haunted Annabelle doll and the Warren Occult Museum.
- [Digging up Bizarre Lore in Wisconsin’s Second Salem](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/wisconsin-monsters-murders-mediums/): Tracking down Wisconsin's strangest legends, from the Beast of Bray Road and the Amityville Horror house to the witches of Whitewater's haunted cemeteries.
- [The Real Amityville Horror](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/amityville-horror-documentary/): The real Amityville horror is the strange and brutal murder of the DeFeo family in the infamous house at 112 Ocean Ave.
- [My Amityville Horror](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/my-amityville-horror/): My Amityville Horror is a documentary about the real-life incident as told by Daniel Lutz, who has lived in the shadow of Amityville most of his life.
- [Inside Amityville: The Story Behind My Amityville Horror](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/inside-amityville-horror/): Tony Brueski talks with filmmaker Eric Walter about his documentary My Amityville Horror, which tells the story from the perspective of Daniel Lutz for the very first time.
- [Mayville Crop Circles: A Rare Eyewitness Case from Rural Wisconsin](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/mayville-crop-circles-wisconsin/): Invisible aliens or strange weather? Three crop circles appeared in a field near Arthur Rantala's Mayville, Wisconsin home...and he watched it happen.
- [Bud Light Triggered the End Times, Big Muddy Monster, Pompeii Pizza](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/bud-light-end-times/): Evangelist says Bud Light is bringing about the End Times, Pompeii pizza art, the "Big Muddy Monster," a microscopic Louis Vuitton bag and more weird news.
- [UFO Whistleblower Bombshell, Virgin Mary Apparitions, Croc Virgin Birth, Ed Gein](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/ufo-whistleblower-bombshell/): This week's weird news headlines include a UFO Whistleblower bombshell, the pope's take on Virgin Mary apparitions, virgin birth in a crocodile, and Ed Gein.
- [St. Nazianz: Haunted Wisconsin Town Founded by Heretic Priest and Mystic Cult Followers](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/st-nazianz-wisconsin-haunted/): The small town of St. Nazianz, Wisconsin is said to be cursed by the heretic priest of the Catholic mystic cult that founded it in 1854.
- [Incorrupt Nun in Missouri](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/incorrupt-nun-missouri/): Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, the incorrupt nun of Missouri, showed little sign of decomposition when she was exhumed from her grave 4 years after her death.
- [This Week's Weird News: Incorrupt Nun, AI Hellscape, and the Bermuda Triangle of Yosemite](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/incorrupt-nun-bermuda-triangle-yosemite/): This week's roundup of weird news includes an incorrupt nun, the latest in our ever growing AI hellscape, and the mysterious Tenaya Canyon of Yosemite.
- [This Week's Weird News: Dracula Day, AfterLife Pay, AI Seance, Tour Aleister Crowley's House](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/dracula-day-ai-seance-boleskine/): Boleskine House opens for tours, pay for your pizza when you're dead, talk to the dead with an AI-generated seance, and more of the latest weird news headlines.
- [The Lost Chapel of Bones in Malta](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/chapel-of-bones-malta/): Somewhere beneath the ruins of the Nibbia Chapel in Malta is an ossuary decorated in human bones exhumed from a nearby cemetery.
- [8 Crypts, Catacombs and Bone Churches You Have to See Before You Die](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/crypts-catacombs-bone-churches/): Uncover the world's most haunting crypts, catacombs & bone churches. From the Capuchin Crypt to the vast Paris Catacombs, explore our macabre travel guide now.
- [Coffin Corners and the Ghosts of Galloway House](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/coffin-corners/): Are coffin corners in Victorian homes a hoax? Historians say yes, but the history of the Galloway House suggests otherwise.
- [This Week's Weird News: AI, Cannibalism, and Animals Sinking Boats](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/ai-cannibalism-animals-sinking-boats/): This week's weird news: Hippos and orcas sinking boats, more stories about AI being horrible, and digging up our favorite cannibalism stories from the archives.
- [This Week's Weird News: Street View Skeleton, Iceberg Phallus, Psychoactive Garden](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/street-view-skeleton/): A skeleton driving through a Texas cemetery on Google Street View, a phallus-shaped iceberg, making AI good, and more weird news headlines from the week.
- [Most Famous Circus Freaks](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/freak-show-circus-sideshow-performers/): The freak show has a long and bizarre history. Here are some of the most famous circus freaks ever mesmerize audiences inside the sideshow tent.
- [LEGO Indiana Jones Temple of The Golden Idol](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/lego-indiana-jones-temple/): Embark on an epic adventure into the temple that started it all with the LEGO Indiana Jones Temple of The Golden Idol set, complete with spiders and traps.
- [Timothy Clark Smith's Grave with a Window](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/timothy-clark-smith-grave/): Dr. Timothy Clark Smith was so fearful of being buried alive that he constructed a special grave with a window and an escape plan. Click for photos and videos.
- [Puglia Mermaid Statue is Too Curvy for Town Residents](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/puglia-mermaid/): Recently unveiled Puglia mermaid statue has been deemed too voluptuous by residents of the southern Italy fishing town, claiming mermaids aren't that curvy.
- [McJesus Sculpture Sparks Outrage and Protests in Israel](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/mcjesus-sculpture/): Israel's Arab Christian community is protesting a sculpture of a crucified Ronald McDonald.
- [Our Lady of Octopus](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/our-lady-of-octopus/): Mother Mary sprouts tentacles in "Notre Dame du Poulpe" (Our Lady of Octopus) sculpted by French artist Soasig Chamaillard.
- [The Bound Woman of Key West Cemetery](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/bound-woman-key-west-cemetery/): The grave of Archibald John Sheldon Yates, adorned with a statue of a nude woman with her hands bound behind her back, is an enduring Key West mystery.
- [The Gravestone of Laurence Matheson](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/laurence-matheson-asleep-gravestone/): The gravestone of Laurence Matheson sculpted by artist Peter Shipperheyn in the Mount Macedon Cemetery in Mount Macedon of Victoria, Australia.
- [Hex Murder: Pow-Wow Witchcraft in York County, Pennsylvania](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/hex-murder-pow-wow-witchcraft-in-york-county-pennsylvania/): Witchcraft, hexes and murder in 20th century Pennsylvania? The strange Hex Murder case of folk ritual magic gone wrong in York County's not-too-distant past.
- [Summerwind Mansion: What Happened Inside Wisconsin's Most Notorious Haunted House?](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/summerwind-mansion-wisconsin/): A corpse in a closet, shooting at ghosts, and the spirit of 18th century explorer Jonathan Carver. What happened inside the most haunted house in Wisconsin?
- [Holy Spirit Board: Christian Ouija Board for Talking to Jesus](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/holy-spirit-board-jesus-ouija/): No demons, only Jesus! The Holy Spirit Board is a Christian Ouija that lets you can communicate directly with Jesus without condemning your mortal soul to Hell.
- [10 Strange Places You Can Explore Virtually](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/10-strange-places-you-can-explore-virtually/): Mount a virtual expedition into the Paris catacombs, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Diagon Alley, Cat Island, a notorious murder house and other curious locations without leaving home.
- [Seely’s Castle and the Satanic Mountains of Asheville](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/seely-overlook-castle-asheville/): Seely's Castle, also known as Overlook Mansion, is rumored to have once been the location of Satanic rituals and human sacrifices in Asheville, North Carolina.
- [The Bones of St. Nicholas](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/bones-of-st-nicholas/): The historical inspiration for Santa Claus, jolly ol' St. Nicholas, is the patron saint of Christmas and prostitutes whose bones are scattered around the world.
- [The Most Horrific Publicized Case of Exorcism in American History](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/wisconsin-exorcist-theophilus-riesinger/): America's foremost exorcist, Theophilus Riesinger, faced off with Lucifer himself in the grueling 1928 case of demonic possession in a rural Iowa convent.
- [The (Replica) Shroud of Turin at Holy Hill National Shrine](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/replica-shroud-of-turin-holy-hill/): A replica of the controversial Shroud of Turin, a piece of cloth seemingly imprinted with the impression of the corpse of Jesus, at Holy Hill in Wisconsin.
- [Jesus and Mary on Google Street View](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/jesus-mary-google-earth/): A recent find on Google Street View has people believing Jesus and Mary appeared to the Google imaging vehicle as it photographed Switzerland.
- [Ouija Board: Mystifying History of the Dreaded Talking Board Game](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/history-of-the-ouija-board/): The Ouija Board began as a harmless parlor game in 1890. What happened over the years to cause the mere mention of the talking board to invoke instant dread?
- [Ouija Board Rules](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/ouija-board-rules/): Following these simple Ouija board rules will help keep you safe from the trickster spirits and demonic entities like ZoZo that may come through the board.
- [Madonna of the Rosary](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/madonna-of-the-rosary/): Antique print depicts the Madonna and the traditional 15 Mysteries of the Rosary.
- [Digging Up the Afterlife of Charlie Chaplin's Remains](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/charlie-chaplin-grave-robbed/): Just months after he died, the body of silent film star Charlie Chaplin was stolen from his grave in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland and held for ransom.
- [Inside the Mummified Head of Serial Killer Peter Kurten](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/mummified-head-of-peter-kurten/): German serial killer Peter Kurten's crimes were so disturbing that his severed head was mummified, dissected and studied for abnormalities. Take a peek inside.
- [13 Spooky Vintage Horror Board Games](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/spooky-vintage-board-games/): These vintage horror board games will have you battling monsters, ghosts, voodoo curses, boobytrapped mansions, haunted carnival rides, mummy curses and more.
- [Warpo Brings Krampus Plush Toy to Christmas](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/warpo-krampus-plush-toy/): Warpo's new Don't Cuddle the Krampus plush toy like combines 1980s monster toys with creepy German Christmas lore.
- [Terrifying Vintage Surgical Tools](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/vintage-surgical-tools/): Surgery or medieval torture? These vintage surgical tools such as the tonsil guillotine, trephine, and scarificator make it difficult to tell the difference.
- [Rare Photos from the 1988 Case of a Haunted Bunk Bed in Horicon, WI](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/tallmann-house-photos/): A look inside the paranormal investigation of the Tallmann house and the haunted bunk beds that drove the family from their home.
- [Houses of Horror: Mills View Mansion and Stimson House](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/mills-view-stimson-house/): Mills View and Stimson House served as the filming locations for the cinematic haunted houses of two creepy and quirky 80s horror movies.
- [16th Annual Mothman Festival is Happening this September in Point Pleasant](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/mothman-festival-2017/): The 16th annual gathering to commemorate the mysterious Mothman is happening this September.
- [The Porcelain Sculptures of Kate MacDowell](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/kate-macdowell-porcelain-sculptures/): Portland artist Kate Macdowell sculpts these porcelain figures of humanity and nature intersecting to create beautiful and surreal hybrid forms that have been dissected to expose the bizarre anatomical details within, such as human skeletons inside animals and organs with plants growing from them or insects crawling on them. See more of Kate's work on
- [The Devil in the Cornfield: Short Stories from the Summer Writing Contest](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/the-devil-in-the-cornfield/): Weird Darkness host Darren Marlar reads the top entries from the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference/Cult of Weird speculative fiction writing contest.
- [Monster Hunters: Tea Krulos Explores the World of Paranormal Investigation](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/monster-hunters-tea-krulos/): Milwaukee journalist Tea Krulos spent over a year with paranormal investigators tracking down evidence of ghosts, Bigfoot and other mysteries for his new book Monster Hunters.
- [Submit Your Short Story to the Summer Paranormal Writing Contest](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/summer-writing-contest/): What nightmares are lurking in your twisted mind? Put your pen to paper and make our skin crawl for a shot at prize packages of supernatural magnitude.
- [Milwaukee Paranormal Conference Brings the Weird this June](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/milwaukee-paranormal-conference/): The inaugural Milwaukee Paracon will feature speakers, panels and more in the fields of paranormal investigation, cryptozoology, ufology and folklore.
- [Close Encounters at the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/close-encounters-milwaukee-paranormal-conference/): Curious crowds came in droves to the inaugural Milwaukee Paranormal Conference for a day of ghosts, monsters, UFOs and weird Wisconsin legends.
- [Milwaukee Paranormal Conference 2016 First Details Announced](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/mke-paracon-2016/): The Milwaukee Paranormal Conference returns this year with guest speakers, panels, screenings and more. Here's a quick look at the first details.
- [Wisconsin Urban Legends Panel at 2016 Milwaukee Paranormal Conference](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/wisconsin-urban-legends-panel/): Panel on Wisconsin urban legends, as well as new guest speakers, announced for the 2016 Milwaukee Paranormal Conference happening this October 14-16.
- [Katrina Weidman is coming to the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference This October](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/katrina-weidman-milwaukee-paracon/): Paranormal Lockdown star Katrina Weidman will be a guest speaker at the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference, happening October 14-16, 2016.
- [Wisconsin's Wildest Urban Legends Panel at the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/wisconsin-wildest-urban-legends/): Learn about some of the strangest legends from the weird backwoods of Wisconsin at the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference this Sunday, October 16th!
- [Milwaukee Paranormal Conference Saturday Schedule](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/milwaukee-paranormal-conference-saturday-schedule/): Katrina Weidman, Loren Coleman, Butch Patrick, and more! Here's what's going on today, October 15th at the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference.
- [Milwaukee Paranormal Conference Sunday Schedule](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/milwaukee-paranormal-conference-sunday-schedule/): Wisconsin urban legends, Bachelors Grove Cemetery, haunted roadtrip and more! Here's what's going on today, October 16th at the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference.
- [Recap of the 2016 Milwaukee Paranormal Conference](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/milwaukee-paracon-recap/): A quick recap of the 2016 Milwaukee Paranormal Conference with appearances by Loren Coleman, Butch Patrick, Katrina Weidman, Linda S. Godfrey and more.
- [Beast of Bray Road Documentary Tracks Down Wisconsin Werewolf Legend](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/bray-road-beast-trailer/): The latest documentary from Small Town Monsters tracks down one of Wisconsin's strangest legends.
- [Occult Rituals in the Backwoods of Wisconsin](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/wisconsin-occult-rituals/): Satanic cults in the Wisconsin woods may be responsible for creatures like the goatman and the Beast of Bray Road.
- [Identity of Young Victorian Girl Found Beneath San Francisco Home Revealed](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/miranda-eve-identity-revealed/): After a year of research, the true identity of "Miranda Eve," a 19th-century girl found buried beneath a San Francisco home in 2016, has been revealed.
- [Bonnie and Clyde's Bullet-Riddled 1934 Ford Death Car](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/bonnie-clyde-death-car/): See the blood-stained Bonnie and Clyde car, the 1934 Ford the bank robbing couple was driving when they were ambushed and gunned down by police.
- [The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/two-headed-boy-of-bengal/): The two-headed boy of Bengal was born in 1783 with a second, conjoined head attached to his. Learn more about this bizarre historical medical oddity right here.
- [Oddities for Sale](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/oddities-for-sale/): Your cabinet of curiosities won't be complete without these unique and macabre oddities for sale, including skulls, Ouija boards, and more vintage weird.
- [Cthulhu Power Zones in Wisconsin](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/cthulhu-power-zones/): The weird history of Arkham House, Cthulhu power zones in Wisconsin, and erotic occult rituals to awaken Lovecraftian monsters from the depths of Devil's Lake.
- [The Secret History of the Hellfire Club](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/hellfire-club/): Demon worship, black masses, unholy baboons, and Benjamin Franklin. What went on during those meetings of the Hellfire Club deep in the caves of West Wycombe?
- [Edmund Fitzgerald Bodies: The Shipwreck that Never Gave Up Its Dead](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/edmund-fitzgerald-shipwreck-dead/): It's been over 40 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank into the depths of Lake Superior. Why have the bodies of the crew never been recovered?
- [Minnesota Krampus Brings Old World Folklore to Modern Christmas](https://www.cultofweird.com/culture/minnesota-krampus/): This raucous group of Krampus and hexen is steeped in folklore and working to bring authentic Alpine holiday traditions to the Midwest.
- [Little Bastard: The Disappearance of James Dean’s Cursed Car](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/james-dean-cursed-car/): After James Dean died in a car crash, the wreckage of his legendary Little Bastard toured the country, caused mayhem, and then vanished without a trace.
- [Scan Reveals Mummified Monk Inside 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/mummified-monk-inside-buddha-statue/): CT scan reveals the mummified remains of a monk preserved inside a 1,000-year-old statue of Buddha.
- [The Beatnik Exorcism of Senator Joe McCarthy's Grave in 1968](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/exorcism-of-joe-mccarthy/): In 1968, beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg and avant-rock group The Fugs gathered at the grave of Senator Joe McCarthy in Appleton, Wis., for an exorcism.
- [Fall Reading List 2022](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/fall-reading-list-2022/): Find the perfect scary books on the Cult of Weird Fall Reading List, a selection of creepy, paranormal and disturbing reads for the spooky season.
- [Chasing the Ghost of Al Capone](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/ghost-of-al-capone/): If you're looking for the ghost of Al Capone, these five places are where you're most likely to encounter the spirit of the legendary gangster.
- [Ghost Shows, Snakes with Legs, Mullet Championship Finalists](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/snakes-with-legs-mullet-championship/): A Youtuber is giving snakes their legs back, the lost history of travelling ghost shows, and photos of the child mullet championship finalists revealed.
- [Giant Skeletons of Mound Builders in Wisconsin](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/giant-skeletons-in-wisconsin/): Strange remains of giant skeletons and other bizarre remnants of the mound builders have been found throughout Wisconsin.
- [The Witch's House in Milwaukee: Mary Nohl's Whimsical Sculpture Garden](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/august-2019-newsletter/): The Witch's House is a Milwaukee landmark with an eerie legend, but the only magic Mary Nohl was conjuring was her curious artistic creations.
- [Rosalia Lombardo, the Blinking Mummy](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/rosalia-lombardo-blinking-mummy/): The mummified body of Rosalia Lombardo in Palermo, Italy's Capuchin Catacombs is observed opening her eyes in this bizarre time lapse video.
- [Top Secret Calvine UFO Photo, Shrunken Heads, Vabbing, Death by Ice Cream](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/calvine-ufo-photo/): The photo of the famous Calvine UFO has been released, vaginal secretions as a perfume, the mysterious tradition of making shrunken heads and more weird news.
- [Readers Share Creepy Real-Life Experiences](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/creepy-real-life-experiences/): What's the strangest thing that's ever happened to you? Cult of Weird readers share their creepiest unexplained moments.
- [Coffee Spiders, Deadly Garden, Celestial Sausage](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/coffee-spiders-deadly-garden-celestial-sausage/): Today's weird news roundup includes lost nuclear bombs, a 200-year-old exploding tree, giant venomous jellyfish, and the man who ran across Ireland.
- [Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Coffin, Walking Shark, Morgue Meatballs](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/ghostbusters-coffin-walking-shark-morgue-meatballs/): Exorcists are dealing with a growing number of possessed people, shark walking on land, Ghostbusters casket, morgue meatballs and the forbidden spaghetti.
- [Weekend Weird Halloween Edition](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/weekend-weird-halloween-edition/): Celebrate the thinning of the veil with Ouija boards, witches, and other nameless horrors in this week's conjuring of spooky weird news and media.
- [Ghosts in Mammoth Cave](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/mammoth-cave-ghosts/): Author and paranormal investigator J. Nathan Couch explores the legends of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky for ghosts of its tragic past.
- [Exorcism, Giant Penis Grave, Execution Dress Code](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/exorcism-giant-penis-grave-execution-dress-code/): In today's weird news, a reporter's skirt was too short to witness an execution, RIP Uhura, a Canadian ghost town, abandoned mansions in the jungle and more.
- [Bad Taxidermy Vol. 1](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/bad-taxidermy/): Bad Taxidermy is a collection of majestic animal mounting gone terribly wrong.
- [Flushed into the Hereafter, CERN Portals to Hell, Starfish Cartwheels](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/aquamation-cern-portals-to-hell-starfish-cartwheels/): Florida man arrested warning Space Force about aliens, DNA bio-weapons, Salem's last witch finally exonerated, and getting flushed into the hereafter.
- [Necrobot Spiders, Loch Ness Monster, Barbie House](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/necrobot-spiders-loch-ness-monster-barbie-house/): A fossil discovery makes Nessie "plausible," science has learned to control dead spiders, and this "Barbie" house in St. Cloud, MN is weird and beautiful.
- [Searches of the Unexplained](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/searches-of-the-unexplained/): From Mothman's butt to post-mortem photography, let's dig into some of the strange searches that bring fresh victims to Cult of Weird.
- [I Visited a Local UFO Hotspot During the Annual Gathering of Tinfoil Hat Enthusiasts](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/dundee-ufo-daze-2018/): UFO enthusiasts have been gathering in this Wisconsin town for 30 years to share their experiences and catch a glimpse of something strange in the sky.
- [Documentary Reveals Small Town "UFO Capital of the World"](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/dundee-project/): Filmmaker Mark Borchardt visits a local UFO hotspot to document the curious characters who have been experiencing strange things in the area for decades.
- [2018 Weird Year in Review: Cars in Space, Cursed Mummy Juice, Ghost Pirate Marriage, and More](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/2018-weird-year-review/): SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster into space, humanity demanded to drink the mummy juice, Bigfoot's erotic exploits became political, and other 2018 oddities.
- [July 2019 Newsletter: Wisconsin's UFO Capital of the World](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/july-2019-newsletter/): A look at the bizarre history of a small town in Wisconsin with an unusually high number of UFO sightings.
- [The Dundee Project Review](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/dundee-project-review/): Meet the unusual attendees of a small town Wisconsin UFO festival who have been watching the skies and communicating with extraterrestrials for decades.
- [Was Snippy the Horse Killed by a Flying Saucer?](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/snippy-horse-mutilation/): A horse found dead in 1967 is the first documented case of livestock mutilation associated with UFO sightings.
- [Giant Rock: Alien Encounters and Eternal Life in the Mojave Desert](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/giant-rock/): An extraterrestrial encounter at Giant Rock inspired George Van Tassel to build the life-prolonging "time machine" he called the Integratron.
- [Alien Abduction Insurance: Are You at Risk?](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/alien-abduction-insurance/): If you live in a high UFO area, you may want to consider getting insured for abduction, impregnation, and death by aliens.
- [Aliens Serve A Wisconsin Man Pancakes from Their UFO](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/wisconsin-alien-pancakes/): One of the most peculiar encounters with a UFO involves aliens serving breakfast in Eagle River, Wisconsin.
- [Weird Couture: Taxidermy Frog Bikini](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/taxidermy-frog-bikini/): From the frying pan to beach fashion, this frog hunter let no part of her catch go to waste when she made her own bizarre swimwear.
- [Welcome to the Birthplace of Flag Day](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/birthplace-of-flag-day/): One man's 30-year crusade for Flag Day began here, in a one-room schoolhouse with a 10-inch flag on his desk.
- [The Sad Hour: Rare 1900s Coffin Plaque Used to Indicate the Time of Death](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/sad-hour-coffin-plaque/): This rare and early example of decorative coffin hardware includes a clock which could be set to display the exact time of the deceased's passing.
- [The Bloody Benders: America's First Serial Killer Family](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/bloody-benders/): The Bloody Benders were a family of serial killers who murdered at least 20 unsuspecting travelers in their small Kansas home and then vanished without a trace.
- [Top Weird Posts of 2013](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/top-weird-posts-of-2013/): Top weird news and posts of 2013, from Fred Johnson sideshow banners and Project Pegasus to Waverly Hills and Necropants.
- [2020 Weird Year in Review](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/2020-weird-year-in-review/): From glory holes and monoliths to UFOs and the Loch Ness Monster, 2020 has been uniquely deranged. Here's a look at the year's weird news stories.
- [Naturalist Carl Akeley's Sculpture Reveals the Inner Humanity of Gorillas](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/carl-akeley-chrysalis-sculpture/): Sculpted in 1924 by taxidermist and gorilla advocate Carl Akeley, "Chrysalis" represents his belief in the humanity of the apes.
- [Weekend Weird: Aztec Skull Tower, Invasion of the Sea Pickles, Bigfoot Bounty, and More](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/sea-pickles-skull-tower/): A bounty on Bigfoot, transcribing magical manuscripts, Aztec skull tower unearthed, and more in this week's roundup of weird news.
- [Necropants: Macabre Icelandic Witchcraft Tradition](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/necropants/): The macabre Iceland witchcraft tradition of necropants involves wearing the skin of a dead man to collect coins in his nether regions.
- [May 2019 Newsletter: Curious Objects from the Cult of Weird Collection #1](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/may-2019-newsletter/): Opening up the Cult of Weird cabinet of curiosities to share three items from the continually growing collection of oddities.
- [Utah Monolith Mystery: Modern Art or Alien Odyssey?](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/utah-monolith/): The mysterious Utah Monolith was discovered in a remote part of the desert and vanished soon after. We still don’t know who put it there or who removed it.
- [Weekend Weird: Guns for Jesus, Satan's Toaster, Bigfoot Lawsuit, and More](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/weekend-weird-guns-for-jesus/): Jesus is coming. Get your guns.
- [Mummified Captain Found Drifting at Sea](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/mummified-captain-ghost-ship/): The mummified remains of a German captain missing for seven years have been found drifting aboard his yacht 50 miles off the Philippines coast.
- [Cheese Made From Human Toe Bacteria: The Pinnacle of Scientific Achievement](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/cheese-made-from-human-toe-bacteria/): In what is surely the pinnacle of scientific achievement, scientists have created cheese using bacteria from human toes, mouths, armpits and belly buttons.
- [The Year in Weird 2014](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/year-in-weird-2014/): A look back at the year's most bizarre and fascinating weird news.
- [Top Weird News & Oddities of 2015](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/top-weird-news-2015/): A look back at the strangest and most-viewed news and oddities on Cult of Weird for 2015.
- [Jim Skull's Elaborate Human Skull Sculptures Transcend Death](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/jim-skull/): When artist Jim Skull was eight years old, he found a human skull. Needless to say, it left a lasting mark on him.
- [Thomas Bradford Killed Himself to Prove the Afterlife](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/thomas-bradford-experiment/): Is there really life after death? For Thomas Bradford, a devout Spiritualist, there was only one way to prove the afterlife was real.
- [The Giant Spider Invasion](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/giant-spider-invasion/): The Giant Spider Invasion hatched upon the world a hoard of monstrous alien arachnids and the greatest low-budget horror film ever made
- [Into the Dark, Weird and Dead of Wisconsin Dells](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/dark-weird-dead-wisconsin-dells/): A journey into the frigid wastes of Wisconsin for a meeting with the mummified head of serial killer Peter Kurten.
- [The Haunted Attractions of Wisconsin Dells Past](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/wisconsin-dells-haunted-houses/): A look back at some of the kitschy haunted attractions in Wisconsin Dells that have given up the ghost.
- [Collecting Vintage Ouija Boards](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/ouija-collecting-125-year-anniversary/): Elijah Bond filed the original patent for the Ouija Board on May 28th, 1890. To celebrate the 125-year anniversary, I decided to start collecting them.
- [Cult of Weird Holiday Gift Guide 2021](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/holiday-gift-guide-2021/): The season of giving is here and our weird gift ideas are sure to make that special someone on your list squirm with delight (or dysentery) this Christmas.
- [Monsters in America Cryptid Map Giveaway](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/cryptid-map-giveaway/): Planning your next cryptid road trip? Win a set of Monsters in America maps so you can track down Mothman, the Hodag, or even the elusive Batsquatch.
- [Fall Reading List 2021](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/fall-reading-list-2021/): Real ghost stories. Chilling true crime cases. Skulls with gruesome histories. These creepy fall reads will keep you up at night with fascination...or fright.
- [Mothman Roadtrip: 6 Things to do in Point Pleasant, WV](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/mothman-roadtrip-point-pleasant/): If it's mothman you're hoping to encounter, these things to do in Point Pleasant, WV just might get you closer to the legend.
- [Reverend Thomas Baker: Eaten by a Cannibal Tribe in Fiji on July 21, 1867](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/fiji-thomas-baker-cannibalism/): On July 21, 1867 Reverend Thomas Baker was killed and eaten by a remote tribe of Fiji in exchange for a whale's tooth.
- [November 2019 Newsletter: Murder, Monsters, and Chocolate](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/november-2019-newsletter/): Another trip down the weird back roads of Wisconsin in search of Satan and other wholesome family activities.
- [October 2019 Newsletter: Cult of Weird Goes to Hollywood](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/october-2019-newsletter/): Cult of Weird goes west, has mildly interesting adventures, and almost joins a real cult.
- [January 2019 Newsletter: Mysterious Explorations from my Camera Roll Vol. 1](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/january-2019-newsletter/): A look back at some of the strange adventures of 2018 that never made it to Cult of Weird.
- [Macabre Finds at the Midwest Haunters Convention](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/midwest-haunters-convention/): Spooky season came to Milwaukee early this year as monsters descended upon the city for the Midwest Haunters Convention.
- [Coral Lorenzen: The "Flying Saucer Lady" Who Pioneered UFO Research](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/coral-lorenzen/): Coral Lorenzen's interest in UFOs began at just 9 years old, when she witnessed a mysterious object in the sky over Barron, WI over a decade before Roswell.
- [Kenneth Arnold and the First Flying Saucer Sighting](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/kenneth-arnold-flying-saucer/): A pilot's eyewitness account of unidentified aircraft ignited a storm of "flying saucer" sightings in 1947.
- [What Happened to Titanic's Dead?](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/what-happened-to-titanics-dead/): Of the 1,500 people who lost their lives when the Titanic sank, only 333 bodies were ever recovered. What happened to the rest?
- [Macabre Books About Death](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/macabre-coffee-table-books/): A collection of bizarre and fascinating books for your coffee table on the preservation of death and the pursuit of eternal life.
- [The Unidentified by Colin Dickey](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/unidentified-colin-dickey/): Take a tour with cultural historian Colin Dickey through the country's most persistent unexplained phenomena.
- ["Hatchet" Harry Flavel House in Astoria, Oregon](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/flavel-house-astoria-oregon/): The story of the Flavel House in Astoria, Oregon, the haunted home of "Hatchet" Harry Flavel that was abandoned and left to rot to spite the city.
- [The History of Spiritualism](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/history-of-spiritualism/): Explore the roots of Spiritualism, from the Fox Sisters and their haunted home in Hydesville, to the seances, spirit cabinets and ectoplasm of the early 1900s.
- [Ed Gein Graphic Novel Coming from Eric Powell and Harold Schechter](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/ed-gein-graphic-novel/): Dig up the tragic life and disturbing crimes of Wisconsin murderer and grave robber Ed Gein in the upcoming graphic novel from Eric Powell and Harold Schechter.
- [5 Strange Things People Have Done Because the Oujia Board Told Them To](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/ouija-board-facts/): Ouija boards have caused people to do some strange things. From murder to AWOL military operatives, here is a roundup of the top 5 strangest Ouija headlines.
- [A 19th Century Book of Ghosts Gets New Life](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/spectropia/): A new edition of the 1864 book created to expose the "absurd follies of spiritualism" by demonstrating how the senses can be deceived into seeing ghosts.
- [Victorian Spiritualist](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/victorian-spiritualist-photo/): Vintage promotional photo for a Victorian-era spiritualist.
- [Spectralites: New Web Series Explores the Roots of Spiritualism](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/fox-sisters-spiritualism/): How did two sisters pretending to communicate with the dead launch a new religious movement in the 1800s?
- [Houdini's Final Seance on Halloween Night, 1936](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/harry-houdini-seance/): The wife of escape artist Harry Houdini held seances every Halloween for ten years after his death to contact him. Listen to a recording of the final seance.
- [Ruins of Aleister Crowley's Cursed House on Loch Ness for Sale](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/boleskine-ruins-for-sale/): You can buy the ruins of Boleskine House, where "the wickedest man in the world" carried out black magic rituals for years.
- [Haunted Toaster Possessed by the Devil](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/haunted-toaster/): A woman tries to prove her haunted toaster is possessed by the devil in this interview that aired on the Today Show in 1988.
- [Iconic Horror Movie House For Sale in Monrovia](https://www.cultofweird.com/architecture/horror-movie-house-monrovia/): The creepy 1887 Queen Anne Victorian featured in the 1986 horror movie House starring William Katt is for sale in Monrovia, California.
- [Ronald DeFeo Jr., the Amityville Horror killer](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/ronald-defeo-jr/): Before the Lutz family made the house famous in The Amityville Horror, Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot and killed his entire family while they slept in their beds.
- [Wisconsin's Amityville Horror House](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/wisconsin-amityville-horror-house/): Amityville Horror props were sold at an estate sale this weekend at the Wisconsin lakehouse that served as the iconic haunted house in the 2005 film.
- [The Skull of Mary Magdalene](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/skull-of-mary-magdalene/): Is this the skull of Mary Magdalene? For centuries people have flocked to the Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume basilica in France for a glimpse of Mary's bones.
- [Reimagining the Life and Crimes of Ed Gein as a Novel](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/ed-gein-novel/): Wisconsin serial killer and grave robber Ed Gein's deviant acts are the subject of author Frank Ladd's first novel.
- [Mortis, the 1967 Cadillac Superior 6x6 Monster Hearse](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/monster-hearse/): This repurposed hearse may not haul bodies anymore, but it does haul ass through bogs of mud on monster 60-inch tires.
- [The London Necropolis Railway Funeral Train](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/london-necropolis-railway/): For almost a century the London Necropolis Railway transported corpses out of the city on funeral trains to Brookwood Cemetery.
- [Hand of Glory](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/hand-of-glory/): A "Hand of Glory" was the mummified hand of a hanged criminal that was believed to possess magical powers in occult traditions.
- [Chicago Clown Graveyard - Showmen's Rest Cemetery](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/showmans-rest-circus-graveyard-chicago/): Showmen's Rest is the site of a mass burial of clowns and other circus performers after a train wreck killed 86 members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus in 1918.
- [John "Babbacombe" Lee: The Man They Could Not Hang](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/man-they-could-not-hang/): Convicted 19th-century killer John "Babbacombe" Lee cheated death on the gallows in England, became a minor celebrity, and died secretly in Milwaukee.
- [The Tallman Family and the Haunted Bunk Bed](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/haunted-bunk-beds-in-wisconsin/): The Tallmann family in Horicon, Wisconsin experienced nine months of torment after purchasing a second hand bunk bed that unleashed an evil entity into their home.
- [Marilyn Monroe's Grave](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/marilyn-monroe-grave/): A bronze marker from the Hollywood icon's burial vault will be up for grabs next month.
- [Death and Burial in Venice: What Does the Floating City do with Its Dead?](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/venice-cemetery-island/): In Venice the dead are ferried through the canals on ornate funeral gondolas to a cemetery island where their afterlife is only guaranteed for as long as they can pay.
- [General Robley's Tattooed Heads](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/general-robley-tattooed-heads/): Major General Horatio Gordon Robley with his collection of tattooed heads featured in Barnum's dime museum, 1883.
- [Circus World Museum Brings Circus History to Life in Baraboo, WI](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/circus-world-museum/): Circus history comes alive at Circus World in Baraboo, WI with Big Top performances, sideshow and the world's largest collection of vintage circus wagons.
- [Jumbo the Elephant](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/jumbo-elephant-death/): P.T. Barnum's famous Jumbo elephant was struck and killed by a train in 1885. But that was far from the end of Jumbo's story.
- [The Spirit Photography of William H. Mumler](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/william-mumler-spirit-photography/): Who created the first spirit photograph? Here's the spooky history of ghost photography.
- [Ringling Bros. Circus Comes to an End](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/ringling-bros-circus-closes/): After 146 years, the Greatest Show on Earth announced they will be closing their doors for good this year.
- [The Cardiff Giant: Making One of History's Most Famous Hoaxes](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/cardiff-giant-discovery/): A giant petrified man was unearthed on a New York farm in October 1869, but it was really nothing more than an elaborate hoax 2 years in the making.
- [Freakatorium: The Sideshow Collection of Johnny Fox Hits the Auction Block](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/freakatorium-johnny-fox-auction/): Own some amazing pieces of sideshow history from the collection of sword swallower Johnny Fox.
- [Man Builds a Skeleton Guitar from His Uncle's Remains](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/human-skeleton-guitar/): This guy built a real human skeleton guitar from the bones of his deceased metalhead uncle. He calls it the Skelecaster.
- [Hiker Finds Bigfoot Evidence in Utah's Cache Valley](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/bigfoot-evidence-utah/): A hiker found a large footprint he believes may be evidence of Sasquatch in the Bear River Range of northern Utah.
- [Bigfoot Hunting Season in Oklahoma](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/bigfoot-hunting-season-oklahoma/): An Oklahoma lawmaker has introduced a bill to establish Bigfoot hunting season in hopes of capitalizing on Bigfoot tourism in the area.
- [Tibetan Engraved Skull](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/tibetan-engraved-skull/): An engraved human skull from Tibet said to lift a family curse or guide a mislead soul.
- [Cult of Weird Holiday Gift Guide 2020](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/holiday-gift-guide-2020/): Wish that special stiff on your shopping list a Creepy Christmas with these weird gift ideas from the Cult of Weird Holiday Gift Guide.
- [US Secretly Working with Aliens in the Galactic Federation on Mars](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/galactic-federation-on-mars/): Former head of the Israeli space program Haim Eshed says aliens exist and the US has been secretly involved with the Galactic Federation on Mars.
- [Grave Hunter: Mistress of the Macabre Digs Up Stories of the Dead](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/grave-hunter/): Grave Hunter and dark history aficionado Malia Miglino digs up pioneer history in Colorado cemeteries and the Black Monarch Hotel.
- [Ken Walker's Sasquatch Taxidermy](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/sasquatch-taxidermy/): Artist Ken Walker created a taxidermy replica of Bigfoot as seen in the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film. The project is the subject of the documentary Big Fur.
- [The Last Photo of John Lennon](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/john-lennon-murder/): John Lennon was photographed signing an autograph for his murderer, Mark David Chapman, just hours before his death.
- [D.B. Cooper Hijacking Remains an Unsolved Mystery](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/db-cooper-hijacking/): The D.B. Cooper hijacking is one of the strangest unsolved cases in U.S. history. Nearly 50 years after Dan Cooper skydived into obscurity, here's what we know.
- [Knecht Ruprecht, the German Anti-Santa](https://www.cultofweird.com/culture/knecht-ruprecht/): Who is Knecht Ruprecht? Dig into the weird folklore of German's anti-Santa in this episode of Macabre London's Abhorrent Advent Calendar.
- [Time Travel and Project Pegasus](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/time-travel-project-pegasus/): Attorney Andrew Basiago claims a secret government program called Project Pegasus sent him back in time to Gettysburg in 1863 where he was photographed.
- [Feather Death Crowns: An Appalachian Omen of Death](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/feather-death-crowns/): Can feather pillows predict death? The unique and bizarre Appalachian phenomenon of death crowns found in the pillows of the sick or deceased.
- [Dead Man's Toes Fungus: Xylaria polymorpha Mushroom](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/xylaria-polymorpha-dead-mans-fingers/): See why Xylaria polymorpha, the "dead man's toes fungus," is pure nightmare fuel. Is it a corpse or a mushroom? You don't want to find this fungi in the woods.
- [Eugene Shoemaker: The First Man Buried on the Moon](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/first-man-buried-on-the-moon/): Dr. Eugene Shoemaker became the first man to receive a Moon burial when his ashes landed there with the Lunar Prospector spacecraft on July 31, 1999.
- [Cremation Video: See What Happens During the Cremation of a Human Body](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/cremation-of-human-body-video/): This graphic video shows the entire cremation process of a human body, from placing it into a cardboard box to crushing the bone fragments into cremains.
- [Welcome to Colma, San Francisco's Cemetery City](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/colma-california-cemeteries/): Colma has more than 1.5 million residents and almost all of them are deceased. The "Cemetery City" has been home to San Francisco's dead for over a century.
- [Last Ride Out: Heaven's Gate Art by Hellen Skelter](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/heavens-gate-last-ride-out/): Cosmic weirdness oozes from this Heaven's Gate art created by illustrator Hellen Skelter.
- [Listen to the War Cry of the Desert Rain Frog](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/squeaky-desert-rain-frog/): Enjoy the soothing sounds of the cute but angry desert rain frog, nature's furious little squeaky toy.
- [Cursed Objects: Cult of Weird Collection #2](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/curious-objects-2/): Cursed objects from the collection, including an item once owned by Ed Gein, pieces of Aleister Crowley's House, and mid-century mortuary handbooks.
- [Fall Reading List 2020](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/fall-reading-list-2020/): Strange graves, messages from beyond the veil, bizarre legends and enduring mysteries. Find your next morbid must-read on the Cult of Weird fall reading list.
- [Dollhouse Graves](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/dollhouse-graves/): These grave markers are as sad as they are sweet. Dollhouses built by grieving parents for their beloved daughters.
- [Plague Diary #2: Flagellating for the Rona](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/flagellating-for-the-rona/): God put us in time out for our sins.
- [Guillotine Earrings Commemorating the Execution of Louis XVI](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/guillotine-earrings/): Louis XVI execution guillotine earrings became the in-vogue fashion accessory of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, when beheadings were popular and plentiful.
- [My Birthday Guillotine Cake](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/guillotine-cake/): Let them eat cake! My Addams Family-inspired Victorian birthday cake with a working guillotine cake topper.
- [Fingerprints From Purgatory](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/fingerprints-from-purgatory/): A peculiar book from the Purgatory Museum in Rome. Does this mysterious object at the Piccolo Museo del Purgatorio offer scientific proof of purgatory?
- [Weirdest Facebook Posts for July](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/top-posts-july-2013/): A compilation of the strangest and craziest Cult of Weird posts for the month of July 2013.
- [Historic Haunted Mortuary For Sale in California](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/haunted-mortuary-dunsmuir/): An historic home is for sale in Dunsmuir, complete with mortuary, human remains, and ghosts.
- ['Appraiser of Doom' Helps Sell the Most Famous Crime Scenes](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/randall-bell-crime-scene-appraisal/): Meet the man who helped sell the Heaven's Gate mansion, Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment building, the Sharon Tate property, and other notorious real estate.
- [Why do things keep evolving into crabs?](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/evolving-into-crabs/): In an act of sheer evolutionary horror, crustacean creatures continuously evolve into round, flat forms resembling crabs millennium after millennium.
- [These Creepy Vintage Santa Photos Will Give You Nightmares](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/vintage-creepy-santa-photos/): No scary Christmas is complete without a creepy Santa Claus. These vintage weird Santa pictures are sure to keep you stirring on Christmas Eve.
- [Creepy Christmas Song: The Christmas Witch](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/christmas-witch/): Count D adds a new Christmas demon to the yule season with this holiday classic.
- [Greetings from the Krampus](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/krampus-greetings/): A collection of vintage Gruss vom Krampus greeting cards to fill your Yule with Christmas terror.
- [A Very Pagan Christmas Special](https://www.cultofweird.com/culture/pagan-christmas-special/): Dig up the dark origin of Christmas traditions with this macabre holiday special exploring Saturnalia, folklore and the pagan roots of the Yule season.
- [Santa the Turkish Necromancer](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/santa-the-turkish-necromancer/): Caitlin Doughty digs up the weird origin of Santa Claus in this special Christmas edition of Ask a Mortician.
- [Under the Knife Morbid Christmas Special with Dr Lindsey Fitzharris](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/under-the-knife-morbid-christmas/): Dr Lindsey Fitzharris becomes the dissected criminal in this morbid take on 'Twas the Night Before Christmas for the special holiday edition of Under the Knife.
- [Alexander Graham Bell's Dead Ear Phonautograph](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/alexander-bell-ear-phonautograph/): Before he invented the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell created the ear phonautograph, a device that recorded sound using a dead man's ear.
- [Grave Goods](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/grave-goods/): From military tombstones to alien burials, cemetery explorer Tui Snider explores the forgotten meanings behind objects left at gravesites for the deceased.
- [The Stick Boy: A True Story](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/stick-boy/): Writer Rod Labbe recalls a harrowing childhood encounter with something strange in the woods of Maine.
- [Hand of the Mysteries](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/hand-of-the-mysteries/): Hand of the Mysteries is the alchemical symbol for the transformation of man into god.
- [Hufu: The Vegan Cannibal's Alternative to Human Flesh](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/hufu-human-flesh-alternative/): Hufu was a tofu-based product designed to taste like human flesh, providing an alternative meat source for health-conscious cannibals.
- ["Pine Devil" Animated Short Horror Film by David Romero](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/pine-devil/): Artist David Romero brings the Jersey Devil to life in this tense and terrifying animated short film inspired by the legendary creature.
- [London's Malplaquet House is an enormous Cabinet of Curiosities](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/malplaquet-house/): The Malplaquet House is filled floor-to-ceiling with art, religious artifacts, and natural history specimens.
- [Giles Corey, the Salem Witch Who Was Pressed to Death](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/salem-giles-corey-memorial/): Accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials, Giles Corey was slowly crushed to death with rocks for refusing to enter a plea.
- [Vidstone Video Gravestone](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/vidstone-video-gravestone/): Created by the "Walt Disney of the Funeral Business," the Vidstone is a headstone that memorializes your loved one with an embedded video of the deceased.
- [OuijaZilla: The World's Largest Ouija Board](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/ouijazilla/): The Talking Board Historical Society set the new world record for the largest ouija board with the 9,000-pound OuijaZilla.
- [Mike the Headless Chicken Lived for 18 Months After Beheading](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/mike-headless-chicken/): "Miracle" Mike the Headless Chicken was almost dinner, but he survived the axe in 1945 and went on to became a legend without a head.
- [5 Strange Things that Really Happened on TV #1](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/strange-things-that-happened-on-tv-1/): The audience laughs as a comedian dies on live TV, a serial killer wins The Dating Game, and a newlywed confesses the weirdest place she gets the urge to "make whoopee."
- [Rodney Alcala: Serial Killer Who Won The Dating Game](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/rodney-alcala-dating-game/): Serial killer Rodney Alcala had already killed at least several women by the time he won The Dating Game in 1978.
- [Curious Objects from the Cult of Weird Collection #1](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/curious-objects-1/): Take a peek inside the Cult of Weird collection at a vintage funeral carriage, a charred artifact from Hell, and a Disney-tinged antique Ouija board.
- [Beauchene Skull: Art of the Exploded Skull](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/beauchene-skull/): A Beauchene skull is a human skull that has been disarticulated, and displayed on a stand to create an "exploded" view of the cranium for study.
- [Ouija Board Gravestone - Grave of Elijah Bond in Baltimore](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/ouija-board-gravestone-baltimore/): The memorial gravestone of Ouija Board inventor Elijah Bond was erected in 2008 by the Talking Board Historical Society in Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery.
- [The Big Book of Mars](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/big-book-of-mars/): From the psychic whose spirit visited Mars in the 1890s to the modern space race to put people on the Red Planet, we have a weird and fascinating relationship with our nearest neighbor in the solar system.
- [Beyond Dune: Primitive Stillsuits Imagined by Artist Mark de Bakker](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/dune-primitive-stillsuits/): Artist Mark de Bakker envisions an early, anatomical design for Dune's iconic stillsuits worn by the desert dwellers of Arrakis.
- [Trailer: David Lynch's Return of the Jedi](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/david-lynch-return-of-the-jedi/): Is this what David Lynch's Return of the Jedi would have looked like? Fan-made trailer re-imagines the Star Wars film with Lynch's style.
- [Grave of the Torryburn Witch Found in Scotland](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/torryburn-witch-grave-scotland/): The grave of the Torryburn witch, who confessed to sex with the devil in 1709, has been uncovered on the shore of Scotland's Fife Coast.
- [Presidential Assassin Charles Guiteau Grew Up in this Wisconsin Ghost Town](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/charles-guiteau-wisconsin-ghost-town/): Ulao may be gone, but history will not forget this Wisconsin ghost town's most deranged resident: Charles Guiteau, the man who shot President Garfield.
- [The Sideshow Banner Art of Fred G. Johnson](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/fred-johnson-sideshow-banners/): Fred G. Johnson painted circus and sideshow banners for 40 years while working for the O. Henry Tent and Awning Company in Chicago from 1934-1974.
- [Unsolved Mysteries is Still Fascinating and Chilling 30 Years Later](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/unsolved-mysteries-amazon/): Thanks for the miracle of Amazon streaming video, Unsolved Mysteries is once again reminding us that the world is terrifying and full of psychopathic killers.
- [Digging Up Weird History in Milwaukee's Oldest Cemeteries](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/milwaukee-oldest-cemeteries/): The "man they couldn't hang," the Midwest's first crematorium, and other strange bits of history can be found in Milwaukee's historic cemeteries.
- [A Halloween Tour of Woolly Mammoth](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/woolly-mammoth-halloween/): Take a tour of Chicago oddities shop Woolly Mammoth with owner Adam Rust in this special Halloween episode of American Dealers.
- [Radioactive Remains of Manhattan Project Experiments Buried in Chicago Woods](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/chicago-red-gate-woods-nuclear-reactor/): The remains of the Manhattan Project's earliest experiments to build the atomic bomb are buried here beneath this public forest preserve in Chicago.
- [Woolly Mammoth Antiques & Oddities - Chicago, IL](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/woolly-mammoth-oddities-chicago/): Woolly Mammoth Antiques and oddities shop in Chicago is packed to the ceiling with vintage taxidermy, skulls and other creepy and bizarre items.
- [Man Sitting On A Dead Horse](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/man-sitting-on-a-dead-horse/): A highly-speculated late 19th century vintage photo appears to show a finely-dressed Sheboygan, WI man sitting on a dead horse in the middle of the street.
- [The Georgia Guidestones](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/georgia-guidestones/): A large granite monument known as the American Stonehenge, astronomically aligned and inscribed with cryptic messages.
- [Breast Protectors for Women Working in WWII](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/wwii-breast-protectors/): Plastic breast protectors c.1943, part of the safety gear for female war workers of World War 2.
- [Sputnikfest Commemorates Spacecraft's 1962 Crash in Manitowoc, WI](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/sputnikfest-manitowoc-wisconsin/): Sputnikfest in Manitowoc commemorates the 1962 crash of the Soviet Sputnik IV spacecraft, which fell from the sky and scattered debris across Wisconsin.
- [Safe House: A Clandestine Lunch Adventure in Milwaukee](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/safe-house-milwaukee/): If you're a secret agent looking for a great place to lay low and grab some good food in Milwaukee, the Safe House restaurant is the place to be.
- [Lake Michigan Shipwrecks Visible from the Air](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/lake-michigan-shipwrecks-visible/): The waters of Lake Michigan are so clear right now that many of its historic sunken ships are currently visible from the air.
- [Beware the Slenderman](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/beware-the-slenderman-trailer/): Beware the Slenderman is a documentary about two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls who attempted to murder their friend to appease the creepypasta character.
- [A Few Familiar Terrors in New Twilight Zone Trailer](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/twilight-zone-trailer/): New Twilight Zone trailer offers look at new series with a few nods to the original.
- [The Head of German Serial Killer Peter Kurten in Wisconsin Dells](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/peter-kurten-head-wisconsin-dells/): Come face to face with the mummified head of the Dusseldorf Vampire in the dark passages of Ripley's Believe It or Not in Wisconsin Dells.
- [Man Catches Rare Fur-Bearing Trout in Wisconsin](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/furry-trout-caught-in-wisconsin/): Think the legendary fur-bearing trout is a myth? Well a fisherman in Wisconsin claims to have actually caught one.
- [Was Fenn's Treasure Really Found, or is He Planning Something Darker?](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/forrest-fenn-treasure-tomb/): The hunt for Fenn's Treasure is over. Or is it? A CBS anchor says Fenn confessed his "dark and bizarre" plan back in 2012.
- [Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/golden-guide-hallucinogenic-plants/): Learn to identify peyote, magic mushrooms and other hallucinogenic plants, as well as their historical use in medicine and religious practices.
- [Morten Viskum: The Artist Who Paints with Severed Hands](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/morten-viskum-hand/): Controversial artist Morten Viskum finger paints with the severed hands of dead people.
- [Margorie McCall: Irish Legend of the Lady with the Ring](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/margorie-mccall-buried-twice/): Lived once, buried twice. The story of Margorie McCall tells the tale of grave robbers who got scared to death stealing a ring from a lady who was buried alive.
- [Human Skin Shoes: A Wild West Outlaw's Weird Fate](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/human-skin-shoes/): Dr. John Osborn made a pair of human skin shoes from the remains of hanged train robber Big Nose George for his inauguration as governor of Wyoming.
- [Fanny Mills, Ohio Big Foot Girl](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/ohio-big-foot-girl/): Freak show performer Fanny Mills, better known as the "Ohio Big Foot Girl," suffered from a rare disease that caused her feet to swell to 19 inches long.
- [Monsters in America: Map Out Your Cryptozoology Road Trip](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/monsters-in-america-map/): Take a cryptid road trip with this Monsters of America map from Hog Island Press and track down Bigfoot, Mothman, the Pope Lick monster and more.
- [Bookshelf that Converts into a Coffin](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/coffin-shelf/): This bookshelf doubles as a coffin so you can be buried with your books.
- [Andrew Crosse and the Perfect Insect: Creating Life from Rocks and Electricity](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/andrew-crosse-experiment/): Did an amateur scientist accidentally create life during 19th century electrical experiments?
- [Russia’s Cannibal Island: An Experiment Gone Terribly Wrong](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/russia-cannibal-island-nazino/): Nazino Island was supposed to become a thriving community, but within weeks the island’s inhabitants resorted to horrific acts of cannibalism to survive.
- [Bag O' Beach Bones](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/beach-bones/): These life-size human skeleton sand toys are perfect for little anthropologists and budding serial killers alike.
- [Si Quey, The Cannibal Bogeyman of Bangkok Who Eats the Livers of Children](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/si-quey-thailand-cannibal/): Thailand's cannibal killer was executed for eating the livers of six children in 1959. Decades later, the mummified bogeyman has finally been put to rest.
- [The Sex Lives of Cannibals](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/sex-lives-of-cannibals/): J. Maarten Troost's hilarious travelogue about leaving the corporate life behind to build a new life in the South Pacific.
- [LISTEN: Cannibals in Love by The Mission Creeps](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/cannibals-in-love/): A reverb-soaked cannibal love song from psychobilly band The Mission Creeps.
- [A Decade of Weird: Cult of Weird Turns 10](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/10-years-of-weird/): Ten years ago today Cult of Weird crawled out of the roadkill in the ditches of the information superhighway to make the world a stranger place.
- [The Legend of Chief Udre Udre, Fiji's Most Prolific Cannibal](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/udre-udre-fiji-cannibal/): The notorious Fijian chief consumed between 872 and 999 people in his lifetime.
- [What Does Human Flesh Taste Like?](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/taste-of-human-flesh/): A journalist gets samples of his thigh muscle removed and cooked to determine what human flesh tastes like. The result? That burger looks delicious...
- [Fiji Islands: Welcome to the Cannibal Isles](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/cannibal-isles/): Cannibal Week: The dark history of Fiji's cannibal past and the death of missionary Thomas Baker 149 years ago.
- [Who is Cannibal Tom?](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/cannibal-tom/): Who is this elusive old Fijian cannibal depicted in so many old photos and vintage postcards?
- [Early Accounts of Cannibalism](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/early-accounts-of-cannibalism/): Accounts of Cannibalism in the South Pacific islands of Fiji, New Guinea and more by early missionaries in the 1800s.
- [Cannibalism & Human Evolution](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/cannibalism-human-evolution/): The Beginning Was the End is a 1971 book by Oscar Kiss Maerth suggesting human evolution was sparked by early apes resorting to cannibalism.
- [Aghori: Cannibal Sect of Hindu Monks](https://www.cultofweird.com/culture/aghori-cannibal-hindu-monks/): The Aghori monks are a Hindu sect known for their extreme taboo practices such as the ritual cannibalism of the dead.
- [Jane: Jamestown Cannibalism Victim](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/jamestown-cannibalism-skull/): The skull of a 14-year-old girls unearthed in Jamestown shows evidence that it was butchered and broken open to eat the brain.
- [Alfred Packer: Legend of the First American Cannibal](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/alfred-packer-american-cannibal/): New book explores the legend of Alfred Packer, who survived the winter of 1874 by eating his companions on a doomed excursion through the Colorado mountains.
- [The People of Tasmania Want the Skull of their Cannibal Killer Back](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/tasmania-cannibal-alexander-pearce/): The skull of notorious cannibal Alexander Pearce has been in the collection of a Pennsylvania museum for many years, and Tasmania wants it returned home.
- [Weekend Weird: Cannibal Week, Inside the Grave of H.H. Holmes, Missing Couple Found Mummified in Glacier, and More](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/cannibalism-mummified-couple/): This week's weird news includes the state of Dali's mustache in the grave, a missing couple found after 75 years, and the hidden eighth continent.
- [Weekend Weird: Cannibal Boyfriend, Doomsday Eclipse, Trees That Don't Touch, and More](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/cannibal-boyfriend-doomsday-eclipse/): Here's the last roundup of weird news you'll ever get before the total solar eclipse brings about the end of the world on Monday.
- [Joseph Oberhansley Murdered His Ex and Ate Her Organs](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/cannibal-joseph-oberhansley-ate-ex-girlfriend/): Joseph Oberhansley admitted to murdering his ex-girlfriend and eating portions of her body because he could read her thoughts.
- [Holy Face Mask](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/holy-face-mask/): Whether exorcising demons or crusading against heathens, it's important to stay safe during a pandemic. 
- [The Skeletal Legacy of Odd Fellows Lurks in Closets and Attics Across America](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/odd-fellows-skeletons/): The decline of Odd Fellows membership throughout much of the 20th century led to abandoned ceremonial coffins and unidentified human remains.
- [5 Strange Wonders of the Natural World](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/strangest-natural-wonders/): The lake with a moving eye, a mysterious forest of crooked trees, and the largest living organism are among the strangest natural wonders of the world.
- [Sandra West Was Buried In a Lace Nightgown Inside Her 1964 Ferrari](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/sandra-west-buried-ferrari/): The Beverly Hills socialite insisted on being buried in the driver's seat of her Ferrari wearing her favorite lace nightgown.
- [Weird Independence Day Trivia You Didn't Learn in School](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/weird-independence-day-trivia/): Did you know that 1000s used to die in agony from "Patriotic Lockjaw" after 4th of July celebrations? Watch this video for more weird 4th of July facts.
- [The Swim Reaper: Death Goes to the Beach](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/swim-reaper/): Death enjoys some fun in the sun in these hilarious reminders to stay safe at the beach.
- [Forrest Fenn's Treasure Has Finally Been Found](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/forrest-fenn-treasure-found/): Multiple people have died trying to find it, but now, after a decade, the treasure of Forrest Fenn hidden in the Rocky Mountains has finally been found.
- [Sea and Land: Victorian History Book Illustrates the Dreaded and Grotesque Natural World](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/land-sea-jw-buel/): From sea monsters to sinister blood-drinking plants, this Victorian book highlights all the horrors of the natural world.
- [The Story Behind the Plane at the Don Q Inn Hotel in Wisconsin](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/don-q-inn-plane/): The retired military cargo carrier was featured in car commercials with Farrah Fawcett in the 1970s before it came to rest at the Don Q Inn.
- [The Search for Fenn's Treasure Claims Another Victim](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/fenn-treasure-dead/): With two deaths now attributed to the search for the treasure, families and authorities are asking Forrest Fenn to call of the hunt.
- [1947 Frankenstein Buick Hearse](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/1947-frankenstein-buick-hearse/): This is probably the coolest, creepiest hearse ever, and it's rusting away in a field.
- [Museum of Mummified Cholera Victims in Mexico](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/guanajuato-mexico-mummies/): A museum in Guanajuato, Mexico displays the mummified remains of 1833 cholera epidemic victims.
- [The Roasted Mummies of Papua New Guinea's Anga Tribe](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/mummified-papua-new-guinea/): For centuries Papua New Guinea's remote Anga tribe has been practicing intricate mummification rituals to preserve their ancestors.
- [Mummy Brown: Painting with the Dead](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/mummy-brown-painting-with-the-dead/): Mummified human remains were once the primary ingredient of a popular brown pigment used by Pre-Raphaelite artists.
- [Mummified Remains of Bishop Peder Winstrup Present New Mystery](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/mummified-bishop-peder-winstrup/): Researchers uncovered a bizarre new mystery while examining the mummified remains of bishop Peder Winstrup from the 1600s...
- [The Mummified Monk of Koh Samui in Thailand](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/mummified-monk/): Thailand's mummified Buddhist monk on display in Wat Kunaram on Koh Samui island.
- [Eaten By Mountain Rats on Pike's Peak](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/pikes-peak-mountain-rats/): The supposed grave of John O’Keefe's (non-existent) daughter, whom he claims was eaten by mountain rats on Pike's Peak.
- [Centralia's Underground Mine Fire Has Been Burning for Almost 60 Years](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/centralia/): Besides a few homes and smoldering cemeteries, not much is left of the small Pennsylvania town that's been burning since 1962.
- [Cold War Home Built 26 Feet Underground](https://www.cultofweird.com/architecture/underground-home-las-vegas/): When wealthy recluse Jerry B. Henderson built his underground Cold War bunker in 1978, he decided to ride out the end of the world in style.
- [Maryland Mansion Has a Turn of the Century Street in the Basement](https://www.cultofweird.com/architecture/maryland-mansion-historical-street/): This $4.5 million home contains a recreation of a small town turn of the century street, complete with cobblestones, vintage cars, and 15 storefronts.
- [Listen to Horror Actor Bill Oberst Jr. Read Gothic Literature](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/bill-oberst-jr-reads-gothic-literature/): Escape into the dark woods with Bill Oberst Jr. as he reads classic works of Gothic literature in his new podcast.
- [American Madness: How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked the American Consciousness](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/american-madness/): Author Tea Krulos pulls back the veil on the deep state agenda with masked conspiracy theorist The Phantom Patriot.
- [Digging Up Ed Gein: Our Expedition into the Dark History of Plainfield, WI](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/ed-gein-plainfield-trip/): Our latest trip to Plainfield to uncover the deranged history of Ed Gein lead us into the heart of Wisconsin's dark side...and yielded some great photos.
- [Skinwalker Ranch Owner Brandon Fugal's Synth Wave Band](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/skinwalker-ranch-brandon-fugal-synth-wave/): Before he was the mysterious owner of Skinwalker Ranch, Brandon Fugal was one half of the 1980s throwback synth wave duo Supplicant.
- [Strange Encounters in the Eerie Nighttime Photography of Briscoe Park](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/briscoe-park-strange-encounters/): Creepy lights and shadowy figures haunt the night with a provocative otherworldly ambiance in these nighttime scenes by photographer Briscoe Park.
- [Watch the Titanic Sink in Real Time](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/titanic-sinking-real-time/): Experience the full horror of the night the Titanic sank in this real-time animation showing what happened as the ship was slowly dragged into the cold depths.
- [The History of the Notorious Nuremberg Torture Collection](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/nuremberg-torture-collection/): With some 1,300 artifacts from Europe's brutal past, the Nuremberg torture collection was the largest of it's kind.
- [Chernobyl Abandoned Amusement Park](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/chernobyl-abandoned-amusement-park/): The iconic ferris wheel in Pripyat, the now-abandoned city built to house the families of workers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
- [Chernobyl's Ghost City: Postcards From Pripyat](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/chernobyl-postcards-from-pripyat/): Filmmaker Danny Cooke captures some amazing views of Pripyat, the crumbling city abandoned after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
- [Weekend Weird: Mothman in Chicago, bears in Vlad’s castle, and more](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/weekend-weird-mothman-vlad/): Mothman in Chicago, the search for Amelia Earhart's bones, toe stolen from the Sourtoe Cocktail, and more in this week's roundup of weird news.
- [Spend Halloween Night in the Catacombs of Paris](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/paris-catacombs-halloween-airbnb/): Airbnb is giving away a one night stay for two surrounded by the dead in the Paris catacombs on Halloween night.
- [Teens Lost in Paris Catacombs for Three Days](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/lost-in-paris-catacombs/): Search teams used rescue dogs to find teens who were lost underground in the Paris catacombs for three days.
- [Empire of Death: Photos from Crypts, Catacombs, and Bone Churches](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/empire-of-death/): Photos from crypts, catacombs, bone churches, and other morbid masterpieces made of human bones around the world.
- [LA Murder Mansion is on the Market for the First Time in 50 Years](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/los-feliz-murder-mansion/): The Los Feliz murder mansion is on the market for the first time since the grisly crime that earned its reputation in the late 1950s.
- [Throne Carved Into a Tree Trunk](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/throne-carved-into-a-tree-trunk/): Local history carved into the trunk of a fallen tree in Kendal, England.
- [The Horrifying Truth of Thomas the Tank Engine](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/thomas-the-tank-engine/): Thomas was always a bit unsettling. Now it all makes sense, thanks to these disturbing animations from VFX artist Tom Coben.
- [End of the World Dioramas by Lori Nix](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/post-apocalyptic-diorama/): Nature consumes the remains of human civilization in these miniature post-apocalyptic dioramas.
- [History Bones: Artist Lee Harper Recreates Strange History with Miniature Skeletons](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/history-bones/): Explore the scenes of some of history's most deranged moments with these incredibly detailed and macabre dioramas by artist Lee Harper.
- [Tap, Tap: Artist Maria Salehi's Miniature Human Vivarium](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/maria-salehi-miniature-diorama/): Part of new exhibition of miniature art, Maria Salehi's diorama features a giant ant with an aquarium habitat for a human smaller than a penny.
- [Spend the Weekend in a UFO in Northern Wisconsin](https://www.cultofweird.com/architecture/futuro-ufo-wisconsin/): Looking for an unusual getaway? A retro flying saucer-shaped Futuro house is available to rent for a weekend retreat in Northern Wisconsin.
- [Serial Killer Trivia Board Game](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/serial-killer-trivia-board-game/): Slaughter your friends with the Serial Killer Trivia board game! Pick your killer and go on a murderous rampage. The first player to score five victims wins!
- [Charles Manson's Fiance Just Wants Him for His Corpse](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/charles-manson-fiance-just-wants-him-for-his-corpse/): It turns out the Charles Manson marriage is a deviant plot to get his corpse and put it on display. But this is only a minor setback...because he is immortal.
- [Weird Wisconsin: Chatting with Mysterious Heartland](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/weird-wisconsin-charlie-hintz-interview/): Cult of Weird creator Charlie Hintz talks with Mysterious Heartland about the weird things Wisconsin has to offer.
- [Buffalo Bill's Silence of the Lambs House for Sale](https://www.cultofweird.com/architecture/buffalo-bill-house-for-sale/): The house used to portray the home of serial killer Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs is for sale in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
- [Cult of Weird Holiday Gift Guide 2016](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/holiday-gift-guide-2016/): Find the perfect gift to warm the cold, dead heart of that special someone on Christmas mourning.
- [Local Legends: What Monsters are Lurking in Your Neck of the Woods?](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/local-legends/): Readers share their local legends of ghosts, murders, and mysterious creatures.
- [A Chance Meeting with Filmmaker John Borowski](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/meeting-filmmaker-john-borowski/): We met true crime filmmaker John Borowski and talked about H.H. Holmes and the Jack the Ripper connection.
- [Weird Year in Review: The Best Weird News and Oddities of 2017](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/best-weird-news-and-oddities-2017/): A roundup of the weirdest news and most popular posts from Cult of Weird for 2017.
- [Friday Featured Oddities #1: Mysterious Crustacean, Bat Necklace, and Human Skull Bowl](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/friday-featured-oddities-1/): Today's roundup of weird art and morbid oddities for sale.
- [2018 Cult of Weird Holiday Gift Guide](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/holiday-gift-guide-2018/): Joy to the weird! Morbid gifts for that special stiff on your Christmas shopping list.
- [How to Talk to Your Kids About Ed Gein](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/kids-learn-about-ed-gein/): Watch this video before you plan your field trip to Plainfield.
- [Ed Gein's Real Life Horrors on Stuff You Should Know Podcast](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/ed-gein-stuff-you-should-know/): The story of deranged Wisconsin murderer and grave robber Ed Gein is featured in the latest episode of the Stuff You Should Know podcast.
- [Plague Diary #1: Scenes from the Coronapocalypse](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/scenes-from-the-coronapocalypse/): Panic in the streets, social distancing in the sheets.
- [The Demented Dollhouses of Marc Giai-Miniet](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/marc-giai-miniet-demented-dollhouses/): The strange and ominous shadowbox diorama dollhouses of french artist Marc Giai-Miniet.
- [The Curse of the Maynooth Ghost Room](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/maynooth-ghost-room/): Ireland is full of ghosts, but whatever haunts the Ghost Room at Maynooth that drives young priests to suicide may be the deadliest.
- [Futuro House: The UFO Home of the 1960s](https://www.cultofweird.com/architecture/futuro-house/): Production of the flying saucer-shaped Futuro homes lasted only a few years, but these UFO homes still be found in some unexpected places.
- [Getting Weird with Danger Slater](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/danger-slater-bizarro-horror/): Digging into the bizarro horror of author Danger Slater.
- [A Haunted Tour of Waverly Hills Sanatorium](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/waverly-hills-sanatorium/): Paranormal author and investigator J. Nathan Couch takes a trip to Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky to experience America's most haunted place for himself.
- [Pope Lick Monster: Searching for Louisville's Deadly Legend](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/pope-lick-monster/): Paranormal author and investigator J. Nathan Couch goes in search of the Pope Lick Monster in Louisville, Kentucky, which is responsible for at least 3 deaths.
- [Apocalypse Any Day Now: Into the World of Doomsday Preppers with Author Tea Krulos](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/apocalypse-any-day-now/): The End is near...right? For some, doomsday is right around the corner and they're going to great lengths to be prepared.
- [Explore the Horrors of H.H. Holmes' Murder Castle in Upcoming VR Game](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/hh-holmes-murder-castle-game/): VR game will let you experience the macabre secrets of H.H. Holmes while evading the killer himself in the hotel he built for murder.
- [5 Upcoming Weird Books You Can Preorder Right Now](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/upcoming-weird-books-2020/): From the bizarre true history of cursed objects and books bound in human skin, to the fictional tale of Southern style vampire hunting.
- [Haikyo](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/haikyo/): Haikyo is Japanese for ruins, but it is also the name given to the hobby of urban exploration - expeditions into abandoned and forgotten places.
- [Spider vs The Living Dead](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/spider-vs-living-dead/): Two terrifying, flesh-craving beasts. Who will win? Watch this stop-motion animated short to find out.
- [Mad Doctors of Borneo: The Claymation Nightmares of Webster Colcord](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/mad-doctors-of-borneo/): Beware the Mad Doctors of Borneo! A skeleton performs deranged experiments in these stop-motion shorts by animator Webster Colcord.
- [Webster Colcord's Bizarre Backyard Barbecue](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/backyard-barbecue/): Is something burning? The barbecue gets crispy in this short film by stop-motion animator Webster Colcord.
- [Animated Short 'Death in Space' Shows the Perils of Space Exploration](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/death-in-space/): In space, no one can hear you scream...so you probably shouldn't stick your finger in that.
- [Wunderkammer: Animated Short Film of the Erotic-Grotesque](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/wunderkammer-animated-short/): Madelaine discovers an alluring object in her cabinet of grotesque curiosities.
- [Famed Taxidermist Carl Akeley Turns 150](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/carl-akeley-turns-150/): Remembering Carl Akeley and the time he was attacked by a leopard on an expedition, killing it with his bare hands to save his own life.
- [House on the Rock: A Slow Descent Into Madness Disguised as a Tourist Attraction](https://www.cultofweird.com/travel/house-on-the-rock/): Inside the bizarre, one-of-a-kind shrine to human ingenuity, imagination and obsession in Spring Green, WI.
- [Boleskine Rocks for Sale: Own a Piece of Aleister Crowley's House](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/boleskine-rocks-for-sale/): You can now own a piece of the Boleskine House where occultist Aleister Crowley carried out some of his most wicked black magic rituals.
- [Coffin of Young Girl Found Beneath San Francisco Home](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/coffin-found-beneath-san-francisco-home/): A coffin containing the body of a young girl who died 145 years ago was found beneath a San Francisco home where the Odd Fellows cemetery used to be.
- [Girl Found in 145-Year-Old Grave Beneath San Francisco Home Gets 2nd Burial](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/miranda-eve-burial-colma/): The historic Odd Fellows Cemetery in San Francisco was moved in the beginning of the 20th century, but this young girl was forgotten.
- [The Grand Victorian Era of San Francisco's Historic Cliff House](https://www.cultofweird.com/architecture/victorian-cliff-house/): Perched on a cliff overlooking the ocean, San Francisco's historic Cliff House was a magnificent sight during the Victorian era before it was destroyed by fire.
- [10 Weird Facts About the Milwaukee Public Museum](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/milwaukee-public-museum-facts/): Strange and fascinating facts about some of the Milwaukee Public Museum's exhibits and artifacts.
- [The Periwig Maker: Animated Short Film About Plague-Ridden London](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/the-periwig-maker/): A wig maker locks himself inside his shop and watches as the Great Plague spreads death through the streets of London.
- [Haunted Hotel Sets World Record For Largest Ouija Board](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/worlds-largest-ouija-board/): The haunted Grand Midway Hotel in Windber, PA set the first ever Guinness World Record for the largest Ouija board.
- [Pirate Women Who Ruled the Seven Seas](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/pirate-women/): Who were the the princesses, prostitutes, and privateers who ruled the seven seas, and why were they ignored by history?
- [Weekend Weird: Dali Exhumed, Nazca Alien Mummy, and more](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/dali-exhumed-nazca-alien-mumy/): Nazca alien mummy hoax, Salvador Dali paternity test, Rob Lowe encounters a Bigfoot, and more in this week's roundup of weird news.
- [Atlas of Cursed Places](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/atlas-of-cursed-places/): Explore 40 locations around the world that are "rife with disaster, chaos, paranormal activity, and death."
- [Own a Piece of the Cabin from Evil Dead 2](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/evil-dead-cabin-wall/): Want to own a piece of the iconic cabin where Ash faced off against the deadites in Evil Dead 2? Here's your chance.
- [Newly Discovered Photo Suggests Amelia Earhart May Have Survived](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/photo-suggests-earhart-survived/): A photo from the National Archives seems to support the belief that Amelia Earhart was captured by the Japanese in 1937.
- [Legendary Aztec Tower of Human Skulls Found in Mexico City](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/tower-of-skulls-mexico/): A tower made from human skulls unearthed in Mexico City challenges what we known about human sacrifice in Aztec culture.
- [Dead Sled Unveils New Collection of Funeral-Inspired Incense](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/funeral-incense/): A new collection of incense inspired by the funerary arts, with scents like Ashes & Urns, Calming Spirits, and Graveyard Queen.
- [Blogger Debunks the Amelia Earhart Photo](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/amelia-earhart-photo-debunked/): The photo purported by a recent History channel documentary to show Amelia Earhart was printed in a book two years before she vanished.
- [The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/radium-girls-book/): The true story of the Radium Girls, women who fell ill while working in radium dial factories in the early 20th century.
- [Weekend Weird: Salem Witch Memorial, Burying the Bodies Exhibition, Earhart Photo Debunked, and More](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/salem-witch-hanging-memorial/): A memorial to those killed during the Salem witch trial hangings will be dedicated on July 19th, the 325th anniversary.
- [H.H. Holmes Skeleton Found in Concrete with Brain Intact](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/inside-hh-holmes-grave/): What was found inside the grave of H.H. Holmes? Researcher Jeff Mudgett reveals the details of the exhumation.
- [Salvador Dali's Mustache Found Intact in Grave](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/dali-mustache-intact/): When his remains were exhumed Thursday night, his mustache was found miraculously unchanged.
- [Creepy Clown Motel of Tonopah is For Sale, Nightmares Included](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/tonopah-clown-motel-for-sale/): The iconic roadside motel can be yours now, nightmares included!
- [Weekend Weird: Ghostly Radio Station, Occult Steakhouse, and More](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/ghostly-radio-occult-steakhouse/): This week's weird news includes an elongated child's skull found in Crimea, Russia's ghostly Cold War radio station mystery, and other oddities.
- [Weekend Weird: Beware of Lizard Men During the Eclipse, More Flying Humanoid Sightings in Chicago, and More](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/eclipse-lizard-men/): As solar eclipse madness grips the country, South Carolina braces for lizard men.
- [Confessions of a Funeral Director](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/confessions-of-a-funeral-director/): Watch the promo video for the upcoming book Confessions of a Funeral Director by Caleb Wilde.
- [Killed By A Bear: The Story of a Mysterious Gravesite in California](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/killed-by-a-bear/): The first episode of Ephemera digs into the strange details of a mysterious grave in California and the inscription on a tree that reads "killed by a bear."
- [The Magician and the Spirits](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/magician-and-the-spirits/): It's never too early to introduce kids to the story of Houdini's crusade against spiritualists.
- [Exhumation Ends 120 Year Mystery of H.H. Holmes' Death](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/holmes-didnt-escape-gallows/): Who's actually buried in the grave of America's first serial killer?
- [Weekend Weird: Stephen King's Red Balloon, Holmes DNA, Floating Fire Ants, and More](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/stephen-kings-red-balloon/): Fire ants floating in Houston's floodwaters, the identity of the remains in H.H. Holmes' grave, and more in this week's roundup of weird news.
- [Weekend Weird: Hearse Fest, Mothman, Holmes' Mustache, and More](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/hearse-fest-mothman-holmes-mustache/): This week's roundup of weird news and media includes the trial of a corpse pope, Hemingway's 6-toed cats, and spiritualists in Wisconsin.
- [Morbid Must-Reads: 2017 Fall Reading List](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/2017-fall-reading-list/): Curl up in the candlelight this fall with one of these macabre recommendations from the Cult of Weird book club.
- [Weekend Weird: The Grave of Hugh Hefner, Paul Revere's Outhouse, Killer Clown, and More](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/hugh-hefner-grave-killer-clown/): This week's roundup of weird news includes a Russian couple who ate 30 people from dating sites, and the rescheduled date of Doomsday.
- [Watch the 1991 Claymation Comedy of Horrors Halloween Special](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/claymation-comedy-of-horrors/): Hilarity ensues in this 1991 animated Halloween special when Wilshire Pig and Sheldon Snail set out to find Doctor Frankenswine's monster.
- [Jeremy Bentham's Mummified Head Goes on Display for the First Time in Decades](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/jeremy-bentham-head/): The head of Jeremy Bentham is being displayed for the first time in decades, and scientists will be using the opportunity to test it for autism.
- [Weekend Weird: Santa's Dead, Mummified Head, Burning Down Bad Spirits, and More](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/santas-dead-mummified-head/): The grave of St. Nick has been found, Jeremy Bentham's head goes on display, and more in this week's roundup of weird news.
- [Explore Salem With Us This Friday the 13th](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/explore-salem-with-us-this-friday-the-13th/): Follow Cult of Weird on Instagram for a glimpse at the history of the Witch City and its Halloween festivities this Friday the 13th!
- [Meet the Raven That Says 'Nevermore'](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/raven-nevermore/): Quoth the raven...
- [Patterson & Gimlin Filmed Bigfoot 50 Years Ago Today](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/patterson-gimlin-bigfoot/): It's been 50 years since the controversial footage of a large female Bigfoot was filmed by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin in Northern California.
- [Weekend Weird: Billy Corgan Sees a Shapeshifter, Bigfoot's Anniversary, Appalachian Burial Customs, and More](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/billy-corgan-shapeshifter/): This week's weird news and media includes a look at the Salem during Halloween, the latest on consciousness after death, and a contortionist with a strange illness.
- [Inside the Macabre Personal Museum of Occult Collector Calvin Von Crush](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/occult-collector-calvin-von-crush/): A look at Calvin Von Crush's morbid collection of rare occult and paranormal history, human remains, and grotesque freaks of nature.
- [Face of 18th-Century Torryburn Witch Revealed in Digital Reconstruction](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/torryburn-witch-facial-reconstruction/): The face of a Scottish woman accused of witchcraft has been revealed 313 years after her death.
- [Weekend Weird: Post-Halloween Blues Edition](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/post-halloween-blues/): Trick or treat meth, haunted dolls, Chicago mothman attack and more in this week's roundup of weird news and media.
- [Cult of Weird 2017 Holiday Gift Guide](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/2017-holiday-gift-guide/): The gift guide for those of us who would rather find our stockings stuffed with the feet they came from.
- [Lizzie Borden's Maplecroft Mansion is For Sale](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/lizzie-borden-maplecroft-mansion/): Own the house where Lizzie Borden lived out her life after the brutal murders she was acquitted of.
- [Watch: Heilung Live at Castlefest 2017](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/heilung-live-castlefest-2017/): Heilung brings the pagan sounds of the Northern European Iron Age and the Viking Period to the stage with lyrics from ancient texts and rune stones.
- [Weekend Weird: Merry Cultmas Edition](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/merry-cultmas/): Christmas monsters, pieces of saints, and the joy of Scary Christmas in this week's roundup of weird news and media.
- [The Silver Bridge Collapsed 50 Years Ago After a Series of Bizarre Mothman Sightings](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/silver-bridge-collapse-50th-anniversary/): After a series of bizarre Mothman sightings in Point Pleasant, the Silver Bridge collapsed into the icy waters of the Ohio River and took 46 lives with it.
- [The William Burke Museum in Edinburgh Has Just One Macabre Exhibit](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/william-burke-museum-edinburgh/): The world's smallest museum has only one exhibit: A piece of executed grave robber and murderer William Burke.
- [Weekend Weird: Valentine's Edition](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/weekend-weird-valentines/): This week's roundup of weird news includes big rockets, deep space penetration, and a man with an extraterrestrial lover.
- [Victorian Horse-Drawn Hearse Doors And Panels](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/victorian-hearse-doors/): Own these rare, hand-carved wooden remnants of a Victorian funeral carriage.
- [Dapper Corpse Used to Sell Embalming Fluid in 1903 Advertisement](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/vintage-embalming-fluid-ad/): This vintage ad for Bigsa embalming fluid includes a photo of a man dead for three months to demonstrate it's effectiveness.
- [Friday Featured Oddities #2: Goat Skull, Spirit Specimen, and Grim Ghoul](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/friday-featured-oddities-2/): Today's gathering of weird art and morbid oddities for sale.
- [Death Comes for Father John Misty in New Stop-Motion Video](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/father-john-misty-please-dont-die/): Josh Tillman fights off the dead as they try to pull him into his grave in the new video for "Please Don't Die."
- [More Coffin Screws for the Cult of Weird Collection](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/more-coffin-screws/): Victorian era coffin hardware from the Cult of Weird collection.
- [Friday Featured Oddities #3: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/friday-featured-oddities-3/): Today's featured oddities are a collection of memento mori, a reminder to never forget the transitory nature of life.
- [Friday Featured Oddities #4: Lake Monster, Haunted House Spray, and Skeletal John Wayne Gacy](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/friday-featured-oddities-4/): Today's gathering of weird art and morbid oddities for sale.
- [Stream this Documentary About Ghana's Most Celebrated Fantasy Coffin Maker](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/paa-joe-and-the-lion/): Paa Joe creates masterpieces meant to be buried six feet under.
- [Morbid Must-Reads: 2018 Fall Reading List](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/2018-fall-reading-list/): Dig into these morbid and fascinating book recommendations for the fall season from Cult of Weird.
- [Watch the Trailer for the New Peculiar Children Book 'Map of Days'](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/map-of-days-book-trailer/): The peculiar children come to America and encounter unimaginable new dangers in Map of Days, the new novel in the Miss Peregrine series from Ransom Riggs.
- [Christine McConnell's Halloween Monster House](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/christine-mcconnell-monster-house/): Macabre baker and artist Christine McConnell turned her parents' home into a real life monster house for Halloween.
- [The Haunted Dance](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/rizzle-short-film/): Elena regrets her fondness for the 1920s in The Rizzle, a short horror film by director Josh Tanner for the Huluween Film Fest.
- [Fap for the Mothman](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/mothman-erotica/): Things get steamy (and weird) for three cryptozoologists tracking down the elusive Mothman in Chicago.
- [Creepy Hollow Studios Producing Sculpture of Ouija's Iconic Blue Ghost](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/ouija-blue-ghost-sculpture/): Own a sculpture of the Blue Ghost from vintage William Fuld Ouija board boxes.
- [Stories for the Dark Season: The Ghastling Book 8](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/ghastling-book-8/): A collection of new short horror stories for Halloween and Samhain.
- [Author of "Bigfoot Erotica" Becomes US Congressman](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/denver-riggleman-bigfoot-erotica/): Bigfoot erotica devotee Denver Riggleman wins congressional race in Virginia.
- [Natural Magick: Exquisite New Edition of 16th Century Occult Tome](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/natural-magick/): Bring this once banned book of science and the occult back to life with a beautiful new edition from Black Letter Press.
- [Everything I Want for Christmas is Dead](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/christmas-is-dead-song/): Do you have dead things on your Christmas list? Finally, the perfect Christmas song for people with...stranger sensibilities.
- [Satanic 'Snaketivity' on Display for Christmas in Illinois Capitol](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/satanic-christmas-snaketivity/): The Satanic Temple of Chicago installed a sculpture of a hand holding an apple with a snake wrapped around it for the holidays.
- [Sexy Christmas Greetings from a Guatemalan Funeral Home](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/sexy-funeral-home-christmas/): Santa and his sexy elves wish you a merry Christmas from the grave.
- [Love You to Death: Featured Oddities Morbid Valentines Edition](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/valentines-oddities/): Who says romance isn't dead?
- [Salad Fingers Returns in 11th Installment of Nightmarish Series](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/salad-fingers-11-glass-brother/): In the latest episode, Salad Fingers is tormented by his brother and mother from the other side of the mirror.
- [Terror in the Skies: Doc Explores Stories of Large Winged Creatures in the Prairie State](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/terror-in-the-skies/): What are the large winged creatures terrorizing the skies? Documentary looks at Chicago Mothman and other winged cryptids in Illinois.
- [Neil Gaiman is Breathing New Life Into Jim Henson's Storyteller](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/neil-gaiman-storyteller/): Jim Henson's Storyteller featuring dark and strange tales of mythology and folklore is returning to the screen thanks to Neil Gaiman.
- [Keep Beer Weird: The Unipiper Teams up with Portland Brewing Co. to Support Local Weird](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/portland-weird-unipiper-beer/): Portland Brewing and the Unipiper join forces to celebrate Portland's weird with a collaborative beer, the Unipiper Hazy IPA.
- [Watch Slime Mould Solve a Maze to Find Food](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/slime-mould-maze/): Video of a slime mould finding the food in the center of the maze on the first try.
- [Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/will-my-cat-eat-my-eyeballs/): The new book from Ask a Mortician creator Caitlin Doughty tackles our biggest, and strangest, questions about death.
- [6 Bricks Under: Vienna Cemetery Introduces Funeral LEGO Sets](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/vienna-cemetery-funeral-legos/): Kids will have a blast assembling a LEGO crematorium, hearse, grave and more now available from the Vienna Funeral Museum.
- [Science Has Created Live, Endlessly Streaming AI-Generated Death Metal](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/relentless-doppelganger/): What happens when you feed death metal into a neural network? Relentless Doppelganger, a 24/7 livestream of AI-generated brutality.
- [Snake with Three Eyes Found in Australia](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/three-eyed-snake-australia/): A python with a rare mutation was discovered by park officials in Australia.
- [Featured Oddities #5: Son of the Devil, Blue Ghost, and Reindeer Horn](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/featured-oddities-5/): Today's gathering of weird art and morbid oddities for sale.
- [Happy Birthday Cult: Nine Years of Weird](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/nine-years-of-weird/): Cult of Weird turns 9 and we're celebrating with some new gear to cover your corpse with!
- [New THE FAR SIDE Comics Are Coming!](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/new-far-side-comics/): Something is stirring on Gary Larson's official The Far Side website, which hasn't been updated since 1999.
- [Alternate Endings: Documentary Explores New Ways to Die in America](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/alternate-endings-hbo-documentary/): HBO film showcases the non-traditional funerals people are choosing to celebrate the end of their lives.
- [Hyde and Eek Boutique: Target Unveils New Halloween Decor](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/target-halloween-decor-2019/): A peek at the ghoulish new Halloween decor coming this fall from Target.
- [Making a Megalodon](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/making-a-megalodon/): Artist Gary Staab builds a life-size replica of a medgalodon for the National Museum of Natural History.
- [Salem Unveils World's Largest Ouija Board This October](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/ouijazilla-worlds-largest-ouija-board/): The Talking Board Historical Society will be revealing Ouijazilla this October is Salem, MA.
- [First Look Inside the Wreck of the HMS Terror](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/inside-the-hms-terror/): See inside the HMS Terror for the first time since it vanished with the Franklin Expedition over 170 years ago.
- [September 2019 Newsletter: The Heart of Darkness](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/september-2019-newsletter/): Cult of Weird will be bringing the historical weirdness to the Windigo Fest dark art exhibit in Manitowoc this year.
- [Morbid Must-Reads: 2019 Fall Reading List](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/2019-fall-reading-list/): Communing with the dead, the women who wrote monsters, eyeball-eating cats, and more weird books top this year's morbid fall reading list.
- [Coin with an Anatomical Beating Heart](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/beating-heart-coin/): This intricate mechanical coin has a heart that beats when you spin a tiny wheel on the bottom.
- [Stephen King's House to Become a Museum and Writer's Retreat](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/stephen-king-house-museum/): Stephen King plans to turn his Victorian mansion in Bangor into an archive of his work.
- [Captain Dick Stevenson, Inventor of the Yukon's Legendary Sourtoe Cocktail, Has Died](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/sourtoe-cocktail-inventor-died/): The inventor of the Sourtoe Cocktail willed his own toes to the Downtown Hotel for use in future drinks, and instructed his daughter how to remove and preserve them.
- [Cult of Weird Holiday Gift Guide 2019](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/holiday-gift-guide-2019/): Fill your stockings with this year's Christmas atrocities! The Cult of Weird of Weird Holiday gift guide has arrived.
- [Ghostbusters Star Dan Aykroyd's Roots in Real Life Ghost Hunting](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/ghostbusters-dan-aykroyd-spiritualist/): When Dan Aykroyd wrote the original Ghostbusters film, he was drawing from a rich family history of spiritualism and the paranormal.
- [Weird Wonderful World Visits The Mystic Museum](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/weird-wonderful-world-mystic-museum/): In the premiere episode, Weird Wonderful World visits The Mystic Museum oddities shop in Burbank, California.
- [The Sourtoe Cocktail's Main Ingredient Was Stolen](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/sourtoe-cocktail-toe-stolen/): Someone stole the mummified human toe used to make the Yukon's famous Sourtoe Cocktail.
- [July Weird News Roundup](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/july-weird-news-roundup/): Cult of Weird rounds up the weirdest news, photos and videos from the month of July to shock, disgust and mystify!
- [Artifacts Unveiled from the Doomed Franklin Expedition](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/franklin-expedition-artifacts/): Artifacts recovered from the HMS Erebus help solve the 160-year mystery of the doomed Franklin Expedition.
- [Franklin Expedition Erebus Shipwreck Found](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/franklin-expedition-erebus-shipwreck-found/): The wreck of the HMS Erebus from the doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition has been found in remarkable condition near King William Island in the Canadian Arctic.
- [Goatman: Author J. Nathan Couch Explores the Bizarre Legend in His New Book](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/goatman-flesh-or-folklore/): What is goatman? Author and paranormal investigator J. Nathan Couch tries to separate fact from fiction as he explores the bizarre legends across the US.
- [Giant Skeleton Unearthed By Wisconsin Farmers in 1912](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/giant-skeleton-wisconsin-effigy-mound/): 1912 account details the discovery of a giant human skeleton by local farmers at an effigy mound burial site in West Bend, WI known as Lizard Mound County Park.
- [The Dying Drunkard](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/dying-drunkard/): The Dying Drunkard is a mechanical coin-op arcade machine on display at the House on the Rock in Spring Green, WI depicting a dying man tormented by spirits.
- [Steam-Powered Hearse at House on the Rock](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/steam-powered-hearse/): This fantasy steam-powered hearse is on display at the House on the Rock in Wisconsin.
- [Morbid Valentine's Day Gifts](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/morbid-valentines-day-gifts/): Flesh is fleeting, but true love transcends the grave. Find the perfect morbid Valentine's Day gifts for that special future corpse in your life.
- [Ouija Board Printable Valentines](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/ouija-board-printable-valentines/): Love is a mystifying thing. Leave it to the spirits with these Ouija board printable valentines from Cult of Weird.
- [The Body of America's First Serial Killer Is Being Exhumed](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/hh-holmes-exhumed/): The grave of H.H. Holmes is being exhumed for DNA analysis to settle an old rumor that the Chicago serial killer escaped execution in 1896.
- [The Accidents of Youth (1819)](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/accidents-of-youth-1819/): A volume of cautionary tales published in 1819 meant to invoke obedience in children lest they maim or kill themselves.
- [Death on Display at the Paris Morgue](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/paris-morgue/): Death became a popular pastime at the Paris Morgue in the late 19th century, where bodies were displayed publicly for identification.
- [Soviet Experiments in the Revival of Dead Organisms](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/soviet-revival-dead-organisms/): An experimental medical procedure breathes life into a severed dog head in this 1940 film Soviet documentary.
- [Vertebrata](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/vertebrata/): Vertebrata by French photographer Marc Da Cunha Lopes features bizarre skeletal beings in everyday locations.
- [The Guillotine Blade of Marie Antoinette](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/marie-antoinette-guillotine-blade/): The guillotine blade that beheaded French queen Marie Antoinette on display at Madame Tussauds London.
- [Flesh or Folklore: Interview with Goatman Author J. Nathan Couch](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/goatman-interview/): Goatman researcher J. Nathan Couch talks about strange legends and chilling encounters with the strangest creature roaming the backwoods of America.
- [The Screw-In Coffin](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/screw-in-coffin/): Donald Scruggs' Easy Inter Burial Container screws into the ground for easy interment and space-saving vertical burial.
- [The Silver Swan is a Marvel of 18th-Century Clockwork Automata](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/silver-swan-automaton/): The 250-year-old automaton swan made of silver and clockwork gears moves its head, preens, and eats a fish.
- [Frozen Dead Guy Days: Colorado Festival Celebrates a Frozen Corpse in a Shed](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/frozen-dead-guy-days/): Frozen Dead Guy Days celebrates this town's most famous resident...who has been dead and frozen in a shed since 1989.
- [The Dr. Seuss Collection of Unorthodox Taxidermy](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/dr-seuss-collection-of-unorthodox-taxidermy/): Everyone knows the work of Dr. Seuss, great American poet, illustrator, children's book author...and taxidermist of things that don't exist.
- [DEATHstination: Interview with 'Morose Mortician' and Grave Tripper Laura Hardin](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/laura-hardin-deathstination-interview/): Meet Laura Hardin, the mortician and taphophile who wanders around cemeteries digging up fascinating and often forgotten stories of the dearly departed.
- [10 Morbid Must-Reads for the Fall Season](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/fall-reading-list-2016/): A selection of macabre reading recommendations perfect for curling up with as the veil thins.
- [Cult of Weird Fall Reading List](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/weird-fall-reading-list/): Explore themes of death, cremation, devil worship, the occult, doomed expeditions and do-it-yourself taxidermy with these weird books perfect for fall reading.
- [Cult of Weird 2015 Fall Reading List](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/fall-reading-list-2015/): Peculiar children, cannibalism, and the misadventures of a dead man's head top the list of macabre history and strange fiction on this year's fall reading list.
- [How to Divine the Weather with a Wishbone](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/wishbone-divination/): The wishbone has been a mystical tool of scrying for over two thousand years.
- [Fragments of Faith: From Religious Relics to Victorian Hair Jewelery](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/victorian-hair-jewelery/): Karen Bachman discusses the strange and romantic art of Victorian hair work and its origins in this film presented by the Morbid Anatomy Museum.
- [Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/walter-potter-taxidermy/): New book showcases Victorian era taxidermist Walter Potter's beloved and whimsical anthropomorphic taxidermy.
- [Ghosts And Gadgets: Communicating with the Spirits](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/spirit-communication-devices/): Morbid Anatomy presents this short film about early spirit communication devices such as automatic writing planchettes with historian Brandon Hodge.
- [Documentary to Explore the Mad Mind of Carl Von Cosel](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/carl-von-cosel-documentary/): Proposed documentary will explore the morbid obsession of Carl Von Cosel with the dead girl he stole from the grave and slept with for seven years.
- [These Creepy Vintage Halloween Costumes Will Give You Nightmares](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/vintage-halloween-costumes/): Halloween used to be way creepier! These vintage costumes are terror-inducing.
- [Vintage Halloween Pinups Vol. 2](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/more-vintage-halloween-pinups/): Part 2 of the Cult of Weird vintage Halloween pinup spectacular featuring Betty Grable, Adele Jergens and more!
- [Vintage Halloween Pinups](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/vintage-halloween-pinups/): Halloween pinups featuring vintage Hollywood starlets including Clara Bow, Betty Grable, Dusty Anderson and more.
- [The Strange Case of Jeremy Bentham](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/jeremy-bentham-auto-icon/): Upon his request in a detailed letter attached to his will, the body of British philosopher Jeremy Bentham was dissected and preserved after his death in 1832 by his disciple Thomas Southwood Smith. The head and skeleton were placed in a wooden cabinet Bentham called the "Auto-icon." The skeleton was dressed in Bentham's clothes and
- [The Separation](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/robert-morgan-separation/): The Separation is a short stop motion film by Robert Morgan about the separation of conjoined twins and its extraordinary consequences.
- [Judge Orders Body of Salvador Dali to be Exhumed](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/salvador-dali-exhumed/): A woman claiming to be Salvador Dali's daughter from a 1955 affair has been trying to get a paternity test since 2007.
- [Forensic Dogs Will Be Used to Find the Remains of Amelia Earhart](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/amelia-earhart-remains-dogs/): An expedition is heading to the island of Nikumaroro with bone-sniffing forensic dogs to search for the remains of Amelia Earhart.
- [Mysterious Aztec Skull Masks Were Made From Slain Warriors](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/mysterious-aztek-skull-masks/): Masks discovered in the ruins of an Aztec temple were made from the skulls of their sacrificed enemies in the 15th century.
- [Birthday Box of Weird Giveaway](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/seventh-birthday-giveaway/): Celebrate seven strange years of Cult of Weird with a special birthday Box of Weird giveaway featuring weird novelties and oddities.
- [Mothman of Point Pleasant Documentary Now Streaming on Amazon](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/mothman-documentary-on-amazon/): New Mothman documentary explores in detail the strange events in Point Pleasant, WV that culminated in the collapse of the Silver Bridge in 1967.
- [Bigfoot Seen Clearly in Stabilized Patterson-Gimlin Film](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/patterson-gimlin-bigfoot-film/): Stabilized footage from the famous Patterson-Gimlin film reveals a much clearer image of the supposed Bigfoot creature.
- [The Butchering Art: The Brutal Practices of Pre-Anesthetic Victorian Surgery](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/the-butchering-art/): Step into the operating theater to explore how Joseph Lister changed the world of surgery in the days before anesthesia and antiseptic.
- [From Here to Eternity: How Other Cultures Care for Their Dead](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/caitlin-doughty-eternity-book/): Upcoming book from mortician Caitlin Doughty explores how other cultures care for their dead.
- [Sin Ship: The Story of the SS Monte Carlo Shipwreck on Coronado Beach](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/monte-carlo-shipwreck/): The SS Monte Carlo was the flagship of the mob's gambling fleet, where a host of illegal pleasures could be found floating just outside the law.
- [Mothman's Curse: A Children's Book](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/mothmans-curse-childrens-book/): New children's book Mothman's Curse by Christine Hayes explores the bizarre legend in a heart-pounding fictional story for young readers.
- [New Mothman Documentary Relives the Unexplained Phenomena in 1960s Point Pleasant](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/mothman-documentary/): Relive the Mothman sightings in Point Pleasant through the eyes of the residents who experienced it in this new documentary from Small Town Monsters.
- [Celebrate the Bizarre in Point Pleasant at the Annual Mothman Festival](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/mothman-festival-2015/): Point Pleasant celebrates it's bizarre history with the annual Mothman Festival, featuring guest speakers, vendors, screenings and tours.
- [Add Some Macabre to Your Fireplace With These Human Skull-Shaped Logs](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/skull-fireplace-logs/): Warm your self by the flames of your enemies burning in effigy with these life size human skull fireplace logs.
- [Sacred Fragment of 19th-Century Saint's Brain Stolen from Italian Basilica](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/john-bosco-brain-relic-stolen/): A relic of John Bosco was stolen from the Italian basilica dedicated to the saint, sparking rumors of Satanic rituals.
- [Curiosity Rover Photographed on Mount Sharp from Mars Orbit](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/curiosity-rover-mars-orbit/): Photo recently captured by NASA from Mars orbit shows the Curiosity Rover in a lonely expanse of the Red Planet.
- [Inside the Control Room of the UB-110 German Submarine](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/german-submarine-control-room/): A look at the complex valve system inside the German submarine UB-110 from 1918.
- [Creator of the Pink Flamingo Lawn Ornament Dies at 79](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/don-featherstone-pink-flamingo-lawn-ornaments/): Fly your flamingos at half staff today: Don Featherstone, the man who invented the pink flamingo lawn ornament, is dead at 79.
- [Weekend Weird: Two-headed space worm, lost in the catacombs, 8th wonder of the world rediscovered, and more](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/two-headed-space-worm/): This week's roundup of weird news is here to remind us that everything is horrifying and there is no escape. Enjoy!
- [Rare Giant Snail with 6,000 Teeth Feasts on Earthworm](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/giant-snail-eats-earthworm/): NIGHTMARE FUEL: The giant carnivorous Powelliphanta Snail from New Zealand devours an earthworm in this video clip.
- [The Lobotomy of Rosemary Kennedy](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/rosemary-kennedy-lobotomy/): Rosemary Kennedy was lobotomized at the age of 23 to calm her violent mood swings and spent the rest of her life incapacitated.
- [Corsets and Codpieces: History's Hidden Fashion Disasters](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/corsets-and-codpieces/): Throughout the ages fashion has been weird, and sometimes even deadly.
- [Video: Timelapse Metamorphosis of a Hercules Beetle](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/timelapse-hercules-beetle-metamorphosis/): Watch the metamorphosis of a Dynastes hercules from larva to adult rhinoceros beetle.
- [Remains of Six Found in Cars at Bottom of Lake in Oklahoma](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/foss-lake-oklahoma-bodies/): The skeletal remains of six bodies in two cars that were last seen over 40 years ago have been found at the bottom of Oklahoma's Foss Lake.
- [Robert Wadlow: The Tallest Man Ever in Recorded Medical History](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/robert-wadlow-tallest-man-ever/): The world's tallest man was 6' 5" at 10 years old, and he never stopped growing.
- [Dissecting the Meaning of the Anatomical Venus](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/dissecting-anatomical-venus/): What is an Anatomical Venus? The Cult of Weird community dissected some lovely ladies for the answer to this week's giveaway question on Instagram.
- [Dancing on the Dead at London's Enon Chapel](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/victorian-golgotha-enon-chapel/): In the mid-1800s, why were dances held at London's Enon Chapel called "Dances of the Dead?"
- [October Instagram Giveaway of Doom II](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/october-instagram-giveaway-2016/): Win a box full of morbid curiosities for the 2nd annual Instagram Halloween contest.
- [October Instagram Giveaway Contest of Doom](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/october-instagram-giveaway/): Test your knowledge of the weird. Enter to win a box of weird things from Cult of Weird on Instagram each week of October.
- [LSD Experiments: The Confused Cat](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/confused-cat-lsd-film/): This 1960 film report from the US government depicts a cat under the influence of LSD.
- [The Garden of Earthly Delights Comes to Life in this Mesmerizing Animation](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/garden-of-earthly-delights-animated/): The Garden of Earthly Delights re-imagined and animated with a modern twist for a recent art exhibit celebrating 500 years of Hieronymus Bosch.
- [Alien Structure on Asteroid 1999-RQ36](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/pyramid-asteroid/): Is that an alien pyramid structure on near-Earth asteroid 1999-RQ36? A spacecraft will be launched in 2016 to study it, but no mention of the bizarre anomaly was made.
- [Man Survives Losing Pressure in 1966 Moon Suit Experiment](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/1966-moon-suit-experiment/): A NASA experiment went awry when test subject Jim LeBlanc became the only man to survive near vacuum pressures.
- [Total Solar Eclipse Stamps Coming Soon From USPS](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/total-solar-eclipse-stamps/): New stamp commemorates the Total Solar Eclipse happening on August 21, the first visible from the continental US since 1979.
- [Gothic Homemaking: In Search of Human Remains with Voltaire](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/gothic-homemaking-human-skull/): Fresh out of human remains? Voltaire shows you how to track down skulls and bones for some macabre home decor in the new episode of Gothic Homemaking.
- [This is What $100 Trillion in (Worthless) Zimbabwe Currency Looks Like](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/zimbabwe-100-trillion-dollars/): With the highest inflation rate in the world, Zimbabwe began printing extremely large denominations that are now entirely worthless.
- [Croc Tries to Drag Elephant Down by its Trunk](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/crocodile-attacks-elephant-video/): Video shows a crocodile grab an elephant by the trunk and try to pull it down before other elephants come to the rescue.
- [Missing Man Found Inside the Belly of a Python](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/missing-man-swallowed-by-python/): Video from Indonesian news shows villagers cutting the missing man out of a massive 23-foot python.
- [Milwaukee Parent Wants Teacher Fired for Using Ouija Board in Class](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/milwaukee-ouija-board-teacher/): Mother claims her son is now having nightmares after his teacher used a Ouija board in the classroom.
- [Real Human Skull Found in Famous Carnegie Museum Diorama](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/human-skull-in-famous-diorama/): Restoration of a 150-year-old taxidermy diorama revealed it contains real bones, including an unidentified human skull.
- [Morbid Curiosity: A Card Game About Death](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/morbid-curiosity-card-game/): This new death positive card game promises to turn morbid curiosity into a delightful group discussion about human mortality.
- [Let's Play a Little Game About Death](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/morbid-curiosity-game/): Strike up a death positive conversation with a loved one or have some morbid laughs with friends with the Morbid Curiosity game.
- [Memento Mori: Paul Koudounaris Photographs the World of the Dead](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/memento-mori-paul-koudounaris-photographs-the-world-of-the-dead/): In some cultures, there is little distinction between the living and the dead. Dr. Paul Koudounaris explores this relationship in his new book Memento Mori.
- [Jeweled Skeletons of Christian Saints](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/heavenly-bodies-jeweled-skeletons/): New book Heavely Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs by Paul Koudounaris explores the jeweled skeletons of Christian saints.
- [Cult of Weird Holiday Gift Guide 2014](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/holiday-gift-guide-2014/): Find the perfect oddities to finish up your holiday shopping with the official Cult of Weird 2014 holiday gift guide, full of weird stocking stuffers, quirky novelties and macabre confectioneries.
- [Goatman Named Best Weird Cryptid Book of 2014](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/goatman-named-best-weird-cryptid-book-of-2014/): Goatman: Flesh or Folklore? by J. Nathan Couch has been named the Best Weird Cryptid book of 2014 by International Cryptozoology Museum founder Loren Coleman.
- [Most Popular Weird Books of 2014](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/most-popular-weird-books-of-2014/): The most popular weird, macabre and insanely fascinating books of 2014.
- [Cruise Ship Billiards: Gyroscopic Pool Table Stays Level in Rough Waters](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/cruise-ship-gyroscopic-pool-table/): Video shows how a pool table on a cruise ship stays level and keeps the balls in place while the ship lists in rough weather.
- [The Sea's Strangest Square Mile](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/sea-strangest-square-mile/): This short film explores a square mile of ocean floor that is home to bizarre alien-like creatures such as the bobbit worm, cuttlefish, frogfish and more.
- [Giant Ant Hill Excavated](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/giant-ant-hill-excavated/): A giant ant colony is pumped full of concrete, then excavated to reveal the complexity of its inner structure.
- [Extinct Lord Howe Island Stick Insects Found in Unlikely Place](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/lord-howe-island-stick-insect/): Believed to be extinct for 80 years, the giant Lord Howe Island stick insect showed up in the most unlikely place.
- [What is a Giant Marble Crucifix Doing at the Bottom of Lake Michigan?](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/lake-michigan-underwater-crucifix/): Crowds gather annually to catch a glimpse through the ice of the giant marble crucifix lying at the bottom of Lake Michigan for the winter viewing in Petoskey.
- [The Dark Fairy Tales of Miwa Yanagi](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/dark-fairy-tales-miwa-yanagi/): These fairy tales will get under your skin and haunt you.
- [Wisconsin Groundhog Bites Mayor](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/wisconsin-groundhog-bites-mayor/): Wisconsin groundhog bites mayor in brutal, but ultimately futile, protest of ridiculous Groundhog Day tradition.
- [Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/cannibalism-perfectly-natural-history/): Explore the natural history of cannibalism in nature and throughout history in this fascinating and macabre new book by Bill Schutt.
- [Marilyn Monroe X-Rays Bring Big Money at Auction](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/marilyn-monroe-x-ray/): 1954 X-rays of Marilyn Monroe's chest and pelvis sold at an auction in 2010 for $45,000.
- [Marilyn Monroe Thanksgiving](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/marilyn-monroe-thanksgiving/): Marilyn Monroe poses as a sexy Turkey-hunting pilgrim for Thanksgiving 1950.
- [Drone Footage of the Ruins of Haunted Nocton Hall](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/haunted-nocton-hall/): Fly over the historic ruins of Lincolnshire's Nocton Hall in this incredible drone video.
- [Altamura Man: Skeleton Stuck in Stone Yields Oldest Neanderthal DNA](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/altamura-man-oldest-neanderthal-dna/): Tests reveal the fossilized remains of the Altamura Man are around 150,000 years old and contain the oldest Neanderthal DNA ever extracted.
- [Otranto Cathedral Houses Bones of 15th Century Martyrs](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/otranto-cathedral-martyrs/): The Otranto cathedral in Italy is a macabre reliquary displaying the bones of 800 martyrs slaughtered by Turk invaders in the 15th century.
- [The Unpublishable Pop-up Book of Burlesque](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/unpublishable-pop-up-book-of-burlesque/): Peter Larkin set out to create a pop-up book about burlesque where the clothes came off. The result is a sophisticated book that will never be published.
- [Syphilis and the Grave of Al Capone](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/grave-of-al-capone/): The latest episode of Under the Knife explores Al Capone's case of advanced syphilis and eventual death.
- [Heather Benning's Life-Size Dollhouse](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/heather-bennings-life-size-dollhouse/): Artist Heather Benning transformed an abandoned farmhouse into a life-size dollhouse before burning it to the ground.
- [Monsters in America Cryptid Art Show](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/monsters-in-america-art-show/): Cryptozoological wonders come to life in this art exhibit inspired by the Monsters in America map by Hog Island Press.
- [Lost City of the Monkey God is Cursed with Flesh-Eating Parasites](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/cursed-city-of-the-monkey-god/): Explorers investigating the recently discovered Lost City of the Monkey God learned the truth behind the legendary curse the hard way.
- [Odd Fellows Ceremonial Coffin](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/odd-fellows-ceremonial-coffin/): Antique Odd Fellows coffin used for initiation ceremonies for sale on ebay.
- [Save Circus History: Adopt a Wagon at Circus World](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/save-circus-history-adopt-a-wagon-at-circus-world/): The Circus World museum in Baraboo, WI launched a new program to fund restoration of their historic circus wagon collection.
- [Photos of Indiana's Revamped Grave in the Middle of the Road](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/indiana-grave-in-road/): The final resting place of Nancy Kerlin Barnett in the middle of Indiana's County Road 400 got a makeover during recent construction to widen the road.
- [The Bye Bye Man is Based on a Real Wisconsin Ghost Story](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/bye-bye-man-wisconsin-ghost-story/): The true story behind a series of Ouija board experiments that uncovered the frightening legend of the Bye Bye Man.
- [What Do the Colors of a Barber's Pole Mean?](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/colors-of-a-barber-pole/): Why do barber poles have red and white stripes? Because your local barber shop used to offer a lot more than just a shave and a haircut.
- [DIY DEATHstination: Win Great Stuff by Digging up Stories from Your Local Cemetery](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/diy-deathstination-contest/): What fascinating stories are laying buried 6 feet under? Share a story for your chance to win a great prize pack for the DIY DEATHstination contest.
- [The Sweet Hereafter: Honey from Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/green-wood-cemetery-honey/): Historic cemetery is jarring and selling honey produced by its own colony of graveyard-dwelling bees.
- [The World's Largest Truck is the Ultimate Mobile Home](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/rainbow-sheikh-dodge-power-wagon/): Built by the eccentric Rainbow Sheikh, this 64:1 scale Dodge Power Wagon has an entire home inside...and it can be driven, too.
- [Naughty or Nice? The Beasts Come Out for Bloomington Krampus Night](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/bloomington-krampus-night/): A pack of Krampus terrorize the streets of Bloomington, Indiana for the annual Krampus Night celebration.
- [Under the Knife Returns!](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/under-the-knife-returns/): The web series from Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris explores bizarre, quirky, and sometimes outright disturbing stories from the dark corners of medical history.
- [Mothman Photographed in Point Pleasant?](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/mothman-photo-point-pleasant/): 50 years after the first sighting, a Point Pleasant man believes he captured a photo of the notorious creature.
- [50th Anniversary of the Warminster Thing: What Really Happened That Day](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/warminster-thing-50th-anniversary/): It has been 50 years since the onset of the mysterious phenomena that concerned the English town of Warminster. In its memoriam, here's what happened.
- [2015 Cult of Weird Holiday Gift Guide](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/holiday-gift-guide-2015/): The 2015 Cult of Weird holiday gift guide has the perfect gift ideas to satiate the most morbid of appetites on your Christmas list.
- [A Very Merry Cult Christmas](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/very-merry-christmas/): Put a Christmas hat, bow or ribbon on something odd and tag it #CultOfWeird to share with the Cult on Instagram, Twitter or Tumblr!
- [Walter Potter's Taxidermy Book for Christmas](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/walter-potter-taxidermy-book/): Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy book was under the Cult of Weird Christmas tree this year!
- [Scuba Claus, Cave Santa and Other Weird Ways to Visit the Jolly Man for Christmas](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/weird-ways-to-visit-santa/): Looking for a memorable Christmas experience? Why not visit with Santa while he swims with the fish or dwells with fairies deep within the Ruby Falls cave.
- [Iconic WWI Mascot Gets Much Needed Repairs](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/wwi-dog-goldberg-taxidermy/): A taxidermy dog who served as a mascot for an Illinois regiment in WWI is getting some much needed repairs after 83 years.
- [3 Strange Cases of Missing Brains](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/missing-brains/): What do the brains of Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy and deceased patients of the Texas state mental hospital have in common?
- [I Got a Plush Megacolon for my Birthday](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/mutter-museum-plush-megacolon/): A fuzzy, lovable version of the giant, diseased megacolon specimen on display at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.
- [Adopt A Skull from the Mütter Museum](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/mutter-museum-adopt-a-skull/): Help preserve the Hyrtl skull collection by adopting a skull from the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia.
- [Grave Diggers Compete in the First Ever National Grave Digging Championship in Hungary](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/grave-digging-championship-hungary/): Grave diggers came from around around the country to demonstrate their skills in Hungary's first national grave-digging championship.
- [Morbid Anatomy Museum Kickstarter](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/morbid-anatomy-museum-kickstarter/): Contribute to the Morbid Anatomy Museum's Kickstarter campaign with great incentives for vintage anatomy and oddities enthusiasts.
- [Morbid Anatomy Museum](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/morbid-anatomy-museum/): The week before Halloween, I came home to find a package on my doorstep. Inside were the items pictured above: A Morbid Anatomy Museum t-shirt, a copy of the Morbid Anatomy Anthology, and a thank you postcard from New York's new institution of the bizarre. Earlier in the year Morbid Anatomy launched a Kickstarter campaign
- [Morbid Curiosities: Book Launch at the Morbid Anatomy Museum](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/morbid-curiosities-book-launch/): Join author Paul Gambino at the Morbid Anatomy Museum with the collectors featured in his new book Morbid Curiosities: Collections of the Uncommon and the Bizarre.
- [Slovakian Brothers Win Title in Central Europe Grave Digging Championship](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/grave-digging-championship/): Grave diggers gathered in Slovakia to compete for the title of fastest grave digger in central Europe.
- [Beware the Slenderman Documentary Coming to HBO Following SXSW Premiere](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/beware-the-slenderman-documentary/): Beware the Slenderman documentary explores the fictional internet boogeyman that drove two girls to attempted murder in Wisconsin.
- [The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/jasper-morello/): The crew of a royal dirigible accidentally stumbles upon a savage, horrifying cure for their plague-infested world in this steampunk-inspired animated short film.
- [Halloween Came Early at the 15th Annual Hearse Fest in Hell](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/hell-hearse-fest-2016/): The denizens of Hell, MI gathered for the 15th annual Hearse Fest and we were there for all the ghoulish fun.
- [Beeswax Feline Skull Candles from Grave Digger Candles](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/beeswax-feline-skull-candles/): Freshly exhumed from the pet cemetery, these all-natural pure beeswax candles cast from real bone are the perfect way to illuminate your crypt this Halloween.
- [Spend Halloween Night in Dracula's Castle](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/dracula-castle-halloween-night/): Airbnb wants to put you up for a Transylvanian vampire sleepover inside Dracula's Castle.
- [Dig into the Edible Body Farm this Halloween at Barts Pathology Museum](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/delicious-decay-edible-body-farm/): What is the connection between sweets and human decomposition? Dig up some forensic science, funeral history, and edible human remains this Halloween.
- [Spooky Vinyl: Halloween Horrors](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/halloween-horrors-album-1977/): Classic 1977 Halloween album features a spooky ghost story and creepy sounds, with cover art by Gary Meyer.
- [The Exorcist's Grave: The Final Resting Place of Father Walter Halloran](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/exorcist-grave-milwaukee/): This Jesuit priest was the last living eyewitness of the infamous exorcism of Roland Doe in 1949.
- [We're Going to Hell for the 15th Annual Hearse Fest](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/15th-annual-hearsefest-in-hell/): The annual Hearse Fest car show is organized by the Just Hearse'n Around car club in Hell, MI.
- [2,000-Year-Old Human Remains Found on Antikythera Wreck](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/antikythera-shipwreck-human-remains/): Ancient skeletal remains that may still contain DNA have been uncovered at the site of the Antikythera shipwreck in Greece.
- [The Viktor Wynd Museum is Crowdfunding a 1,000-Year-Old Mummy Head](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/viktor-wynd-museum-mummy/): Help the museum buy its mummy head for cool perks like mummy dust, penis bones, and chocolate anuses.
- [Pablo Escobar's Gold-Plated Hippo Skull](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/pablo-escobar-gold-plated-hippo-skull/): A gold-plated hippo skull, an extravagant curiosity from the Hanbury Collection, is believed to have been owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
- [Historical Grave of Pioneer Woman Contains Remains of at Least 7](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/grave-in-the-road-indiana/): Exhumation of Indiana's grave in the middle of the road revealed the remains of at least seven other unknown burials.
- [Labyrinth Exhibit Coming to the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/labyrinth-exhibit-center-for-puppetry-arts/): An exhibit featuring creatures and costumes from the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth will be on display this fall at Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts.
- [A Practical Pair of Women's Pink Velvet Burial Shoes](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/burial-shoes/): The Practical Burial Footwear Company provided a variety of fashionable shoes to fit the deformed feet of the deceased.
- [Get Your Exclusive VIP Weekend Milwaukee Paranormal Conference Tickets](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/vip-milwaukee-paranormal-conference-tickets/): Discounts on VIP weekend passes with exclusive access to supernatural extras and swag this month only! Reserve yours now.
- [The Aztec UFO Incident Details the Strange Story of 'The Other Roswell'](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/aztec-ufo-incident/): The story of a 1948 UFO crash in Aztec, New Mexico was considered a hoax for decades, but evidence suggests an elaborate military cover-up.
- [Anatomy Theater Combines Opera with Public Dissection](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/anatomy-theater-opera/): Bloody opera features gore and nudity as an anatomist dissects and woman who murdered her family to find what made her evil.
- [Rent Jeffrey Dahmer's Childhood Home for the Republican National Convention](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/jeffrey-dahmer-childhood-home/): Looking for a place to stay in Ohio during the Republican National Convention? Rent the childhood home of Jeffrey Dahmer, where he murdered and dismembered his first victim.
- [What Happened to Shakespeare's Skull?](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/shakespeare-skull-stolen/): A recent investigation of Shakespeare's grave using ground-penetrating radar seems to confirm an old story that the playwright's skull was stolen.
- [Explore Macabre Medical Artifacts with a New App from the Edinburgh Anatomical Museum](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/edinburgh-anatomical-museum-app/): Skulls, death masks, serial killer's skeletons and other disturbing medical artifacts can be viewed in 3D with this new app from Edinburgh's Anatomical Museum.
- [Pope Lick Monster Legend Claims Another Victim](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/pope-lick-monster-tourist-killed/): Kentucky's deadly trestle-dwelling goatman legend known as the Pope Lick Monster has claimed another life.
- [Photo: Legendary Maryland Goatman Spotted in Washington DC?](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/maryland-goatman-photo/): Is this photographic evidence of Maryland's legendary goatman?
- [Zak Bagans to Feature Haunted Objects in New Series Deadly Possessions](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/zak-bagans-deadly-possessions/): Ghost Adventures star Zak Bagans will feature haunted objects in a new Travel Channel series called Deadly Possessions.
- [Occult America Explores the Nation's Esoteric Roots](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/occult-america-mitch-horowitz/): From seances in the White House to the supernatural origins of alternative religions, America's roots are steeped in mystical beliefs and esoteric traditions.
- [Explore the World's Cryptids with this Poster and Interactive Website](https://www.cultofweird.com/cryptozoology/interactive-cryptozoology-poster/): Explore the strange creatures of the world with designer Aiden Guinnip's cryptozoology poster and interactive website.
- [The Art of Ryan Matthew Cohn](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/ryan-matthew-cohn-art/): The Midnight Archive explores the art of Ryan Matthew Cohn and his incredible collection of skulls, mummified specimens and articulations.
- [The Witch Movie Playset for Kids](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/witch-movie-playset/): Let your kids conjure up some good old fashioned 1600s witchcraft with Black Phillip and the fam from The Witch!
- [Interactive Cannibalism Exhibit Opens at San Diego's Museum of Man](https://www.cultofweird.com/culture/interactive-cannibalism-exhibit/): Explore the history of cannibalism in this one-of-a-kind interactive exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Man.
- [Did Jeffrey Dahmer Murder Adam Walsh?](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/jeffrey-dahmer-murder-adam-walsh/): Author who saw Jeffrey Dahmer the day Adam Walsh went missing insists the Wisconsin serial killer is responsible for his death.
- [Nikola Tesla Educational Coloring Book](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/nikola-tesla-coloring-book/): Color in the history of electricity with the Nikola Tesla coloring book created by artist and Tesla enthusiast Niffer Desmond.
- [Country Artist Sturgill Simpson's Bizarre Cover of Nirvana Classic "In Bloom"](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/sturgill-simpson-in-bloom/): For his latest album, country artist Sturgill Simpson recorded a slow, strange cover of Nirvana's "In Bloom" from the 1991 album Nevermind.
- [Alternative Scouting: Earn Your Merit Badge in Grave Robbing, Hexes, and Other Horrible Things](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/alternative-scouting-merit-badges/): Get your badge in grave robbing, cryptozoology, cannibalism, and other fun Alternative Scouting activities from artist Luke Drozd.
- [Hand-Carved Tentacle Crib by Artist Garrick Andrus](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/tentacle-crib/): Expecting parents commissioned this creepy crib with tentacles by artist Garrick Andrus.
- [Ectrodactyly - The Lobster Claw Syndrome](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/ectrodactyly/): Ectrodactyly, or lobster claw syndrome, is the name given to the condition in which hands or feet have a claw-like deformation.
- [The Landing Short Film](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/the-landing-short-film/): A man returns to the Midwestern farm of his childhood on a desperate mission to unearth the horrifying truth of what landed there in the summer of 1960.
- [Celebrate The Goonies 30th Anniversary in Astoria, OR](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/goonies-30th-anniversary-astoria/): The town where The Goonies was filmed is celebrating the 30th anniversary with 4 days of film location tours, treasure hunts and truffle shuffles.
- [Too Much Truffle Shuffling at the Goonies House](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/goonies-house-closed/): Thousands visit the Goonies house in Astoria, Oregon every day, and the owner is tired of it.
- [The Quay Brothers in 35mm](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/quay-brothers-35mm/): The Quay Brothers in 35mm showcases a selection of dark and moody short films by stop-motion animators Stephen and Timothy Quay.
- [Chapel of Skulls Made of Human Bones in Poland](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/chapel-of-skulls-poland/): The Chapel of Skulls in Poland is adorned with the bones of 3,000 people who died from war, disease, and starvation.
- [Build Your Own Jacob's Ladder](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/diy-jacobs-ladder/): Unleash your inner mad scientist! Popular Science shows you how to build your own DIY Jacob's Ladder, a must-have for any deranged laboratory.
- [X-Ray Reveals John Dee Painting Originally Had Circle of Human Skulls](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/john-dee-painting-skulls/): A painting of 16th-century mathematician and occultist John Dee performing an experiment for Queen Elizabeth I has been hiding a dark secret.
- [Orkestra Obsolete Performs a 1930s Cover of New Order's Blue Monday](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/orkestra-obsolete-blue-monday/): Orkestra Obsolete performs a cover of the New Order classic Blue Monday using only instruments available in the 1930s.
- [Mummified Body Found in Chicago](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/mummified-body-chicago/): Photo of an unidentified mummified body found in a gravel pit in Chicago in 1903.
- [Boy Finds Mummified Corpse Hanging in Abandoned House](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/mummified-corpse-abandoned-house/): A 12-year-old boy discovered the mummified remains of a suicide victim hanging in an abandoned house in Dayton, Ohio.
- [Mummified Fetus Discovered in Italy](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/mummified-fetus-discovered-in-italy/): An article recently published in the Journal of Osteoarcheology details the discovery and examination of a mummified 29-week-old fetus dating to 1840 and other 19th-century remains in Central Italy. The remains were found after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in 2009 damaged the St. John the Evangelist church in Casentino. The floor of the church partially collapsed,
- [Russian Man Dug Up, Mummified Remains of 150 Girls](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/anatoly-moskvin-mummified-dolls/): Russian man robbed graves of 150 young girls to make grisly collection of mummified dolls with the remains and have birthday parties. 46-year-old Russian historian Anatoly Moskvin, who was found with mummified human remains in his Nizhni Novgorod home at the time of his 2011 arrest, has spent the last three years being monitored at
- [Carl Akeley's Muskrat Habitat Diorama](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/carl-akeley-muskrats-milwaukee/): Legendary taxidermist Carl Akeley created the muskrats, the world's first habitat diorama, while working at the Milwaukee Public Museum in 1890.
- [Mushroom Death Suit: Funerals Go Fungal](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/mushroom-burial-suit/): The Infinity Burial Suit is the latest in green burial, using mushrooms to consume the body and remove toxins as it decomposes.
- [Artifact from 1884 British Naval Cannibalism Case For Sale](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/mignonette-shipwreck-cannibalism/): An artifact from the 1884 Mignonette shipwreck, the last case of cannibalism in British naval history, is up for auction.
- [Granny Ripper May Have Eaten Her Victims](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/granny-ripper-murder-cannibalism/): Russian Granny Ripper who admitted to killing and dismembering at least 11 people may also have eaten her victims.
- [Flight 571: The Opera Tells the Story of Survival in the Andes](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/flight-571-cannibal-opera/): An opera is debuting in Vancouver about the 1972 plane crash in the Andes in which members of a Uruguayan rugby team resorted to cannibalism to survive.
- [Andes Cannibal Survivor Recounts Horrors in New Book](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/andes-cannibal-survivor-book/): Roberto Canessa, a survivor of the Uruguayan rugby team that crashed in the Andes in 1972 and resorted to cannibalism to survive, recounts horrors in new book.
- [Capsula Mundi: Organic Burial Pods Replace Tombstones with Trees](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/capsula-mundi-organic-burial-pods/): The Capsula Mundi project would replace traditional coffins and gravestones with organic, biodegradable burial pods and trees.
- [Manitowoc Man Believes a Secret Satanic Club Could be Behind the Steven Avery Case](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/steven-avery-satanic-club/): Wisconsin resident Dave Begotka claims a secret, Satanic racketeering club may be involved in the case of Making a Murderer subject Steven Avery.
- [Making a Murderer: Netflix Documentary Unravels Steven Avery Case](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/steven-avery-documentary/): Netflix documentary reveals the murky details and rampant misconduct in the Wisconsin murder case of Steven Avery.
- [A Brief History of Coffin Screws](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/coffin-screws/): These antique thumbscrews from the Cult of Weird collection were used to secure the lids of coffins prior to burial.
- [How a Dead Cat Became the Mascot of the Milwaukee Press Club](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/milwaukee-press-club-cat/): The story behind the century-old mummified cat stolen from the Wisconsin Historical Society to become the sacred emblem of Milwaukee news professionals.
- [Freshly Exhumed: Grave Digger Candles](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/grave-digger-candles/): The Grave Digger Candles shop launched today! Get your beeswax spines, skulls and coffins in time for Halloween.
- [Anatomical Greeting Cards for Your Funny Bone](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/anatomical-greeting-cards/): These funny and offbeat handmade greeting cards are sure tibia hit with the science nerds and other weirdos in your life.
- [Girl Possessed by the Devil Through Ouija Phone App](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/girl-possessed-ouija-app/): Free devil possession with every download! A girl in Peru was hospitalized for being possessed by evil spirits after using a Ouija board mobile phone app.
- [Original Psycho Door from Wisconsin Funeral Home Up for Auction](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/psycho-door-wisconsin-funeral-home/): Up until recently, the door from the Pyscho house was being used as the front door of a funeral home in Wisconsin.
- [Hand Crafted Ouija Board by Jesse Acosta](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/hand-crafted-ouija-board/): Ebony stained wood Ouija boards hand crafted by illustrator Jesse Acosta.
- [The Lady ParaNorma Brings My Pet Skeleton to the Printed Page](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/lady-paranorma/): Acclaimed artist Vincent Marcone brings his haunting, surreal style to the pages of a new book this October.
- [Pre-Order Library of Souls, the Next Miss Peregrine Book](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/library-of-souls-preorder/): Library of Souls, the third installment of the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series, is almost here. Pre-order now so we can all get the calendar!
- [Go Back to School With This Retro Bigfoot Lunchbox](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/bigfoot-lunchbox/): Go in search of Bigfoot with this retro metal lunchbox, complete with cool sasquatch art and fun facts.
- [Mac Sabbath: Where Happy Meals and the Occult Come Together](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/mac-sabbath-band/): McDonald's-themed Black Sabbath cover band Mac Sabbath features classic 1970s metal mixed with everything we love about fast food.
- [Dark Lanterns: 160th Anniversary of the George DeBar Tragedy](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/dark-lanterns-george-debar/): 160 years ago today the brutal events detailed in the book Dark Lanterns: An American Lynching took place in West Bend, WI.
- [New Exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/milwaukee-public-museum-exhibit/): A behind the scenes look at the upcoming ancient civilizations exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum.
- [Creating King Tut's Horses for the Milwaukee Public Museum](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/creating-king-tuts-horses/): The Milwaukee Public Museum's new exhibit Crossroads of Civilization features a life size recreation of King Tut's chariot, including two taxidermy Arabian horses.
- [Destination America to Air Live Exorcism This October](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/live-exorcism-destination-america/): The Destination America channel will televise a live exorcism of the St. Louis home that inspired the 1973 film The Exorcist.
- [Happy National Catfish Day](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/happy-national-catfish-day/): Today is the day when, thanks to Ronald Reagan, we take a moment to honor the majestic catfish.
- [Goatman Comics: Minimal Art, Maximum Soul](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/goatman-comics/): A review of the indie comic book series Goatman Comics by Tim Vargulish.
- [Victorian Cast Iron Grave Monument in Alabama](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/victorian-cast-iron-grave-monuments/): Victorian cast iron grave monument in Greenville, Alabama's Magnolia Cemetery.
- [Anniversary of Weird: The Cult Turns 5 Today!](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/cult-fifth-birthday/): Cult of Weird celebrates five years of mysteries, oddities and weird history.
- [Wisconsin City Bans Kangaroo Service Animals](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/beaver-dam-kangaroo-ban/): Don't try anything funny in Beaver Dam. Officials decide kangaroos cannot be used as service animals in Wisconsin city.
- [Fractured Skull Shows Evidence of Earliest Known Murder](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/fractured-skull-earliest-murder/): 430,000-year-old skull from the Pit of Bones cavern in Spain reveals earliest evidence of murder in the hominin fossil record.
- [Mortality in Wax: Hellish Tableaus from the 17th & 18th Centuries](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/macabre-wax-relief-italy/): Macabre wax sculptures from the 1600-1800s depict death and the battle for the mortal soul.
- [Skull Egg Mold Brings the Macabre to Breakfast](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/skull-egg-mold/): Have you ever found yourself saying "I wish my breakfast would remind me of how short and fragile life can be?"
- [6,000-Year-Old Dead Sea Crown Used for Funeral Rituals](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/dead-sea-cave-crown/): Ancient crown dating to about 3,500 B.C. discovered in the Cave of Treasures near the Dead Sea was used for burial ceremonies during the Copper Age.
- [Video of Hellish Mystery Worm Spotted in Taiwan](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/ribbon-worm-video/): What is that freakish green hellspawn? While the mysterious green worm captured on video in Taiwan has been identified, it is still pretty damn horrific.
- [Cult of Weird T-shirts Will Be Available at the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/new-tshirts-available-milwaukee-paracon/): Cult of Weird t-shirts will be available at our table at the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference June 6th, 2015.
- [Charlie Charlie Challenge: Kids Are Invoking A Mexican Demon for Life Advice](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/charlie-charlie-challenge/): What the hell is the Charlie Charlie Challenge? Kids are summoning a Mexican demon on Twitter for life advice and dating tips.
- [Giveaway: Enter to Win A Milwaukee Paranormal Conference Prize Pack](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/milwaukee-paranormal-conference-giveaway/): Share your weird Wisconsin experience and enter to win a prize pack from the upcoming Milwaukee Paranormal Conference being held June 6th, 2015!
- [Wicked Plants: Amy Stewart's Botanical Atrocities](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/wicked-plants/): Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart explores the dark side of the plant kingdom, delving into the most infamous horticultural homicides.
- [Taxidermy Makes Funerals Fun in Wisconsin](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/cress-funeral-home-taxidermy-wisconsin/): Cress Funeral Home in Madison, WI was home to funeral director Sam Sanfillippo's quirky collection of squirrel and chipmunk anthropomorphic taxidermy dioramas.
- [Door County Mushroom House For Sale in Wisconsin](https://www.cultofweird.com/architecture/door-county-mushroom-house-for-sale-in-wisconsin/): Now is your chance to own your very own Hobbit Home! The Door County Mushroom House in Wisconsin is on the market for the first time ever.
- [Milwaukee Paranormal Conference Limited Edition Poster](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/milwaukee-paranormal-conference-poster/): Celebrate the inaugural Milwaukee Paranormal Conference 2015 with this limited edition poster print by artist Alex Groh of Muddy Waters Press.
- [It's None of Your Beeswax...](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/mad-taxidermist-project/): What is the Mad Taxidermist concocting for the Cult of Weird table at the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference?
- [Used Casket Left on Street in Brooklyn](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/casket-left-on-brooklyn-street/): Someone dumped this old coffin on the street in Brooklyn covered in mud with human remains inside. Where it came from remains a mystery.
- [Alien Photos Found in Attic May Be Proof of Roswell UFO Crash](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/roswell-alien-attic-photos/): Secret photos from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash found in an attic in Arizona depicting a dissected alien body may be the smoking gun.
- [Mysterious Pirate Treasure Box Found in Tampa Bay Attic](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/pirate-treasure-tampa-bay/): Did Grandpa find pirate treasure? Family finds a mysterious box containing a map, coins and a mummified hand in the attic that may belong to Jose Gaspar.
- [Dynasphere](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/dynasphere/): The Dynasphere was a monowheel electric vehicle invented in 1932 by Dr. J. A. Purves from Taunton, Somerset, UK. It had 2.5 horse power and once attained a speed of 25mph.
- [300 Million-Year-Old Screw Found in Rock](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/ancient-screw-in-rock/): While investigating the remains of a meteorite outside of Moscow in 1998, Russian scientists discovered a rock with a screw firmly fixed inside. Geologist estimate the age of the rock to be 300-320 million years old. Evidence shows that the iron atoms of the screw and the silicon atoms of the rock have in fact
- [Giant Footprint in Billion-Year-Old Granite](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/giant-footprint-in-stone/): In 2002, James Snyder discovered a giant, fossilized footprint embedded in billion-year-old granite in California's Cleveland National Forest.
- [Prehistoric Human Hand Fossil](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/prehistoric-human-hand-fossil/): This fossilized human hand was found Bogota in 100-130 million-year-old rock.
- [Genesis 6 Giants, Mighty Men of Old](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/genesis-6-giants/): "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." - Genesis 6:4 The remains of giants have been uncovered throughout the
- [Man and Space](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/man-and-space/): Man and Space is a 1963 United States Air Force documentary reviewing the Air Force System Command's bioastronautics life sciences program.
- [Mechanical Centipede](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/mechanical-centipede/): An experimental form of transportation - the mechanical centipede.
- [Moon Farms to Banish Starvation](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/moon-farms-mechanix-illustrated/): May 1954 issue of Mechanix Illustrated proposes orbiting moon farms and algal culture science could end world hunger.
- [Inventors Killed by Their Inventions](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/inventors-killed-by-their-inventions/): Inventing can be deadly! Here are 7 inventors whose fates were determined by the very things they created.
- [Drone Footage of Russia's Mysterious Marx Generator](https://www.cultofweird.com/science/russia-marx-generator-drone-footage/): New drone footage reveals Russia's mysterious Marx Generator Tesla Tower in the woods outside of Moscow.
- [Malformed: Forgotten Brains of the Texas State Mental Hospital](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/malformed-brains-texas-state-mental-hospital/): What happened to the rare, malformed brain specimens missing from the Texas State Mental Hospital?
- [Celebrate 125 Years of the Ouija Board at OuijaCon](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/celebrate-125-years-of-the-ouija-board-at-ouijacon/): The Talking Board Historical Society is celebrating the Ouija board's 125th birthday in Baltimore with the first ever Ouija conference.
- [Killer Legends: Documentary Explores Real Horrors Behind Urban Legends](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/killer-legends-documentary/): Hook man killing teenagers on lover's lane? Razor blades in Halloween candy? Killer Legends exposes the gruesome real-life details behind popular urban legends.
- [Talking Board Historical Society Launches](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/talking-board-historical-society/): The Talking Board Historical Society has officially launched, founded by Ouija board historians Robert Murch and Brandon Hodge.
- [Chinchorro Mummies Turning Into 'Black Ooze'](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/chinchorro-mummies-decompose-black-ooze/): Climate change is putting the Chinchorro mummies of ancient Chile at risk of rapid decomposition that will turn them into a black ooze.
- [Creating the Freak Show: The Rough and Ready Sideshow by Ransom & Mitchell](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/rough-and-ready-sideshow-ransom-mitchell/): Duo Ransom & Mitchell brought their unique flavor of photography and digital art to the freak show with the Rough and Ready Sideshow series.
- [Unreleased Welcome to Night Vale Novel #1 Top Seller on Amazon](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/welcome-to-night-vale-novel/): The as-yet-unreleased novel based on the Welcome to Night Vale podcast has already become the #1 top seller in Horror Literature & Fiction on Amazon.
- [Vendors Bring the Weird to the Morbid Anatomy Museum Spring Flea Market](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/morbid-anatomy-museum-flea-market/): Where do you go to find skeletons, bone saws, vintage books and other weird things? The Morbid Anatomy Museum's spring flea market was the place to find it last weekend.
- ['Walking Dead' Town for Sale on Ebay](https://www.cultofweird.com/architecture/walking-dead-town-for-sale-on-ebay/): Downtown Grantville, Georgia, famous for its role in the zombie apocalypse as a backdrop for several episodes of The Walking Dead, is for sale on eBay.
- [Ancient Shrines for Divination Discovered in Armenia](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/ancient-shrines-for-divination-discovered-in-armenia/): Excavations within a hilltop fortress in Armenia have revealed an ancient occult center with shrines used for various forms of divination.
- [Family Finds Animal Carcasses Stuffed in Walls of New Home](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/family-finds-animal-carcasses-stuffed-in-walls-of-new-home/): A Pennsylvania family's dream home became a nightmare when they discovered the horrifying remains of a Dutch magic ritual inside the walls.
- [Declining Vulture Population Threatens Mumbai's Towers of Silence](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/declining-vulture-population-threatens-mumbais-towers-of-silence/): In Mumbia, the 3,000-year-old Zoroastrian tradition of disposing of dead bodies by exposing them to scavenger birds is being threatened with extinction.
- [Two-Headed Calf Taxidermy Unveiled in South Carolina](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/two-headed-calf-taxidermy/): Taxidermist Grover Bearden talks about the unique challenge of preserving a two-headed calf born to South Carolina dairy farmer John Anderson.
- [Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem Photography](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/beyond-the-dark-veil/): The Thanatos Archive put together this book of post mortem and mourning photography shedding light on the practice of death in the Victorian era.
- [Court Battle Over the Coffin of Lee Harvey Oswald](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/coffin-of-lee-harvey-oswald/): A battle rages in a Texas court over the sale of the coffin that once held Lee Harvey Oswald, the gunman who assassinated President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
- [Lee Harvey Oswald Coffin Must Be Returned to Family](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/lee-harvey-oswald-coffin-must-be-returned-to-family/): A Texas judge ruled in favor of the family of Lee Harvey Oswald, reversing the 2010 sale of the rotting pine box that once held the remains of the JFK assassin.
- [Otranto Drilled Skull Mystery Solved](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/otranto-drilled-skull-mystery-solved/): Why was this skull of a 15th century martyr drilled 16 times before being locked away in a glass case at the cathedral altar?
- [Mound Builders and the Giants of Ancient America](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/mound-builders-giants-america/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2mAuVOqTSw Jim Vieira discusses his 20 years of research into the mound builders of ancient America, including his compilation of thousands of reports of giant skeletons ranging from seven to over eleven feet tall unearthed from burial mounds with unusual features such as double rows of teeth. Is history being deliberately covered up because it
- [London Cotton to Gold Exhibit Displays Cursed Peruvian Mummy](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/cotton-to-gold-haunted-peruvian-mummy/): A 12th century Peruvian mummy is currently on display in London as part of an exhibit celebrating the extraordinary treasures of Lancashire cotton magnates.
- [Tutankhamun's Burial Mask Damaged Irreversibly](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/tutankhamuns-burial-mask-damaged-irreversibly/): The burial mask of pharaoh Tutankhamun has been irreversibly damaged during a cleaning in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
- [Photographer Breathes Life Into Natural History Dioramas](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/hiroshi-sugimoto-dioramas/): Hiroshi Sugimoto's photos breathe life and depth into otherwise static natural history museum dioramas.
- [Top Secret US UFO Black Programs](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/secret-ufo-black-programs/): Michael Schratt reveals facts and figures from top secret US government "Black Programs" studying and creating UFOs.
- [Sculpture Being Installed to Mark Rendlesham UFO Incident](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/rendlesham-ufo-sculpture/): UFO sculpture being installed in the Rendlesham Forest clearing where dozens of witnesses discovered a glowing, metallic craft of "unknown origin" in 1980.
- [Project Blue Book UFO Files Go Online](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/project-blue-book-ufo-files-go-online/): Files from the United States Air Force Project Blue Book study on UFO activity are now available to view online for free.
- [Walter Potter's Two-Faced Kitten at the Morbid Anatomy Museum](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/collectors-cabinet-exhibit-morbid-anatomy-museum/): Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter's two-faced kitten is among the extraordinary objects to be showcased at the new Morbid Anatomy Museum exhibition.
- [Lonesome George: How The AMNH Turned the Last of a Species Into Taxidermy](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/lonesome-george-taxidermy-documentary/): This short documentary reveals how the American Museum of Natural History taxidermists brought Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island tortoise, back to life.
- [New Species of Stick Insect is Second Largest in the World](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/second-largest-insect-discovered/): This new species of stick insect discovered in Vietnam is almost two feet long, making it the second largest insect in the world.
- [Cult of Weird Bookmarks Have Arrived](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/cult-of-weird-bookmarks/): Limited edition Cult of Weird bookmarks feature exclusive collage art made with Victorian scientific illustrations of tentacles, anatomy and insects.
- [UFO Cult Says No to Alien Baptisms](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/no-pope-alien-baptism/): The Raëlian UFO cult responds to the Pope's statement about alien baptisms.
- [Under the Knife: The Plague Doctor](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/under-the-knife-plague-doctor/): Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris discusses the history of the bubonic plague and the iconic plague mask in the second episode of her new web series Under the Knife.
- [Bubonic Plague 2012](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/bubonic-plague-2012/): Oregon man Paul Gaylord contracted a rare case of the bubonic plague, as known as the "Black Death" in 2012 when he was bit by a stray cat he had named Charlie. Paul was trying to help the cat, who appeared to be choking on a mouse. Two days later, he awoke with a fever
- [New Weird Species of Bone Worm Discovered](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/new-species-of-bone-worm-discovered/): Typically confined to a life of mating inside the body of the female bone worm, a new species of independent male reveals a rare case of evolutionary reversal.
- [Smithsonian Giant Skeleton Conspiracy](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/smithsonian-giant-skeleton-conspiracy/): Is the lack of proof of giant human skeletons proof of journalism hoaxes in the 19th century or a Smithsonian conspiracy to cover up their existence?
- [Abandoned America Book Documents Forgotten Spaces Across the US](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/abandoned-america-book/): The new book from Abandoned America photographer Matthew Christopher documents the empty, crumbling ruins of civilization across the US.
- [Deep-Fried Tarantula Recipe](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/deep-fried-tarantula-recipe/): Make Thanksgiving unique this year by serving something your guests won't soon forget...deep-fried tarantulas.
- [Giraffe Leg Lamp, Wet Specimens & Teeth](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/taxidermy-wet-specimen-teeth/): Beautiful and bizarre oddities for sale online right now, including a taxidermy giraffe leg lamp, wet specimens and a piece from vintage circus history!
- [Review: Search for the Lost Giants](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/search-for-the-lost-giants-review/): Unusual evidence is unearthed at locations where giant human skeletons were discovered in the debut of the new History series Search for the Lost Giants.
- [History Series Goes in Search of the Lost Giants](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/search-for-the-lost-giants/): A new History series explores claims of giant skeletons unearthed in the early 19th century and searches for evidence of giants in the ancient world.
- [Skull of a Werewolf Found in Bulgaria?](https://www.cultofweird.com/paranormal/werewolf-skull-bulgaria/): Photos seem to show a werewolf skull found buried and chained in a box by a farmer in the tiny Bulgarian village of Novo Selo.
- [Piece of Amelia Earhart's Plane Identified](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/piece-of-amelia-earharts-plane-identified/): A piece of aluminum debris has been identified as most likely belonging to Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra plane that vanished with her in 1937.
- [DNA Solves Foss Lake Mystery](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/dna-solves-foss-lake-mystery/): DNA testing has confirmed the identities of six bodies found in Oklahoma's Foss Lake, solving several 40-year-old missing persons cases.
- [The Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/disappearance-of-ambrose-bierce/): How many times did he die? Eye witness accounts detail the numerous fates of American author and journalist Ambrose Bierce in 1913 while in Mexico.
- [Tibetan Skeleton Dance](https://www.cultofweird.com/culture/tibetan-skeleton-dance/): Macabre Tibetan skeleton dance rituals are intended to reflect Buddhist concepts of the ephemeral nature of life, with costumes representing the Chitipati.
- [Tragedy of the SS Morro Castle](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/morro-castle-tragedy/): The luxury cruise ship SS Morro Castle burning at sea in 1934 The SS Morro Castle was a luxury cruise ship launched in 1930, named for the Morro Castle fortress that guards the entrance to Havana Bay. Her final journey began on September 5th, 1934. On the evening of September 7th Captain Robert Willmott had
- [SS Baychimo, Alaska's Mysterious Ghost Ship](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/baychimo-alaska-ghost-ship/): After it was abandoned in the Arctic in 1931, the SS Baychimo became one of the most mysterious ghost ships with sightings lasting up to 38 years later.
- [Knife Thrower](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/knife-thrower/): Vintage photo of a knife thrower and his lovely, trusting assistant. Related Freak Show: Most Famous Sideshow Performers Sideshow Banner Art by Fred G. Johnson Circus World Museum
- [Ancient Remains May Solve Mystery of First Americans](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/ancient-remains-first-americans/): Ancient remains found in an underwater cave in Mexico may solve the mystery of the earliest American's identities.
- [Capuchin Catacomb Mummies of Palermo, Italy](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/capuchin-mummies-palermo-italy/): Mummies in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo, Italy. The monks began mummifying their brothers in 1599, entombing them in the catacombs below with their clothes and religious items. Soon locals began requesting burial in the catacombs, as well. One of the last to buried there before it closed in 1920 was Rosalia Lombardo, the child
- [Skull Collection Goes on Display](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/randy-bandar-skull-collection/): Some of bone collector Randy Bandar's 7,000 skulls, which he has been collecting for 60 years, are being exhibited at the California Academy of Sciences. Full article here: A Bone Collector's Basement of Animal Skulls Sees the Light
- [Bog Bodies: The Mysterious Weerdinge Men](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/bog-bodies-the-mysterious-weerdinge-men/): The Weerdinge Men bog bodies date to sometime between 160 BC and 220 AD. It is suspected they were victims of cruel punishment or ritual sacrifice.
- [Bizarre Lamps by Evan Chambers](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/evan-chambers-bizarre-lamps/): Strange lamp sculptures of bronze and copper by artist Evan Chambers.
- [Nightmare at the Museum @Midnight](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/midnight-nightmare-museum/): Chris Hardwick's @Midnight on Comedy Central featured Cult of Weird for the Nightmare at the Museum category.
- [Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/still-life-taxidermy-book/): Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgrom explores the world of taxidermy from the early pioneers like Carl Akeley to the modern masters.
- [Condemning Smallpox to Extinction](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/smallpox-extinction/): Delegates from around the world are meeting to discuss the deliberate extinction of the smallpox virus.
- [Diaphonized Specimens by Iori Tomita](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/diaphonized-specimens-iori-tomita/): Wet specimens diaphonized by artist Iori Tomita.
- [Love Plastinated: Story of the Heart](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/love-plastinated/): A Body Worlds work depicting a plastinated couple for the Story of the Heart, about the cardiovascular system.
- [Pink Pills for Pale People](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/pink-pills-pale-people/): Weird vintage medicine ad for Dr. William's Pink Pills for Pale People, 1890.
- [How to Taxidermy a Mouse](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/how-to-taxidermy-mouse/): If you are looking to embark on your first taxidermy adventure, you should not begin without Mouse: A Taxidermy Workshop Manual at your side. Taxidermist and workshop instructor Margot Magpie assembled this 70-page step-by-step photo tutorial to guide you through the entire process, from ethically sourcing your dead critter, through the process of preserving and
- [Snow in Egypt](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/egypt-snow-pyramids-sphinx/): Photos of Egypt covered in snow in the wake of the Middle East's first snow storm in over a century.
- [Santa's Sleigh and Flying Saucer Collide](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/santa-ufo-accident/): If Santa didn't make it to your house this year, maybe this is why...
- [Breast Ripper](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/breast-ripper/): The breast ripper was a terrifying torture device used in the 16th to 19th centuries to tear off the breasts of women accused of adultery and other crimes.
- [Oddities from Crystal Curios](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/oddities-from-crystal-curios/): Crystal Curios, the "weirdest shop in Milton Keynes" shares oddities from the personal collection, including a vintage 4-legged taxidermy duckling.
- [Exploding Whale Video](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/exploding-whale-video/): Video from the Faroe Islands of a dead sperm whale exploding all over a local fisherman.
- [Saturn Devouring His Son](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/francisco-goya-saturn-devouring/): Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya is believed to portray the Greek Myth of Titan Cronus, who consumed his children at birth.
- [McKeesport Castle](https://www.cultofweird.com/architecture/mckeesport-castle/): A photo of the abandoned Hitzrot House, also known as the McKeesport Castle built by Frederick C. Sauer.
- [Giant Worm Monster Found in Vietnam?](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/giant-worm-vietnam-video/): Video shows what appears to be a giant monster worm being loaded onto a trailer while a curious crowd looks on.
- [Video of the Bizarre Magnapinna Bigfin Squid](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/magnapinna-bigfin-squid/): Video of the strange and rare deep-sea Magnapinna bigfin squid filmed at a depth of 7800 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.
- [Winchester Mystery House](https://www.cultofweird.com/architecture/winchester-mystery-house/): Photo depicting the Winchester Mystery House before the 1906 earthquake.
- [Inside the Whale Warehouse](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/whale-warehouse/): Video goes behind the scenes of LA's Natural History Museum into the Whale Warehouse, where massive whale skulls and narwhal tusks are stored.
- [Elongated Skull Unearthed in France](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/elongated-skull-france/): An elongated skull dating to the Merovingian period has been unearthed in France.
- [Poon Lim: World Record Survivor at Sea](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/poon-lim-survivor/): After his ship sank, Poon Lim survived in a raft at sea for 133 days by fishing and drinking seagull blood.
- [X-Ray Pin-up Calendar Photos](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/x-ray-pin-up/): Pin-up models truly bare all in this first-ever pin-up calendar for the medical profession, where EVERY detail is revealed in x-ray.
- [Mystic Eye 1953 Divination Board Game](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/mystic-eye-game-1953/): The 1953 divination board game Mystic Eye uses a "psycho-activated" pendulum and chart to answer questions and see the future!
- [Lilly Gray: Victim of the Beast](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/lilly-gray-beast-gravestone/): Why does the gravestone of a woman buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery contain the inscription victim of the beast 666?
- [Divya, World's Hottest Taxidermist](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/hottest-female-taxidermist/): Meet Divya, the world's hottest taxidermy babe in this documentary from Vice Magazine.
- [Bizarre Glass Sculpture by Andy Paiko](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/andy-paiko-glass-sculpture/): The bizarre vesselware and sculpture of Portland glass blower Andy Paiko.
- [The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/monster-film-1957/): The monster from the 1957 creature feature clutches a young girl in this behind-the-scenes photo.
- [Memoirs of Burning Man 2013](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/burning-man-2013-video/): Memoirs of Burning Man 2013 captured in video by Nader Husseini with his iphone and GoPro cam.
- [The Peculiar Atrocities of Edward Gorey](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/edward-gorey/): The grim books and bizarre illustrations of Edward Gorey.
- [Ray Harryhausen](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/ray-harryhausen/): Legendary stop-motion animation pioneer and special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen died today at the age of 92.
- [Tibetan Butter Sculpture](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/tibetan-butter-sculpture/): The ancient and intricate art of Tibetan butter sculpture.
- [The Furniture of Michel Haillard](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/michel-haillard-furniture/): Michel Haillard uses animal hides and taxidermy to create his unique barbarian furniture.
- [James Bond's Lotus Espirit Submarine](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/lotus-espirit-submarine/): The Lotus Espirit submarine car from the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me was bought for $920,167 by the CEO of Tesla Motors.
- [World's First Pregnant Sword Swallower](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/pregnant-sword-swallower/): In 2011 performer Thrill Kill Jill of the Lucky Daredevil Thrillshow became the world's first pregnant sword swallower.
- [Giant Killer Asian Hornets](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/giant-killer-asian-hornets/): A wave of attacks by giant killer Asian hornets in China has left 42+ dead and 1,675 injured.
- [Giant Squid Found on Beach](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/giant-squid-found/): A rare and mysterious giant squid was found on a beach in Spain almost fully intact.
- [The Immortal Jellyfish](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/immortal-jellyfish/): the Turritopsis nutricula can seemingly live forever by continually renewing its cells and reverting back to an earlier stage of life.
- [Amphicar: Not a Good Car, Not a Good Boat](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/amphicar/): Though the Amphicar is considered the most successful amphibious vehicles ever made, it's performance on land and water was lacking.
- [Jet Powered Hovercraft](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/jet-powered-hovercraft/): This guy is riding on a jet engine attached to a hovercraft. Doesn't seem like a good idea...
- [Volkswagen Aqua Concept Hovercraft](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/volkswagen-aqua-concept-hovercraft/): The Volkswagen Aqua concept hovercraft is a hybrid car designed to handle all terrain.
- [Simca Fulgur 1958 Concept Car](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/simca-fulgur-concept-car/): The atomic powered 1958 Simca Fulgur concept car was intended to show what cars of the year 2000 would look like.
- [House of Mystery #236](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/house-of-mystery-236/): The House of Mystery #236, a horror comic from DC Comics, cover features gruesome artwork by Bernie Wrightson.
- [Peugeot Motor-Boat Car](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/peugeot-boat-car/): Vintage photos of the Peugeot motor-boat car from October 1926.
- [Naked and Scared Challenge Shut Down](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/naked-scared-haunted-house/): Pennsylvania's Shocktoberfest haunted house Naked and Scared challenge gets shut down.
- [Whales Almost Swallow Divers](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/whales-swallow-divers-video/): Divers have a close call with humpback whales while diving Souza Rock on the central California coast.
- [Contortionist Leilani Franco Scores 3 Guinness World Records](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/world-record-contortionist/): Leilani Franco scores three world records in the 2014 Guinness Book of World Records for her amazing contortion abilities.
- [The Girl and Death: The Art of August Brömse](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/august-bromse/): The macabre series The Girl and Death by August Brömse depicts the concept of Death always walking by our side.
- [Stuffed Animals in Costumes](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/stuffed-animals-in-costumes/): A 1965 film about Victorian era taxidermist Walter Potter and his bizarre anthropomorphic taxidermy works.
- [Traveling Museum Box by Ron Pippin](https://www.cultofweird.com/curiosities/traveling-museum-box/): Ron Pippin's Traveling Museum Box is a mobile cabinet of curiosities filled with bones and other intriguing items.
- [Girl to Gorilla Sideshow Act](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/girl-gorilla-grind-show/): Crowds would watch in horror as a beautiful girl transformed into a raging beast in the girl to gorilla sideshow act that was once a staple of the midway.
- [Theda Bara](https://www.cultofweird.com/film/theda-bara/): Silent film actress Theda Bara, known as "The Vamp" for her femme fatale roles, was one of cinema's earliest sex symbols.
- [The Most Kissed Lips](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/most-kissed-lips/): The death mask of a drowned French girl became a morbid piece of art, which eventually evolved into the face of a CPR training doll named Resusci Anne.
- [The Knife Thrower's Girl](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/knife-thrower-girl/): The beautiful assistant of a 19th century knife-throwing sideshow act poses with the target.
- [The Last Taxidermist in Paris](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/last-taxidermist-deyrolle-paris/): Article from the January 1985 issue of World of Interiors magazine explores the historic rooms of the Deyrolle taxidermy shop and natural history emporium.
- [The Death Trunk of Murderer Emma LeDoux](https://www.cultofweird.com/crime/emma-ledoux-murder-trunk/): The body of Emma LeDoux's husband was found disposed of in a trunk and left at a train depot in Stockton, CA in 1906.
- [The Morthouse](https://www.cultofweird.com/death/morthouse/): A morthouse was a building popular in the 1830s used to house dead bodies securely away from body-snatchers.
- [Ferrari Modulo Concept Car](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/pininfarina-ferrari-modulo-prototype/): Ferrari designer Pininfarina's futuristic 1970 Modulo prototype.
- [DeLorean Limo](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/delorean-limo/): DeLorean limo with three full sets of gull wing doors created by Rich Weissensel.
- [Batmobile Limo](https://www.cultofweird.com/transportation/batmobile-limo/)
- [Stonehenge and Easter Island Explained](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/stonehenge-easter-island-explained/): Humorous illustrations explains Stonehenge and Easter Island.
- [Wicked Bugs](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/wicked-bugs/): Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart is a darkly comical look at the creepy crawlies that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs.
- [Dissection on Display: Cadavers, Anatomists, and Public Spectacle](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/dissection-on-display/): Dissection on Display: Cadavers, Anatomists, and Public Spectacle by Christine Quigley traces the history of public cadaver dissection.
- [The Gods Hate Kansas](https://www.cultofweird.com/books/gods-hate-kansas/): The Gods Hate Kansas by Joseph Millard (1964, cover painting by Jack Thurston) INVASION FROM THE STARS It began with the landing of nine meteors in Kansas. Then, suddenly, it exploded into a massive catastrophe. First, the meteorite investigating team were turned into automatons, ruled by an unknown, alien intelligence. They barricaded themselves from the
- [Anatomy for the Blind](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/blind-human-anatomy/): A 1913 photos depicts an anatomy discussion for a group of blind people.
- [Child's Skull Before Losing Baby Teeth](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/child-skull-baby-teeth/): A child's skull dissected to show placement of the adult teeth before the baby teeth have fallen out.
- [Clam Licking Salt Video](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/clam-licking-salt-video/): This video is titled "Clam Licking Salt." However, clams do not have tongues. It is in fact a clam foot trying to dig.
- [Wavelength](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/wavelength/): What strange truths about aliens and government experiments are buried in the obscure 1983 sci-fi film Wavelength?
- [Life Cycle of a Beetle](https://www.cultofweird.com/nature/life-cycle-beetle-shadowbox/): Incredible vintage shadow box made in Denmark in the 1920s shows the life cycle of a beetle.
- [World Record Black Sea Bass](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/world-record-black-sea-bass/): Photos depicting giant black sea bass caught in 1900 and 1905 off of Catalina Island.
- [Home Dentistry in the 1920s](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/home-dentistry-1920s/): A woman prepares to pull a child's tooth with a pliers in this photo from the 1920s.
- [World's Largest Kidney Stone](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/worlds-largest-kidney-stone/): Photo of the world's largest ever recorded kidney stone, which weighs 2.5lb and is 17cm in diameter.
- [Coin-Operated Peep Show](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/coin-operated-peep-show/): Vintage photo of a woman getting a shocking glimpse inside a coin-operated peepshow.
- [Snake Charmer](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/snake-charmer/): Vintage photo of a circus sideshow snake charmer.
- [Crawford Long's Ether Amputation](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/crawford-long-ether-amputation/): A vintage tintype photo from between 1855-1860 portraying Dr. Crawford Long's first surgical procedure using ether as an anesthetic.
- [Hangman's Tree](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/hangmans-tree/): Hangman's Tree, the number one place to take your family for lousy food and warm beer.
- [Crab Hat](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/crab-hat/): Vintage photo of a woman wearing a crab hat.
- [Lina Medina: Youngest Mom Ever](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/lina-medina-youngest-mom-ever/): Lina Medina is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth to her son when she was just five years old.
- [Rat King](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/rat-king/): Rat kings are groups of dead rats found with their tails mysteriously and elaborately knotted, stuck together with blood, dirt or excrement.
- [Skeleton Rocking Chair](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/skeleton-rocking-chair/): Memento Mori skeleton rocking chair
- [Antique Steer Horn Chair](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/antique-steer-horn-chair/): Antique chair with steer horns for the back and legs. For sale here.
- [Anita Page with the Ziegfeld Follies](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/anita-page-ziegfeld-follies/): Ziegfeld Follies girl Anita Page poses in "costume" with a huge scimitar in this risque 1920s promo photo.
- [Conjoined Lambs Taxidermy](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/conjoined-lambs-taxidermy/): Rare taxidermy of conjoined Siamese twin lambs with one head and two bodies.
- [The Missing Head of King Henry IV](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/henry-iv-missing-head/): The head of the embalmed French king Henry IV, who died in 1610, disappeared after revolutionaries ransacked and desecrated his grave in 1793. The head was finally tracked down to the attic of a French pensioner in January 2010. The excellently preserved head include identifying marks such as an earring hole in the right earlobe
- [Pretty Things Peepshow](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/pretty-things-peepshow/): The Pretty Things Peepshow combines Vaudeville, burlesque and sideshow acts that harken back to the early days of the traveling circus when Girly shows and dark, seedy hootchy-kootchy tents lined the midway beside freakshows and human oddities. The 2013 Pretty Things Peepshow tour features vintage sideshow acts such as chainsaw juggling, fire blowing, human blockhead
- [Heather Holliday](https://www.cultofweird.com/sideshow/heather-holliday-sword-swallower/): Sideshow performer and MTV host Heather Holliday blows fire and swallows swords with the circus and burlesque group Pretty Things Peepshow.
- [Chopping Down A Redwood](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/redwood-tree-lumberjacks/): Lumberjacks chopping down a giant Redwood in California c. 1900.
- [Fearful Tales of the Occult](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/fearful-tales-occult/): This is the first issue of the Australian comic book magazine Fearful Tales of the Occult, printed in 1977.
- [Portable Living Room](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/portable-living-room/): TV Helmet (The Portable Living Room) by Walter Pichler, 1967 Small Room (Prototype 4)
- [The Gift of Psychokenisis](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/psychokenisis-hairy-chest/): Get that hairy chest and he-man appearance you have always wanted and admired with the gift of psychokenisis for only $10!
- [Eva C Excreting Ectoplasm](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/eva-c-excreting-ectoplasm/): Show medium Marthe Beraud (also known as Eva C. and Eva Carrière) excreting ectoplasm during a session c. 1910.
- [Houdini's Box](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/houdinis-box/): 1924 photo of Harry Houdini and his box created to evaluate the abilities of Mediums during his crusade to disprove their powers.
- [Radio Police Automaton](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/radio-police-automaton/): Illustration of a remotely-controlled robot cop from 1924, complete with a telegraphone, dynamo, loud speaker and tear gas.
- [Edith Clifford, Champion Sword Swallower](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/edith-clifford-sword-swallower/): "Champion Sword Swallower of the World" Edith Clifford c. 1900.
- [The Devil Automaton](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/the-devil-automaton/): An Italian automaton depicting the Devil, carved in wood around the 15th or 16th centuries, could roll its eyes and move its tongue, emit a noise and spit smoke from the mouth.
- [The Louvre Doll](https://www.cultofweird.com/occult/louvre-doll/): The 'Louvre Doll' is an ancient French voodoo doll found in a jar with an inscribed tablet. It depicts a nude woman in a kneeling position pierced by thirteen needles.
- [Human Body Slices](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/human-body-slices/): Human body slices showing the differences between thin and overweight anatomy.
- [Anesthesia](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/anesthesia/): Tens of thousands of patients a year in the US alone wake up during surgery. Due to a paralytic agent to prevent muscle twitches and tape over the eyes, the patient is unable to move or alert the medical staff to the situation. Josiah Johnson Hawes, Demonstration of the surgical use of ether, 1847.
- [18th Century Asylum Restraint Chair](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/1869-asylum-restraint-chair/): Patient in restraint chair at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire c1896
- [1900 Artificial Legs](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/1900-artificial-legs/): Studio photo of a young girl wearing a pair of artificial legs c1900. The legs were manufactured by James Gillingham, a boot- and shoemaker based in Chard, Somerset.
- [Boston Corbett - Mad as a Hatter](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/boston-corbett-mad-as-a-hatter/): BOOTH'S KILLER WAS MAD AS A HATTER: Boston Corbett, the Union Sergeant who shot and killed John Wilkes Booth, led a colorful and increasingly bizarre life. After his wife died in 1858, he castrated himself to avoid temptations of the flesh. He shot Booth against orders, stating "Providence guided my hand". After the war he
- [Safety Pins in the Windpipe](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/safety-pins-in-the-windpipe/): A collection of safety pins from a doctor's cabinet of objects caught in patients' windpipes.
- [The Grave of John Dillinger](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/john-dillinger-grave/): Due to his fame and the controversy surrounding his death, the body of John Dillinger was safeguarded against grave robbers.
- [Mummified Conjoined Twin Animal Fetuses](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/mummified-conjoined-twin-animal-fetuses/): The mummified conjoined remains of...something....
- [Burlesque Queen Miss Zorita Walking Her Snake](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/miss-zorita-burlesque-snake/): 1940s burlesque queen Miss Zorita, walking her snake, which she frequently used in her dance routines.
- [More Cannibalism in the News](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/more-cannibalism-in-news/): The recent news of cannibalism last month, including the Maryland cannibal and the Miami zombie, are not the end of what is surely a zombie apocalypse on the rise.
- [Photos of 1955 Atomic Bomb Test](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/1955-a-bomb-photos/): Rare and eerie photos of a replica town in Nevada involved in an atomic bomb test in 1955, including mannequins used to demonstrate the effects on people.
- [Miami Zombie Cannibal and Other Madness in the News](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/miami-zombie-cannibal-news/): The Miami zombie cannibal, the man who threw his own intestines at police, and other bizarre events in the news.
- [Man Arrested at Airport with Roasted Human Fetuses](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/black-magic-roasted-fetuses/): A man was arrested at in airport in Thailand with six roasted human fetuses wrapped in gold used in a black magic ritual.
- [The First Earth Day](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/first-earth-day-1970/): Photo of a man smelling a flower in a gas mask from the first Earth Day, March 21st, 1970.
- [Beware the Stairs](https://www.cultofweird.com/blog/beware-the-stairs/): Stairs are the second leading cause of accidental death, ranking only below car accidents.
- [Crossover](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/crossover/): Pictures of a elaborately designed miniature setting of a forest, were filmed and combined with 3D animations of firebugs and gardenspiders in post-production.
- [Dissection Room](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/dissection-room/): Dissection room of a Bordeaux, France medical school c. 1890
- [Cathedral of Ice](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/cathedral-of-ice/): The Cathedral of Ice from the 1926 film The Holy Mountain directed by Arnold Fanck.
- [Atomic Bomb Shelter](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/atomic-bomb-shelter/): Ruth Colhoun and her children climb the stairs down into their new underground atomic bomb shelter in Van Nuys, California, 1951.
- [E.B. White](https://www.cultofweird.com/americana/e-b-white/): Portrait of author E.B. White by photographer Jill Krementz
- [Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull of Doom](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/mitchell-hedges-crystal-skull/): The crystal skull of doom discovered by Anna Mitchell-Hedges is believed to have connections with the Dec. 21st, 2012 end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar.
- [Clay Sculptures by Ronit Baranga](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/ronit-baranga-sculpture/): Strange clay and porcelain sculptures of dishes with mouths and fingers by Israeli artist Ronit Baranga.
- [Release Me Sculpture by Rob Reysen](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/release-me-skull-sculpture/): Taxidermist Rob Reysen sculpted Release Me from clay, animal parts and a 250-year-old human skull.
- [The Anatomical Collages of Juan Gatti](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/juan-gatti-anatomical-collages/): Argentinian artist Juan Gatti began collaborating with film director Pedro Almodovar in 1988, which eventually inspired the "Ciencias Naturales" series.
- [Exploded Hand X-ray](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/exploded-hand-x-ray/): X-ray of a hand which was holding an explosive when the device detonated.
- [Opthalmophantome](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/opthalmophantome/): An antique surgical tool used to train ophthalmologists with pig eyes.
- [A Chair With Guts](https://www.cultofweird.com/art/a-chair-with-guts/): Art exhibit features a chair with guts hanging out.
- [1966 Forehead Grenade X-ray](https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/forehead-grenade-x-ray/): An x-ray of unknown origins seems to show a soldier with a hand grenade embedded in his skull dated 1966.
- [Bill Benson and the UFO Capital of Wisconsin](https://www.cultofweird.com/ufo-sightings/dundee-wisconsin-ufo-capital/): The small Wisconsin town in the Kettle Moraine State Forest has a long, weird history of UFO sightings and other mysterious phenomena around Dundee Mountain and Long Lake.
- [Satanic Panic at Hobby Lobby, Mormon Cricket Invasion, Titanic Sub Conspiracy](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/satanic-panic-hobby-lobby/): Dumb conspiracy theories about the Titanic sub, an invasion of Mormon crickets, and the glorious satanic panic over Hobby Lobby's Baphomet art.
- [10-Foot Aliens in Vegas, Woman Wakes Up at Her Wake, Nazi Gold Train](https://www.cultofweird.com/news/aliens-funeral-nazi-gold-train/): This week's weird news includes 10-foot aliens in Las Vegas, a new lead on the lost Nazi gold train, octopus weirdness, and a woman wakes up in her coffin.

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