Woman with Chicken Bone Stuck in Throat Dissolves It by Drinking Coke
A New Zealand woman who had a small chicken bone lodged in her throat claims that she was prescribed an interesting remedy by an emergency room doctor – lots of Coke. Beth Brash recently sat down with New Zealand magazine Stuff to tell the unusual story of how she managed to get rid of the […]
The Remarkable Individuals Who Have the World’s Strongest Human Bones
In 1994, a man was involved in a serious car accident that should have left him with at least a few broken bones. But he suffered no fractures at all, because he had the densest, strongest bones anyone had ever seen. When doctors looked at the X-rays of the man involved in the car accident […]
Macabre Restaurant in Mexico Is Decorated with 10,000 Animal Bones
A new Mexican restaurant in Guadalajara is making waves for its highly unusual interior. The concept restaurant is named ‘Hueso’ (Spanish for ‘bone’), and true to its name, it uses animal bones as the mainstay of its decor. Mexican architect Ignacio Cadena is the brains behind the beautiful yet haunting design that plays with the […]
Artist with Background in Criminology Turns Bones into High-End Jewelry
Artist Kirstin Bunyard has managed to blend her two great passions – fashion and dissection – into a morbid yet intriguing art form. Kirstin makes high-end, elegant jewelry (rings, bracelets and necklaces) using natural bones. In 2009, she started her own label called Ossuaria Jewelry, through which she sells her handmade accessories. She personally selects […]
Self-Taught Artist Builds Macabre Life-Size Motorcycles Out of Animal Bones
Would you spend $55,000 on a motorcycle that doesn’t run? Before you make a decision on that, here’s what you need to know – the motorcycle in question is actually made of animal bones. A Florida man created the beast using a lot of pieces from other dead beasts – three to four cow skulls, […]
Honebana – The Detailed Animal Bone Flowers of Hideki Tokushige
Excavated Neanderthal bones often had traces of pollen around them, indicating that even back then flowers were used to celebrate the deceased. Japanese artist Hideki Tokushige uses animal bones to recreate various flowers, thus honoring the longstanding connection between the two. “We’ve been creating paintings and sculptures for over 70,000 years and our relationship to […]
Artist Creates Creepy Firearm Models from Animal Bones
New Zealand-based artist Bruce Mahalski collects animal bones and uses them to assemble creepy yet realistic-looking models of various firearms, including a Colt pistol and an AK-47 assault rifle. Mahalski started collecting animal bones at a very young age. His parents were both scientists with collections of their own, and traveling all over the world […]
The Bone Collector – Man Amasses Creepy Collection of over 7,000 Animal Skulls and Bones
Ray Bandar, a retired biologist from San Francisco, has spent the last 50 years collecting thousands of animal bones. He estimates he has 7,000 skulls, 200 pelvises and countless other limbs from animals he mostly found and cleaned himself. “I enjoy removing the flesh from the skull and disarticulating the jaws,” Bandar recently said in an […]
Ukrainian Artist Creates Unique Paintings with Fish Bones Scales and Eyes
Elena Zhuravskaya, an amateur artist from Kiev, Ukraine, uses fish bones, scales and even their boiled eyes to assemble amazing paintings on velvet canvases. Although her work is virtually unknown outside her native country, I hope this article changes that. I found photos of Elena’s works on a wonderful-yet-obscure blog called Viola, and after doing some […]
The Bone Chapel of Portugal – A Creepy Sacred Destination
A structure with interiors covered completely in human bones – sounds like the stuff that scary houses are made of, right? But believe it or not, it is actually a place of worship. Capela dos Ossos, or the Chapel of Bones, is located next to the Church of St. Francis in the medieval Portuguese town […]
Extinct Bird Sculptures Made from Leftover Bones
Christy Rupp, an artist based in Chelsea, has created skeletons of extinct birds with the help of chicken bones that she collected over a period of time. Rupp describes herself as an ecological artist. She’s put up the sculptures for display at a museum called the “Extinct Birds Previously Consumed by Humans.” Her goal is to […]
Designer Makes Jewelry from Real Human Bones
Columbine Phoenix is a talented jeweler with a taste for the macabre. She makes unique jewelry from human bones collected from medical schools and museums. We’ve covered some pretty bizarre jewelry collections in the past, some were made from insects, others from nail clippings, and even human hair, but Columbine’s “Churchyard” line is the weirdest one […]
The Art of Bones, by Francois Robert
Francois Robert creates iconic shapes, using dozens of real human bones. He spends entire days on his knees, but the results are truly exceptional. Francois has always been fascinated by skeletons, but it wasn’t until a day, in the mid 1990s, that he came face to face with one. He was at a yard sale, […]