Meet George, the Creepy Doll Made With a Real Person’s Hair and Eyes
Nottingham’s Haunted Museum is home to many macabre and fear-inducing attractions, but few as disturbing as George, a 1930s doll reportedly made using a dead person’s eyes and hair. Marrie Wesson, who founded the Haunted Museum of Nottingham with her husband in 2018, recently met antique expert Charlie Ross on BBC’s popular TV show Bargain […]
Try Before You Die – Macabre Festival Lets Japanese Try Out Coffins and Funeral Makeup
Trying out a coffin while you’re still alive can be a rather unnerving experience. But the Japanese seem to love it! They even have a creepy ‘try-before-you-die’ festival where people can lay down in coffins, try out funeral garments and even get a morbid makeover. Called ‘Shukatsu Festa’, the unique event has become very popular […]
The Eerie Smoked Corpses of Papua New Guinea
For centuries, the Anga tribe of Papua New Guinea’s Morobe Highlands have practiced a unique mummification technique – smoke curing. Once smoked, the mummies aren’t buried in tombs or graves; instead, they are placed on steep cliffs, so that they overlook the village below. The very sight of a string of charred, red bodies hanging […]
Elderly People in China Are Committing Suicide to Make Sure They Get Buried in a Cemetery Instead of Cremated
Many cultures view old age as a time for peaceful reflection and a preparation for the final journey of life. However, a few elderly people in China are being forced to hasten the process of ‘passing on’. Dozens have been voluntarily taking their own lives for a chance to be buried in a cemetery, before […]
Georgian Woman Takes Care of Son Who Died 18 Years Ago
Joni Bakaradze died 18 years ago, at the age of 22, but instead of burying him in a cemetery, his family decided to keep his body preserved so that his son, who was just two at the time of his death, could see his father’s face. For the first four years after Joni died, his […]
Sick Gambling in Taiwan – Betting on When Terminally Ill Cancer Patients Will Die
A macabre gambling trend has taken off in Taiwan’s thrid largest city of Taichung. Doctors, nurses and even the families of terminally ill cancer patients are placing bets on when the sick will die, for the chance to win three times the wagered sum. It’s sick what some people will do for money. According to […]
Creepy-Yet-Beautiful Ship Models Made of Human Bones by POWs
To pass the time, French prisoners held in British dungeons during the Napoleonic Wars would build intricate ship models from human and animal bones. Now these creepy works of art sell for tens of thousands of dollars at auctions. While English prisoners of war spent their jail time playing sports, French POWs found a rather […]
Kris Kuksi’s Recycled Toy Sculptures
We’ve seen recycled toys used in sculptures before, but Kris Kuksi’s macabre art is on a whole other level. Born in Springfield, Missouri, Kris had a rough childhood, isolated and secluded with his blue-collar mom, two older brothers and an alcoholic stepfather. This was most likely what caused him to retreat in his own imagination […]