Spooky Images

I love to find weird pictures on the Internet. I try to find the strangest ones I can, but I make sure they’re all public domain. Most of these were used for the Horror Short Story Of The Week page. They’re too good to lose, So enjoy:

 

Fake autopsy photographs

 

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This is one of the famous pictures of the autopsy of a Roswell Crash victim.

 

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This is held to be an actual autopsy picture of JFK, highly dubious, but interesting.

 

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This is a rubber prop and a darn good one.

 

 

 

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Mutants and Clones

 

 

This is a hysterical example of disfuntional cloning.

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The dark mouse was cloned from dead tissue. The “Parent” had been deceased for years, his body stored in a freezer. The Japanese labratory responsible for this successful cloning has in its possession the frozen embryo of a woolly mammoth.

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Actual genetic mutations can be hard to distinguish from more mundane birth defects, such as the incomplete separation of twins.

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This is an actual mutation, humans with tails.

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Whippets are dogs that are prone to a particular genetic mutation that disables their myostatin, leading to uncontrolled muscle growth.

 

 

Another Whippet

 

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This family has a mutation that affects their connective tissue.

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This is a mutation involving the skin.

 

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Child Mummies

 

 

This actual child mummy (a little girl) was an Inca sacrifice. She was found at the top of a volcano in Northwest Argentina.

 

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This child mummy is only 77 years old. Her body rests in the Catacombs, Palermo Italy. 

 

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This is a child mummy from Egypt (Late Period). She probably died about 300BC.

 

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A child mummy from Salta Argentina. This was another sacrifical victim (Inca). He dates to around 1500 AD.

 

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This is the decorated coffin of a child-mummy from Egypt (Roman Period). It dates to about 125 AD.

 

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Rat Catchers

 

 

This is the Royal Rat Catcher, Jack Black, in the mid 1800’s. He’s dressed exactly as Ross described him in his story. Black kept unusually-colored rats and bred them as pets. Queen Victoria herself had a pair of Black’s “fancy” rats.

 

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This is a faded postcard from Victorian England. It’s probably another rendition of Jack Black.

 

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Rembrandt’s Rat Catcher

 

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Here’s an official Rat Catcher for the British Army during WWI.

 

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A Rat Catcher with his dog

 

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A circle of rats

 

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