horror lovers will shake.

In this 1890 picture, a woman is shown standing in a narrow cell, her arms affixed to the wall in a crucifixion pose. Though seemingly inhumane, at the time it was seen as a reasonable treatment for those with mental illness in Germany.
This sculpture by Marie Uchytilova commemorates the 82 children of Lidice. The small Czechoslovakian village was attacked by Nazis, and in July of 1942, all 82 children were transported to the extermination camp at Chelmno, where they were gassed.

. A pornography addict from southern China has an x-ray performed. After seeing the act performed in a film, he inserted a live eel up his backside, where it got stuck.

The case of Mary Ellen Wilson is one which led to the creation of the NY Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. This photo was taken when she was only 8 years old.

During the 19th century, Horatio Gordon Robley was a renowned collector of the macabre and the obscure, specializing in collecting "Mokomokai" — otherwise known as the preserved heads of New Zealand's Maori people.

This sweet little girl visits her twin sister’s grave in 1925. Her sister burned to death.

This photo shows the devastating and cruel genocide of Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust during WWII. Up to 6 million Jews were murdered, and an estimated 17 million were affected by this holocaust according to Wikipedia.

This photo showing a tooth extraction in process during the 1800s is both amusing and disturbing. The man getting his tooth pulled was likely given copious amounts of Alcohol in order to numb the pain a bit from the extraction, but doctors had to hold the man down with their legs in order to get enough leverage to extract the tooth

This woman in this photo is actually dead. Her husband took it two days after she passed away. There’s no word on what her cause of death was.

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