The Creepiest Artifacts in Museums Around the World

Embalming Kit

This extensive embalming kit dates back from the turn of the 20th century. Most Americans regarded embalming as a pagan ritual until the Civil War when soldiers who were dying far from home needed to be embalmed to be transported home. 

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The More You Know

  • As many as 50 serial killers are on the loose in the United States.
  • The Judas Cradle was a means of torture where the victim was forced to sit on a spike.
  • A body decomposes four times faster in water than on land
  • The “sleepwalking defense” has been used in order to have defendants acquitted for murder.
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