Unbelievable True Stories ~ ForAngelsOnly

Unbelievable True Stories ~ ForAngelsOnly

Unbelievable True Tales
Edward Mordrake had an extra face on the back of his head, which could neither eat nor speak, though it may giggle or cry. Edward begged doctors to have his "demon head" removed, because, supposedly, it whispered horrible issues to him at night, but no physician would try committed suicide on the age of 23.

After three years in the U.S. Army, McCurdy traveled to Oklahoma and joined a gang of financial institution and train robbers. It seems that McCurdy was confused in regards to the train, and believed it contained a safe which held hundreds of dollars in authorities tribal payments. The cash practice was delayed for a couple of hours, and McCurdy's gang really robbed a passenger prepare, getting away with $46 and some bottles of liquor. Soon afterward he was killed in a gunfight in the Osage Hills in north-central Oklahoma; reportedly he was shot within the thorax by a32-20 caliber bullet. A contemporary newspaper account gave McCurdy's last words as "You'll never take me alive!"
His physique was subsequently taken to a funeral home in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. When nobody claimed the corpse, the undertaker embalmed it with an arsenic-based mostly preservative and allowed folks to see "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up" for a nickel. Individuals would place nickels in McCurdy's mouth, which the undertaker would gather later. As increasingly large numbers of people got here to view his stays (with every leaving a nickel), McCurdy was said to have made extra money in demise than in life. Many carnival operators requested to buy the mummified body from the undertaker, however he refused.
Virtually five years after McCurdy died, a person confirmed up from a close-by touring carnival known as the Great Patterson Shows claiming to be McCurdy's long-lost brother. He indicated that he wanted to remove the corpse to present it a proper burial. Inside two weeks, nevertheless, McCurdy was a featured exhibit with the carnival. For the subsequent 60 years, McCurdy's body was bought to successive wax museums, carnivals, and haunted houses. The owner of a haunted home near Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, refused to buy him as a result of he thought that McCurdy's physique was truly a model and was not lifelike enough.
Franz Reichelt (d. 1912) attempted to use this contraption as a parachute. Reichelt died after he jumped off the Eiffel Tower carrying his invention, which did not operate properly as a parachute.
Mary Toft tricked medical doctors into believing that she had given start to rabbits.

Robert Liston - in his most well-known surgical procedure he managed a mortality charge of 300%. First he amputated the leg of the supposed patient in under 2 half minutes. The affected person subsiquentially died from gangrene. Throughout the same surgery he amputated the fingers of his younger assistant, who additionally died from gangrene. In his surgical exuberance he slashed by means of the coat tails of a distinguished spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals, he dropped lifeless from fright.
Serge Voronoff - A French surgeon who gained fame for his technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue on to the testicles of males. Voronoff's monkey-gland remedy was in vogue within the twenties. One poet described it as a "famous doctor who inserts monkey glands in millionaires" The technique brought him quite a lot of cash. As his work fell out of favour, he went from being extremely respected to a subject of ridicule.
Wojteck was a 'Soldier Bear' in the Polish army. He loved smoking and eating cigarettes. He loved wrestling and was taught to salute when greeted. As one of the formally enlisted "soldiers" of the corporate, he lived with the opposite men in their tents or in a special wooden crate transported on lorries. In response to quite a few accounts, in the course of the Battle of Monte Cassino, Wojtek helped his patrons by transporting ammunition, never dropping a single crate. In recognition of the bear's recognition, the HQ approved an effigy of a bear holding an artillery shell as the official emblem of the 22nd Firm.
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