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When doctors operated on Bhagat, they found 44 pounds of fluid and inside the gooey substance, to their horror, was a nine-pound mass of calcified bone, teeth, and nails. Attached to the mass were a hand and a head with two pounds of hair. One of the doctors recalled the surgery in the operating room that day, "He just put his hand inside and he said there are a lot of bones inside. First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair." The fingernails on the half-formed creature were quite long, but the hands and feet were well developed.

EgillSkallagrimsson posted:

I did not know any of this was medically possible now, let alone whenever that was filmed.

Lurch posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pearce


Some Australian convicts escape as a group, run out of food, and start killing and eating each other to stay alive. One survives.

Inzombiac posted:

Oh christ. I am not one for shock movies but a small part of me wants to hunt down an uncensored version just to see what's up.

Wikipedia posted:

Once alone in the apartment, Chase began to capture, kill, and disembowel various animals, which he would then devour raw, sometimes mixing the raw organs with Coca-Cola in a blender and drinking the concoction. Chase reasoned that by ingesting the creatures he was preventing his heart from shrinking.

Wikipedia posted:

On December 29, 1977, Chase killed his first known victim in a drive-by shooting. The victim, Ambrose Griffin, was a 51-year-old engineer and father of two.[5] After the shooting, one of Griffin's sons reported seeing a neighbor walking around their East Sacramento neighborhood with a .22 caliber rifle. The neighbor's rifle was seized, but ballistics tests determined that it was not the murder weapon.

Two weeks later, he attempted to enter the home of a woman but, finding that her doors were locked, walked away; Chase later told detectives that he took locked doors as a sign that he was not welcome, but that unlocked doors were an invitation to come inside. He was later chased off by a returning couple as he pilfered belongings from their home and urinated and defecated on their beds and clothing.

Teresa Wallin was Chase's next victim on January 23. Three months pregnant at the time, Wallin was surprised at her home by Chase, who shot her three times, killing her.

Two days after killing Wallin, Chase purchased two puppies from a neighbor.

On January 27, Chase committed his final murders. Entering the home of 38-year-old Evelyn Miroth, he encountered her friend, Danny Meredith, whom he shot with his .22 handgun. Stealing Meredith's wallet and car keys, he rampaged through the house, fatally shooting Miroth, her six-year-old son Jason, and her 22-month-old nephew, David. As with Wallin, Chase engaged in necrophilia and cannibalism with Miroth's corpse.

A six-year-old girl with whom Jason Miroth had a playdate knocked on the door, startling Chase, who fled the scene in Meredith's car, taking David's body with him. The girl alerted a neighbor, who alerted police. Upon entering the home, police discovered that Chase had left perfect handprints and shoe imprints in Miroth's blood.

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Divers D1, D2 and D3 were exposed to the effects of explosive decompression and died in the positions indicated by the diagram. Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined D4, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient, violently exploded due to the rapid and massive expansion of internal gases. All of his thoracic and abdominal organs, and even his thoracic spine were ejected, as were all of his limbs. Simultaneously, his remains were expelled through the narrow trunk opening left by the jammed chamber door, less than 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter. Fragments of his body were found scattered about the rig. One part was even found lying on the rig's derrick, 10 metres (30 ft) directly above the chambers.

SynthOrange posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin#Diving_bell_accident

The Byford Dolphin diving bell accident. An outdated failsafe system, fatigue and improper procedure led to a decompression chamber being opened with disasterous results.

SBJ posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentich_Disappearance

Australian pilot goes missing forever after relaying one final message.

slow_twitch posted:

Lately things have been slow at work so I've been reading about disasters (mostly aviation). The plane crashes here are some that have stuck with me, mostly because they are human caused as opposed to mechanical malfunctions. Maybe don't read these if you have a fear of flying (sorry for the length):

Helios Airways flight 522 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522) Ground engineer screws up a routine repair resulting in the passengers and crew passing out at 12,000 ft. Pilots also ignored the oxygen warning as the pressure dropped in the plane. With the pilots passed out the plane flies on autopilot until it runs out of fuel and crashes into a mountain. 121 are killed. Two F16s are scrambled and can see the pilots and passengers slumped over in the plane as it's flying with the oxygen bags dangling above them. A flight attendant who just began flying lessons wakes up moments before the crash and tries to regain control of the plane but it's too late.

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771)
A PSA airline employee is fired, gets pissed off and boards a plane with a revolver. He breaks into the cockpit and shoots the pilots and one off duty pilot who was a passenger, then nose dives the plane into the mountains. Everything is captured on the cockpit voice recorder. 43 are killed.

PSA Flight 182 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_Flight_182)
Pilots of a fully loaded 727 fail to notice a Cessna directly in their flight path as they approach for landing. The planes collide and the 727 crashes into a San Diego neighborhood. Everyone on the 727 and Cessna die (137) and another 9 are killed on the ground when the plane impacts. The CVR transcripts always creep me out. Some horrifying eye witness accounts are here: http://sandiegoblog.com/archives/2004/06/16/psa-crash-1978/

Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_Airways_Flight_2120)
Rear tire explodes on takeoff and catches on fire. Pilots inexplicably raise the flaming landing gear into its retracted position. The tire fire rapidly spreads throughout the back of the plane, destroying control capabilities and compromises the airframe. The bottom of the plane is eventually weakened by the fire to the point that passengers can be seen falling out of the bottom as the pilots try to make an emergency landing back at the airport. The pilots completely lose control and all 261 on board are killed.

Last one : EgyptAir Flight 990 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990)
At cruising altitude the pilot of the 767 goes to the bathroom leaving the copilot in charge. The copilot repeatedly says "I rely on God" as he turns the engines on idle and points the nose of the plane down. The pilot eventually comes in from his bathroom break and the copilot shuts off the engines all together. By himself the pilot cannot correct the nose dive and the plane reaches a speed of almost mach 0.9 before hitting the water. All 217 on board are killed.

slinkimalinki posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erebus_disaster
Plane laden with 257 people flies straight into the side of a mountain without anyone ever noticing the mountain is there. Passengers are still taking tourist shots out the window at the moment of collision. The clean-up is so traumatic that almost everyone involved in body recovery ends up with PTSD.

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We felt relieved when the first resupply of woollen gloves arrived because ours had become saturated in human grease, however, we needed the finger movement that wool gloves afforded, i.e., writing down the details of what we saw and assigning body and grid numbers to all body parts and labelling them.

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... a medical photographer who worked in the Anatomy Department of the University of Birmingham Medical School. Parker died after being accidentally exposed to a strain of smallpox virus that was grown in a research laboratory, on the floor below the Anatomy Department. [...]

Many people had close contact with Parker before she was admitted, but only her mother contracted the disease. Parker's mother, Hilda Witcomb (née Linscott) survived, but her father, Frederick Witcomb, died aged 77 following a cardiac arrest when visiting Parker in the hospital.

[...]

On September 6, 1978, Professor Henry Bedson, the son of Sir Samuel Phillips and the head of the medical microbiology department, committed suicide. He cut his throat in the garden shed at his home and died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham a few days later.

Clarington Grey posted:

A couple of years back, there was a series of SA threads mocking a guy who blogged about his life-sized rubber gently caress-dolls. I think we can all agree that's pretty screwed up.

Well, over in Russia, Anatoly Moskvin went well beyond that. About a year ago, Moskvin was arrested on suspicion of grave-robbing. When the police searched his home, they found some mummified women placed throughout the dwelling, all of them wearing frilly dresses and stockings, and wearing masks. Not one. Not two, or even three.

29.

Here's the police walkthrough video of his home:
http://youtu.be/z5jxpZ8A8kE

sweeperbravo posted:

Let's make sure this one gets posted on every page.

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Upon his arrival at Holmesberg, Kligman is claimed to have said "All I saw before me were acres of skin ... It was like a farmer seeing a fertile field for the first time".

pienipple posted:

Albert Kligman's dermatological experiments on prison inmates funded by Dow, Johnson and Johnson, and the US government.

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Coffin birth, known in academia by the more accurate term postmortem fetal extrusion,[1][2] is the expulsion of a nonviable fetus through the vaginal opening of the decomposing body of a pregnant woman as a result of the increasing pressure of intraabdominal gases. This kind of postmortem delivery occurs very rarely during the decomposition of a body. The practice of chemical preservation, whereby chemical preservatives and disinfectant solutions are pumped into a body to replace natural body fluids (and the bacteria that reside therein), have made the occurrence of "coffin birth" so rare that the topic is rarely mentioned in international medical discourse.

Typically during the decomposition of a human body, naturally occurring bacteria in the organs of the abdominal cavity (such as the stomach and intestines) generate gases as by-products of metabolism, which causes the body to swell. In some cases, the confined pressure of the gases can squeeze the uterus (the womb), even forcing it downward, and it may turn inside-out and be forced out of the body through the vaginal opening (a process called prolapse). If a fetus is contained within the uterus, it could therefore be expelled from the mother's body through the vaginal opening when the uterus turns inside-out, in a process that, to outward appearances, mimics childbirth. The main differences lie in the state of the mother and child (whether alive or dead) and the mechanism of delivery: in the event of natural, live childbirth, the mother's contractions encourage the infant to emerge from the womb; in a case of coffin birth, built-up gas pressure within the putrefied body of a pregnant woman pushes the dead fetus from the body of the mother.

Cases have been recorded by medical authorities since the 16th century, though some archaeological cases provide evidence for its occurrence in many periods of human history. While cases of postmortem fetal expulsion have always been rare, the phenomenon has been recorded under disparate circumstances and is occasionally seen in a modern forensic context when the body of a pregnant woman lies undisturbed and undiscovered for some time following death. There are numerous examples that have demonstrated that the term "coffin birth" is a misnomer under many circumstances. There are also cases whereby a fetus may become separated from the body of the pregnant woman about the time of death or during decomposition, though because those cases are not consistent with the processes described here, they are not considered true cases of postmortem fetal extrusion.

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One evening in April, 1933, Tanzler crept through the cemetery where Hoyos was buried and removed her body from the mausoleum, carting it through the cemetery after dark on a toy wagon, and transporting it to his home. He reportedly said that Elena's spirit would come to him when he would sit by her grave and serenade her corpse with a favorite Spanish song. He also said that she would often tell him to take her from the grave.[1] Tanzler attached the corpse's bones together with wire and coat hangers, and fitted the face with glass eyes. As the skin of the corpse decomposed, Tanzler replaced it with silk cloth soaked in wax and plaster of paris. As the hair fell out of the decomposing scalp, Tanzler fashioned a wig from Hoyos's hair that had been collected by her mother and given to Tanzler not long after her burial in 1931.[4] Tanzler filled the corpse's abdominal and chest cavity with rags to keep the original form, dressed Hoyos's remains in stockings, jewelry, and gloves, and kept the body in his bed. Tanzler also used copious amounts of perfume, disinfectants, and preserving agents, to mask the odor and forestall the effects of the corpse's decomposition.[7]

In October, 1940, Elena's sister Florinda heard rumors of Tanzler sleeping with the disinterred body of her sister, and confronted Tanzler at his home, where Hoyos's body was eventually discovered. Florinda notified the authorities, and Tanzler was arrested and detained. Tanzler was psychiatrically examined, and found mentally competent to stand trial on the charge of "wantonly and maliciously destroying a grave and removing a body without authorization."[1] After a preliminary hearing on October 9, 1940 at the Monroe County Courthouse in Key West, Tanzler was held to answer on the charge, but the case was eventually dropped and he was released, as the statute of limitations for the crime had expired.

The Mentalizer posted:

Just remembered an old 'favorite', Carl Tanzler's preserved woman (warning: picture of dead woman's preserved face at that link). Basically, this doctor failed to save a woman from dying of tuberculosis, went nuts over it and proceeded to dig her up and preserve her in his house by coating her in wax and making a wig for her and all that creepy poo poo. And slept with 'her'. From the wiki:


The first time I heard this story and saw the accompanying picture that's on the wiki page I was creeped the gently caress out for quite some time. I still find the picture of the preserved woman unnerving.

The Mentalizer posted:

Just remembered an old 'favorite', Carl Tanzler's preserved woman (warning: picture of dead woman's preserved face at that link). Basically, this doctor failed to save a woman from dying of tuberculosis, went nuts over it and proceeded to dig her up and preserve her in his house by coating her in wax and making a wig for her and all that creepy poo poo. And slept with 'her'. From the wiki:


The first time I heard this story and saw the accompanying picture that's on the wiki page I was creeped the gently caress out for quite some time. I still find the picture of the preserved woman unnerving.

Lord Tywin posted:

This dude who personally executed 7,000 people during a 28 day period during the Katyn massacre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Blokhin

How Beria also just rode around all over Moscow raping whoever he fancied is despicable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrenty_Beria#Sexual_assault_charges.

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Recent evidence suggests that Beria not only abducted and raped women but that he also murdered those who resisted. His villa in Moscow is now the Tunisian Embassy and routine work on the grounds have turned up a number of bodies of young girls buried in the gardens.[citation needed] According to Martin Sixsmith, in a BBC documentary, "Beria spent his nights having teenagers abducted from the streets and brought here for him to rape. Those who resisted were strangled and buried in his wife's rose garden".

The Mentalizer posted:

Just remembered an old 'favorite', Carl Tanzler's preserved woman (warning: picture of dead woman's preserved face at that link). Basically, this doctor failed to save a woman from dying of tuberculosis, went nuts over it and proceeded to dig her up and preserve her in his house by coating her in wax and making a wig for her and all that creepy poo poo. And slept with 'her'.

Stormageddon posted:

It's pretty much all but confirmed he flew upside down, and in an attempt to escape the "alien", flew at high speed into the ocean and...welllllllll...vaporized

wiki posted:

Another proposed explanation[15] is that Valentich became disoriented and was flying upside down. What he thought he saw, if this were the case, would be his own aircraft's lights reflected in the water. He would then have crashed into the water. This was ruled out by aviation authorities, as the Cessna 182 has a high wing with a gravity feed fuel system, making prolonged inverted flight impossible in this model.

hermyownee posted:

BattleMaster posted:

What about, he flew upside down, his plane failed because it wasn't designed for that, and it crashed into the ocean?

Croatoan posted:

Emphasis on the word "prolonged". How much fuel do you think is in the fuel hose?

BattleMaster posted:

I'm just thinking that if he's so oblivious that he doesn't realize he's upside down maybe he wouldn't realize his engine isn't running either

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

You'd be really, really surprised how easy it is to get disoriented in the sky.

Target Practice posted:

Over the years of delving through the internet, I've concluded that Russian Police Detective has got to be in the top, like, 20 worst jobs.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

You'd be really, really surprised how easy it is to get disoriented in the sky.

I doubt the inverted-flight hypothesis for the reasons stated, but if that WAS what had happened it'd have been far from the first time.

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On January 3, 1961, the reactor was being prepared for restart after a shutdown of eleven days over the holidays. Maintenance procedures were in progress, which required the main central control rod to be manually withdrawn a few inches to reconnect it to its drive mechanism; at 9:01 p.m. this rod was suddenly withdrawn too far, causing SL-1 to go prompt critical instantly. In four milliseconds, the heat generated by the resulting enormous power surge caused water surrounding the core to begin to explosively vaporize. The water vapor caused a pressure wave to strike the top of the reactor vessel, causing water and steam to spray from the top of the vessel. This extreme form of water hammer propelled control rods, shield plugs, and the entire reactor vessel upwards. A later investigation concluded that the 26,000-pound (12,000 kg) vessel had jumped 9 feet 1 inch (2.77 m) and the upper control rod drive mechanisms had struck the ceiling of the reactor building prior to settling back into its original location. The spray of water and steam knocked two of the men onto the floor, killing one and severely injuring another. One of the shield plugs on top of the reactor vessel impaled the third man through his groin and exited his shoulder, pinning him to the ceiling.

Venusian Weasel posted:

The Mentalizer posted:

In October, 1940, Elena's sister Florinda heard rumors of Tanzler sleeping with the disinterred body of her sister, and confronted Tanzler at his home, where Hoyos's body was eventually discovered.

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The Snowtown murders – also known as the Bodies-in-Barrels murders – were a series of homicides that took place in South Australia between August 1992 and May 1999. The name "Snowtown murders" refers to the town where the bodies were found, despite the fact that only one of the eleven victims was killed there, and none of the victims or the perpetrators were from Snowtown. The crimes were uncovered when the remains of eight victims were found in barrels of acid located in a rented former bank building on 20 May 1999, hence the other name.

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The final murder was conducted in the bank building after the barrels had been moved there for storage. Of the scene encountered in this building, one Snowtown officer said: "It was a scene from the worst nightmare you've ever had; I don't think any of us was prepared for what we saw." The building was littered with tools used by the killers to torture and murder their victims, including:
Knives
A bloodstained saw
Double barrelled shotgun
Coils of rope
Rolls of tape
Rubber gloves
Cloths
A Variac metallurgy tool that the killers used to administer electric shocks to the genitals and other sensitive parts of the victim's body

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The pathologists report later revealed that prolonged torture had taken place using everyday tools such as pincers, pliers and clamps. Examples of all of these implements were found in the vault. Wendy Abraham QC, the deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, reported at the Supreme Court of South Australia that the victims were forced to call their torturers 'God', 'Master', 'Chief Inspector' and 'Lord Sir'.
Ray Davies was garrotted with a piece of rope and a tyre lever after being placed in a bath, attacked with clubs, repeatedly beaten about his genitals and had a toe crushed with a pair of pliers.
Frederick Brooks received electric shocks to his penis and testicles, and had a sparkler inserted into his urethra and then lit after which this torture was repeated a second time; after his toes were crushed and his nose and ears burned with cigarettes, he was allowed to choke to death on his gag.
A piece of the flesh of the eleventh and final victim, David Johnson, was fried and eaten by Bunting and Wagner.

Vladimir Poutine posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowtown_murders






There's a movie about it called Snowtown, which is actually quite good but I felt uncomfortable the whole time.