In a previous post on auto-decapitation, I promised a fuller account of Mr. James A. Moon, who captured the imagination of the country with his ingenious suicide machine. Here are some of the gruesome details. Don’t try this at home.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 7, 2013
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged auto-decapitation , James A Moon , karikari , Lafayette , self-decapitation , suicide , suicide machine
Capital Improvements: Four New Methods of Execution Four unusual historical methods of execution.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 5, 2013
in Crime , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Capital Improvements: Four New Methods of Execution , crime and punishment , electric chair , execution , Hawai'i , Hawaiian death prayer , Siam , vacuum chamber
A Dose a Day Keeps Sea Serpents at Bay A puzzling reference in a story about a sea serpent in Lake Ontario to a way to keep sea serpents at bay.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 3, 2013
in Animal Tales , Cryptozoology , Fortean Mysteries , News , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Dose a Day Keeps Sea Serpents at Bay , castor oil , cryptozoology , Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus , lake monsters , Lake Ontario , Norway , Olaus Magnus , sea serpent , soe orm
