A Lost Heart: Napoleon and the Rats There have been numerous stories—some true, some not–about Napoleon’s death. Today we look look at a Napoleonic body-part rumor: the story that Bonaparte’s heart was eaten by a rat and the heart of a sheep substituted.
Rat Tales: Horrible Deaths by Rodent In this, the second in our Things That Scare Us series, we stare down rats in some gratuitously grewsome accounts of these scourges of the sewers, their nasty habits, and their victims. Hint: They prefer fresh human flesh when they can get it, but are not fussy.