The spiked iron coffin is the most famous medieval torture device in the world. But no record mentions it before the 18th century: this is how the legend was born.
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In short McKamey Manor, in Tennessee, is an “extreme haunted house” where participants, after signing a waiver, are put through
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In short In Brazil organ trafficking is a real and under-reported problem, fuelled by corruption and lack of oversight. The
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In short In 1904 missionary Alice Seeley Harris photographed Nsala, a Congolese man, looking at the hand and foot of
Continua a LeggereIn short The Euthanasia Coaster is a 2010 art project by Lithuanian designer Julijonas Urbonas: a hypothetical roller coaster designed
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In short In October 1996 Sharon Lopatka, 35, from Maryland, travelled to North Carolina to meet Robert “Bobby” Glass, whom
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In short Between 25 June and mid-July 2007, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, 19-year-olds Igor Suprunyuk and Viktor Sayenko killed 21 people,
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After the article about the mellified man, I could not help but talk about scaphism: an ancient Persian method of
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In short Crucifixion was used by the Persians, Phoenicians and Carthaginians and became the symbolic punishment of Rome, reserved for
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In short Death by burning is a very ancient penalty, already found in the Code of Hammurabi and the Bible.
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In short The poena cullei, the “penalty of the sack”, was the Roman punishment for parricides: the condemned, flogged and
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In short A guide to ancient tortures divided by category: with water (ordeals, boiling, Chinese water torture), with fire (burning
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