Scary Facts

• A human head remains conscious for around 20 seconds after being decapitated.
• In some cases, bodies develop a corpse wax that can preserve the remains for years.
• The Zoroastrian Parsi community in India offers its dead to vultures rather than burying/burning them.
• More than 7000 people die annually due to the doctor's bad handwriting.
• For some people who are beginning to go blind, they see very realistic, absurd things that are not actually there. This is called “Charles Bonnet Syndrome.” A woman named Bee was diagnosed with the eye condition called glaucoma. Her life was very normal, only a trip to a grocery store triggered her hallucinations. The shelves would begin to drip, and turn into thick mud. She could pull an item off the shelf, but this hallucination of mud was too thick to put anything back on the shelf once she picked it up. These hallucinations can become so vivid that people can see animals or entire landscapes that do not actually exist.
• During the filming of the 1982 horror movie Poltergeist, many people were injured, and some even died. Nearly everyone who was connected to the making of the film suffered such horrible fates that some believe the movie is cursed.
• In Uganda, children are kidnapped and used as child sacrifices by witch doctors. They pay off local police to be sure that they’ll never get caught
• In the 1970’s and 80’s, over 100 healthy people suddenly died in their sleep. Their families couldn’t explain it. Wes Craven was inspired by this idea, and it helped him to create Nightmare on Elm Street, where the villain finds and kills people in their dreams.
• In ancient times, there was a process of making a “mellified man,” which was essentially making human candy. In order to do this, an elderly person volunteer themselves to the process of being binge bathed in honey every day, and given only honey to eat. They reached the point where that’s all that was left in their digestive system. Then, when they died, they would be covered in honey for 100 years. Their body would snap easily in half, and be eaten as rock candy. Eating this candy was a type of medicine, which was said to heal broken bones.
• In the Catholic religion, Purgatory is a place where souls go when they need to suffer for the sins they committed while they were still alive. They can be prayed out of purgatory by the living, or they must suffer through horrible punishments if they don’t want to go to Hell.

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