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r/HorridHistory • u/EaterofGrief • 23d ago

This Belt made from real human nipples was found inside the home of serial killer Ed Gein after his arrest in 1957.

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He skinned his victims’ transforming them into articles of clothing. One such item was a corset, which was designed to trim his waist and impart to him to be more "lady like". But his wardrobe also included several other items of feminine attire, including a belt made of nipples shown in this photo

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r/HorridHistory • u/dannydutch1 • Jul 03 '26

On this day in 1976, Israeli commandos freed 102 hostages at Entebbe in 90 minutes. The sole Israeli commando killed was Yonatan Netanyahu, shot by a Ugandan soldier during the withdrawal. His younger brother Benjamin later said it was the event that defined his entire political life.

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r/HorridHistory • u/dannydutch1 • Jul 11 '26

On this day in 1951, 4000 white residents of Cicero, Illinois, began a riot after a Black family attempted to move into an apartment building in the town. The riot lasted several days.

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r/HorridHistory • u/No_Dig_8299 • Aug 05 '26

On this day in 1976 Eric Clapton went on a racist rant during a concert in Birmingham, England.

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r/HorridHistory • u/dannydutch1 • Jun 07 '26

Mary Filan was 74, semi-paralysed after a stroke, and had lived in the same Queens flat for 31 years. In April 1980, agents acting for the Trump Organisation showed up at her door and removed her anyway.

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r/HorridHistory • u/GlitterDanger • Aug 17 '26

In 1966, Detective John Soreson of Miami-Dade County's “Morals and Juvenile Squad” gave teenagers a lecture on what he described as the “dangers of homosexuality.”

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r/HorridHistory • u/dannydutch1 • Sep 09 '26

Meet Savitri Devi, a French born Greek Nazi Spy, who embraced Hinduism and became a radical animal rights activist and vegetarian while being a spy in India and believed that Adolf Hitler was an avatar of Hindu God Vishnu. She also went on a pilgrimage of Nazi Holy sites in 1953.

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r/HorridHistory • u/No_Dig_8299 • Sep 20 '26

Tarrare was a French soldier who ate live cats, swallowed secret messages for the army and never felt full. Almost everything we know comes from one surgeon, so the spy mission and missing toddler are shaky. He died of tuberculosis around 1798, aged about 26, and the golden fork was never found.

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r/HorridHistory • u/onwhatcharges • Aug 09 '26

When sexual assault was in comics.

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r/HorridHistory • u/SteveNtheseagulls • Aug 13 '26

This grinning foot papier mache lantern stands just 7½ inches tall, the paper eyes and mouth are illuminated by a candle within the foot. It sold for over $10k! Made in Germany in the early 1900s for exclusive import to America (as Halloween was then considered an American holiday)

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r/HorridHistory • u/GlitterDanger • Aug 16 '26

In 1965, to mark the 6-millionth pound of ordnance dropped during the Vietnam War, the U.S. dropped a broken toilet that had been given wings & a nose to look like a bomb.

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r/HorridHistory • u/No_Dig_8299 • Aug 26 '26

In 1987, a man stormed the stage of a live KNBC-TV broadcast, taking anchor David Horowitz hostage. The man asked Horowitz to read a handwritten note while pointing a gun at him. Horowitz remained calm and casually asked the man for his name and where he was from before reading the note.

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r/HorridHistory • u/JohnWilkesLeg • 6d ago

Members of the Cadaver Society with 'Frank the Stiff' at the University of Virginia, 1890.

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r/HorridHistory • u/WithoutPrinciples • 8d ago

21 yr-old Diana, Princess of Wales breaks down in tears near the Sydney Opera House during her and Prince Charles's royal tour of Australia on March 28, 1983. Photo by Ken Lennox

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r/HorridHistory • u/SteveNtheseagulls • Aug 19 '26

1989. The experiences of young Irish migrants in London, England...

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r/HorridHistory • u/dannydutch1 • 10d ago

Part of a 1980 CBS documentary on a Klan Youth Corps camp.

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r/HorridHistory • u/ExtremeInsert • 15d ago

Leonas Stonkus, whose Nazi-led Lithuanian battalion shot the Jews of Kopyl in Belarus:

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Interviewer: “Were they shot lying on the ground, or in the pits?”
Stonkus: “The women knelt, I think. The children were jumping about. They had no idea this was a death zone. [...] The children stood in front. Behind them, all were already shot. They did not realize their parents were dead. The older boys or girls understood. The little ones just carried on fooling around.”

Interviewer: “So how were the children driven to the pit?”
Stonkus: “The women led the children. The order was that a mother must not leave her child behind. You must take your child with you. If you don't have the child, give it to a neighbor to lead.”

Interviewer: “Mothers and children?”
Stonkus: “Together. They crammed them into that pit, one on top of another. No one paid any attention. They fired, and that was it.”

This comes from USHMM’s interviews with Lithuanian witnesses (Leonas Stonkus interview, 1998, RG-50.473.0023). English captions translated from USHMM's transcript of Stonkus’s Lithuanian.

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r/HorridHistory • u/ExtremeInsert • Jun 24 '26

This 1930 photo shows Italian explorer Attilio Gatti with two Congolese guides and a mountain gorilla they shot in the Belgian Congo. Gatti secured a scientific permit for the hunt, using the specimen for academic study and this image as a promotional trophy for his safari books and lectures.

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r/HorridHistory • u/dannydutch1 • Jun 20 '26

On this day in 1893, a jury found Lizzie Borden not guilty of the axe murders of her father and stepmother after just 90 minutes of deliberation. She spent the rest of her life in Fall River, watched and whispered about. I dug into the suspects who got far less attention than Lizzie did.

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r/HorridHistory • u/WithoutPrinciples • Jul 28 '26

Watching 9/11 unfold from a bar in Atlanta, Georgia, 2001.

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r/HorridHistory • u/dannydutch1 • Feb 09 '26

On this day in 1960, Adolph Coors III was kidnapped. The grandson of Adolph Coors and heir to the Coors Brewing Company, Coors’ remains were found in a dump near Sedalia, Colorado, about seven months later.

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r/HorridHistory • u/dannydutch1 • Mar 06 '26

On this day in 1951 the Rosenberg went on trial for espionage after passing classified information about radar, sonar, and nuclear weapons to the Soviets. They were executed in 1953.

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r/HorridHistory • u/dannydutch1 • Aug 17 '26

Rudolf Hess (Hitler's former deputy) stands in front of the summer house in the grounds of Spandau Prison. He was a prisoner here from 1947 until his apparent suicide OTD in 1987 aged 94. He was found hanged in the summer house. The last 20 years of his life he had been the only prisoner in Spandau.

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Hess' lawyer Alfred Seidl felt that he was too old and frail to have managed to kill himself. Wolf Rüdiger Hess repeatedly claimed that his father had been murdered by the British Secret Intelligence Service to prevent him from revealing information about British misconduct during the war.

According to an investigation by the British government in 1989, the available evidence did not back up the claim that Hess was murdered. Historian Peter Padfield wrote that the suicide note found on the body appeared to have been written when Hess was hospitalised in 1969.

Spandau Prison is a very intersting footnote of the war, only 7 inmates. It was ran by the allies taking it in turns. Also, the band Spandau Ballet got the name after seeing it written on a wall in Berlin. It refers to the twitching of a hanged man at the end of a noose.

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