In 1752, an altercation between Ewan Macdonald and Robert Parker escalated when, as Parker attempted to leave, Macdonald pursued him and inflicted a fatal stab wound to his throat.

Macdonald was found guilty of murder and hanged on the town moor in Newcastle, England. His body was sent to the dissection theater of a local medical school.

However, upon entering the theater, a surgeon found Macdonald sitting up on the operating table, dazed and very confused.

The dissecting surgeon immediately smashed Macdonald over the head with a mallet, which killed him for real this time.

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A photo of a meat platter meant to resemble Amy Winehouse's rotting corpse served at Halloween party hosted by Neil Patrick Harris in 2011.

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In 2007, Grainne Kealy shattered every bone in her face when an airbag deployed during a 120mph crash, while her feet were on top of the dashboard. The airbag then blasted her knees up towards her head.

The incident also resulted in a brain leak, minor brain injury, and the loss of two teeth.

She lived without a forehead for two years between 2007 and 2009 before eventually having a new Italian ceramic one fitted.

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Born in 1888, Grace McDaniels, also known as the "Mule-Faced Woman," initially displayed a normal physical appearance.

However, as she aged, her face became severely deformed as a result of Sturge–Weber syndrome.

Grace eventually joined Harry Lewiston's Traveling Circus, where she was paid $175 per week.

Grace died of natural causes in between tours in Chicago, Illinois, in 1958.

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Scaphism was a method of execution that was designed to inflict a lingering, painful and humiliating death, to those who were untortunate enough to experience it.

The victim would be trapped between two boats, or other hollow objects, and their exposed head, arms and legs covered in honey.

They would then be force fed nothing but milk and honey, before being left in the sun, or in a stagnant pool.

Flies, other insects and rodents would be attracted to the victim, and would slowly eat them.

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A victim of the Hiroshima bombing shows his wounds in 1945.

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In 2007, Gordon Ramsay visited the restaurant ’Campania’ in Fair Lawn, New Jersey USA, for an episode of Kitchen Nightmares where he told the owner, Joe Cerniglia, that his business was “about to swim down the fucking Hudson River” if he didn’t change.

Sadly, just three years later in 2010, Joe Cerniglia committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River.

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The Judas Cradle was a torture method that started by sitting the victim on the pyramid-shaped cradle. The victim would then be forced down by ropes with the intention of stretching the victim's orifice over a long period of time, impaling him slowly.

The victim was usually undressed and the device was seldom washed, meaning, if the torture doesn't terminate the victim, the infection contracted from it would.

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A woman under the name of Jennifer Fairgate checked into a hotel in Oslo in 1995, but was later found dead in her room. The problem is that the name and address were fake and nobody knew her or claimed her body. The case remains unresolved, but she is likely a spy.

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