In 1897, Oscar Metenier opened his theater, Le Grand Guignol (theater of pain). While the theater was considered controversial for employing prostitutes, criminals, and other dregs of society... Read more
When Gloria Ramirez was brought to the Riverside General Hospital on February 19, 1994, the staff assumed her issues were simply related to her advanced-stage cervical cancer. She was in pain... Read more
A body farm is a research facility where decomposition can be studied in a variety of settings. They were invented by an anthropologist named William Bass in 1972 after he had realized how... Read more