Curiosity Obscura

Whether it's creepy, unexplainable, baffling, beautiful, or bizarre... I've got facts, stories, & more! Disclaimer: This page does not in anyway have connection to or affiliation with Obscura Antiques & Oddities.

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This was the first women that was able to stay alive by electrical current, with no head.

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The hand that never stopped painting " Morten Viskum used a hand from a corpse as a paint brush.

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Penis extenders made of wood, leather, buffalo horn, copper, silver, ivory and gold were commonly used in 300 A.D. in India and the East to assist in pleasuring sexual partners. These extenders made several different cameos in historic documents, including the famed Kama Sutra.                                                                                                                                                        

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George Davey was sentenced to one month's hard labour in Wandsworth Prison in 1872 for stealing two rabbits. He was ten years old.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

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Men weren’t the only ones looking for creative ways to secure alcohol during Prohibition. According to Daniel Okrent, author and researcher, middle-class women often turned to Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Tonic, a patented medicine used for medical conditions that afflicted women and contained 15-21% alcohol.

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It Looks Like A Horror Movie Set And Then You Realize These Used To Be 'Cures‘.

In the late 1800's this was marketed as a 'Blood Purifier' and thought to be good for woman. In 1906 it was targeted for it's peculiar claims and questionable ingredients.

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This Illustration Shows What People Thought A Woman's Orgasm Looked Like In 1949

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Sold by Sears in 1902: Poisonous wafers advertised as being “Simply Magical” for the complexion. Guaranteed to improve “Even the coarsest and most repulsive skin and complexion!"

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Perhaps the most intriguing photo purporting to show the North Polar opening into the Hollow Earth, this one taken by the American space station Skylab in 1974—but not released to public view until 2006, and then only because it was leaked to the Internet. This one is so crystal clear it even seems to show sunlight from the so-called ‘central sun’ emanating from within. Once again, from NASA: ‘No comment.’

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Come Follow!

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Vimana is a word with several meanings ranging from temple or palace to mythological flying machine described in Sanskrit epics. References to these flying machines are commonplace in ancient Indian texts, including descriptions of their use in warfare. As well as being able to fly within Earth's atmosphere, Vimanas were also said to be able to travel into space and under water.

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What did Google Maps cameras discover over a lake in Switzerland? Google Maps have been taking "street view" images for a number of years, and they've captured some interesting things... There's a ghostly figure that appears over a lake in Switzerland. Go to Google Maps. Copy and paste these coordinates for the location: 47.110579, 9.227568. Zoom in until you are in street view. Then look to the sky (North-West over the lake). Was this just a strange camera anomaly or something more divine? You decide.

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Franklin Castle in Ohio. Secret rooms and passages do exist inside the castle, although it is not known how many. Hannes Tiedemann supposedly used a secret room to store the bodies of his dead babies, and killed his niece in a hidden passage by the ballroom. His wife is said to have used a passage to safely gain access to her children, away from the prying eyes of her tyrannical husband.

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The picture above was taken in 1959 by a Belgium helicopter pilot, Col. Remy Van Lierde, while on patrol over the Congo.  The snake he saw measured approximately 40 to 50 feet in length, dark brown/green with a white belly.  It had triangle shaped jaws and a head about 3 ft x 2 ft. Experts have analyzed the pictures and have verified them as authentic.   They also have verified the size of the creature by matching ground features to the snake.  As the helicopter flew in lower the snake raised up 10 feet and looked as if it would strike at the helicopter if they flew any closer.

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A very interesting artifact found in Ecuador in the 1980s is the so-called Pyramid with the Eye. It has thirteen steps,the eye is an inlay and looks exactly like the Pyramid on the US one dollar bill. On the bottom, there's an inlay in little gold plates showing the Orion star constellation, and writing. Professor Kurt Schildmann's translation found it to be Pre-Sanskrit because it's older than the oldest writing. His translation of the four letters is: “The son of the creator comes.”

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The Moai “Heads” on Easter Island have bodies. Because some of the  statues are set deep into the ground, and because the heads are disproportionately large, many people tend to think of them as just big heads. But the bodies are there — in many cases, underground. What’s even more interesting; there are Petroglyphs that have  been preserved below the soil level, where they have been protected from erosion.

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Antique Phrenology Machine:

“You ought to have your head examined.“