DNA proves horrific folklore to be true

I wasn't aware that there was any question concerning the validity of shrunken heads. That there were many fakes is certainly true, but there were many "real" ones as well, documented by explorers into those lands. I guess it was a good scientific exercise, but, to me, doesn't seem to have any practical application. I agree, the reality of shrunken heads hes been known for a long time...

I wish we could test the shrunken heads that were found in the german concentration camps to see if they were real but them, along with the lampshades and human soap, all are "missing"

My folks lived in Venezuela and Argentina for a bit and I kept asking them to bring me a shrunken head home. They never did damn it lol.

Ha, interesting.

Need that technology for some swollen heads...

Shrunken heads are real. Why someone would want to spend their time replicating them is kind of weird and sick. Remember most of them were real people (not the fakes) and they probably would have died horrible deaths at the hands of their enemies.Keeping these heads in museums for people to stare at is very macabre, they should be DNA tests to verify that they were real people and have them respectfully buried or cremated. Shrunken heads are real. Why someone would want to spend their time replicating them is kind of weird and sick. Remember most of them were real people (not the fakes) and th... [More]

Need that technology for some swollen heads... Bravo! Thanks for the link, Karlis. That head in first pic reminds me of someone so I've just been rolling on the floor laughing for real.

HEY ITS MY FAMILY PICTURE!

I wish we could test the shrunken heads that were found in the german concentration camps to see if they were real but them, along with the lampshades and human soap, all are "missing" "Missing" like the babies in a Kuwaiti hospital that were pulled from incubators and smashed on the floor by Iraqi soldiers? Or missing like WMDs? Eta:sorry didn't mean to sound political- just meant "chalk it up to tall tales told from war?

"Missing" like the babies in a Kuwaiti hospital that were pulled from incubators and smashed on the floor by Iraqi soldiers? Or missing like WMDs? Eta:sorry didn't mean to sound political- just meant "chalk it up to tall tales told from war? Neither. Babies pulled from incubators were never presented WMD's were never presented The shrunken heads, skin lampshades, human soap, etc. were all presented as evidence and displayed (and photographed)