In our world there is a huge number of strange and sometimes unexplained things.
Today we will speak about the parts of the human body, real and unreal, living and dead, who "went" in the independent travel without their owner.
Of course, not without help from the outside.
Strange stories
10. Isaac Eby (Isaac Ebey)
Head and Scalp
Eby family buried in the cemetery in Kupeville Sunnyside, Washington. Isaac Eby, head of the family is at the center of an unusual mystery.
Eby was one of the first white settlers on Whidbey Island, Washington. In a letter to his brother Eby called the island "paradise on earth". It really was a heavenly place, so there is nothing surprising in the fact that someone got there before.
Whidbey Island
Conflicts between white settlers and Native Americans have become so fierce that soon came to the island of American troops to protect the settlers and their interests.
When the ships came and bombarded the village all Native Americans, killing most of the people who survived vowed revenge.
It is August 11, 1857. The door to Colonel Ebi knocked, and when he opened it there and then cut off his head, and with it disappeared from the scene.
What happened to the head after that is still a subject for debate. While some argue that the head was returned two years later, the family documents are different from the official records of the military.
According to family members, only the scalp Eby in 1860 was returned after his brother appealed to the military in search of justice. In 1859, Captain Dodd (Captain Dodd) has got his head in return for a few blankets, scarf, three trumpets, a certain amount of cotton and tobacco.
Brother killed later wrote in his diary about getting a head back, noting that it was in surprisingly good condition on the scalp and hair preserved ears. A few months later brother made another record. He said that he, unfortunately, did not have a chance to thank for the return of the Dodd horrible trophy, because the latter died.
However, the brother of the colonel did not say that the head was buried, as well as no mention of getting back the remaining part of it.
Other records show that the scalp was handed over to his sister, who showed it to the doctor after about 10-12 years after the incident. Next scalp passed to his niece, and then appeared in the offspring of colonel in California.
No more references to the scalp Ebi, or what was left of his head, no. What happened to him is still not clear.
Santa Anna: The Story of General legs
9. Santa Ana (Santa Anna)
Legs
In addition to the fact that the man was responsible for the development of today's industry gum, General Santa Anna was also at the center of the heavy relationship between Texas and Illinois.
After the Battle of Cerro Gordo in the framework of the war between Mexico and America, Illinois soldiers on the battlefield came upon a wagon, which was gold and a wooden leg of Santa Anna. They took the leg with them, and for many years one of the soldiers with pride kept her in his house.
In the end, the foot hit the State Military Museum, where it is still and stored. In another embodiment, the story of soldiers attacked the Illinois in 1847, was so unexpected that the general rushed to escape, leaving a half-eaten lunch in a tent and a prosthetic leg.
In any case, TX "wants" foot back, and it does not give Illinois.
Despite the fact that there are no specific links between the wooden leg of Santa Anna and Texas History Museum of San Jacinto he petitioned to get his leg back, at the same time, not even trying to collect enough signatures to pass the case to the White House.
While it is not a success, and Illinois, apparently, is not going to voluntarily return leg.
Oddly, but in Illinois there is not one of Santa Anna's wooden leg. After his real leg was amputated because of injuries and was buried with full military honors, Santa Anna ordered two wooden legs, one of which was beautifully decorated, and the second repeated pirate style.
It was said also that the second leg for a long time been used as a baseball bat. However, it is likely another fantasy, because too many people at the time would have a foot of Santa Anna.
Unusual true stories
8. Walt Whitman (Walt Whitman)
The brain
In the early 20th century anatomists still looking for physical signs in the brain, which would explain why some people become great, others were monsters. Edward Anthony Shpitska (Edward Anthony Spitzka) has researched the brain killer Leon Czolgosz (Leon Czolgosz) in the presence of such symptoms, but to no avail.
Therefore Shpitska decided to study the brain of a successful person. He wanted to find something tangible in the brain physically, that would indicate success.
At the time, it was fashionable to donate their brains to science, if you belong to a certain class, have been successful and would like to scientists figured out why you were so wonderful.
Soon Edward got brains Walt Whitman. But the publication in 1907 Shpitska mentioned in passing that the technician inadvertently accidentally dropped the brain, thereby "breaking" it.
So they got rid of the "spoiled product."
This is the official version, but no one did not buy it. When friends Whitman began to deal in this business, they received an official document from the Institute of Anatomy Wistar, which said that the brain is "broken" when scientists tried to preserve it.
According to another story, the brain was not damaged, but simply got lost somewhere in the Jefferson College. In general, a clear answer as to what actually happened to the brain Whitman, no.
When Shpitska began his study he used in the brains of people who belonged to the upper class of the founding members of the American Society of anthropometric (AAS). However, the company did not conduct accounting and do not care properly for them entering the biological material.
After the scientist has received them, he found that the integrity of some of the severely impaired, the weight is recorded properly, and some simply do not. One brain left zatverditelnom material until it crumbled completely. Then a scientist was Whitman's brain, which is the official version has been dropped.
According to official documents, all this information was in the nature of mass hiding. No one knew whether Whitman was actually a member of the AAS, and whether his family gave permission for the removal of his brain.
In fact the work AAS very little is known. However, the version was proposed that members of the public, Whitman was invited to join them on his deathbed, and then disappeared from his brain.
But again, no reliable data exists.
The story of Sarah Bernhardt
7. Sarah Bernhardt
Leg
Being the star of a world scale in the 19th century, the French actress Sarah Bernhardt only one US drove with 9 rounds.Victor Hugo described it as the "golden voice."
In Europe, the audience reaction to her performance in the role of Napoleon's son was indescribable, actress encore a few dozen times.
Despite the fact that most of Sarah's body was buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, after her death in 1923, the actress left foot in the pantry of the University of Bordeaux.
However, the school quickly explained that there is a difference between losing something and forget that you have it.
In 1898, Bernard played a role in a play called Tosca and had several times to jump off the top of the castle set on stage. It at that moment already 54 years.
In one, she jumps to a knee injury in the coming years chronic pain did not stop torturing her.
In 1915, she insisted that her leg was amputated to the area just above the knee. Later examination established that it was the right decision.
After amputation Sarah for a few months, he went round the front lines, helping the wounded, as well as playing for their play.
Amputated leg Sarah allegedly found in 2009, although some doubt that the mystery was actually solved.
Amputation was made above the knee, and have found no legs knee, so many skeptics doubted that it belonged to a godsend really.
Others say that it found the foot, the knee just been removed.
Mysterious history
6. Lord Uxbridge (Lord Uxbridge)
Legs
According to one version, Lord Uxbridge, and the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo was observed when the mortar hit fell to the feet Uxbridge, what the Lord said, "By God, sir, I lost my leg". Wellington said: "By God, sir, the way it is."
This may sound like an exchange "pleasantries", but in reality everything happened somewhat differently. Uxbridge was in the heart of the bloody events, when he got shot in the leg. He was taken off the battlefield and moved to a house in Waterloo.
The Battle of Waterloo
The house belonged to Huachinte Paris (Hyacinthe Paris), who only managed to start up in their home high-ranking officers and doctors who came to assess the state of the Lord. When the doctor decided that the leg is not reversed, the decision was made about her amputation.
Apparently sensing an opportunity for profit, Paris asked if he could pick up the amputee himself. He built to his feet a little coffin and buried it in his garden, found a tombstone and blew everyone to see.
Later, when Uxbridge returned to the house to visit the family of Paris, he found that people still take food at the table, where his leg was amputated.
However, until now no one knows exactly what the ultimate fate of his legs amputated. Houses in the place is long gone, but there are several conflicting stories, which together can help to find a place to "lurk" leg.
According to one story, the leg found that during a hurricane in the garden of the house uprooted trees. After that, the leg supposedly moved to permanent residence in the house. When the son of Uxbridge asked the family to return the leg, they tried to sell it to him.
According to the second version after the death of Lord foot reunited with him. The third story has it that the foot is still buried in the garden of a house in Waterloo.
Artificial foot Uxbridge also "went from hand to hand." He had three very high quality prosthesis, which moved the knees and ankles were moving. All three artificial legs are stored in different museums.
5. Antonio Scarpa (Antonio Scarpa)
The head, two fingers and urinary tract
Antonio Scarpa considered a neurologist who discovered the nerve Scarpa, Scarpa ganglion and vestibular endolymph (liquor Scarpae). Apparently, those who knew him, was not surprised that he called all the opening of its name.
After he was fired from his job at the university due to the fact that he did not want to swear allegiance to the new king, Scarpa became very strange.
He spread rumors about the alleged criminal activity of people who were not pleasing to him, saying people think that he is superior to them intelligently, constantly referred to the ever-increasing number of his illegitimate children, etc.
Scarpa is not so loved that after his death, people almost immediately spoil the marble statue of the scientist. Needless to say, that it did not miss. It is worth mentioning how it behaved with his assistants, who were responsible for the neurologist's body after death.
The body was in the hands Beolchina Carlo (Carlo Beolchin), his former assistant. Beolchin and several other former assistants placed his head, thumb and index finger on one hand, and the urinary tract in a special anatomical solution.
Abstracting from the painful feelings of revenge against the man who took all the glory of himself, no one could say exactly why they did so.
Remains Scarpa, who has never been married and never had a family, until recently, no one had seen. In honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of a neurologist it was founded a museum Museo per la Storia dell'Universita di Pavia, and head Skarpy was put on public display.
The remaining parts of the body are hidden from the human eye.
Strange occurrence
4. Sikls Daniel (Daniel Sickles)
Leg
In 1859, Daniel Sikls became famous after he killed his wife's lover Francis Barton Key (Francis Barton Key), son of Francis Scott Key (Francis Scott Key). Daniel was acquitted, as he attributed the first time in American history,"temporary insanity." By 1862, he continued to serve in the army and became a Major General.
Sikls served in Gettysburg, but there are many people who do not like it. He was not one of those people who listen to other officials or act according to the plan, because he considered himself a hero after the successful Battle of Chancellorsville.
Late unpleasantness
Because of his outspoken disobedience top rung happened the tragic events of the Civil War - the massacre of the third body.
During one of the battles Sikls was seriously injured legs. Undeterred, he continued to sit on the horse and give orders.After a while, the soldiers still managed to remove it from the horse and transported to a nearby field hospital.
According to the story told by many members of the Writers' Union, the whole trip to the hospital Sikls smoking a cigar and gave orders. When the leg was amputated, he banned throw the severed body part.
Shortly before this incident the army surgeon general issued a directive that called for "collecting samples of pathological anatomy" and Sikls undoubtedly saw this as a chance for a kind of immortality.
He handled the foot, put it in a small coffin and sent to the Army Medical Museum with a note: "Best wishes from Major General DES"
In spite of his disobedience to the battlefield, Sikls still received the Medal of Honor and Ambassador to Spain, where he married a second time. His leg was amputated exhibited in the museum for all to see, and Daniel himself every year on the anniversary of the amputation came to see her.
The story of King Badu Bonsu
3. King Badu Bonsu (Badu Bonsu)
The head
In 1837, two Dutch emissary had been killed in the court of King Badu Bonsu Ghana II. Their severed heads were hoisted to the throne of the king as a subtle hint at how it relates to the presence of the Dutch in their country.
Dutch vowed revenge, sending the king supposedly scientific expedition. Members of the "expedition" bribed employees of the royal court to approach the king. Then they hanged him and beheaded.
His head was sent to Holland, where she became part of the study of phrenology. However, this branch of science was soon discredited, and the head of the king was kept at Leiden University.
Tucked away in the bank, it was forgotten by the Dutch, but not those who remember King Badu Bonsu her. In 2002, the Dutch writer Arthur Yaping (Arthur Japin) found the head of the king's cabinet in the university during the investigation of his book titled "Two hearts Kwasi BOAC" (The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi).
Ironically, this novel is the story of a boy who was taken from his homeland of Ghana and brought to the Netherlands.Actions in the book took place in 1837, the year before Major-General Jan Verveer (Jan Verveer) returned with a trophy - head of King Badu Bonsu II.
Yaping told the Independent: "The employees of the University took out the head of a circular bank and put it in the laboratory sink. It is white with formaldehyde, but still has a life-size, and looked like the King is asleep."
A few years later Yaping attended a state dinner with the president of Ghana and the Queen of Holland. Then the writer and told them about his discovery. Ghana start to apply for the return of their heads to their historical homeland.
However, this process is accompanied by certain difficulties. When the representatives of Ghana, arrived in Holland, they immediately gave her head.
Despite the fact that Dutch officials have repeatedly apologize for the dreadful history of slavery and oppression, tribal elders, having caught the head, were very unhappy, because the representatives sent only confirm the "personality of the head."
This removal of the head was considered a huge breach of protocol Ghana.
It is unclear what happened to his head after her return home. It is rumored that the king did not originally buried, because the country is considered a crime to bury the "incomplete" body.
Only the return of the head body could be buried properly. However, it is unknown whether the found the place where it is still stored by the body.
Unusual true stories
2. William Thompson (William Thompson)
Scalp
August 6, 1867 British immigrant William Thompson worked with a small group of men repairing telegraph line in the village of Cheyenne. Lines were cut by attackers who planned to lure some of the settlers in an ambush.
Killing all except Thompson. Later, he tells, he fell, was wounded in the arm, and then beaten with a rifle butt. After all, he struck several times with a knife in the neck.
He felt like attacking his people slowly began removing his scalp. Being conscious but unable to move, Thompson watched him scalped and left him there.
After the monsters are gone, Thompson was able to stand up, take your scalp, and went to seek help. Somehow he found her. The first journalist to whom he told his story, was Henry Morton Stanley (Henry Morton Stanley), who saw the scalp, which lies in a bucket of water.
Thompson kept the scalp for a long time, hoping that it can return to the place, but this operation was beyond the capabilities of the doctors of the time. There were attempts to restore the scalp to the place, but they all failed.
Having lost all hope, Thompson gave his scalp to one of the doctors who were trying to carry out the operation. In the end, the scalp was in Omaha Museum - Union Pacific Railroad Museum of Omaha.
Another journalist Sydenham Moses (Moses Sydenham) Thompson wrote the story for the Daily Sun. What is it to be free of the scalp?
"It felt about this, if on my head are red-hot iron, and then the wound beginning, ventilated air, the pain became unbearable. I had much to bite his tongue to keep from touching the wound by hand, because it wanted to see" How many goals "left."
1. Friedrich Schiller (Friedrich Schiller)
Skull
Friedrich Schiller was a German poet and dramatist, whose story has taken some very strange turns, with still unknown how it ended, and ended it at all.
When Frederick died in 1805, he was buried in a mass grave in Weimar, Germany. 21 years later, the mayor of Weimar decided that Schiller is buried unworthily, so his remains removed.
However, no one knew that it was from the remains belonged to him. After the exhumation of 27 skulls, the mayor simply pointed to the largest of them, saying that this belongs to an intellectual.
For a while no one disputed this decision. But in 1911, rumors began to circulate that the skull does not belong to Schiller. Soon, a mass grave was opened again, got 63 from the skull. "Knowledgeable" people have chosen another possible skull playwright.
The remains were transferred to the crypt, which was disturbed again, when the Nazis captured the alleged remains of two of Schiller, as well as the body of his friend - Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
Schiller and Goethe
Allied troops returned the remains to Weimar in 1945, but in the mid-1950s, another connoisseur looked at the remains and decided that in the sarcophagus Schiller skull belonged to a woman. In 2008, finally, it was conducted a DNA test to identify which of the skulls still required.
The answer was final and irrevocable - none declared. While many are wondering how it was possible for this amount of time to deceive so many people still do not know what happened to the skull of Schiller.
It is possible that he is still in a mass grave, but some historians believe that the remains of Schiller were kidnapped shortly after his death.
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