Facts about Cannibalism

• Sexual cannibalism has hit the news in the last decade or so. Several predators have used the internet to find victims. Armin Meiwes advertised that he was looking for someone to eat – and actually got a reply. He promptly slaughtered and ate Jürgen Brandes, and was convicted of manslaughter. Jeffrey Dahmer killed and presumably ate portions of 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He was killed by another prisoner in 1994.
• Sexual cannibalism is one of the most rare and extreme sexual fetishes. People who have fantasies of slaughtering and eating someone seldom do something about it. They appear to be happy with keeping it in the realm of fantasy.
• Many fairytales contain references to cannibalism. Hansel and Gretel is the most obvious example.
• The Aztecs are believed to have cannibalised thousands of people each year in order to appease their gods.
• There are two types of cannibalism: exocannibalism and endocannibalism. The first type is defined as eating members of another group (conquered enemies, for instance) and the second one, the eating of members of your own group, usually associated with ritual burial ceremonies. A widespread belief was that by eating the flesh of a person, you gained their knowledge and skills.
• In Papua New Guinea, many tribes practised cannibalism for ritualistic purposes until the 1960s. It was found that many of them suffered from a disease called “kuru”, which they had contracted from eating human tissue. It was thought to be a form of human “mad cow disease”.
• Famine often leads to survival cannibalism. Well-documented cases include the famines in Egypt (1073 – 1064) when the Nile failed to flood for eight years, the Great Famine in Europe in 1315 – 1317 and the famine in China from 1958 - 1961 (when Mao Zedong’s agricultural policies went horribly wrong).
• Cannibalism is often seen to be the height of savage behaviour. People who have eaten human flesh, for whatever reason, tend to be viewed with scorn and disgust.
• In 1972, an Uruguayan rugby team flew across the Andes and crashed. Fifteen people died in the crash and several in an avalanche or from starvation. The remaining passengers ended up eating the flesh of the victims in order to survive. They were only rescued 72 days later.
• Early Christians were often wrongly persecuted by the Romans, because it was thought that they indulged in cannibalism during their communion rites. Many people died because of this error.

Clinton Road

Surrounded by acres of thick, unwelcoming woods, without a single living human soul in sight, New Jersey’s Clinton Road is a lonely, ten-mile stretch of pavement that has been associated with a tremendous amount of urban legends, indicating that there may be something truly bizarre at work.
A popular spot for local teenagers looking for some late night thrills, Clinton Road has plenty to offer for anyone who needs a good scare. Stories abound of KKK meetings and Satanic rituals being performed in the woods; some tales even suggest that cults will trap people with makeshift road blocks and proceed to murder anyone foolish enough to travel down the road late at night. The spirit of a young boy is said to haunt a small bridge near an especially dangerous curve. Since the 1970’s, mysterious black pickups trucks have been known to chase drivers off the road at breakneck speeds while flashing their high beams threateningly. Drivers have reported encountering bizarre dogs with glowing eyes that will pursue any vehicles they see. Additionally, individuals have heard strange, faint voices in the woods and seen unexplained lights hovering over the nearby reservoir.
Of course, if all of that alleged paranormal phenomena wasn’t enough to convince drivers that this is not the kind of road that one wants to be on, consider the fact that notorious mafia hitman Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski used Clinton Road to dump the bodies of his recent victims, due to the fact that the road is not only deeply isolated, but also rests right on the New York/New Jersey state line.

Amnesia

Amnesia refers to the loss of memories, such as facts, information and experiences. Though having no sense of who you are is a common plot device in movies and television, real-life amnesia generally doesn’t cause a loss of self-identity.
Instead, people with amnesia — also called amnestic syndrome — are usually lucid and know who they are, but may have trouble learning new information and forming new memories.
Amnesia can be caused by damage to areas of the brain that are vital for memory processing. Unlike a temporary episode of memory loss (transient global amnesia), amnestic syndrome can be permanent.
There’s no specific treatment for amnesia, but techniques for enhancing memory and psychological support can help people with amnesia and their families cope.
The two main features of amnesia are:

• Impaired ability to learn new information following the onset of amnesia (anterograde amnesia)
• Impaired ability to recall past events and previously familiar information (retrograde amnesia)

Most people with amnestic syndrome have problems with short-term memory — they can’t retain new information. Many also have some degree of impaired memory recall. Recent memories are most likely to be lost, while more remote or deeply ingrained memories may be spared. Someone may recall experiences from childhood or know the names of past presidents, but not be able to name the current president or remember what month it is or what was for breakfast.
The memory loss doesn’t affect a person’s intelligence, general knowledge, awareness, attention span, judgment, personality or identity. People with amnestic syndrome usually can understand written and spoken words and can learn skills such as bike riding or piano playing. They may also understand that they have a memory disorder.
Amnesia isn’t the same as dementia. Dementia often includes memory loss, but it also involves other significant cognitive problems that lead to a decline in the ability to carry out daily activities. A pattern of forgetfulness is also a common symptom of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), but the memory and other cognitive problems in MCI aren’t as severe as those experienced in dementia.
Additional signs and symptoms

Depending on the cause of the amnesia, other signs and symptoms may include:
• False recollections (confabulation), either completely invented or made up of genuine memories misplaced in time
• Neurological problems such as uncoordinated movements, tremors or seizures
• Confusion or disorientation.


More at: mayoclinic.com

A Family Cult of Cannibals

On March 10, 2007, in a small Czech Republic town, horrific footage of child abuse was broadcast to an unsuspecting man after he installed a video baby monitor in his newborn son’s room to keep watch over him while the baby slept. Instead of receiving video transmissions of his son, however, he received horrific transmissions of a young boy who’d been brutally beaten was chained up naked in a cage, in what appeared to be a cellar.
The man immediately recognised the boy: it was the son of his next door neighbours, 8 year-old Ondrej Mauerova, whose torture and abuse was recorded via an identical video surveillance monitor that the neighbour had coincidentally also installed. The identical monitor systems was the reason for the confused signals.
The discovery led police to uncover heinous cult activity going on within the household next door, where not one but two boys were being held captive and tortured. The mother of the two boys, Klara Mauerova, had kept her sons, Ondrej and ten year-old Jakub locked in separate cages for over eight months while subjecting them to immense acts of cruelty, most often at the hands of her sister, Katerina and other family members, while Klara watched in enjoyment via the baby monitor in the kitchen.
The Mauerova family was once members of the Grail Movement, a cult which to this day has over 10,000 members worldwide. A number of years prior to the gruesome discovery in the Mauerova household, the family had been forcibly asked to leave the cult due to “activities which went against the cult’s principles”. Despite their excommunication from the cult, the family maintained their identity with the Grail Movement by forming their own breakaway faction.
Much of the abuse of the boys was allegedly co-ordinated by a man known only as the “Doctor”, presumably a leader of this breakaway faction, who sent mobile phone text messages to the Mauerova family, instructing them on how to abuse the two boys. The boys suffered savage beatings, repeated burns against their bare skin with lit cigarettes, frequent near-drownings in the bathtub, sexual abuse, and were forced to carry out acts of self-mutilation on themselves. They were often left to sit or stand in their own urine and faeces for days on end while chained in their cages or chained to furniture in the house.
The cruelty towards the younger boy, Ondrej took an even more sinister turn when his torturers forced him to cut off his own skin and eat it. They also skinned certain parts of Ondrej’s body themselves and feasted on his flesh while gagging the boy’s screams of pain with wads of material stuffed in his mouth.
A frequent tormentor of theirs was their adopted 13 year-old sister, Anna, who fled after the crimes were uncovered. In a bizarre turn of events, however, it was discovered during the search for Anna that she was not 13 years-old but was in fact a 34 year-old woman, known as Barbara Skrlova, a family friend of the Mauerovas. A woman of very slight stature and with very young features, she had been posing to police as the Mauerova’s adopted daughter as a disguise before fleeing to escape conviction. She was intercepted and arrested several days later at the Czech Republic border.
During the court trial, the boys’ mother and her sister refused to reveal why they had tortured the boys. The prosector insisted that the Mauerova family’s aim was to make the boys blindly serve their religious goals. Klara received a 9-year prison sentence, her sister, Katerina received 10 years, and four other people were tried and found guilty for their involvement in the torture of the two young brothers. Though the boys were rescued by police upon being discovered, it is not known what has become of them or where they are situated today.
In the photo above: evil mother, Klara Mauerova (far left, in the light blue coat) posing with Barbara “Anna Mauerova” Skrlova. The boys on the right are the two brothers, Ondrej and Jakub Mauerova.

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