thecontaminated.com did a hell of a writeup covering 20 of the most gruesome torture devices from mankind’s history (I’m sure there are others not covered in this post that I would really rather not know about).
Looking at some of these torture devices makes me wince… makes me wonder… how did one human being do this to another so willingly? Are we really so malleable and fundamental understandings of right/wrong good/bad so non-intrinsic that someone could do something like this without a second thought, and worst, end up liking it as a “days work”?
For example, two I found particularly brutal:
On the left you have “The Boots” which is described as a pair of essentially wooden frames that go around your legs, up to the knee, where each frame is comprised of segments that can shift Right or Left independently of the other segments. Allowing the torturer to stand to the side, and hit the segments with a sledge hammer, moving it right or left effectively shattering the shin bones in your legs. The idea was that the torture would stop when your legs were simply skin-bags holding your bone fragments from your shins. (I’m going to vomit)
The second picture is Water Torture, apparently a favorite of Japanese guards in WWII. The idea is that a tube is snaked up your nose, down into your stomach where water is pumped in so fiercely that your stomach becomes distended. At that point the guards begin to stomp on and kick you in the stomach, until your stomach lining rips and you eventually bleed to death internally.
There are some really fucked up things in here… like “The Cat’s Paw” is just a metal rake used to pull the skin off of someone’s body while they are strung up… there is also a noticeably sexual spin on most of these torture devices, especially the ones for women.
Then these are #2 and #3 on the list, which I found worse than #1…
In the first one you have… well impalement. Reminiscent of the scene from Cannibal Holocaust, the idea is that the person is impaled, through the anus/vagina up through/out their mouth… the part I found vomit-inducing is that some people don’t die for that “writhing around for up to a day before dying”.
Then lastly we have “The Saw”… not too much left to the imagination with the picture. People are simply hung upside down, then cut in half. The sickest fucking part about this is that they are hung upside down in order to keep the blood around the brain, so they live longer during the experience.
Seriously?
Back in the middle ages they knew enough about human anatomy, god knows from shit like this, to know that would keep someone alive longer so they could torture them more?
And keep in mind almost none of these techniques are interrogation techniques, their purpose isn’t to extract information… it’s just to fucking mangle someone with a hammer, saw or piece of metal in order to kill them.
Sorry for the decidedly dark post… I really feel sick now.
Humor and Fun!
your a sick man if you think this is humorous and fun!
lol fail. he was saying that it’s funny how this article is under the “Humor & Fun” section
I haven’t created a “bizarre and fucked up” category yet… and it didn’t belong under any of the others unfortunately.
I know… I had to file it under my catch-all category, so I didn’t have to create a “torture and sadism” category… but atleast I got the tags right
Decidedly gross. Haven’t felt this ill since I did a tour round London’s clink jail and saw all the “instruments” in person….
Oh wow… do you have any shots of this stuff? I imagine I would feel quiet sick myself…
If you think this stuff is gross, I’m doing a project on torture. The ‘Pear of Anguish’ was inserted into a persons anus, (b/c homosexuality) vagina,(b/c abortion or adultry) or mouth (b/c blaspmey). Attached to this pear shaped object was four flaps which came apart on each side to slowly rip apart the skin and mutilate the insides. If you didn’t die from that alone you would die from infection because they never cleaned it
un-fucking-believable the stuff people think of to maul each other…
This is one of those topics that I’m morbidly curious about, but cringe at the more I learn.
Sarah is your project something that can be shared? I’m sure folks would find it morbidly interesting as well.
oh crap im seriously sick now
i was wondering if you had any more information on water torture, i have to do a project on it but i cant find much info
WAT THE HELL!!! this is soo weird!!!!!!!!
rach!!
0mg that stuf was like so gross ewl now i want to study more about medieval torture
I really enjoyed your site especially the pictures of the cats paw, it looked fun!
Cheers
Is it fun, when you are laid to it and beign tortured?
… Freeman I’m really hoping you were a spam-bot, because if you think that looks fun, I really hope we never meet in real life
I LOVE IT!!!!!
well done could use more pics
claire,
I know what you mean… this stuff is so damn morbid but still interesting. The old-style sketch drawings from old-books really sells the whole “nasty, medieval, undereducated, torture” vibe doesn’t it?
I am doing a project on torture as well. It pains me to read some of these horrible descriptions,but it’s very interesting…..It’s very scary to see what some people would do if they could get away with it….I’m sure some people deserved it,but how could they be absolutely sure back then…….You’d have to be pretty damn bad to go through any of that. I am going to have a good presentation I do believe.
very very intresting…. although im not quiet sure why you people find it disgusting, after all we are all human, dont we sumtimes like to cause pain to people we hate. after all this are the best and formost the satisfactory form of punishing them. btw i my self doing a project just like you other scum bags but i need a volunteer. any one up for it. i pay them/loveone a great deal of money. thank you
Its natural to be intrigued by these things. I for one, research these things, even when I don’t have to. Its not “sick” or “twisted” to be curious. Its an intriguing topic. The things people do to other people. Sometimes its so bizarre, so disgusting. You’re just drawn to it.
Back in the day, the press used to print vivid, detailed articles on deaths, murders, suicide, and even Emily Dickinson was noted to saying that she particularly liked to read about train accidents and factory accidents.
Its in our nature to be drawn to “the dark side”. It just is. Its because its so foreign and different to us. We’ve never experienced these things. The fact that these things actually happened, from one human being to another, draws us in. Even today, its interesting to read about the modern day atrocities. Serial killers, for instance. Do we ever remember the victims? Hardly. We remember the killer, because the things he does are so different. They’re so malicious and disgusting. Bad news is always more fun to hear than good.
I guess I’m just sticking up for the ones that were on the more “excited” side of this article. Its not wrong to think these things are interesting and cool to learn about it. I’m sure we can all agree that these methods and mechanisms are disgusting and unimaginable, but they’re very interesting to learn about.
monroe,
A very valid point. For anyone that doubts what monroe said, consider (to a lesser degress) how popular *and* unnecessarily dramatic “reality TV” is today, people don’t just argue, they back-stab and try and destroy each other.
I think you are right, it’s the extremeness (if that’s even a word) of it that appeals to us and makes us go “omg what the hell?!” and want to keep reading more.
I know in the back of my head when I re-read this topic all I can think is “if I lived back then, I think I’d just hide in a barrel some where so no one could do this stuff to me”
Wow…. Very interesting… and gross.
I read a book once called ‘Demonic Males’, that tried to explain the origins of violence in the human race. Apparently, “alpha male” or not, many of the males would regularly and often brutally beat there off-spring and particually their female partner(s), usually with branches, to what avail? Power and dominence!
I guess, through the beautiful process of evolution, violence has now found an even more effective “channel” to express itself through – Mankind!
Some philosophers suggest that “thought” is what separates us from “animals”. After reading this post, I conclude that “thought” is a very dangerous thing.
And “Mother Nature” is one sadistic b**** !!!!!!!!!!
ok i am doing a project also on midevil torcher and i can’t stand it for another second i have found so many horrible instruments of torcher i cried at the thought of someone going through that….. i am one who live by the saying “spread the love not the hate” or ” forgive and forget” and a thousand others like that ……. no one and i mean absolutly NO ONE should have to go through that no matter what they did…. there was one called the brazen bull and it was terrible they would make a bull out of bronze and tell people to get into it and scream so they could see if it actually sounded like a bull….. but then once they are in the bull the mean people lock the top ( there were no other air ways) and set a fire beneath the bull so it got up to like a thousand degrees in it… and when they screamed for help people thought that they were testing the bull…….If only i knew…..
my bad i didnt actually mean if only i knew how to use it i meant if only i knew why they did it
omg this is weird stuff. im doing a project aswell and this creeps me out. just looking at what some people went through makes me sick and now i have to do a speech on it and include pics aswell.
How do so many of you have projects based on this? I never learned about this stuff in school — I think I would have passed out.
What country are you guys in? US? UK? etc?
i think that the best torture device will be fucking someone to death or handjobs
This is so sick i swear im gonna puke what kinda fruit cake doese that
that is the colest thing in the world
wean they do the stuff you cant move
wow. i am really glad that we were not alive then! talk about mind blowing pain!!!
Haha. I am also doing a project on medieval torture . yes, that’s “medieval torture” not “midevil torcher” adnama . Have you people heard of rat torture. They would put a rat under a ceramic bowl of some sort and then put a rat under it and heat it so that the only way the rat can get out is through your flesh; or sometimes they would insert a rat in your anus and the rat would have to find its way out through your bowels . eugh. it is trully disgusting .
It’s very interesting, I’ve been researching it for awhile now. I think exposure is probably the worst, because it takes the longest to die and since it was so cheap, people used it often. Sometimes the person was buried up to their neck and left for the animals and sun, other times they were hung in a cage with large holes to allow the birds to rip away the flesh, and still other ways were to chain them in the stocks or pillories. Often the victim was killed by other people throwing things at them while they were defenseless. The human mind is so twisted. Eewww.
I had to write a paper on this stuff. you wanna be sick? look up ‘the pear’. ugh. makes me wince just thinking about it
Oh dear lord…
At least it was done in the name of Jesus… ummm… *pukes*
“shudder shudder” i’m also doing a project on it but i still haven’t found out why they used torture to this degree, help? anyone? Also, look up the crocodile shears and Judas’ cradle…
Obnoxious, I think these interrogation devices were used a lot more frequently for simple information extraction especially against people deemed sub-human… like slaves and lesser classes.
I also expect during times of religious unrest they were used liberally either as punishment or just to get “spies” to talk… sort of like drowning witches =/
OMG!! this stuff is so gross…but it is what happend back in the day and it is crazy S*** and um i was wondering if anyone knew anything on the witch’s spider torture device because i have a project due this friday the 12 and i cnt find very much stuff
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Is There More? I Find it intersting
Most people get sick off this stuff but certain people, like myself ,actually dream of using those type of torture methods on others. I believe it is because human beings are still not seperated form our animal “relatives”. Torture is just another way of expressing the savage animal blood that still and for ever will run through all humans. And F.Y.I. The pictures were very good although there are more detailed one that explain things with out actually having to use words. And the reason most people back then even did those things were for Revenge, money, wealth, power, and just plain boredom, and insanity. take queen Mary daughter of king henry the eigth she killed thousands of peagans because her young half sister was a peagan and so was her father. of course she was also driven stark raving mad by her make-up.
Oh my God, that is fucking sick. Didn’t people have better things to do than shove shit up people’s anuses? Who the hell would ENJOY doing that to someone? Frankly, I’m pretty sure murderers were much more humane than these bastards. It’s just appalling.
Who even DESIGNED these things? Who would actually be sick enough to design some kind of “breasts ripper” or some shit that was shoved up your vagina and opened slowly to mutilate someone?! These sorts of things really put things into perspective.
If you’re on a diet, read about medieval torture. It’ll certainly put you off your food.
i find this very interesting as well. i think its kinda fun to do some of those things to other ppl. i prefer the 3600 cut thing used by the chinese. very enjoyable cutting ppl up bit by bit. thumb screwing is also great and fun
Most of medieval torture was Roman Catholicism at work, but the Protestants, especially in England, were horrifically savage! Henry VIII kicked the Pope’s emissaries out of Britain in the 15th century, and the Vatican versus British Empire conflict has raged ever since, with the latecomer British decisively gaining the upper hand through THE PILGRIMS SOCIETY (the World Money POWER!!!) Torture? That Society planned both World Wars and is working on the next! Modern torture those sickos would have loved to have had access to has included electricity (PSYCHIATRY!!), chemicals, pharmaceuticals, hydrogen fluoride, ball bearings, ground glass (they may not have thought of) and severe, horrific, wasp and caterpillar stings. North Korea stripped prisoners and shoved them into subzero weather in 1953. May God protect the innocent from those who profess to do good in his name. The Founding Fathers opposed “cruel and unusual punishment.” Medieval history is why.
dragon king ur sick. its sad that ppl wud do this to each other
They also had the Breast Ripper. Used on women, large blades would go into the breasts then suddenly rip away leaving the breasts into shreds.
Angela,
I had never heard of that, but given how heinous the rest of these devices are, I can’t say I’m all that surprised.
What was wrong with us back then… why did we sit around inventing this stuff… makes me want to vomit.