Old scientists were so fucked up, and by old I mean...back when electricity was discovered.
One of the things I love about Halloween is the shows with ghost stories, followed by the shows about monsters and actual fact out of the myths about monsters. I forgot these come on around this time, since I gave up TV after living in a dorm when I first attended college.
I'm watching one right now about Frankenstein, and apparently poking dead things with electrically charged sticks was the cool thing to do. Ok, that's great and all... but poking them in the rectum? What the hell went through that guy's mind in the first place, "Hrm, I wonder what would happen if I poked this dead guy's rectum with an electrically charged stick!" His curiousity was rewarded, the entire body convulsed.
Scientists of that time were seriously screwed up... I guess I shouldn't be angry, I mean, Leonardo DaVinci dug up bodies in order to study them, and I don't view him as fucked up... although from some of what I hear, I probably should re-consider that... Luckily, I'm not a DaVinci expert, so I don't have to be angry. I'm sure some of their experements helped lead us to where we are today... So I'm probably benefitting in some way from them, but it's just so gross and creepy!
The narrator for this documentary is so obviously picked to be creepy, in that obvious this-is-really-interesting-and-creepy voice.
I prefer the more intellectual ones myself.
On a less angry thought, I really did find the book Frankenstein extremely interesting. I've never watched any of the movies with him, the scariest version I've consented to watch was The Munsters. I've felt more sorry for the monster, than anything... And I can't ever picture him like in the hollywood movies, they're two seperate creatures to me. But I haven't read it in about two to three years.
Ghost stories are the best, probably since ghosts seem to be the result of horrific, or extremely emotional times and deaths. So their lives were typically interesting, too. That's one of the things I love about attending Montevallo, I got to learn all those ghost stories around campus.
One of the things I love about Halloween is the shows with ghost stories, followed by the shows about monsters and actual fact out of the myths about monsters. I forgot these come on around this time, since I gave up TV after living in a dorm when I first attended college.
I'm watching one right now about Frankenstein, and apparently poking dead things with electrically charged sticks was the cool thing to do. Ok, that's great and all... but poking them in the rectum? What the hell went through that guy's mind in the first place, "Hrm, I wonder what would happen if I poked this dead guy's rectum with an electrically charged stick!" His curiousity was rewarded, the entire body convulsed.
Scientists of that time were seriously screwed up... I guess I shouldn't be angry, I mean, Leonardo DaVinci dug up bodies in order to study them, and I don't view him as fucked up... although from some of what I hear, I probably should re-consider that... Luckily, I'm not a DaVinci expert, so I don't have to be angry. I'm sure some of their experements helped lead us to where we are today... So I'm probably benefitting in some way from them, but it's just so gross and creepy!
The narrator for this documentary is so obviously picked to be creepy, in that obvious this-is-really-interesting-and-creepy voice.
I prefer the more intellectual ones myself.On a less angry thought, I really did find the book Frankenstein extremely interesting. I've never watched any of the movies with him, the scariest version I've consented to watch was The Munsters. I've felt more sorry for the monster, than anything... And I can't ever picture him like in the hollywood movies, they're two seperate creatures to me. But I haven't read it in about two to three years.
Ghost stories are the best, probably since ghosts seem to be the result of horrific, or extremely emotional times and deaths. So their lives were typically interesting, too. That's one of the things I love about attending Montevallo, I got to learn all those ghost stories around campus.