Top 10 Strange Tales of Skulls and Bones

Check out the BrainFood podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-brainfood-show/id1350586459?mt=2
(Or search your favorite podcast app for “BrainFood”)

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1

Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net
Our other YouTube Channels:
Biographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ/
Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw/

Business inquiries to [email protected]

Other TopTenz Videos:

10 Terrific Facts about the Bone Wars
https://youtu.be/IMWAOWfbN1M

Top 10 World War II Holocaust Heroes Who Rival Oskar Schindler
https://youtu.be/6nhxipZvyc8

Text version: https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-strange-tales-of-skulls-and-bones.php

Coming up:

10. The Legend of Shakespeare’s Missing Head
9. Tchaikowsky’s Posthumous Acting Career
8. F. W. Murnau and the Crypt of Nightmares
7. King Richard’s Face and DNA
6. Geronimo’s Descendants vs. Yale
5. This Dinosaur’s Enormous Head
4. A Dark and Stormy Bison Skull
3. Leonardo da Vinci’s Handmade Skull
2. The First Murder Case?
1. Phineas Gage and the Iron Rod

Source/Further reading:

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/secret-history-shakespeares-tomb
http://andretchaikowsky.com/miscellaneous/skull.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/14/nosferatu-director-head-stolen-germany-grave-fw-murnau
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/12/28-king-richard-may-lie-under-parking-lot/
https://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/26/geronimo.remains/index.html
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pentaceratops-skull-sam-noble-museum-of-natural-history
http://www.pbs.org/time-team/explore-the-sites/bones-badger-hole/cooper-skull/
http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/24853982/The_oldest_anatomical_handmade_skull_of_the_world_c_%C2%A01508:_%27The_ugliness_of_growing_old%27_attributed_to%C2%A0Leonardo_da_Vinci_
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/double-blow-skull-earliest-evidence-murder-430000-year-old-whodunit
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/