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Eighteen Severed Human Heads Stopped En Route to Chicago ‘Research Facility’

Posted on | January 15, 2013 | 42 Comments

Somewhere in Illinois, a “research facility” is being operated by zombies, cannibals or, perhaps, a mad scientist from Transylvania:

The 18 human head specimens that arrived at O’Hare International Airport from Rome just before Christmas were on their way to a research facility in the Chicago suburbs — a facility that is “under investigation,” a source told the Chicago Sun-Times Tuesday morning.
Officials initially said a paperwork problem prevented the shipment from being delivered to its final destination, but the Sun-Times has learned that the hold-up is connected to an ongoing investigation at the suburban facility in question. The investigation is “absolutely not” connected to the shipment of the heads, the source said.
The heads were shipped from Rome as cargo on a Lufthansa Airlines flight, arriving at O’Hare about one week before Christmas.
“They were properly preserved and tagged as human specimens,” said Tony Brucci, chief investigator for the medical examiner’s office.
Brucci said U.S. Customs officials at O’Hare initially held up the shipment, when they found the paperwork to be “a little confusing.”
Brian Bell, a spokesman with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said earlier Tuesday that the specimens appear to be legitimate medical samples.

Why won’t the newspaper name the facility “under investigation”? Why do I suspect the “facility” is a castle with a laboratory in the cellar?

 

(Via Gawker; hat-tip to David Freddoso on Twitter.)

 

Category: Illinois, Science

Comments

42 Responses to “Eighteen Severed Human Heads Stopped En Route to Chicago ‘Research Facility’”

  1. Christy Waters
    January 15th, 2013 @ 1:24 pm

    So THAT’S how the democrat leadership was created. Now I understand where Pelosi came from. BTW, Young Frankenstein is one of the greatest movies of all time. LOL!!

  2. M. Thompson
    January 15th, 2013 @ 1:36 pm

    Well, that shipment does lead to questions about MAD SCIENCE! going on at that lab.

    Shades of Aperture Labratories from the game “Portal” and its sequels.

  3. 20thCenturyVole
    January 15th, 2013 @ 1:47 pm

    “Are you telling me that I put an abnormal brain into a six-foot-eight, three-hundred pound monster? IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE TELLING ME?”

  4. Penny Robinson Fan Club
    January 15th, 2013 @ 1:47 pm

    I guess they were just trying to get a head start on the competition…

  5. Penny Robinson Fan Club
    January 15th, 2013 @ 1:48 pm

    It’s one way to make the headlines.

  6. Penny Robinson Fan Club
    January 15th, 2013 @ 1:50 pm

    Hey, just giving everyone a heads-up, you know?

  7. SPQR9
    January 15th, 2013 @ 1:53 pm

    Was one of the specimens labeled “Hans Delbruck”?

  8. CrustyB
    January 15th, 2013 @ 2:06 pm

    in other news, Alfredo Garcia has been reported missing.

  9. WJJ Hoge
    January 15th, 2013 @ 2:10 pm

    Put. The candle. Back.

  10. Liberty At'Stake
    January 15th, 2013 @ 2:25 pm

    Jack Wiley Dithers reports the “facility under investigation” is owned by something calling itself “Project Vote.”

  11. sablegsd
    January 15th, 2013 @ 2:35 pm

    Haven’t they had a problem with cubes of human flesh in the sewers? Or was that a different commiecrat hell hole?

  12. jety
    January 15th, 2013 @ 2:45 pm

    So, there are 18 families in Greece who are OK with their loved ones’ heads being sent to Chicago?

  13. Finrod Felagund
    January 15th, 2013 @ 2:54 pm

    It’s tough trying to get ahead in this economy.

  14. Finrod Felagund
    January 15th, 2013 @ 2:55 pm

    But were the heads in a duffel bag?

  15. JeffS
    January 15th, 2013 @ 3:24 pm

    It is a “research facility” in Illinois, after all.

  16. richard mcenroe
    January 15th, 2013 @ 3:31 pm

    “It’s a cookbook!”

  17. richard mcenroe
    January 15th, 2013 @ 3:32 pm

    Probably another EPA lab.

  18. daleyrocks
    January 15th, 2013 @ 4:17 pm

    Who doesn’t like to get head for Christmas?

  19. rosalie
    January 15th, 2013 @ 4:39 pm

    The government has to be involved somehow.

  20. Bob Belvedere
    January 15th, 2013 @ 5:13 pm

    Great movie.

  21. Bob Belvedere
    January 15th, 2013 @ 5:15 pm

    There’s a connection with either #Occupy or Obamacare somewhere – I just know it!

  22. charles w
    January 15th, 2013 @ 6:12 pm

    I got a bad Frank and a so so Stu.

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  25. Becca Lower
    January 15th, 2013 @ 7:32 pm

    Walk this way…no, this way.

  26. Zilla of the Resistance
    January 15th, 2013 @ 7:36 pm

    Maybe they were being sent to that ghoul Lisa Jackson, of Obama’s EPA, who conducted nazi style human experiments on living people without informing them of the dangers of sitting in a GAS CHAMBER and sucking on a pipe filled with concentrated diesel fumes. She is one sick freak, you know.

  27. rmnixondeceased
    January 15th, 2013 @ 8:56 pm

    Detroit.

  28. rmnixondeceased
    January 15th, 2013 @ 8:58 pm

    UPDATE: Dead Nixon’s Head was not among the specimen seized.

  29. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    January 15th, 2013 @ 9:20 pm

    Obama appointees, every one!

  30. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    January 15th, 2013 @ 9:21 pm

    Most of them have family members working in diners all over Cook County.

  31. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    January 15th, 2013 @ 9:22 pm

    What knockers!

  32. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    January 15th, 2013 @ 9:24 pm

    Just as long as Walt Disney and Ted Williams are not in that bag! Because that would be so wrong.

  33. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    January 15th, 2013 @ 9:24 pm

    Nice one Finrod!

  34. Bob Belvedere
    January 16th, 2013 @ 8:10 am

    Don’t you have four???

  35. Bob Belvedere
    January 16th, 2013 @ 8:12 am

    You mean to tell me that, out of all of the regular TOM readers, not one – one! – thinks Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia is a classic film???

  36. Bob Belvedere
    January 16th, 2013 @ 8:14 am

    I can verify this because I have your head in my library – talk to it when I need advice.

  37. rmnixondeceased
    January 16th, 2013 @ 8:57 am

    THAT’S your “library”? I thought it was a rather small bathroom!

  38. McGehee
    January 16th, 2013 @ 11:27 am

    Of course the Illinois Democrat Party is involved — those were the brains of the outfit.

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