10 Horrifying Facts About Cannibalism...You Really Didn't Want To Know!

It certainly doesn't taste of Chicken! Although often said to taste like Pork, it was famed explorer of the 1920's, William Seabrook that truly told us what it's like.

Camping out with a cannibalistic tribe in Africa, he recalls how when cooked, human flesh turned grey and smelt of beef. He described it as;

"It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef. "

William Seabrook was an odd one! His many dark explorations include traveling to Haiti to uncover the voodoo zombies and was said to carry a suitcase of whips and chains wherever he traveled.

During 1939 and 1940, the Italian serial killer, Leonarda Cianciulli killed several people, turning their bodies into soaps and teacakes, which she would then serve to unknowing guests.

According to a recent study (2003), scientists discovered that our ancient ancestors most likely practiced extensive cannibalism! They found that people today carry a gene that they believed evolved to protect against the problems of eating fellow humans.

Cannibalism has had a strong fix in human history. From remote African tribes to Aztec human sacrifices and famines.

Yep! Cannibalism is completely legal in most countries, despite being the ultimate human taboo! The illegal part comes from the whole killing your victim...

If you find yourself in a situation where you have to eat a fellow human being, the recommended part to eat would be their muscles and their braaaaaaains! High in protein, fat and glucose the brain is ideal for slow-burning energy.

Ancient tribes often believed that eating the brains of your enemies was a way to gain their knowledge.

Avoid noming on the liver and the kidneys as they'll be full of human waste. Eating your victim's eyeballs may be like a mini-gobstopper, but the acid they contain will likely make you very sick. Fingers are hard to digest (too much cartilage).

Noming on brains may be the most nutritional part, but it has a catch! You could end up with an extremely rare and deadly disease called Kuru. Also known as 'the shiver' you'll begin to lose control of your muscles, speech, brain and start trembling. Soon enough, you're bowels and stomach will be spewing waste everywhere, you'll be unable to talk or move. You'll become incredibly depressed but burst into random fits of mad laughter. Before ultimately dying a painful death.

Think of Kuru as an STD for cannibals. Not all brain eating will result in this, but if it's infected you will be too.

In 2011, a Dutch TV show called Guinea Pigs put two contestants to the ultimate test. They both ate a small chunk of each other's fried flesh.

One of the most shocking modern tales of cannibalism (there's a surprising amount!) takes place in Australia. A woman who was reportedly incredibly abusive in her relationship, killed and butchered her ex-husband. Decapitating him and boiling his head in a pot, the crazed woman severed the meat from the skull and his buttock with some veg, to his children!

Luckily police arrived before the children came home.

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In 2012, a Japanese man invited guests to attend a rather bizarre meal at his restaurant. For just $250 you could tuck into and feast on his severed schlong.

Self-cannibalism, or Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is a freaky disease in which people are unable to stop eating their own flesh! Some cases start from nibbling fingertips, to being obsessed with eating their own hair. More extreme cases have resulted in victims being restrained for fear that they'll eat their cheek and their tongue. he syndrome is an X-linked recessive disease, which means that the gene is carried by the mother and passed on to her sons.

Scarier yet, is the non-genetically inherited cannibalism! Recently, the stories surrounding cannibalism and the drug, Bath Salts have become increasingly worrying - in which those on the drug lose control and brutally kill and eat their victim. Crazed, they seem to be unable to die - taking several direct bullet hits before dropping dead. The most famous of these took place in Miami. Perhaps this is the start of a zombie-like cannibal apocalypse?