Whether flamboyant, miserly, or paranoid, some of history’s weirdest people put modern-day eccentricities to shame.
We ’re all a little bit eldritch , some more than others . There are those , however , who blaze past casual bizarreness and enroll the rank of the epically bizarre . The demeanor exhibited by these individuals rank them as the weirdest mass history Holy Writ have ever meet .
Henry Paget , the man who made his car ’s exhaust pipe waiver perfume .
From public defecation as an act of philosophical rebellion to ( maybe ) eating a baby because of insatiable hunger – these are some of the most freakish , perplexing , and historically uncanny people who ’ve ever live on .
Henry Paget, the man who made his car’s exhaust pipe release perfume.
Diogenes Was A Crazy, Homeless Philosopher
Wikimedia CommonsDiogenes induct in his abode — an earthenware tub .
Not much is bonk about the Greek philosopher Diogenes ’ former life , but there is much guess about it . What we know for sure though , is that the ancient mind was one of history ’s weirdest mass .
Diogenes was carry in either 412 or 404 B.C. , in the very remote Greek colony of Sinope . As a young man , he figure out with his founding father coin currency for the colony . That is until they were both deport for adulterating the gold and silver gray contentedness of the coins .
Wikimedia CommonsDiogenes seated in his abode — an earthenware tub.
Young Diogenes made his way to Corinth in mainland Greece . Almost as shortly as he arrive , he seemed to have snapped . With no Book of Job , Diogenes accommodate to the lifespan of a roofless beggar . He voluntarily threw by all his self-control — except for some sheet to hide his nakedness and a wooden bowlful for solid food and deglutition .
Diogenes often sit around in on Plato ’s classes , eating as clamorously as he could the whole time to disrupt the lesson . He argued forte with Plato about philosophical system , and would also periodically masturbate in public . He relieve himself whenever and wherever he felt like it — including on Plato ’s stool in his own honorary society .
It plausibly did n’t help Diogenes ’ eccentric that he oftentimes wipe out whatever he could pick up off the ground . He shared the scraps with the dogs that follow him everywhere , including into Plato ’s category . Despite this , ( or possibly because of it ) Diogenes get a repute as one of the overbold philosophers in Greece .
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There are account of his quick learning ability and penetrating insight that left others ( especially Plato ) look dopey . It ’s said that when Alexander the Great visited him while he was sunning himself , naked , on top of the barrel in which he lived , and asked if he – the most muscular man in the creation – could do anything for the philosopher . Diogenessaid , “ You could move out of my light . ”
History’s Weirdest People: Tarrare, Who May Have Eaten A Baby
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A French Goth son , known today asTarrare , was born near Lyon , France in 1772 . From an early age , he was insatiably thirsty and cried for food even if he ’d just finished a meal . At years 17 , the gluttonous , yet emaciate Tarrare snuck into village barn to eat the livestock ’s provender . He had an unusually large oral fissure , was always perspire , and emitted a putrid malodor .
Tarrare ’s parents kicked him out , and he find himself in Paris right before the French Revolution . He parlay his uncontrollable hungriness into a vocation — deplete foreign things for gathering crowd . He deplete all type of unpalatable objects ; including live animals and even big stones .
However , the money dry up when the French Revolution began . Tarrare became a soldier , but unsurprisingly he was inveterate ill from obsessionally eating stray cats and non - food detail . The field hospital reluctantly fed him quadruple rations until General Alexandre de Beauharnais run across in Tarrare a unequaled chance .
He approached Tarrare about being a undercover agent — delivering military secret with his stomach as the courier . He agreed and ingested a wooden loge carry a banknote for an imprisoned Gallic colonel . Tarrare crossed Prussian lines and within 30 hours was captured , had shop France , and was savagely beaten .
The Prussians dump Tarrare penny-pinching to Gallic telephone circuit and he returned to the military hospital , where he resorted to fuddle store blood and pick on the dead residing in the mortuary . He was suspected of eating a toddler , and when he never outright deny it , the infirmary chased him out .
Tarrare died awfully around the years of 27 . His post-mortem examination let out fester intestines and an integral bodythat was putrefied and fill with pus . His digestive system was capriciously mutate ; his tum begin at the back of his pharynx and extend all the way down . Both the lungs and heart were displaced .
The sickening smell emanate from Tarrare ’s innards proved too strong for the diagnostician , and the autopsy was cut short . We can only speculate what was so wrong with one of the world ’s weirdest people .
