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Fetus Statues



Gross news out of Colombia: Bogota airport police found three human fetuses which were being smuggled inside statues - religious statues, no less.

The corpses were wrapped in plastic and concealed inside statues of Christian icons, which were smashed open.

Colombian police chief Gen Jord Alirio Varon said the four- to five-month-old foetuses could have been intended for use in Satanic rituals.

Gen Varon said the foetuses were found alongside crucifixes and medals.

I have to wonder here if “Satanic” rituals are necessarily the most likely explanation for this. Something tells me that doesn’t really explain much of anything. What else might be going on here?

[via AltReligion]







12 Reader Responses

  1. channel null Says:
    October 2nd, 2005 at 8:03 pm

    I don’t think any explanation is plausible for this… Satanic rituals seems about as plausible as “some artist wanted them” or “it was a dare.” What are fetus good for? Soap? You find a sponsor and I’ll offer to fly down to investigate if you pay for expenses and I get a forty-dollar/day stipend.

  2. McCoy Says:
    October 2nd, 2005 at 8:34 pm

    I was under the impression that “satanic” sacrifices were done with the intent of capturing the life force at the point of departure. My two cents worth on this is that perhaps they were black-market genetic material. Maybe there was actually something hidden in the fetuses. Who knows, it’s fucking pathetic, whatever the reason.

  3. channel null Says:
    October 2nd, 2005 at 10:36 pm

    Yeah, that’s what confused me–you can’t really sacrifice what amounts to a miscarriage. I’m thinking, maybe biopunk stem cells?

  4. Tim Boucher Says:
    October 2nd, 2005 at 10:51 pm

    I was thinking probably body parts for witchcraft purposes.

  5. Ant Says:
    October 3rd, 2005 at 6:53 pm

    Whoah. Creepy. This is probably completely unrelated, but I found it when I was looking for updates to this story.

    Task Gets Under way to Identify 300 Fetuses.

    Doubtful that it was for Satanic rituals, but why would a person horde that many dead babies? Ack! Let alone just one!

    It’s particularly weird fpr me because I worked a few blocks away from Magee and used to deliver/transfer paperwork and saliva/blood samples for psych studies. So it really creeps me out to think that something weird like that would’ve been going on in the background. It makes me realize that I just don’t know what I don’t know.

    But then again, maybe the guy was just hoping that he could somehow donate them to stem cell research, and then found out too late “oh crap, that’s not how that works” and then had a creepy collection of dead babies. Eek. No matter what, it’s still creepy

  6. channel null Says:
    October 3rd, 2005 at 7:46 pm

    When I was in high school, we stole a fetal pig from the dissection closet. I took it home and kept it in an ice bath. One day at lunch, we smoked a joint, took out the pig, and posed it for pictures, smoking a cigarette, holding a beer bottle, etc; I lost the film canister. I was going to give it back to my bio teacher as a joke, but by that time, it had disintegrated into various floating fetal pig parts.

    Maybe future civilizations (ha, ha) will find it unusual that biology labs across the country have preserved dead animals in them.

  7. channel null Says:
    October 3rd, 2005 at 7:56 pm

    But that still doesn’t explain the human fetuses. I’m going to offer the additional theory, “It was an art project,” kind of like Myra Hindley and Ian Brady.

  8. rev max Says:
    October 5th, 2005 at 7:12 pm

    He’s an expectant mother’s worst nightmare and totally unrepentant. The defrocked Saraburi monk who spent six months in jail for grilling over 1,000 stillborn babies is now Thailand’s foremost black magic practitioner.

    “I’ve grilled 1,000 stillborn babies,” proclaimed Nain Ae, opening up debate on the ancient Thai practice of kumon tong - grilling stillborn babies to unleash the spirit of the ‘Golden Baby.’

    The 50-year-old black magician, who was previously a monk for 35 years, fears a few things in life, and one of them is not appearing in the news.

    http://www.chaoticculturemagazine.com/...tion=content&task=view&id=150

  9. Borf Says:
    October 5th, 2005 at 7:59 pm

    Wow. That bio-punk idea, it sounds so fake, it just could be true!

  10. channel null Says:
    October 5th, 2005 at 8:10 pm

    Are you one of the original Borf collective from DC? How’d sentencing go?

    DIY Cosmetic Surgery
    Part-time Biopunk
    Soylent Java
    Biopunk Blood

    All via Klintron.

  11. Tim Boucher Says:
    October 6th, 2005 at 12:13 am

    I started a thread with a bunch of research into the kumon tong max

    http://www.timboucher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=29

    I’ll be putting it into a more coherent article format in the next couple days

  12. Tim Boucher Says:
    October 6th, 2005 at 12:14 am

    Boy, this is one of those cases of Google ads offering poor contextual matching. There’s an ad for an ultrasound company that reads:

    Baby Insight captures the magic of first seeing your baby - forever!



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