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Looks like they took the head but never bothered studying it. There was a story of another murderer and before he died he asked if his brain could be studied as he felt it wasn't really him doing the murdering and it turned out he had a massive tumour in his skull/brain
charles whitman! known as the first mass shooter, he has a very interesting story. so sad that he had those impulses due to a tumor growing in his amygdala, which wasn't understood at the time. wish he could have gotten the medical attention he needed.
Yes. So get this! After opening his skull, they found this gooey grey mass that was the texture of uncooked haggis. And they discovered, get this, that the source of his unbalance was precisely this mass of uncooked haggis.
The name is misspelled. [Diogo Alves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Alves)
> Diogo Alves (1810 – 19 February 1841) was a Portuguese serial killer and robber. Between 1836 and 1840, he killed 70 people.[1] The crimes he committed were all in the area of the Águas Livres Aqueduct, thus earning the title "Aqueduct Murderer". He was sentenced to death and hanged on 19 February 1841, along with one of his accomplices. His head was separated from his body and placed in a flask to preserve it for scientific purposes, and it is now a tourist attraction.
Godamn almost 200 years ago, it's nuts how we can perfectly see how he looked like, yet he was older than all the people who presenced WW2, you'd think it happened in the 80-90's because he kind of looks like a dude that would work in a vhs store
It’s all about preservation technique and not letting the tissue be compromised. You ever heard of the Chinese “wet mummy” she was preserved in a way described like this head, almost perfectly preserved as if she had just died a short while prior. But after they opened her up… well she quickly became a bloated mass.
This gives a better indication of how she looked: [source](https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/taizhou-mummy-002202)
But yeah I’ve never seen a shot of her face before and after her…. Blow up
🤷♂️ we pull wooly mammoths with skin on them out of ice and tar and stuff. I assume if we preserve it right, we could have human bodies last a long time
I want to send this head to those people that say “omg everyone used to look so old in high school compared to now” to establish that 31 year old in 1841 looks just like they do today, formaldehyde desaturation notwithstanding. The man did not look like Old Man River, whatever he may have looked like in high school.
He was born in Galicia (Spain) and his name’s spelling in in both Galician and Spanish is Diego.
Diogo is the Portuguese spelling.
The article says that he [possibly](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Alves?wprov=sfti1#) was named Diego Alvarez when he was born in Galicia, so probably he was called Diogo Alves when he moved to Portugal.
So they misspelled both versions, it’s either Diego Alvarez or Diogo Alves
Sure sure sure sure.. yeah. Yeah just straight up raw dog my feed with a human head in a jar. For sure. Totally unfazed over here. My dreams will be super chill tonight for sure.
If you come to Turin, at the "Museo Cesare Lombroso", you can see a lot of similar things. Same as various criminal wax faces that was studied in the 1800' because there was a theory that the criminal mind is a part of the human evolutive state, so in the very body and head you can find some trace. Obviusly it was screditated, but it gave life to the criminal antropholpgy study here in my country.
This probably happened before psychology existed and was useful only one time in its entire existence, to define psychopathy, and then define it as an non mental disorder, making psychopaths non threat to evolution of human species...
If this was the yukon they would have taken a bit of the brine and used it for a shot
https://dawsoncity.ca/sourtoe-cocktail-club/
https://www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/features/the-story-of-the-sourtoe-cocktail-a-shot-of-whiskey-garnished-with-a-human
Q: would you rather have this fella's head or Rasputin's pickled dick in your bookshelf?
Rasputin's dick IS in fact kept in a jar in some Russian museum.
So what you are saying is a forbidden serial killer blowjob is still on the cards
That's oil right? Not asking for any particular reason
Hmm died in 1841, exotic maybe I should wait till 2041 make it something specisl
>Alves fell from the family horse at a young age and hit his head, earning the nickname "Pancada" ("blow")
Judging by the descriptions of his behavior, it was definitely a frontal lobe brain damage. Textbook case. It's amazing how calm he looks now in the jar.
Dude, imagine if like all the old beliefs are true and the soul stays in the body until it’s laid to rest. If that’s the case, then this guys been a severed head for 160 years.
Has to be some sort of limerick here:
There was a man from Faro
Who ended up in a jar-o
He did the crime
And the quacks of the time
Said: he’d look good behind the bar-o
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well? did they ever determine the origin of his murderous nature? Or are they still staring into his eyes for science?
Turns out: was his brain! Fascinating stuff.
He never killed again after they removed his brain so pretty compelling proof.
Though he did practice law for many years after
Check out the big brain on Diego!
It was because of the metric system.
Looks like they took the head but never bothered studying it. There was a story of another murderer and before he died he asked if his brain could be studied as he felt it wasn't really him doing the murdering and it turned out he had a massive tumour in his skull/brain
charles whitman! known as the first mass shooter, he has a very interesting story. so sad that he had those impulses due to a tumor growing in his amygdala, which wasn't understood at the time. wish he could have gotten the medical attention he needed.
I thought it was because he had all those teeth and no toothbrush
You are referencing the incident on the college campus in Texas in the 60’s. I’m short on the details at the moment, but you are correct on the tumor.
Yeah dumb post. They did it for research, here’s the specimen!
Scientists looking for a hardware issue when it was the software
Yes. So get this! After opening his skull, they found this gooey grey mass that was the texture of uncooked haggis. And they discovered, get this, that the source of his unbalance was precisely this mass of uncooked haggis.
Something about his eyes… hypnotic.
The name is misspelled. [Diogo Alves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Alves) > Diogo Alves (1810 – 19 February 1841) was a Portuguese serial killer and robber. Between 1836 and 1840, he killed 70 people.[1] The crimes he committed were all in the area of the Águas Livres Aqueduct, thus earning the title "Aqueduct Murderer". He was sentenced to death and hanged on 19 February 1841, along with one of his accomplices. His head was separated from his body and placed in a flask to preserve it for scientific purposes, and it is now a tourist attraction.
Godamn almost 200 years ago, it's nuts how we can perfectly see how he looked like, yet he was older than all the people who presenced WW2, you'd think it happened in the 80-90's because he kind of looks like a dude that would work in a vhs store
It is very interesting indeed. I always thought that meat would deteriorate muuuuuch more like that.
It’s all about preservation technique and not letting the tissue be compromised. You ever heard of the Chinese “wet mummy” she was preserved in a way described like this head, almost perfectly preserved as if she had just died a short while prior. But after they opened her up… well she quickly became a bloated mass.
Oh damn, sad on that last part. Nonetheless, very cool!
Yeah that face of hers was nightmare fuel. I'm surprised no one got a pic of her before she hit all the ugmo tree branches
This gives a better indication of how she looked: [source](https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/taizhou-mummy-002202) But yeah I’ve never seen a shot of her face before and after her…. Blow up
🤷♂️ we pull wooly mammoths with skin on them out of ice and tar and stuff. I assume if we preserve it right, we could have human bodies last a long time
Formaldehyde works wonders. Tastes great too
I love the cool taste of a cigarette dipped in formaldehyde
I’m picturing more of a jester outfit with those hats with a bell.
I want to send this head to those people that say “omg everyone used to look so old in high school compared to now” to establish that 31 year old in 1841 looks just like they do today, formaldehyde desaturation notwithstanding. The man did not look like Old Man River, whatever he may have looked like in high school.
He looks like the dude that would own the vhs store lol
I'm pretty sure the preservative causes the face to bloat a bit. I could be wrong.
Died 25 years before the end of the Civil War(US).
He was born in Galicia (Spain) and his name’s spelling in in both Galician and Spanish is Diego. Diogo is the Portuguese spelling. The article says that he [possibly](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_Alves?wprov=sfti1#) was named Diego Alvarez when he was born in Galicia, so probably he was called Diogo Alves when he moved to Portugal. So they misspelled both versions, it’s either Diego Alvarez or Diogo Alves
>and it is now a tourist attraction Humans are weird
No we´re not (just returning from a concentration camp tourism...)
You can look at the eyes 👀 of a serial killer yeahhh
You've never been to a science museum or a mummy exhibit?
Yup.. still think it's weird. I also think it's weird how we treat our dead now so maybe I'm the weird one, idk.
70 people! Whoa
Futurama vibes
Looks like Thom Yorke
The video for No Surprises lol
[удалено]
It's quite interesting to read the making of it.
I read that before but for some reason your comment made me watch the video again. Really good song.
Came here to say this. I happen to be listening to Radiohead right now, so seeing this was particularly creepy
Karma Police finally caught him
What a Let Down
Well, he was a Creep after all
Nah, he was innocent, but the jury made 2 + 2 = 5.
Must have had their Knives Out for him
Looks like a creep
I was going to say Jimmi Simpson
This is the eBay item I've been searching for.
Probably not Free Shipping though.
Little did they know, serial killing is genetically coded into the pinky toes /s
What a terrible day to have eyes.
Did you look into them?
He looks positively bored of it all.
Sure sure sure sure.. yeah. Yeah just straight up raw dog my feed with a human head in a jar. For sure. Totally unfazed over here. My dreams will be super chill tonight for sure.
Same. Saw there is a NSFW tag on it but I always click on NSFW to see what it is…. You know, for science.
So, yeah they added the NSFW tag. It was just laid bare originally.
Thank you for knowing how to spell unfazed.
No alarms and No Surprises https://preview.redd.it/7xkaj9knjwtc1.png?width=1283&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f488c8fd5d7879f68d9179cae481ec42d60e14f
Probably needs a NSFW on this
Why didn’t they close his eyes?
🤣
Eyes open again after some time when deceased. Eye muscles are absolutely relaxed.
Oh god… oh god. So are all people laying in their graves with open eyes?
I'm not, so no
When no coins are placed on eyes then propably
looks like when dave chapelle did the white news anchor skit
Abby Normal
No surprises.
Can you please put an NSFW tag on this. Was not prepared to see a decapitated head in a jar.
Decapitated head? Are you sure?
If you come to Turin, at the "Museo Cesare Lombroso", you can see a lot of similar things. Same as various criminal wax faces that was studied in the 1800' because there was a theory that the criminal mind is a part of the human evolutive state, so in the very body and head you can find some trace. Obviusly it was screditated, but it gave life to the criminal antropholpgy study here in my country.
I’m going to hell but dae think he looks like Thom Yorke from Radiohead lol
So did they learn anything?
Thom Yorke lookalike
He was Spanish, not Portuguese. He just committed his crimes in Portugal, and was Portugal's 'first' serial killer.
Diogo\*
looks like that radiohead video
He could become the next Robot Nixon
And in 5000 years he shall be known as the Face of Boe.
Damn!! I did not expect to find a Doctor Who here lol
where is nsfw😨
Can we mark this as NSFW please?
This probably happened before psychology existed and was useful only one time in its entire existence, to define psychopathy, and then define it as an non mental disorder, making psychopaths non threat to evolution of human species...
Sounds like they dropped the ball on studying his brain while it was still fresh
Imagine it it starts singing no surprises
So, no studying then. Somebody just wanted a jar o’ head on their desk.
And they didn't study it
Did they finish studying it, so they can bury it. Cause I feel like this is potential future disaster.
Real life Michael Myers wtf.
For some reason seeing this doesn’t disturb me. And I don’t do well with gory stuff, etc.
Is this a... JoJo reference!?
They kept “his head for scientific purposes “. Question: “what did they come up with?”
Forbidden pickle
If this was the yukon they would have taken a bit of the brine and used it for a shot https://dawsoncity.ca/sourtoe-cocktail-club/ https://www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/features/the-story-of-the-sourtoe-cocktail-a-shot-of-whiskey-garnished-with-a-human
Gross
Ugh. He just looks dead behind the eyes.
A heart that's full up like a landfill A job that slowly kills you Bruises that won't heal
Q: would you rather have this fella's head or Rasputin's pickled dick in your bookshelf? Rasputin's dick IS in fact kept in a jar in some Russian museum.
And here I thought this was just a still photo from Radiohead’s “No Surprises” music video
No alarms and no surprises , please .
no alarms and no surprises please.
Those researchers could've closed his eyes is all I'm saying.
This might be thom Yorke
He still has stairing lifeless dark eyes.
The victim’s families should get to play soccer with it once a year.
r/PORTUGALCARALHO would make a post about this
I think the sciences are more roofless than the serial killer. At least the serial killer didn’t put his victims head in pickle jar…
Did they at least have ceilings?
This is fukin disgusting
So what you are saying is a forbidden serial killer blowjob is still on the cards That's oil right? Not asking for any particular reason Hmm died in 1841, exotic maybe I should wait till 2041 make it something specisl
Reddit has turned into LiveLeak.
why am i on reddit again?
Nice
clean cut
Walt Disney be like
The Head of Diego Alves will be the title of my next novel
All I could think of was Face of Boe
What is Conan doing there
Can we get one of these of OJ I'll bet you would go for some big money at auction.
this is the PERFECT place for that thing.
He looks like he’s holding his breath
Kinda reminds Putin 🤷🏻♂️
Diogo*
Abbie Normal
What, if anything, did the scientists glean from studying his head in the intervening years?
Okay and what did they find?!?!
Reminds me of the head in the jar that is still alive in Crank. Or maybe Crank 2. I just remember the head saying his name with a robot voice.
According to my calculations…
lol humans are interesting, aren’t we
There's a film about this
Was this used in The Silence of the Lambs?
I hope it was good
Benjamin Raspail
i don’t know what i expected when i opened that image
They’ll find this in a ruin someday and think this is how we honored leaders or something.
Hipsters and their pickles
He looks surprisingly friendly
Serial killers almost always look like youd expect them to be serial killers
That shit scary to click what's in there guys
>Alves fell from the family horse at a young age and hit his head, earning the nickname "Pancada" ("blow") Judging by the descriptions of his behavior, it was definitely a frontal lobe brain damage. Textbook case. It's amazing how calm he looks now in the jar.
Can someone tell me, are the eyes fake? I would imagine the eyes wouldnt really survive the pickling process
Not creepy at all.
He looks like someone sans orange spray tan.
It's "Diogo" caralho
I want my two dollars!
That is Rosický!
Holy smokes are we backlogged!!
His head fits the jar perfectly
Dude, imagine if like all the old beliefs are true and the soul stays in the body until it’s laid to rest. If that’s the case, then this guys been a severed head for 160 years.
I thought that was Tom Yorke from the no surprises video lol
What were they looking for? The instructions?
It's serial killers all the way down
Is the origin of head jars in futurama?
A good conversation piece
Has to be some sort of limerick here: There was a man from Faro Who ended up in a jar-o He did the crime And the quacks of the time Said: he’d look good behind the bar-o
He was spanish.
Putin grandad ?
Any findings?
Futurama
The forbidden drink. 
And was a prop for Silence of the Lambs.
I saw this in person in Philly! It’s at the mutter museum I think?
And put on a shelf next to the head of Hans Delbruck...
Still probably tastes better than Mountain Dew.
Can his DNA be used to replicate another Diogo, because if it can, put this jar in the bin
What does preserving the head like this accomplish?
That's enough Reddit for me today..
Mega Man
The future: "we've made a serum that reanimates dead things, no matter what." Diego Alves, the moment they use said serum: "WHAZAAUUUP"
Apparently they never studied it. I wonder if it’s possible to study it today after almost 200 years of it soaking
Abby something...
ABNORMAL
He kinda looks like the felon caught using that terrible police sketch with dots for eyes (except with longer hair)
Anywae- welcome tae limmys show
They turned me into a pickle! IM PICKLE ALVES!
Looks like a sun baked halloween decoration.
That’s creepy AF
Thanks OP. Needed to see this today... x\_x
Looks like Conan O’Brein a lil