That Head Is Outta Here!
By Wyatt Earp | October 4, 2009
Remember the story about how Boston Red Sox great Ted Williams had his corpse frozen? Yeah, well that is true.
What also may or may not be true – I sure hope it’s not – is that employees of the cryonics lab where Williams is housed beheaded the Hall of Famer and mutilated his corpse.
What. The. Frak???
A book scheduled for release next week allegedly describes how workers at a cryonics facility, Alcor Life Extension Foundation, mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams.
Written by Larry Johnson, a former Alcor executive, “Frozen” details how technicians beheaded Ted Williams and batted his frozen head with a monkey wrench.
Johnson writes that holes were drilled in Williams’ severed head for the insertion of microphones, then frozen in liquid nitrogen while Alcor employees recorded the sounds of Williams’ brain cracking 16 times as temperatures dropped to -321 degrees Fahrenheit.
Johnson writes that the head was balanced on an empty can of Bumble Bee tuna to keep it from sticking to the bottom of its case. (H/T – Interested-Participant)
If this is true, it is my sincere hope that these savages are found, charged, and imprisoned for life. I cannot imagine what the Williams family must be going through after hearing about this. Simply despicable.
Topics: WTF? | 8 Comments »
October 4th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
If this is true these sickos need to be locked up for ever.
October 4th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Sounds kinda hinky. Sometimes the trick to telling a tall tale is to include a few very specific, plausible details…like the tuna can.
Color me skeptical.
October 4th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
I’ve heard a lot of horror stories like this, about the funeral industry. Something I don’t even like to think about because it’s so depraved and wrong, you hate to think another human is capable of it.
October 4th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
If it is true, that is so disgusting.
October 5th, 2009 at 8:29 am
I heard that rumor around the time it was supposed to have happened. Not a clue if it’s true, but if they ever thaw Teddy out, he’d be pretty pissed off.
October 5th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Again, truth is always stranger than fiction. Although I am hoping this is pure fiction. There are certainly some sickos in this world of ours.
October 5th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Rick – No possibility for parole.
Proof – I hope you’re right. If not, this is a disgrace.
DL – And yet, it probably happens more often than we hear.
RT – Unbelievably so.
Sully – Especially when he sees his head is not attached. This isn’t Futurama here.
MeToo – Humanity is doomed. Seriously.
October 5th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Chill out, people. (LOL)
It’s only Terrible Ted, whom God created solely so that Ty Cobb would have some competition for the “biggest asshole in baseball” award.
I mean, it’s not like Ted was a Yankee…