Aug. 22 (UPI) --A Connecticut woman earned two Guinness World Records by covering 99.98% of her body in tattoos and having 89 body modifications. Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina, 36, of Bridgeport, was ...

A worker at a Scottish hotel has admitted to participating in an extreme body modification plot in which surgeries, including castrations, were carried out and streamed to paying subscribers on a ...

Six jailed members of a lucrative “human butchery” enterprise can challenge the length of their sentences, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Mastermind Marius Gustavson and his acolytes carried out male ...

An artistic representation of the Gotlant burial of a Viking-era woman with a modified skull Current Swedish Archaeology / Mirosław Kuźma / Matthias Toplak Examples of artificially altered bones ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

If you're a fan of the TV show Yellowstone, you'll know the deal—you earn your place on the ranch by being branded. On the show, this means having a red-hot iron pressed into your flesh, leaving a ...

Body modifications and piercings have been a part of human culture for millennia, serving as rites of passage, symbols of status, or expressions of identity. Piercings hold a special place, with roots ...

The mastermind behind the "eunuch maker" extreme body modification ring has lost an appeal against his life sentence. Warning: The following article contains graphic details of extreme physical ...

Farrah Abraham is letting her daughter become a fully-fledged goth princess. While many were up in arms over her daughter’s vibrant hair transformation and gothic makeup, many were shocked by Sophia’s ...

Aug. 22 (UPI) --A Connecticut woman earned two Guinness World Records by covering 99.98% of her body in tattoos and having 89 body modifications. Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina, 36, of Bridgeport, was ...