Momias of executed assassins, fetuses with malformations and organs conserved in formol is some of the attractions of a macabre Thailander museum, visited by students and tourists as if it was the House of the Horrors. This fascinating and sinister place mounted by the forensic medicine department of the Siriraj Hospital, is located in the heart of Bangkok, to borders of the river Ciao Phraya and closely together of some of the most beautiful temples of Thailand.

One of its distinguished renters more is wax the momificado corpse of If, a psychopath of Chinese origin that enjoyed assassinating young that soon ate. This “Hannibal Lecter” was fed on people “because it loved eating organs of humans, not because it was hungry”, illustrates an explanatory text.

Aside from bodies of rapists, this museum of the horrors exhibits the stained dress of blood of a victim, Nualchawee call, as well as the knife with which was assassinated and its newspaper, written with round and taken care of letter.

An increasing number of foreigners approaches with a mixture of disease and loathing the museum, that at the moment is not including in the itineraries of the tour guides next to gastronomical temples, palaces and markets. “In my life I have seen something similar”, explains Daniel Brown, a British tourist of about 25 years.

“My fianc2ee spoke to me of this place and, after several days visiting temples, we were decided to come”, continues the young person, who admits that he is not able to maintain the glance before some of the exhibited fetuses and organs.

Conceived for the instruction of medical young people, the museum is divided in six parts dedicated to pathologies, forensic medicine, parasitology, anatomy, history of Thailander science and prehistory. In the forensic museum objects and tétricas photographies of homicides are exhibited, suicides and fatal accidents, as well as diseccionados skulls, bones, skeletons and organs, that were witnesses of tragic histories. The venerated objects more are the medical instruments with which the autopsy to the monarch Ananda Mahidol or Rama VIII was realised, brother of present king Rama XIX, that died in 1946 because of a firing in circumstances that have still not been clarified.

Some visitors are engrossed, others break fright faces and smallest they bawl before the bicephalous fetuses or deformed of innocent expression. The section dedicated to the parasitology recreates the pernicious effects of the “elephantiasis”, that is pronounced in the agigantamiento of parts of the human body, as it showed to director David Lynch in his film “the Man Elephant”.

The Anatomical Museum Congdon, in honor of doctor Edgar Davidson Congdon, includes a sample of the dissection to complete body of the nervous system, the arterial one and of muscles, between medical utensils and bookcases filled with objects of laboratory and bottles that remember the experiments of doctor Menguele. “it does not seem me terrorífico, I have brought my children so that they learn on medicine and parasitology.

There is also a special space dedicated to tsunamis”, assures Arkorn Rodkantook, a Thailander of 37 years who has visited the museum along with his adolescent wife and her two children. “With all the blood and violence that there is in the television and the cinema, the corpses of would not have here to scare to anybody”, emphasizes. By 40 bat (little more of a Euro or 1.34 dollars) that costs the entrance, the peculiar tourists and will live a experience difficult to forget when discovering what she hides herself after the human nature.

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