The Ear Mound For Freaky Friday...!

Just when I think I've seen or read the freakiest thing around, I find something else...like this !

How much more freaky can you get than a place called "The Ear Mound?"

Proof Of Kill

Photo credit: KENPEI

Sometimes, body parts were taken as proof that someone had been killed. When Japan invaded Korea in the 16th century, samurai warriors cut off the noses of their enemies, partly as trophies and partly because they were paid according to the number of kills that they made. The noses—and sometimes ears—of the dead were brought back to Japan and stored in “nose tombs.”

Discovered in the 1980s, one of these tombs contained over 20,000 pickled noses. Some people in Korea have requested the return of the noses, while others think that they should be properly destroyed. The noses (and many ears) are buried in a 9-meter-high (30 ft) hillock called “The Ear Mound” in Kyoto. It is maintained at the expense of the Japanese government, who seem a little embarrassed about the whole thing.

I found this interesting tidbit over on Listverse. I think it's fair to say it is strange, right?

Coffee out on the patio again this morning!