Stranger Than Fiction: Albert Einstein

Did you know that Albert Einstein’s brain was removed seven hours after his death and spent the next twenty five years hidden away inside a cardboard box in a basement?

Cerebral,
~Curtis Rx

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9 Comments

  1. Metysis-Kamelot-Vian
    Posted July 21, 2009 at 3:11 pm | Permalink

    what was it doing there?

  2. Posted July 21, 2009 at 3:15 pm | Permalink

    His eyes were also removed, though given away.

  3. MindlessZombie
    Posted July 21, 2009 at 4:46 pm | Permalink

    Well did they do anything with it before hand?

  4. Posted July 21, 2009 at 8:42 pm | Permalink

    aveeeeeee ahahahha that absurd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fear!!!

  5. Natalee
    Posted July 21, 2009 at 9:30 pm | Permalink

    That just seems pointless to take out the brain and then do nothing with it. I would’ve tried to extract the knowledge from it haha

  6. Posted July 21, 2009 at 11:45 pm | Permalink

    O_o… did they do any experiments on it before they put it in a cardboard box?

  7. Posted July 22, 2009 at 4:07 am | Permalink

    I read somewhere, a while back, that the doctor who removed Einstein’s brain, did do experiments, and tried to preserve it. He gave small parts of the brain away, but kept most of it to himself. The eyes went to Einstein’s ophthalmologist, respectively.
    (Forgive me if some of these facts are wrong. I read about it years ago; this is mostly from memory)

  8. Mandieville666
    Posted July 23, 2009 at 8:57 pm | Permalink

    ew. just a cardboard box in a basement. not even dried or put in some sort of fridge? again ew.

  9. Moriyah
    Posted August 5, 2009 at 4:44 pm | Permalink

    Huh. Some people have the weirdest things in their basements.

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