Ummmm, where did these 100 human brains go?
Find out what the town is talking about below...
AUSTIN,
Texas—
For the past three decades,
the University of Texas at Austin has been the home of around 200 human brain
specimens. It was recently discovered about half of the brains are missing.
The brains came from the Austin State
Hospital, once known as the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, in 1986. Now stored in
a lab belonging to UT Professor Tim Schallert, the brains were collected by
asylum doctor Coleman de Chenar from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Each brain is in its own jar, labeled with a
case number that corresponded to files at the hospital that were likely
destroyed long ago.
But one brain, supposedly among the malformed
and discolored specimens in Schallert's collection, was that of Charles
Whitman, who shot and killed 16 people from the UT Tower in 1966 before being
killed by police. Whitman left a note in which he admitted to violent feelings
he knew weren't normal, and asked for his brain to be examined by a
pathologist.
Whitman's brain is one of approximately half
the collection that has disappeared over the past quarter century.
"We think somebody may have taken the brains,
but we don't know at all for sure," Schallert
told the Austin American-Statesman.
Schallert discovered that 100 brains had
vanished after photographer Adam Voorhies and journalist Alex Hannaford approached
him, interested in tracing the history of the collection. Their
book, Malformed: Forgotten Brains
of the Texas State Mental Hospital, is out this week, and will
contain the history -- as best as it can be traced -- and images of the
remaining specimens.
With the collection receiving renewed
attention, UT said it's investigating how the brains may have disappeared.
"We are committed to treating the brain
specimens with respect and are disheartened to learn that some of them may be
unaccounted for," the university said in a statement.
"The university plans to investigate the
circumstances surrounding this collection since it came here nearly 30 years
ago."
Schubert says it's possible the brains had
been loaned out over the years, and misplaced, or perhaps stolen by students
looking to play pranks.
But for now, the missing brains remain a
mystery.
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