The most Gruesome and filthy tortures invented in human history

Most Brutal tortures in the history

Impalement

Invented in                                       -     Romania

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     15 min to 3 days

Brief description                             -     This was considered the most inhumane way of torture ever adopted in the history. For Impaling a victim, a tapered and oiled wooden stake is inserted inside the anus (in case of men) or in vagina (for women) from the pointed side. After this, it is stood in the vertical position so that the stake is inserted slowly with the own wait of the victim over a long period of time. The punishment was carried out until the stake comes out of the victim’s breast, shoulder, stomach or mouth. The cruelest part of this torture was that the pointed end was kept blunt enough to not kill the victim too early, so that he/she would have to endure the pain for several hours or even days before dying.

The Judas cradle

Invented in                                        -     Spain

Time Taken by the victim to die    -     few hours to several days

Brief description                              -     This is similar to Impalement, but little more humiliating. In this, the victim was made to sit on a pointed, pyramid like bench and was tied with ropes from all sides. After leaving the victim in the same condition for several hours, he was pulled downwards with the rope causing the muscle fracture and death. Another fact about this type of torture was that the bench was never cleaned, to increase the humiliation and cause a death by infection, if the victim doesn’t die by the torture.

Spanish Donkey

Invented in                                        -     Spain

Timeline of the punishment          -     Late middle Ages

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Several hours to days

Brief description                             -     This method of torture was similar to Judas cradle. In this punishment, a pointed wedge shaped main board was attached to horse legs type wooden bars. The victim was made to sit on the device and heavy weights were added to the legs. The weights were so heavy that the body of the victim sliced off from middle.

Rat torture

Invented in                                        -     China

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Few minutes

Brief description                              -     In this type of inhumane torture, the victim was tied to a flat base. After this, a metallic cage with removed base is put on the stomach of the victim with a rat inside it and open end attached to the belly of the victim. After this the top of the cage was heated so that rat starts digging in the stomach to find its way out. During this painful torture, the victim could see being eaten with his own eyes.

Brazen Bull

Invented in                                       -     Ancient Greece

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Several minutes

Brief description                             -     A Brazen bull is hollow bull made with brass. There is a pivoted door at the side or top of the bull which could be latched from outside. For torturing a victim inside a brazen bull, he/she was put inside the bull and the door was latched. After this, the bull was heated until it became yellow. This brutal method of punishment roasted the victim. The bull was designed in a way that the screams of the victim were heard like the bellowing of the bull. The inventor of this punishment was asked to show how it would work. When he entered and closed himself to show that a human being can be set inside the bull, the door was ordered to be latched from outside, trapping the creator himself. After this he, himself was roasted inside his own bull.

Scapism

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     about 2 weeks or more

Brief description                             -     In this method of torture, the victim was tied inside an enclosed boat in such a way that his head and limbs were left out through small holes. This was done so that he/she could feel helpless even with the free limbs. The boat containing the victim was made to float in a still water body. After this, the victim was forcefully fed a mixture of milk and honey so that they develop a diarrhea. After this, he/she was left abandoned floating in the pond so that bugs, insects and other parasites start burrowing and eating the victim’s body.  This sick way of torture finally made the victim too sick to live and the punishment completed

Flaying

Timeline of the punishment          -     Ancient

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Unknown

Brief description                             -     In this horrible punishment, the victim was tied to a flat table and then, his/her skin was peeled off his/her body when he/she was alive. To increase the torture time, flaying was started from limbs and penis, genitals, face and other soft organs were flayed at the last to keep the victim alive for longer enough.

Crucifixion

Timeline                                            -     Unknown

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Several days

Brief description                             -     This is comparatively a famous method of torture. In this, the hands of the victim are opened wide and tied and nailed to a wooden cross called cruse. The legs are also tied together and nailed. After this, the cruse was left in the vertical position and victim dies hanging on it.

The rack

Invented in                                        -     Unknown

Timeline of the punishment          -     Medieval ages

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Unknown

Brief description                             -     This was one of the most painful bed made for torturing and extracting the information or confessions from a victims by either permanently disabling or killing him/her. In this, the victim was made to lie on his/her back on a wooden rack and his/her both hands and legs were tied to two different cylindrical rollers. The torturers standing at both ends of the rack rotated the rollers, painfully stretching the victim’s body. This punishment permanently dislocated the joints and sometimes even dismembered them from the body. Other convicts were made to watch the torture to make them speak out of fear.

Scavenger’s daughter

Invented in                                        -     London

Timeline of the punishment          -     Unknown

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Few minutes to Hours

Brief description                             -     In this torture, the victim was made to sit on his/her knees and his body was tied with two semi-circular metallic frames it was tightened with screw. The screw was further tightened to increase the pain and then crush the ribs. This was mostly done to scare the victim and extract information, but this device killed too if he/she didn’t give away.

Pear of anguish

Invented in                                        -     Unknown

Timeline of the punishment          -     Unknown

Brief description                             -     The purpose of this fearful torture was to destroy the internal organs of the victim completely.  The Pear of anguish was first inserted inside anus or vagina ( in case of women) or sometimes inside the mouth and cracked open. This type of torture completely destroyed the internal organs and gave enormous pain to the victim.

Coffin Torture

Invented in                                        -     Unknown

Timeline of the punishment          -     Medieval ages

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Few days

Brief description                             -     In this, the victim was made to stand uncomfortably inside a metal cage, roughly of the size of a human being. Sometimes it was also in the shape of human body, in order to increase the discomfort. After this the cage was hung in open and left abandoned to die.

Iron Maiden

Invented in                                        -     Unknown

Timeline of the punishment          -     Unknown

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Unknown

Brief description                             -     This was a torture devise having a face of a woman. This devise was of the shape of human body from inside having spikes at the inner walls. The victim was made to stand inside the box like device and the door with inner spikes was closed. Because of the space inside the Maiden, the victim didn’t die, but he/she was left unable to move because of the spikes. After this, the torturer standing outside asked questions to the victim and gradually forced the spikes inside the victim’s body.

The chair of torture

Invented in                                        -     Europe

Timeline of the punishment          -     Until 1800’s

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Unknown

Brief description                             -     This form of punishment used a spiked chair having up to 1500 spikes on every surface that supports the victim’s body. Straps were also attached to the chair to hold its victim tight. In few cases, the spikes were also heated to increase the pain of torture. This torture was so horrifying that other victims started to confess even after seeing someone else being tortured.

Slow slicing

Invented in                                        -     China

Timeline of the punishment          -     900 AD to 1905

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Few hours

Brief description                              -     This Inhumane for of torture was also known as lingering death. As the name suggests, the victim was tied to a stake or pole and his/her body parts were sliced with a sharp knife slowly. All this was carried out publically to increase the humiliation. During the punishment, the victim begged to be either spared or killed instantly, but the process was kept slow to maintain the inhumanity of the sick torture.

The German chair

Invented in                                        -     Syria

Timeline of the punishment          -     Unknown

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Several hours

Brief description                              -     This was a type a convertible metallic chair on which, the limbs of the victim was fastened tightly to the chair and the back of the chair was moved back. This was done to tear the flesh of the victim and dislocate the joints, backbone and ribs.

The breaking wheel

Invented in                                        -     Unknown

Timeline of the punishment          -     Unknown

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Several days

Brief description                             -     A wooden wheel was used in this inhumane type of punishment. In this, the victim was tied to a wooden wheel and joints were broken with hammers. After this the victim was left abandoned at a place to die.

Saw

Invented in                                        -     Unknown

Timeline of the punishment          -     Unknown

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Several minutes

Brief description                             -     As the name suggests, the carpenter’s saw was used in this punishment to give a hell like experience to the victim. The victim was hung upside down so that most of the blood flows to the head and victim remains conscious for longer. After this, he/she was cut from the crotch to the navel. If the victim didn’t die with this, he/she was left to feel the immense pain until death.

The head crusher

Invented in                                        -     Unknown

Timeline of the punishment          -     Unknown

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Depended on the executioner

Brief description                              -     A Head crusher was a metal cap type device attached to a screw. The victims head was placed between the frame and the metal cap and the screw was tightened by the executioner. This horrifying torture was basically meant to extract information from the victim. If the victim refused to speak, the screw was further tightened which removed the jaws from the socket, then the eyes and finally crushed the head.

Burning at the stake

Invented in                                        -     Unknown

Timeline of the punishment          -     before 18^th century

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Several minutes to hours

Brief description                              -      In this type of punishment, the victim was tied to a stake on a public place and burned in front of everyone. Though it was one of the most common ways of punishment, it is a very inhumane type of killing which killed the victim very slowly after an immense pain.

Buried alive

Invented in                                        -     Unknown

Timeline of the punishment          -     Ancient times

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Few minutes

Brief description                              -     The name explains itself. In this type of punishment, individual victim or the group of victims were made to lie inside a hole or a grave alive and earth was spilled on them causing intense fear, suffocating and high B.P. at once causing the ultimate death.

Cement shoes

Invented in                                        -     American Mafia

Timeline of the punishment          -     practiced currently

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     few seconds

Brief description                              -     In this, the victim’s legs are put inside cinder blocks and filled with wet cement. When the cement dries, the victim is thrown into a deep water body causing a death by drowning. This is actually a humane type of killing as it doesn’t take much time to kill.

Heretic’s fork

Invented in                                        -     Unknown

Timeline of the punishment          -     middle ages

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     It wasn’t meant to kill

Brief description                              -     This small double sided fork was tied between the chest and neck of the victim in such a way that victim had to keep his/her head up in order to save himself from being severed with the fork.  This torture was continued for several hours.

Neck torture

Invented in                                       -     Unknown

Timeline of the punishment          -     Unknown

Time Taken by the victim to die   -     Not meant to kill

Brief description                              -     This was one of the cruelest ways of torturing as it used time as a weapon. A spiked hook like device was tightened around the neck of the victim which restrained him/her from eating, talking, lying down or adjusting into a comfortable position, lowering the head down and sleeping for several days.