The Harvard Backed Book in Human Skin

The book has been sitting in harvard's library since the 19 thirties. People have used it to memorialize the dead or the still living, among other reasons. They said they got the skin from the back of a female mental patient whos body was unclaimed after dying from a stroke. So they just scraped off her back and made a book out of it. Weel op an article says, the harvard bound book in human flesh isn't actually bound to human flesh. It's sheep skin. Tere yes, apparently, whoever wrote this is the fan of the podcast.

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