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US Customs Finds 18 Human Heads At Chicago’s O’Hare Airport

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Human heads held up by US customs at Chicago airport (via AFP)

Officials scrambled Tuesday to get 18 human heads off to their final destination, a crematorium, after they were seized by US customs inspectors before Christmas at Chicago’s main O’Hare airport. The heads, each tagged with a name plus place and cause of death, had originated in the United States for…




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