WEIRD BUT REAL, FAMOUS BUT ODD

SAMUEL PEPYS (1663-1703)

Not only was he found of chasing young ladies, Pepys couldn’t help his hands off dead ones either, he kissed and fondled the mummified corpse of Catherine de Valois in Westminster on his 36th birthday.

SYLVESTER GRAHAM (1794-1851)

This Presbyterian minister believed that bakers laced their bread with pipe clay, chalk and even plaster of Paris, thereby making it highly injurious to one’s health. He waged lynch a war on bread in Boston in the 1840s that a lynch mob of bakers stormed his hotel in 1847, intent on stringing him up to the nearest tree for damaging their trade.

JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)

Liked to be mothered and even flogged, by his wife Nora until his flesh throbbed. He was also an underwear fetishist and kept a pair of doll’s panties with him at all times, putting them on his fingers and ‘walking’ them across bar counters in Dublin,.

LADY CAROLINE LAMB (1785-1866)

During her passionate affair with Lord Byron, she sent him a tuft of her pubic hair as a sign of devotion.  She asked for one back in return, but not before telling him to be careful with the scissors.

VICTOR HUGO (1802-85)

A womanizer throughout his life. Hugo made love to his wife nine times on his wedding night; he had an affair with a 27year old laundress when he was 70. Thirteen years later, he was still sexually active.

JOHN CAMDEN NEILD (1780-1852)

Nineteenth century businessman who inherited $250,000 but dressed like tramp and went about the streets seeking alms and hitching lifts from passing carriages to save himself money on public transport. When he died, he left all his money to Queen Victoria ignoring his family and friends, and even a woman who saved his life when he attempted suicide in 1828.

MICHAEL JACKSON (1958-2009)

The Pop star was rumoured to have hired a team of Nobel Prize winning scientists to develop a potion that would make him invisible so that he could avoid the attention of the press.

HEINRICH HEINE (1797-1856)

The writer who once defined marriage as ‘the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented’ left his entire estate to his wife, whom he despised. There was only one condition; that she marry again. His reasoning? ‘So that there will be at least one man who will regret my death’

EUGENE SUE (1804-57)

When his mistress died, she willed him her skin, leaving instructions that he bind a book with it. The French novelist obliged.

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