15 Gruesome Torture Devices You Won't Believe Actually Existed

1. The Judas Cradle

Truly horrendous. If being trussed up like a turkey naked and hoisted into the air wasn't bad enough a torture method, the unlucky victim would also have to live with the very real, very immediately threat of their anus being brutally torn apart by a pyramid. To unbalance the stakes, weights would be added to force you down onto the cradle. Your own body weight and any extra weights would eventually force you down, stretching the most delicate of orifices until you were impaled to a point where it split you in two. if you were lucky enough to not die from this Cradle, you would definitely die later of some serious infection as it was also never washed. It's like they WANTED a health and safety citation.