Courtesy of the WFMU Blog comes the jaw-droppingly disturbing and equally amazing post, “A Brief History of Disembodied Dog Heads”. Whatever you do, make sure to visit the video archive depicting 1954 experiments by Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov, particularly the clip M10_ 4_005.wmv.

Any fan of crappy ’50s and ’60s sci-fi flicks knows of rather odd proliferation of movies dealing with head transplants, two-headed men (e.g. The Manster), and heads somehow kept alive in lab trays. Well, turns out there were actual, real, serious scientists working on just such strangeness.

Well…throw some Roky Erickson on the turntable, sit back, and learn all about the secret history of, um, dog head transplants. And stuff. No really.

Seriously. Disturbing. And. Bizarre.