MOSCOW, December 3 (Sputnik) — The University of Texas in Austin discovered that half of their brains collection has disappeared. About 100 brains specimens are missing from university’s laboratory collection. The brains were preserved in jars of formaldehyde, since Austin State Hospital had transferred them to the university about 28 years ago for temporary keeping, reports AP.
Psychology Professor Tim Schallert, co-curator of the collection said his psychology lab had a room for only 100 brains, so the rest of them were placed to the basement in the university's Animal Resources Center.
"We think somebody may have taken the brains, but we don't know at all for sure. They are no longer in the basement," he told AP.
His co-curator, psychology Professor Lawrence Cormack, said, "It's entirely possible word got around among undergraduates and people started swiping them for living rooms or Halloween pranks."
One of the brains that are missing is believed to have belonged to a mass murderer Charles Whitman.
