Story time! I was thinking about this yesterday because someone brought up the Spanish Inquisition and thought this would be a funny story to share. The more I think about how this happened the more I think Guam isn't real.

My freshman honors history class had an extra credit assignment where all you had to do is get in a group of 2-3 people, research three torture devices, make tangible visuals to aid your presentation, and present it to the class.

Easy, right?

You think this would mean students would just make little props resembling the torture devices or dioramas for their presentations, right?

It would be crazy to go home and make life-sized replicas, bring it to school on a bus inside of trash bags, leave it in your home room class all day, and then bring it to the last block of the day aka the history class.

...yeah, one group did that.

I don't have pictures of their actual props because phones weren't allowed in that school, but I can show you what they replicated.

A. An iron comb

B. This choker-fork-necklace thing called a "Heretics Fork"

C. And a freaking whip called a Cat-O Nine Tales (they used chicken wire for their tassels)

"How did they think this was a good idea?"

No clue. They were surprised to find out they would've gotten in trouble if staff other than the history teacher would've seen it 😅😂

It's a miracle that they weren't caught. They received full marks for their project only to complain when my teacher said they had to leave it in his room or they'd get in trouble. My teacher put the torture devices inside of his closet, and I wonder if they're still there today.