You can learn many interesting things at Bob Jones High School, but studying rotting chicken legs under the hot sun might be the most disgusting.   The Forensics class, taught by Ms. Belinda Sewell, reads Death’s Acre.  It’s a book about the body farm at the University of Tennessee that studies the rate of decomposition of human bodies under different circumstances.

To simulate this experience, the students buried chicken legs in a field in a spot of their choosing. Each day, the students returned to the “Body Farm” to record any changes in their “body” and capture any new bugs lurking around or on the body. 

One of Mrs.Sewell’s students Jonathan Kendrick commented, “I think that the experiment was fascinating to learn about what happens after we die. It was also the strangest thing I have ever done at school before, and I don’t think I’ll ever forget it.”

Warning: Some of these photos aren’t for weak stomachs.