Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Have you ever heard of shrunken heads? You might think they're just stories from explorers about far off tribes, plot devices from Gilligan's Island, or a scene from the horror comedy film, Beetlejuice, but they're actually quite real.

They might be small, but the practice of making shrunken heads has a big history, especially

among the indigenous Chavaro people of Peru and Ecuador. Imagine a time back in the 19th century when Europeans saw shrunken heads for the first time.

They were no doubt horrified at the site, but just like drinking black coffee, watching daytime television, or listening to NPR, they eventually acquired a taste for it.

Like all human beings, morbid fascination took over, as did their desire to own something so macabre for themselves.

Suddenly they wanted to buy tiny human skulls to show off in museums or keep a souvenirs.

Hey, look at my new lucky charm.

It's a shrunken head.

Well, it wasn't so lucky for the guy who lost his head,

but look at the luck it has brought me.

I now have a tiny human head on a keychain and thus began a new trade.

The Chavaroan people lived in the deep forests of the Amazon, which at the time did not have an Amazon.com distribution center, which

would have come in handy for selling creepy trinkets to Europeans.

The Jabbar ones were the original two heads are better than one proponents.

They had the unique tradition of shrinking heads of their enemies.

Not any psychiatrist's office by asking, how did you get along with your mother?

Not that kind of head shrink, but literally diminishing the size of actual human heads.

It wasn't just a gruesome hobby either.

It was a way to protect themselves from

vengeful spirits. The Jervaro believed that if they didn't shrink the heads of

their enemies, the spirits of those they killed would come back to haunt them.

Honestly though, if you killed me, cut off my head and then shrunk it,

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