Italian scientists exhume body of castrato

I'm not sure which part of this news story freaked me out more - the fact that they're exhuming someone just for the sake of doing some research, or the fact that the research is into an old custom of neuturing (cutting off their private bits if you're not sure what that means) boys when they're young to make sure they can still sing in a high pitched voice when they get older.

Italian scientists exhume body of castrato - Yahoo! News