The Most Ridiculous Deaths of 2013
Ah, Christmas! Eggnog, sleigh riding, hams and finding out from relatives who died in the last year. 2013 saw men killed by beavers and wine ...
Category: Death in Popular Culture
Home for the Holidays, and Your Aunt’s Corpse Has Been Rotting On The Sofa For a Year
This holiday season there have already been at least two cases in the news of people “living with corpses”. And over the past few years ...
Bloody Benders – The Forgotten Story of a Family of Pioneer Kansas Serial Killers
Last week I drove from New Orleans to Kansas to pick up a guitar my friend Jack Jacomo had left at a gas station while ...
Thought You Had A Scary Halloween Costume? Return of the “Plague Doctor” Mask
One of the scariest costumes of all time seems to be staging a comeback: the plague doctor. Plague doctors tended to victims of the Bubonic ...
Best Halloween Costume Ever – Pants Made Out Of Your Dead Friend’s Skin
As far as we know, there is just one pair of intact necropants left on earth and they are locked behind glass at the Museum ...
Hungry Hungry Ghosts – Celebrating The Chinese Halloween
There is no Halloween in China, complained one recent traveler. But there is the Hungry Ghost Festival! Celebrated on the 15th night of the seventh ...
Halloween Unmasked Part II – The Man Behind the World’s Most Famous Mask
The mask, a stylized white face with a gigantic smile, rosy red cheeks and a mischievous mustache, has been worn by protestors in Thailand, Egypt, ...
Halloween Unmasked Part I – The Nobel Prize Winner That Invented Ectoplasm
If you react to bee stings or seafood then you ought to know a bit about Charles Robert Richet. In 1913 he won the Nobel ...
The 8 Most Haunted Places in China – Haunted Houses, Haunted Villages and Even Haunted Hotels
In 1949 the Nationalists fled the Communists and went to Taiwan. The wife of one high-ranking official, abandoned by her husband, hung herself from the ...
Five Awesome Funeral Apps
The funeral industry is notably slow on the technology uptake but there are a few interesting funeral-related apps. Find those ashes you scattered long ago, ...
107 Year Old Man Shot Dead By Police, and Other Strange Ways Centenarians Die
Here’s a strange and tragic ending: A 107 year old man named Monroe Isadore was shot dead by SWAT officers at his home in Pine ...
“The Act of Killing” Shatters the Boundaries of Documentary Film
In the mid-1960s, government-supported gangsters in Indonesia killed between half a million and 2.5 million of their own countrymen. Fast-forward 50 years, you’d think the ...
A Brief History of Sky Diving Deaths, Including Robert Cocking’s 1834 Parachute Fiasco
This week a woman fell to her death from a high rise New York City apartment tower but there was another big fall death, that ...
Imagine A Future Where We Record Our Own Deaths On Tiny Video Cameras Implanted In Our Foreheads
What will it be like to live in a world where we all record our own deaths on tiny video cameras implanted in our foreheads? We ...
Forget Eau de Cologne, This Company’s Perfumes Smell Like “Dirt” and “Funeral Home”
You lean in to kiss the lady you love and are overwhelmed by a rich floral fragrance you can’t quite put your finger on. “My darling, ...
