Sleeping with Skeletons and Dressing Up Skulls, Halloweens Across the World
A house across the street from me has a miniature warlock looking creature standing out front, their porch is covered in cobwebs. Another home has ...
Category: Death in Popular Culture
How Napoleon’s “Death Mask” got to New Orleans
The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is buried in a crypt in Paris but if you want to see his “death mask” you need only go ...
The Boring Deaths of Extraordinary People, from Belle Boyd the Civil War Spy to Casanova
Edwin Wilson, a CIA operative turned illegal arms dealer lived a life like something out of a James Bond movie. And yet, he recently died ...
The Hazards of Serving the President, 3 Recent Deaths Examined
One man was killed when a pickup truck ran him over on a highway in Florida. Another died when Libyan rebels attacked his compound with ...
The spectacular funeral of Sun Myung Moon and other cult leader deaths, from David Koresh to Joseph Di Mambro
He called himself the messiah. He was imprisoned in North Korea. He became famous for conducting mass weddings, including one in 1982 at New York ...
Hells Around The World, Including Those Created By Children
What kind of hell will we go to? For some people, it is one of the most essential and confounding questions of life.
Death in Space: From the Dog Laika to the Cosmonauts the Soviets Abandoned
The funeral service for Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was held last Friday at a private club in suburban Cincinnati.
Voodoo Grave Peeping in New Orleans – Touring America’s Oldest Cemetery
On a hot overcast day earlier this week I joined a group of tourists outside Reverend Zombie’s House of Voodoo, in the French Quarter of ...
Andrew, Katrina and the Deadliest Hurricane You’ve Never Heard Of
This week marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew and next week is the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Andrew crashed into southern Florida with ...
The benign childhoods of deranged gunmen, from James Holmes to Jared Loughner and Anders Breivik
He grew up in California, along a famous stretch of coastal highway known for its scenic beauty. His mother was a nurse and his father ...
How to survive a bullet to the brain, from Petra Anderson and Gabby Giffords to the AP reporter shot through the forehead by child soldiers
It’s “a miracle,” the doctor treating Petra Anderson recently told the press. The talented 22-year-old composer was one of the more critically injured survivors of ...
Star child suicide and accidental deaths, from Sage Stallone to Cheyenne Brando
There may have been crushed up white powder lying about. And some 60 empty prescription pill bottles. Perhaps his father neglected him. What killed Sage ...
The Dead Pilot Search Story You Don’t Know (Hint: It’s Not Amelia Earhart)
“We must be on you, but cannot see you—but gas is running low. Have been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at ...
Dogs Die in War Too: American Military Dogs, from Nemo and Lex to Sergeant Stubby
Dogs fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, too. Earlier this spring one of the most famous canine veterans died, a bomb-sniffing German Shepherd named Lex.
Eating Nachos in a Morgue: The World’s Creepiest Restaurants
Inside the main entrance to Times Scare is a coffin decorated with skulls and the skeleton of an angel with its tongue sticking out.
