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 ...
Author: Justin Nobel
Digital Dying is written by Justin Nobel, whose stories about science, culture and travel have appeared in publications such as the Chicago Tribune, Audubon, Gourmet.com, Nunatsiaq News, Point Reyes Light and The Smart Set www.justinnobel.com. Comments and ideas can be sent to justinnobel@gmail.com.
Fantastic and Forgotten Cemeteries of The South
I just moved to New Orleans, which we all know has amazing cemeteries, but what about the rest of the south? I have been keeping ...
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 ...
Skull Stealing and Cemetery Skyscrapers, Interview with Colin Dickey, the Guru of Graveyard
Colin Dickey has written about the history of cemeteries, library bone collections, and the afterlives of the saints.
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 ...
Interview with a Vampire Expert
Think you know vampires just because you watch Twilight or True Blood? Think again.
The World’s Most Famous Toilet Deaths: Hollywood stars, Japanese warlords and a South Carolina murderer
Earlier this week, a Kentucky woman glued herself to a toilet seat at Walmart, which got me thinking about toilets, and dying on them.
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.
Sex, Drugs and Quantum Physics – Interview with an expert of near death experiences
Is it really possible to float above your own body? Does consciousness live on after we die? Are all our brains and the entire universe ...
The Deathwashing of America: Results from a survey on TV show body counts
A woman gets nailed with a flying axe, a man gets his family jewels cut off, then his head, another woman flings herself off a ...
Death from above: killed by falling coconuts, meteorites, hail and frozen airplane shit
Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, is booming. Glassy office buildings are springing skywards, chic new hotels are popping up along the ...
Skull art, from Damien Hirst to the streets of São Paulo
If you were to drive through the tunnel in the Brazilian megacity of São Paulo that connects Avenida Cidade Jardim to Avenida Europa in 2006 ...
