Gruesome toddler deaths and that wacky church
The controversial Kansas church that has been picketing soldier funerals has an unusual new target, children. “God Hates Oklahoma,” reads a press release posted on ...
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.
Photos of decomposing bodies shock Virginia
Seven slender bones, chipped and splotched, some even burnt, lined up neatly on a table. A young boy with eyes wide open, they are bright ...
Stealing urns for scrap metal money
Charles Rayburn discovered a way to turn ash to gold. For half a year the central Tennessee cemetery worker had been stealing brass urns from ...
Legend of The Bleeding Corpse
In 1818 in the Scioto Valley of southwestern Ohio, there one hot summer day occurred a murder trial that involved an angry bitter old mountain ...
Mummy found in suburban Los Angeles has communist roots
In the passenger seat of a car parked outside a home in Costa Mesa, California police recently found a mummy.
Weird deaths caused by animals, including the monkey that killed 250,000 people
Charlie the smoking chimp is dead. Several years ago a visitor to the Mangaung Zoo in Bloemfontein, South Africa tossed Charlie a lit cigarette through ...
Strange cemetery finds: explosives, goat heads, a mini horse and 200 aliens
New York City’s Marble Cemetery has contained the remains of Preserved Fish, a nineteenth century whale oil tycoon, Marinus Willet, a Revolutionary War hero and ...
How to be buried in a hot rod and sing at your own funeral
Life is a highway, and death can be too if you are buried in a Cruisin Casket.
New York students find friend’s brain in jar, New Mexico family gets brain in the mail
Seventeen year old Jesse Shipley of Staten Island, New York died in a car crash in 2005. Three months later, on a field trip to ...
To Live Forever: Eat supplements, abhor soda and upon dying, head to Arizona and bathe in liquid nitrogen
Every day, Ray Kurzweil, an American writer and inventor, ingests 150-250 supplements and drinks 8-10 glasses of alkaline water and 10 cups of green tea.
Waiting decades for bodies of those taken in the night
After thirty years, the body of Charlie Armstrong has finally been found. The Northern Irishman was on his way home from mass in 1981 when ...
Australian church bans death metal, British company puts ashes in vinyl records
In May of 1859, a rowdy full-contact game that involves two teams battling each other for a ball that they try and rush down a ...
Foods of ancient funeral feasts: bull heads, auroch and spiced sheep
There were 70 cooked tortoises, three aurochs (a now-extinct species of giant cattle), a section of a leopard pelvis, some eagle wingtips and 28 human ...
In the land where they kill kings for lack of rain
Nicolae Ceausescu ruled Romania from 1974 through December 1989, when a revolution forced him and his wife Elena to flee the capitol.
Coffin Cartel tells Louisiana monks they can’t sell caskets
An embalming board referred to by critics as the Coffin Cartel has told Benedictine monk carpenters in the woods of Louisiana that they can’t sell ...
