Celebrating Cemeteries

Weekly News 7/10/2015: Greek financial crisis hits the funeral world.

Grieving families in Greece are finding themselves unable to bury their dead. The Russian government has started a program to…

9 years ago

“Exquisite Corpse” celebrates Woodlawn Cemetery’s jazz legacy.

Each April, Woodlawn hosts a special Jazz Appreciation Month. But this year, the cemetery was also a featured venue for…

9 years ago

Earth’s Ten Most Haunted Pet Cemeteries

Recently, I found myself wondering if there were any haunted pet cemeteries in New Orleans.

9 years ago

Enter the Land of Floating Tombs

The hurricane was not a major one but the sea still punched through a levee in tiny Braithwaite, 15 miles…

9 years ago

6 Spooky Cemeteries

With Halloween just around the corner, it’s a great time to pass along a story about 6 of the spookiest…

10 years ago

New York’s Green-Wood Cemetery: final resting place of the rich and powerful.

Until the mid-1800s, cemeteries were almost exclusively small plots on church grounds. During the late 1700s, we began to see…

10 years ago

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…

11 years ago

Where Will The Boston Bombing Suspect Be Buried? Touring The Cemeteries Of Russia

The parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the dead Boston Bombing suspect want his body shipped back to Russia. And just what…

11 years ago

Death and Dying in Chalmette – Touring the Battle of New Orleans

A major American battle occurred just a mile from my home, earlier this week I visited the old battlefield. (more…)

11 years ago

The Best Real Life Zombie Halloween Costumes, From Pete the Marsh Man to Juanita the Ice Maiden

Zombies are still huge and this year stores are offering numerous variations on the traditional zombie Halloween costume. There is…

12 years ago