Celebrating Cemeteries

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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,…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

Texas droughts unearth cemeteries, Mississippi floods bury them

Hurricane Irene roared up the East Coast last August, leaving a wide and varied path of destruction. (more…)

12 years ago

The Year’s Top Seven Weird Funeral Crimes

Maybe it’s the bad economy but weird funeral crimes are on the rise. Earlier this fall a Wisconsin cemetery worker…

13 years ago

America’s richest dog dies while China’s has just been born

In 2007, real estate tycoon Leona Helmsley died of heart failure, leaving explicit instructions on what to do with her…

13 years ago

Narco lives means narco-wives and narco-tombs

Ignacio “El Nacho” Coronel and Arturo Beltrán Leyva, known as Mexico’s “Boss of Bosses”, were rival drug dealers and mortal…

13 years ago

Dead Apple Tours: Where Death is the Beginning of the Adventure

http://funeralwise.wistia.com/medias/ppkkibwhj2?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=780 Step inside New York’s most unique tour vehicle and take an intimate journey to the sites where famous New…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago