Celebrating Cemeteries

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,…

14 years ago

Nicolas Cage will be buried like an Egyptian in the sunken city of strange cemeteries

Nicolas Cage owns a Gulfstream jet, two Europeans castles, a haunted mansion, a collection of shrunken heads, a dinosaur skull,…

14 years ago

“Death at a Funeral” mayhem is a joke but family funeral violence is bloody for real

Men in sharp suits carry a well-lacquered coffin into a fancy suburban house. “Who is this?!” screams Chris Rock, when…

14 years ago

Mob funerals: gold coffins, pimped-out rides and mayhem, from Brooklyn to Trinidad

With a heavy police presence and a bevy of gawking onlookers, a golden coffin was carried through the streets of…

14 years ago

Zombies stalk the streets, from Alabama to Alaska

A ragtag mob with ashen, blood smeared faces and darkened eyes roamed downtown San Diego two weeks ago, flailing their…

15 years ago

Weirder than Michael Jackson’s death: Aristocrats

Michael Jackson is still missing his brain but it has been a pretty normal after-death, considering. The afterworld of royalty…

15 years ago

In Paris, a drunken poet lives forever

Bob Hickey arrived in Paris and went straight to the cemetery. (more…)

15 years ago

For body snatchers, business has been booming for 500 years

“The activity engaged in by this funeral director was utterly repulsive,” reads a recent newspaper article. (more…)

15 years ago

“The Cemetery Woman”: Collector of Death, Book Coming Soon

In Helen Sclair’s dining room are coffins: one from the 1940s fit for a baby, a wicker model from the…

15 years ago