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.
Category: Celebrating Cemeteries
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 the zombie doctor outfit, the ...
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 in cobwebs. Another home has ...
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 mask” you need only go ...
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, in the French Quarter of ...
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 ...
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.
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 allegedly swiped a $2,000 guitar ...
Should people be buried with their pets?
Carol Mundy, of Cornwall, England already has her cemetery plot picked out. She wants to be buried beside her husband Robert, and Dylan, the couple’s ...
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 $4 billion fortune: the bulk ...
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 enemies, but in death they ...
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 Yorker’s have died and famous New ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, a line of comic books ...
