6 Spooky Cemeteries
With Halloween just around the corner, it’s a great time to pass along a story about 6 of the spookiest cemeteries in the world.
Category: Celebrating Cemeteries
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 a new style of cemetery ...
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 husband, hung herself from the ...
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 are the cemeteries of Russia ...
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.
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 ...
