One of the scariest costumes of all time seems to be staging a comeback: the plague doctor. Plague doctors tended…
As far as we know, there is just one pair of intact necropants left on earth and they are locked…
There is no Halloween in China, complained one recent traveler. But there is the Hungry Ghost Festival! Celebrated on the…
The mask, a stylized white face with a gigantic smile, rosy red cheeks and a mischievous mustache, has been worn…
If you react to bee stings or seafood then you ought to know a bit about Charles Robert Richet. In…
In 1949 the Nationalists fled the Communists and went to Taiwan. The wife of one high-ranking official, abandoned by her…
The funeral industry is notably slow on the technology uptake but there are a few interesting funeral-related apps. Find those…
Here’s a strange and tragic ending: A 107 year old man named Monroe Isadore was shot dead by SWAT officers…
In the mid-1960s, government-supported gangsters in Indonesia killed between half a million and 2.5 million of their own countrymen. Fast-forward…
This week a woman fell to her death from a high rise New York City apartment tower but there was…