What’s the definition of death? A case in California has doctors baffled.
“Nailah didn’t understand how Jahi could be dead when her skin was still warm and soft and she occasionally moved her arms, ankles, and hips.”
Category: Odd But True
Just What The Heck is Holiday Heart?
The condition was first reported in the early 1970s, though it likely dates back to the invention of the wine goblet, approximately 12,000 years ago.
People Are Dying, No One Is Crying (Updated)
Several years ago, our Justin Nobel discussed the the way some Middle Eastern cultures hire women to weep and wail at funerals. At the time, ...
Hurricane Harvey “Lonely Deaths”
Hurricane Harvey is responsible for killing at least 47 people in Texas. According to a story last week in the New York Times, at least ...
Would you try virtual reality death?
A team of scientists in Barcelona is using virtual reality to give people the experience of death. The experiment is designed to give participants an ...
Yes, there really is a market for human bones.
A week or so ago we ran across an article in an industry blog highlighting an interview with a top collector of human bones. Yes, human ...
The Mysterious Case of Fumiko Kimura, the Mother Who Drowned Her Children
On January, 29, 1985, 32-year-old Fumiko Kimura waded out into the cold waves off Santa Monica Beach on a deadly mission.
These monkey mothers actually carry around the corpses of their young
Imagine a new mother walking down a sunny sidewalk in a big city. She has a coffee in one hand, a bag over her shoulder, ...
Celebrity Death Pools: Betting on who will go this year.
Celebrity death pools are where fantasy sports leagues meet pop culture. The concept is simple. You pick a slate of celebrities, usually ten; that you think ...
Bacteria and Death-Using the Necrobiome To Help Solve Crime
When we die swarms of bacteria lurking in the soil, on the living room floor, on the street, and in our own bodies help reduce ...
A Sack of Sacred Skulls That Makes It Rain Has Disappeared
On the rolling prairie of western North Dakota, fields of wheat, barley and rye kiss a sky that is too often blue and dry, but ...
Sleeping in Cemeteries: In Hard Times, People around the World Choose to Live Among the Dead
Bratislav Stojanovic wakes up every morning in a tomb. For 15 years the Serbian man has been sleeping in a cemetery in the city of ...
Earth’s Ten Most Haunted Pet Cemeteries
Recently, I found myself wondering if there were any haunted pet cemeteries in New Orleans. The good lady Miss Karret then showed me a story ...
Who Needs to Visit a Torture Museum?
As we walked by, the sign out front invited us to visit the Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments. Who could pass that up? We’re in ...
