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 zombie gangster, the skate...
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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 as far as New...
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 New Orleans for one...
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 tabs on southern cemeteries...
Skull Stealing and Cemetery Skyscrapers, Interview with Colin Dickey, the Guru of Graveyard
Colin Dickey has written about the history of cemeteries, library bone collections, and the afterlives of the saints.
The Dead Pilot Search Story You Don’t Know (Hint: It’s Not Amelia Earhart)
“We must be on you, but cannot see you—but gas is running low. Have been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet.”
Skull art, from Damien Hirst to the streets of São Paulo
If you were to drive through the tunnel in the Brazilian megacity of São Paulo that connects Avenida Cidade Jardim to Avenida Europa in 2006 you would have encountered...
Inside death row with Werner Herzog’s new film, an exclusive interview
Imagine, you’re rotting in jail with an execution date looming, what are you thinking? Werner Herzog’s new documentary film, Into the Abyss, which premiered Friday at the Toronto Film...
Mt. Everest, the world’s highest cemetery keeps growing
>>Related: Everest movie shows why the world’s highest cemetery keeps getting bigger. (9/16/2015) Peter Kinloch, a 28 year old IT specialist, had just summited Mt. Everest and was descending the...
Interview with playwright Eric Coble, whose boobytrapped Brooklyn mother teaches a lesson on dying with grace
Eric Coble has written and produced plays on Edgar Allen Poe, Pinocchio and Pecos Bill; his latest, Velocity of Autumn, is about an elderly Brooklyn woman who boobytraps her...
Mexican death art, both joyous and horrific, comes to New York City
There is a large face without skin, just bare muscles and eyes wide open and staring. In a cavern-like lair are a group of naked cat-like women crawling seductively...
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 John Lloyd Stephens, a...
To Live Forever: Eat supplements, abhor soda and upon dying, head to Arizona and bathe in liquid nitrogen
Every day, Ray Kurzweil, an American writer and inventor, ingests 150-250 supplements and drinks 8-10 glasses of alkaline water and 10 cups of green tea.
Coffin Cartel tells Louisiana monks they can’t sell caskets
An embalming board referred to by critics as the Coffin Cartel has told Benedictine monk carpenters in the woods of Louisiana that they can’t sell their simple cypress caskets.
Houston’s giant flower of death and President Andrew Jackson both stunk
Thousands of people visited the Houston Museum of Natural Science last month to observe the slow birth and quick death of Lois, the pet name for a corpse flower...