This time of year, Digital Dying is always on the lookout for unique looks at Halloween traditions. This year we are especially lucky since our Justin Noble had the chance to interview someone who has made an exciting and lucrative career out of Halloween spookiness. In this timely piece, Digital Dying presents an exclusive interview with the person at the center of that world. She goes by the name, Gory Girl. Take a read and you'll learn the difference between a haunted house and a home haunt, get a peek into the hidden world of Halloween prop conventions, find out how to corpse your phone, and much more.
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The Halloween A to Z of Renting A Coffin
Halloween is the time of year for ghosts and goblins. Turns out, it's also a great time of year to talk about the world of real-life rental coffins and caskets. Justin Noble takes a look at this little known industry in his latest post on Digital Dying.
Thought You Had A Scary Halloween Costume? Return of the “Plague Doctor” Mask
One of the scariest costumes of all time seems to be staging a comeback: the plague doctor. Plague doctors tended to victims of the Bubonic Plague, the abominable disease...
Best Halloween Costume Ever – Pants Made Out Of Your Dead Friend’s Skin
As far as we know, there is just one pair of intact necropants left on earth and they are locked behind glass at the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery &...
Hungry Hungry Ghosts – Celebrating The Chinese Halloween
There is no Halloween in China, complained one recent traveler. But there is the Hungry Ghost Festival! Celebrated on the 15th night of the seventh month in the lunar...
Halloween Unmasked Part II – The Man Behind the World’s Most Famous Mask
The mask, a stylized white face with a gigantic smile, rosy red cheeks and a mischievous mustache, has been worn by protestors in Thailand, Egypt, the United States and...
Halloween Unmasked Part I – The Nobel Prize Winner That Invented Ectoplasm
If you react to bee stings or seafood then you ought to know a bit about Charles Robert Richet. In 1913 he won the Nobel Prize for his work...
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 zombie gangster, the skate...
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 Chihuahua sized spiders crawling...
Magicians hope for Harry Houdini’s ghost to hack into their computers on Halloween
Every Halloween, a group that includes celebrities, master magicians, and ghost writers waits patiently for Harry Houdini to return from the grave. He hasn’t come back yet, but this...
Day of the Dead Takes on the World
The day after Halloween, and the day after that, is Day of the Dead, and the ancient festival, to use a modern word, is trending.
What is dead, and when do we really die?
Last month, researchers at Yale University published the astounding results that organs from a pig they had killed by inducing cardiac arrest were still showing signs of life, even hours after the animal’s supposed death. What? The pig was dead but it wasn't dead? Our Justin Nobel digs deeper.
The Rise of the Pet Death Psychics, And a New Brand of Death Care
Laura Stinchfield is a new kind of death care worker, one who helps people connect with the dead as well as the living. Justin Nobel visits with Laura and gives us a glimpse into one of her most fascinating services--communicating with dead pets.
Still Fantasizing About Fantasy Coffins
Justin Nobel returns to a topic we at Digital Dying have explored in the past, fantasy coffins. These are coffins crafted by expert woodworkers in the west African country of Ghana and designed to resemble an object or item from a person’s life or one they have longed after but never been able to achieve. We have written about fantasy coffins several times. The first article was in 2009, our very second Digital Dying post, entitled “Bury Me In A Uterus, Or A Ferrari.” Read on to hear more about these unique coffins.
Why Do We Vote for Coroners? (And Why Call Them Coroners..?)
Just why do we elect coroners? And where did the practice originate? And why do we call them coroners? Digital Dying investigated. As it turns out, like so much in death-history, the story involves murder, and the British Crown.
