The Same Microbes Help Bodies Decompose No Matter Where They're Buried
And they could help determine time of death. Paging CSI.
And they could help determine time of death. Paging CSI.
Here are seven of the most picturesque and historically fascinating catacombs open for visits around the world.
No one knows who the man in the suit on the beach was—or how he died.
When supposed spell-casters died, the stories about them lived on.
Despite being extremely critical of private property, Marx purchased a plot in the privately-owned Highgate Cemetery.
From the man who died because of a failed parachute suit to the daredevil who perished in a stunt gone wrong, sometimes brilliance comes with a price.
A compound produced by decaying tissue makes people more alert to threats.
In 1966, a young man came across a pair of dead bodies lying side-by-side. But what they were wearing took the discovery from tragic to truly bizarre.
The Mütter Museum recently discovered it owns the nation's largest collection of books bound in human leather—and now a research team is trying to track down the rest of the world’s examples.
It could have housed five million bodies.
In February 1959, a group of students went on a camping expedition in the Ural mountains. They never returned.
As in the local tradition, not the kitchen appliance.
In November, it will be moved from museum storage to the castle where she died in 1938.
"I've never seen anything quite like that before, nor have my colleagues, and we were very excited."
From quicksand to free-falling elevators, these situations call for clear thinking.
Grave robbers made off with the composer's skull in 1809. So how did two different heads end up back where he's buried?
These final words leave a lasting impression.
F.W. Murnau isn't the only historical figure to have lost his head after death.
Remember how scared we were of satanic cults, Y2K, and nuclear war? (Okay, we're still scared of nuclear war.)
The gruesome way the author of Frankenstein coped with her husband's death.
Though he was in office less than a year, Garfield's grave is one of the most elaborate presidential monuments ever built.
From getting hitched to saving the environment, here's proof you can still be a busybody long after you kick the bucket.
After George Parkman mysteriously disappeared on November 23, 1849, an unusual suspect emerged.