How Did 6 Feet Become the Standard Grave Depth?
It started with the plague, but it's no longer accurate.
It started with the plague, but it's no longer accurate.
The graceful game was responsible for enough royal deaths to make an executioner jealous.
As if cemeteries weren't spooky enough.
Melissa Moore wondered—could she share a trace of her father's evil?
A shocking number of sloths die while trying to poop—but not for the reason you might think.
Enon Chapel was separated from its burial pit by just a thin layer of creaky floorboards.
If you really want to be remembered, it's best to die on a Friday.
It's usually hard to vanish without a trace, but these folks managed it.
Mummified penguins occasionally turn up, too.
Over the course of a century, several theories have arisen to explain the true cause of Nora Emily Fornario's death.
There were 174 marriage proposals—and dozens of bodies.
The victim's identity is just one of the story's many mysteries.
Sometimes it can create "soapy" corpses.
Better late than never.
Some of these grave innovations are practical. Others, however, border on the bizarre and downright creepy.
We all have to go sometime. Hopefully, it won't be while choking to death at a cockroach-eating contest.
The film star's death on June 29, 1967 led to lasting safety changes.
Burial and cremation aren't the only two options these days.
It all started when the 54-year-old returned home from a banquet and couldn't pee.
Defining it is more complicated than you think.
It wasn't battle that did him in.
Even if death, the Bard was eloquent.
Theresienstadt concentration camp was an oddity, even by Nazi standards.
He saved lives on the Underground Railroad—then cared for the Confederate dead.