The Very Particular Details of Emily Dickinson's Funeral
It should come as no surprise that she had very specific plans she wished to be followed upon her passing.
Elva Zona Heaster Shue, or the "Greenbrier Ghost," is only known case in which testimony from a ghost helped convict a murderer.
All it took to locate the bones of Richard III was 500 years, a psychic vision, and a grassroots movement.
These folks, falsely declared dead, came out stronger on the other side.
It might sound grotesque, but bones have been an architectural staple for millennia. Here are some of the world’s greatest osteological marvels.
From the conjoined livers from a pair of Siamese twins to slides of Albert Einstein’s brain, Philadelphia's Mütter Museum houses dozens of strange artifacts from medical history.
Either way, it isn't going to be pleasant.
"Walking towards the light" is a common experience for cardiac arrest survivors. A new study attempts to figure out why.
President Zachary Taylor died after eating iced milk and cherries. He's hardly the first person—or the last—to meet his or her demise from eating or swallowing something suspicious. Here are 10 others.
Yesterday Levon Helm, the multi-instrumentalist best known as the singer and drummer for The Band, died after a long battle with throat cancer. He was 71. Helm was a southern gentleman, owner of one of rock and roll’s all-time great beards, easily the ge
Bug image via Shutterstock It doesn’t happen to every single bug, but if you stumble upon an expired roach in the bathroom or a downed fly by the window, you’ll find that they’re frequently flat on their backs, legs in the air. It’s such a familiar death
When Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose on October 4, 1970, she left behind a will that included an offbeat stipulation: $2500 to fund a hard-partying wake in her memory.
The remains of famous historical figures have been misplaced more than you might think—the grave sites of these notable people went missing for decades or even centuries before being rediscovered.
In the early 20 century, a popular piece of art for the fashionable French home was "L'Inconnue de la Seine," a completely creepy death-mask of a young woman whose body had been pulled from the Seine River in Paris.
I realize this is a pretty morbid subject, but when I was researching the Statue of Liberty I came across a list of people who have jumped off of Lady Liberty.
Despite our best efforts, Death, in all its myriad and weird forms, is constantly lurking around the corner. But who knew a toothpick could be so dangerous? Or that one's trademark scarf, draped so dramatically around your neck, could be conspiring to kil