DEATH

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.

John Scott Harrison, onetime Ohio congressman and gentleman farmer, is the only person who was both the son and father of U.S. Presidents: father William Henry was the ninth, while son Benjamin was the 23rd.

Over the past several centuries, some well-known people made provisions to avoid being declared dead before their time.

It should come as no surprise that she had very specific plans she wished to be followed upon her passing.

He was probably ugly.

There have been people throughout history whose bodies have stubbornly refused to decompose as expected.

Elva Zona Heaster Shue, or the "Greenbrier Ghost," is only known case in which testimony from a ghost helped convict a murderer.