Depending on the hoard and whether discovery is delayed, there’s no predicting the condition of remains recovered from a hoarding...

Dating from the Roman Empire, the first funeral clowns were known asarchimimes (from Greek roots for archi- “chief” and mimos...

The purpose behind grave dirt collection is magical. Depending on the practitioner’s intent, soil may be taken from the grave...

Posthumous prosecutions! We’re such a litigious people it’s almost believable of 2025 America, but no: this is another one of...

The full moon gets blamed for all kinds of nonsense: spates of weirdness or bad luck, general craziness, psychosis.

Before cemeteries had gates and grave liners, the dead were protected from hell itself.

Both ossuaries and catacombs originally served society in practical but distinct ways, providing alternatives to standard practice when burial space...

Observations of guillotine victims’ faces by medical personnel and witnesses to the moment of decapitation led to doubts about the...

Ossuaries can be, of course, elaborate and ornate places, sites of unique tribute to the deceased.

Gruesome tales go back centuries—exhumed coffins with bloodied scratch marks, mangled fingers, even corpses found entirely outside their caskets.