Julia Pastrana, once known as "the ugliest woman in the world," was born in 1834 with hypertrichosis terminalis, meaning her entire body was covered with hair several inches long. She also had a deformed mouth with huge...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/13/Julia-Pastrana-Buried-153-Years-After-Her-Death/
There's no resting in peace when a loved one cannot bear to let go. A recent case in Detroit of a man arrested for sneaking his father's body home before the funeral inspired a list of other cases of body snatching. Some...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/22/Creepy-Stories-of-Grave-Robbing/
The people of Tana Toraja, an island in Indonesia, have a richly developed body of practices for mourning. Among them is a unique approach to marking the death of a baby. If a child dies before s/he teethes, the family c...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/10/The-Baby-Grave-Trees-of-Tana-Toraja/
James Davis of Alabama fulfilled his wif... ...While state health officials say family burial plots aren't uncommon in Alabama, cit... ..., which the government can regulate, and a family burial
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/20/Man-Fights-to-Keep-Wife-Buried-in-His-Front-Yard/
I don't know about you guys, but I'm still uncertain about whether or not I would want my body to be buried or cremated after I die. That being said, I certainly would love to be a part of any of these unique and coo...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/17/10-cool-and-bizarre-cemeteries/
Atlas Obscura continues with their 31 Days of Hall... ...sis in reality. One circumstance in which live burials are thought to have often taken place were during... ...y been dead. With increasing reports of premature burial , by the late 1700s the fear of being buried alive...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/21/buried-alive/
Environmental Graffiti has a gallery of images... ...an underground crypt in Belgium. It was used for burials for decades, but maintenance was discontinued bec...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/26/belgiums-abandoned-crypts/
Larry Marten wanted to build a coffin for his father as one last gift. Making the finely-crafted coffin, complete with parts saved from his father's life, was easy compared to negotiating the bureaucracy involved in bury...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/25/the-final-journey-home/
The fear of being buried alive is an old one, and is even the origin of the phrase "saved by the bell". Annalee Newitz of io9 has a roundup of technologies developed over the years, right up to the present day, to p...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/28/coffin-technologies-to-protect-you-from-being-buried-alive/
The further we get into October, the creepier the internet becomes. From WebUrbanist, we have a list of cemeteries that made chills go up our spines while watching the movies. Some are purely fictional, some were fil...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/13/buried-at-the-box-office-10-creepy-cinema-cemeteries/
