Neatorama Posts Tagged "restless corpse"
The Restless Corpse of Ethelbert the Orca

I have long used the term " restless corpse " to tag the many posts in which most of the story...  ...o one could find a law that he broke. Ethelbert's corpse was preserved in formaldehyde, and the story real...

https://www.neatorama.com/2023/07/20/The-Restless-Corpse-of-Ethelbert-the-Orca/
Hannah Beswick: The Manchester Mummy...

Hannah Beswick lived at a time when premature buri...  ...ed her, using an ancient technique that dried the corpse out completely. And she was not buried for anothe...  ..., but she ended up a mummy, or what we may call a restless corpse

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/08/27/Hannah-Beswick-The-Manchester-Mummy/
That Time Charlie Chaplin's Corpse was Held for Ransom

Neatorama has an extensive archive of stories abou...  ...For example, I had no idea that Charlie Chaplin's corpse was dug up and held for ransom, and that happened...  ...hat story turned out, as well as the cases of the restless corpses of Abraham Lincoln, Alistair Cooke, Eva Peron, an...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/04/01/That-Time-Charlie-Chaplins-Corpse-was-Held-for-Ransom/
The Unfortunately Action-Packed Afterlife of a California Grave-Robbery Victim...

Clara Loeper was born partially paralyzed, and die...  ...avers for study. Read the story of Clara Loeper's restless corpse at Atlas Obscura.

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/05/13/The-Unfortunately-Action-Packed-Afterlife-of-a-California-Grave-Robbery-Victim/
The Restless Corpse of Elmer McCurdy

Elmer McCurdy wanted to be an Old West outlaw, but...  ...ial until 1977. Read the story of Elmer McCurdy's restless corpse

https://www.neatorama.com/2021/02/06/The-Restless-Corpse-of-Elmer-McCurdy/
How Jeremy Bentham Finally Came to America, Nearly 200 Years After His Death...

Philosopher Jeremy Bentham believed in using dead bodies for practical purposes, instead of fearing or revering them in a religious sense. When he died in 1832, he willed his body to science, directing that it be used fo...

https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/22/How-Jeremy-Bentham-Finally-Came-to-America-Nearly-200-Years-After-His-Death/
Tomb Raider: The Story of Saint Nicholas's Stolen Bones...

Saint Nicholas, the bishop in Asia Minor who is co...  ...miracles concerned the saints' own bodies. Their corpses would refuse to decay, exude an inexplicable ooze...  ...e manna was taken as a sign that Nicholas’s corpse was especially holy, and pilgrims began flocking...  ...alled Rest in Pieces: The Cu...

https://www.neatorama.com/2017/12/16/Tomb-Raider-The-Story-of-Saint-Nicholass-Stolen-Bones/
The Long Ethical Arc of Displaying Human Remains...

People have long held a morbid curiosity about dead bodies, from public hangings to modern day exhibits like Body Worlds. Through our history, sideshows and museums alike put human remains on display, the only real diffe...

https://www.neatorama.com/2017/11/21/The-Long-Ethical-Arc-of-Displaying-Human-Remains/
How the Global Bird-Poop Trade Created a Traveling Mummy Craze...

For about 200 years, global industry went crazy fo...  ...at mental_floss. Link contains image of Delano's corpse .

https://www.neatorama.com/2017/01/10/How-the-Global-Bird-Poop-Trade-Created-a-Traveling-Mummy-Craze/
The Mystery Behind the Missing Corpse of One of the Richest Men Ever

In the mid-19th century, Alexander Stewart ran a v...  ...e was unearthed by unknown persons, and Stewart's corpse was missing. Alexander Stewart made headlines i...  ...or of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses , suggested in an interview, may actually have ser...

https://www.neatorama.com/2016/10/28/The-Mystery-Behind-the-Missing-Corpse-of-One-of-the-Richest-Men-Ever/




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