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/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/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/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/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/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/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/Elmer McCurdy couldn’t catch a break, even a... ...s finally made, but investigators had guessed the corpse ’s identity within a few days: It was Elmer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/15/The-Mummified-Train-Robber-Who-Became-a-Circus-Prop/The picture above is of William Henry Bishop, US C... ...or decided to open up the coffin and check on the corpse . As if Smithson’s tale wasn’t strange...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/16/Poor-James-Smithsons-Restless-Corpse/Jeremy Bentham was well-respected philosopher in l... ...the story of one of the world’s most famous corpses in this episode of the 100 Wonders series from At...
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