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...

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...

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...

You know about the paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope. He was famous for his feud with fellow paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh. Cope revealed how Marsh assembled a nonexistent dinosaur called Brontosaurus by mistaken...

Carl Tanzler was a German immigrant with a wife and two daughters in Zephyrhills, Florida. But when he took a job as an x-ray technician at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Key West in 1927, he called himself Count Carl von C...

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...

The following is reprinted from Uncle John'...  ...wing orders:1. The coffin containing V.I. Lenin's corpse is to be kept in a vault which should be made acc...  ...ucture, lasted 5 years) (Photo: Lenin Mausoleum) CORPSE OF ENGINEERSMeanwhile, the secret police were rou...  ...e on the job before they are allowe...