cultofweird
Articles that explore the history of death and funerals, including cemetery exploration, funeral history and bizarre stories from the graveyard such as body snatching and unlucky people buried alive.
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Created by the "Walt Disney of the Funeral Business," the Vidstone is a headstone that memorializes your loved one with an embedded video of the deceased.
A "Hand of Glory" was the mummified hand of a hanged criminal that was believed to possess magical powers in occult traditions.
Dr. Eugene Shoemaker became the first man to receive a Moon burial when his ashes landed arrived with the Lunar Prospector spacecraft on July 31, 1999.
Lived once, buried twice. The story of Margorie McCall tells the tale of grave robbers who got scared to death stealing a ring from a lady who was buried alive.
Beverly Hills socialite Sandra West insisted on being buried in the driver's seat of her Ferrari while wearing her favorite lace nightgown.
Showmen's Rest is the site of a mass burial of clowns and other circus performers after a train wreck killed 86 members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus in 1918.
Dr. John Osborn made a pair of human skin shoes from the remains of hanged train robber Big Nose George for his inauguration as governor of Wyoming.
Frozen Dead Guy Days celebrates this town's most famous resident...who has been dead and frozen in a shed since 1989.
The mummified remains of a German captain missing for seven years have been found drifting aboard his yacht 50 miles off the Philippines coast.
Colma has over 1.5 million residents and almost all of them are dead.
CT scan reveals the mummified remains of a monk preserved inside a 1,000-year-old statue of Buddha.
Before he invented the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell created the ear phonautograph, a device that recorded sound using a dead man's ear.
Timothy Clark Smith was so fearful of being buried alive that he constructed a grave with a window and an escape plan.
Cursed objects from the collection, including an item once owned by Ed Gein, pieces of Aleister Crowley's House, and mid-century mortuary handbooks.
What strange search terms lead unsuspecting victims to Cult of Weird? Take a peek under the hood - with disturbing facts, dead bodies, haunted Monopoly, and Mothman's backside.
Wish that special stiff on your shopping list a Creepy Christmas with these weird gift ideas dredged up from the darkest corners.
The freak show has a long and bizarre history. Here are some of the most famous circus freaks ever mesmerize audiences inside the sideshow tent.
The D.B. Cooper hijacking is one of the strangest unsolved cases in U.S. history. Nearly 50 years after Dan Cooper skydived into obscurity, here's what we know.
Enjoy the soothing sounds of the cute but angry desert rain frog, nature's furious little squeaky toy.
Where's the location of Ed Gein's house? Which cemeteries did he rob? Dig up the true story of his deranged crimes with the Ed Gein tour in Plainfield, WI.
The mysterious Utah Monolith was discovered in a remote part of the desert and vanished soon after. We still don't know who put it there or who removed it.
Attorney Andrew Basiago claims a secret government program called Project Pegasus sent him back in time to Gettysburg in 1863 where he was photographed.
The historical inspiration for Santa Claus, jolly ol' St. Nicholas, is the patron saint of Christmas and prostitutes whose bones are scattered around the world.
Who is Knecht Ruprecht? Dig into the weird folklore of German's anti-Santa in this episode of Macabre London's Abhorrent Advent Calendar.
John Lennon was photographed signing an autograph for his murderer, Mark David Chapman, just hours before his death.
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