What’s the most interesting object I saw at the New Orleans Museum of Art? A 2,200 year old model found in a Chinese tomb.
Swallowed, Chewed and Drowned By Hippos
Strange Deaths by Africa’s Most Dangerous Animal
Where Will The Boston Bombing Suspect Be Buried?
Touring The Cemeteries Of Russia
The Last Funeral Director on Earth – Profile of a Man Burying Bodies in Syria
He has buried more than 234 bodies from the river. Most are men and boys, their hands bound behind their backs, their skulls broken by bullets, often their bodies destroyed beyond recognition.
Swallowed, Chewed and Drowned By Hippos – Strange Deaths by Africa’s Most Dangerous Animal
The web is burning this week with the story of the man who survived being swallowed by a hippo, but what about the people who don’t survive..
Where Will The Boston Bombing Suspect Be Buried? Touring The Cemeteries Of Russia
The parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the dead Boston Bombing suspect want his body shipped back to Russia. And just what are the cemeteries of Russia like..
Another Mangled Meat Death, And Other Sad Slaughterhouse Accidents
A man fell into a meat blender at an Oregon meat distributing plant earlier this week. As strange and horrible as this type of accident sounds, it happens often enough.
What To Do When You Find A Massive Potentially Deadly Spider In Your Car?
A few months back I found what I believed to be the deadly brown recluse spider, living in my car.
Death by Ants, from Africa and Australia to Florida
Imagine being attacked by a living raft of ants that can put you in the hospital, or even kill you.
Boston Marathon Bombing Forces a Look at the Grisly and Often Forgotten History of U.S. Bombings
My heart goes out to those in Boston. Sadly, the U.S. has a grisly and often forgotten history of bombings…
Economic Suicides Spread Through Europe – People in Italy, Ireland and Greece are Jumping to their Deaths
In Italy last week it happened again, three people ruined by the financial crisis committed suicide.
How to Fake Your Own Death, Like That Woman in China Just Did
“I feel so good coming out of the coffin.”
These are the words of Zeng Jia, a Chinese student who faked her own death last week.
