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It was something you would never suspect, but there was an urgency for women embalmers in the past. This was mostly due to the fact…

The Hotel Zum Riesen still stands in Germany today. The photo and text below were originally printed in 1910 when it was labelled as the…

Chewing gum was clearly an American invention and since 1848 there have been numerous superstitions and strange rituals associated with the chewy treat. Keep Her…

From the mid-thirteenth to the sixteenth century, the southern German territories practiced live burials. Initially, men who were convicted of being sodomites, rapists, and men…

It is not so surprising that there were a great number of strange last requests in the wills of the recent past. After all, it…

The Frankenstein movie of 1931, featuring Boris Karloff, created a sensation and, over 80 years later, continues to have a cult following. Most of the…

Body snatchers, ghouls, resurrectionists – These were the names given to those who stole from the dead, stole dead bodies, and those who dug up…

Times were tough in the early twentieth century and people felt a strong need to protect their deceased loved ones with the very best in…

Hazing, also called ragging and organized rowdiness, was a serious problem in the past. Over a hundred years ago, students were harming and killing other…

At the beginning of the 1900s, there was a tug of war between people who believed that Mars was populated and those who believed that…