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Author: Kate Cherrell

I'm Kate, writer, editor, and creator of Burials and Beyond. By trade, I'm a writer and spooky lecturer-for-hire, but can usually be found lurking in cemeteries, archives, haunted houses, darkened rooms, or antiques shops, getting up to no good.

Going Out in Style! Ghana’s Fantasy Coffins

December 19, 2021December 19, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Fantasy, figurative or proverbial coffins (abebuu adekai), are unusual, transient memorials, being elaborate representations of the deceased’s interests, dreams and achievements.

90s Pop Necromancy: S Club 7 and the Occult

December 9, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

S Club 7 have always been brazen occultists, hidden in plain sight...

Whitby’s Hidden Quaker Burial Ground

November 25, 2021February 2, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ 2 Comments

Whitby’s Quaker burial ground is impressively well hidden. To most passers-by, it looks like a garden extension to some of the more grander Georgian houses on Bagdale.

“I did not give them willingly”: The Friesthorpe Window

November 11, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

A small rural church in Friesthorpe, Lincolnshire holds one of the most poignant memorials to the sacrifices of war in the form of a beautiful stained glass window.

Ye Olde Eco-Burial: The Trapdoor Coffin

November 4, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

In the 16th and 17th centuries, plenty of rural parishes in Scotland utilised a communal coffin of sorts called a ‘common mortkist’, ‘bier’ or ‘parish coffin’.

D.C. The Demon Cat

October 9, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

The snappily named ‘Demon Cat’, or ‘D.C.’ for short, is one of several reported ghosts that haunt the sprawling government buildings in Washington D. C

The Russian Gangster Cemetery

October 2, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Russia's gangsters were never going to settle for a subtle headstone and floral border.

Big Surprises and Bigger Vaults at Laceby Cemetery

September 26, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

A village on the outskirts of Grimsby isn’t exactly the typical location for an enormous Norwegian funerary monument.

The Fertile Grave of Victor Noir

September 20, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

The frankly massive bulge in Noir’s trousers made his memorial a popular destination for women visiting Père Lachaise for over a century...

The Tiny Grave of Tom Thumb

September 10, 2021September 9, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

According to local legend, the Tom Thumb of Tattershall measured just over 18 inches tall and had reached the grand old age of 101 upon his death in 1620.

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