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Category: America

The Car Park Grave of Mary Ellis

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Beneath the tarmac of Loews Theater car park in New Brunswick lie the remains of Mary Ellis. For the last 193 years, she has occupied a prime parking spot; a strange conclusion to a romantic and tragic life.

The Weirdest Epitaph in America: Sterling Hallard Bright Drake

December 30, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

"‘An idealist and a dreamer, he died of loneliness and a broken heart, searching for a shrine he never found."

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 Curious World of Dollhouse Graves

April 10, 2021April 3, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Sitting like miniature residences between the headstones, these doll’s house graves are a striking example of non-traditional funerary art and changing ideas of grief, innocence, personalisation and burial.

Thomas Lynn Bradford – Dying for Eternity

October 4, 2020October 4, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Professor Thomas Lynn Bradford died on February 5th, 1921. Afterwards, the world waited for his message.

Collection Feature: Funeral Fans

August 15, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Cardboard fans, whether folding or attached to a handle, were a particularly popular means of advertisement from the 1920s-60s.

4 Fake Cemetery Ghosts: The weird, the drunk and the monkey.

August 1, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

The long  and delightful tradition of going ‘wooooo’ in cemeteries to frighten passers-by is a rarely celebrated phenomenon.

Mind that Ectoplasm! A Short Popular History of Masturbating Ghosts

May 12, 2020May 12, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Can’t a spirit enjoy a little self-love after death?

Nancy Luce, The Chicken Lady

April 12, 2020April 12, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

For company, Nancy may not have had humans, but she had her chickens...

Ice, Ice, Body: Introducing Ice Caskets

April 4, 2020April 13, 2020 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

In the age before embalming and refrigerated storage, keeping bodies preserved and cool was a serious issue for undertakers and families alike.

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