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The Hangman’s Locket

May 2, 2022May 2, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

As much as the Victorians revelled in beauty and sentimentality, they really were a bunch of morbid sods at heart.

The Ghost Clown of Flaybrick Cemetery

April 21, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

‘There’s a clown in my graveyard, what am-ah-gonna-do?’ the people of Birkenhead once yelled in the early 1990s. Or at least they would have done if they were particularly big UB40 fans.

Jacques Cazotte and the Dinner Party of Terror

April 5, 2022 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

In 1788, one year before the Reign of Terror began, a writer and would-be mystic was at a dinner party. Jacques Cazotte was a man of standing and was dining with the great and good aristocrats of France, poised to spoil everyone’s appetites.

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."

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.

“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’.

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.

Nanette Stocker, the Smallest Woman in the Kingdom

August 29, 2021August 29, 2021 ~ Kate Cherrell ~ Leave a comment

Nanette (incorrectly recorded as ‘Nanetta’ on her stone) is a forgotten music hall star and little person who died with a huge following.

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