When Someone Quietly Turns to Ash: The Truth About Spontaneous Human Combustion
Bodies have, on rare occasions, been reduced to near-ashes while the room hardly catches fire; it is gruesome, real, and explainable without ghosts.Read More 
They Freeze Corpses And Call It Gardening
A Swedish idea freezes your loved one, rattles them to powder and bills it as eco-friendly compost - proper daft, but real.Read More 
Mike the Headless Rooster: The Bird Who Refused Retirement
A Colorado rooster survived a botched beheading and strutted through sideshows for about eighteen months because a bit of brain and stubborn biology kept him ticking.Read More 
When Aldini Zapped a Corpse and the Face Twitched
In 1803 Giovanni Aldini hooked a recently executed man's body to a battery, the corpse twitched and London realised science could be rude to death.Read More 
When Victorians Spiked The Dead With Arsenic
They embalmed and stuffed the dearly departed with arsenic because Victorian prudence preferred corpses that behaved themselves; modern curators still wear gloves and sigh about paperwork.Read More 
Dead Hands That Refuse To Let Go
Some corpses clamp down in a violent, immediate death grip called cadaveric spasm, preserving the final act like a ghastly photograph.Read More 
Kuru: They Ate Their Dead, Properly Awful
A remote tribe's funeral custom of eating brains passed a prion like a bad tune down the line and it was grim, tragic, and oddly avoidable.Read More 
Dead People Turn Into Soap (Literally)
There is a real, freakishly clinical process called adipocere where a moist corpse slowly saponifies into a waxy, soaplike mass and yes I am telling you this at brunch because I do not sleep well.Read More 
They Pickled Themselves On Purpose
Some Japanese monks spent years engineering their own mummification - proper devotion, proper gruesome.Read More 
Bog Bodies: People Turn Up Weirdly Preserved, Proper Mad
People dug up perfectly intact corpses from peat bogs that look like they've been put on pause, and it's down to moss, acid and maybe a bit of ritual.Read More 