The Good The Bad And The Dead

There are always some outliners at the Dia de Los Muretos  every year at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.Usually they are comical, like Jack in the box in full day of the dead gear. But this group of...

Madonna's project to a school in Malawi will become a graveyard

One of the fondest wishes of Madonna when she was in Chinkhota, Malawi in 2009 was to build a girls' school so that they could study but the government there has decided not to proceed with the project and turn it...

For Sale: Used Urns

Last year’s stories about Arlington Cemetery featured pictures of discarded gravestones being used to line the creek bed. That was part of the investigation into lost and misplaced remains which led to the firing...

Arlington Cemetery: Over 200 Graves Mismanaged, Mislocated

An Army Investigation Has Discovered That Over 200 Graves in Arlington National Cemetery Have Been Misidentified or Mislocated The investigation was launched last fall when there were questions over cremated remains...

Michelle Obama’s father NOT buried in troubled cemetery (Updated)

" First lady Michelle Obama’s father was buried in the Chicago-area cemetery where investigators say hundreds of graves were dug up in a scheme to resell the burial plots, a spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. It...

The Arlington Wreath Project - Random Acts of Kindness Spread Across the Nation

In this time of financial need and turmoil for the United States, one of those random acts has prevailed for 17 years. It started in Maine and is still spreading across America. Is this what the first President...

Nazi hate attack: Jewish cemetery vandalised with pig's head.

Pictures of a shocking Nazi hate attack on a Jewish cemetery in the town of Gotha have horrified Germany, reports BILD.com. A bloody pig’s head was found stuck to the middle of a Star of David on the graveyard gate at 5.30am yesterday. A sheet next to it, smeared with...

Pam Ward Discovers More Dead Bodies Buried Under LA Unified

Pam Ward Discovers More Dead Bodies at LA UnifiedOpinion. While at the post office at Washington and La Brea, I spoke with a reliable source which shared the recent finding of more dead bodies buried under Los...

A Grave Matter

I wanted to post the story first, before I filed my own report from today's events. This would have been a plain "local" story,  but by virtue of the fact that it involves the nation's oldest African American...

Abandoned ashes stack up at funeral homes

"BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. ...

2,000 Skeletons Found in Ancient Berlin Churchyard

" Archaelogists have made a grisly, fascinating discovery in central Berlin -- a giant medieval graveyard containing 2,000 corpses, many of them children.Archaelogists in Berlin have uncovered 2,000 skeletons in a huge medieval cemetery near the city center since they...

Arlington cementary and Iraq casualties media coverage dispute

Media coverage of Iraq casualty is not easy business. Now, Arlington Cementary adds its own tone to the dispute over such press freedom..to no avail. " Arlington Cemetery at Center of Controversy Over Media...

Hamburg fans stay eternally loyal with soccer cemetery

There are soccer fans. There are crazy soccer fans. And then there are soccer fans devoted enough to their team that they wish to be burried in a stadium-side grave at a cost of €2,500 (blue and white coloured...

Man sees bear in St. Charles Borromeo Church cemetery - Southeast Louisiana

"By John DeSantis / The Daily Comet RACELAND -- In nine years as groundskeeper at St. Charles Borromeo Church, Kyle Schexnaydre has seen coyotes, deer and lots of other wildlife lurking nearby. A week ago Friday...

Bury Lenin, Says Gorbachev

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Grobachev has stated that the body of Vladimir Lenin should be finally committed to the earth. Currently Lenin's embalmed corpse is encased in glass and on display in a mausoleum in...

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