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...

Thirteen arrested over Tuscan crematorium scam

This is just so sick.The funeral director and twelve other employees in Tuscany, Italy have been arrested for operating a crematorium scam, where they stored bodies with the corpses of cats and dogs, and burned them...

Leader of American Body Parts Ring Apologizes in Court

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorOne cannot imagine how many apologies would be sufficient to appease those whose deceased family members organs were butchered out of their bodies in funeral homes in order...

Sorry, Says the Body Thief

Being that it's Friday the 13th and all, I was disappointed that news of the macabre was not clotting and clogging my reading this morning. Until now."A New Jersey dentist behind a scheme to steal body parts from corpses, including that of British journalist Alistair Cooke,...

Scientist says dolphin deaths look like a mass suicide

"Scientist says dolphin deaths look like a mass suicide Steven Morris The Guardian, Thursday June 12 2008 Article history The dolphins that died after becoming...

Search for China earthquake survivors bleak

"BEICHUAN, China (AP) — The search for survivors in the rubble of China's powerful earthquake grew bleak Sunday, with rescuers in some areas no longer listening for trapped victims.There were a few tales of rescues...

China Says Earthquake Toll Could Rise Above 50,000

While it was recently reported that 15,000 people had died and over 50,000 were missing, China announced today the death toll could quickly soar past 50,000 as three days have passed since the massive earthquake hit...

Lesser-known American race riots

"Irish immigrants opposed to Lincoln's Civil War draft, rioted, raping and killing blacks, often mutilating their corpses, as well as burning their homes and businesses."

Anastasia's remains 'found in Russia'

"One of the 20th century’s most abiding mysteries could soon be solved when British scientists carry out DNA tests on recently discovered bone fragments said to belong to the two missing children of Tsar Nicholas II.Russian forensic experts have been examining the remains,...

Mexican journalists resign out of fear for their lives

Mexican journalists of the Oaxaca newspaper 'El Imparcial de Istmo' have resigned following the murder of three of the newspapers employees earlier this week.NGO's in Mexico have released a joint statment following the murders, demanding that the Government take the necessary...

$2.6 Million Worth of Animal Poop

Such is the value of a walk-through..." A nightclub investor who bought his neighbor's swank New Jersey mansion out of foreclosure for $2.6 million - not knowing that inside it was destroyed by feces from more than 100 cats and dogs - is suing. Michael Acciardi got access...

Giant Badgers Terrorizing Iraq?

Update: the British military is officially distancing itself from Badgergate:"British forces have denied rumours that they released a plague of ferocious badgers into the Iraqi city of Basra. Word spread among the...

Gaur Killings: MPRF Denies Responsibility

" MPRF has a video of the Gaur incident; Demands a high level probe by international human rights commission into the Gaur incident; Says ready to take responsibility of the killings if found guilty Gaur...

U.K. Fears New 'Jack The Ripper'

"English police said Wednesday they continue to "fear the worst" about two missing prostitutes from a town where three other sex workers have been killed, one of them strangled, by an apparent serial killer. The naked corpses of two women found at the side of a busy road on...

Rotten corpses, discovered in Hospital

Daily News "Two rotting human corpses were discovered in a hospital in Cyprus 3 weeks after moving out. Health authorities are trying to find out how did the incident happened. "

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