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Real Zombies and Body Snatchers Live Among Us

A creepy form of parasitism is one of evolution's favorite strategies, and scientists are starting to figure out how it works.
Gemma Tarlach October 20, 2022
Edinburgh, Scotland

New Calton Cemetery Watchtower

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.
Stirling, Scotland

Grave Robbing Headstone

A grave marker depicting a body snatching tableau on a 19th-century tombstone.
Springfield, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln's Receiving Vault

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.
31 days of halloween

The Gruesome History of Making Human Skeletons

From quicklime to boiling to bugs.
Sarah Laskow October 3, 2017
Baltimore, Maryland

Davidge Hall

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.
cemeteries

A Beginner's Guide to Body Snatching

Where to go for an education in grave robbery, the grisliest chapter in medical history.
Molly McBride Jacobson January 26, 2017
body snatching

How The Medical Cadaver Finally Got the Respect it Deserves

The rise and fall of medical cadaver ceremonies.
Natalie Zarrelli May 26, 2016
Edinburgh, Scotland

Burke & Hare Murder Dolls

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.
Edinburgh, Scotland

Greyfriars Cemetery Mortsafes

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.
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Morbid Monday : Corpse traffic and cemetery guns in the Golden Era of Body Snatching

Laetitia Barbier March 11, 2013
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Objects of Intrigue: Diary of a Body Snatcher

Annetta Black January 17, 2013
suicide

31 Days of Halloween

Veronique Greenwood October 31, 2011
Edinburgh, Scotland

Surgeons' Hall Museums

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.