Category Archives: Desecration of corpses, graves
Bodies piling up The on-line Farsi-language newspaper, Nooroz, reports that hundreds of unidentified dead bodies are being held in Tehran’s morgues. One of the few official organs providing information on the detainees is the office of unidentified dead persons, which has summoned some families to various morgues around the city to determine whether their loved [...]
Employees at prominent African-American cemetery in Chicago are now being charged with stripping graves to resell plots and dumping disinterred coffins in a mass site at the back of the cemetery. Every family’s nightmare: Burr Oak Cemetery graves allegedly stripped for profit R.I.P SHATTERED | Gross neglect that allowed grave desecrations is astounding At one [...]
Michael Leeden reprints an email from a medical student in Iran. I am a medical student. There was chaos last night at the trauma section in one of our main hospitals. Although by decree, all riot-related injuries were supposed to be sent to military hospitals, all other hospitals were filled to the rim. Last night, [...]
“There are no words” Swastikas painted on Joseph’s Tomb JERUSALEM – Jews who arrived last night to pray at Joseph’s Tomb – Judaism’s third holiest site – were stunned to learn the structure had been vandalized, with the headstone smashed in and swastikas painted on the walls. – Joseph’s Tomb is the believed burial place [...]
Michael Jackson plans to have his body ‘plastinized’ by Dr. Death MICHAEL Jackson will achieve his dream of immortality by being stuffed with plastic by Dr Death. The King Of Pop, who calls himself Peter Pan, has had a string of cosmetic surgery ops to try to defy the ageing process. But he is now [...]
On many nights over 16 years, Kenneth Douglas engaged in his own personal macabre workplace party. He often brought drugs or alcohol to work and sometimes had sex with women. At least three of those women were dead, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said Thursday. But if Douglas is to be believed, he could have [...]
A funeral director accused of leaving a woman’s body to decay in a parked hearse after her relatives failed to pay the bill was arrested on a felony charge of abusing a corpse, police said Wednesday. Watson and Sons Funeral Home embalmed the remains of Edna Kathleen Woods, 52, after she died of natural causes [...]
Kaylnn Moore was pregnant and 26 when she went to the hospital. The doctors said her baby’s heart rate was dangerously low and and emergency Caesarian was begun. Sadly, the baby was stillborn. Still, they wrapped little Bashere Davon Moyd Jr in a blanket and put a little hat on his little head and passed [...]
IN VENEZUELA, thugs are worshipped as saints: but instead of lighting votive candles, followers light cigarettes and place them in the mouths of statues. Karina Perdomo, a lively 22-year-old woman dressed in a tight black shirt, stares blankly at the figure of a saint in the General Cemetery in southern Caracas, puffing on a cigar [...]
In 1239, Gilbert de Moravia, Bishop of Caithness, invoked a solemn curse “upon those who destroy and injure” the fabric of Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland. When he died he was interred beneath the floor of the Cathedral. In 1570, the Cathedral was burnt down during local feuding. St Gilbert’s curse was said to have struck [...]
