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Aliens Buried In Malaysian Graveyard Posted: 2 years ago by VooDooPeacock
Residents of Pasir Mas feared a voodoo practitioner had buried extraterrestrial bodies in a local cemetary . . . you won't believe what the "aliens" actually turned out to be.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 105 [+].
News photographer fired for urinating in cemetary during soldier's funeral Posted: 3 years ago by BrownTrout
"I feel like I did nothing wrong except take care of business. If I went in my pants, that would be really unprofessional. If anybody saw me, you know, walking around - it would have froze. So I'd have icy urine on my pants."
Comments: 10 Score: [-] 100 [+].
In Russia, It's Cheaper To Have an Apt. Than To Die Posted: 3 years ago by musicgirldani
The cost of cemetary plots are as much if not more than an apartment! Plus, they have a rule that after a certain number of years you can bury another person on a previously used plot. Eek!
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 10 [+].
Sleeping With The Fishes Posted: 2 years ago by cb__
The Neptune Memorial Reef is seen by its creators as a perfect final resting spot for those who loved the sea. They hope that one day the reef will cover 16 acres and have room for 125,000 remains.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 482 [+].
Cemetery Houses More Warm Bodies Than Cold Corpses Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
A fascinating article about 10,000 Filipino families living in a cemetery. Some families ended up here almost accidentally. Some inherited the mausoleums that they now live in from their great-grandparents. Others came from the provinces and couldn’t make enough money to live in the big city. In all cases, they’re basically families with nowhere else to go.
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 186 [+].
Church Turned Graveyard Into a Parking Lot for Wimbledon Posted: 5 months ago by bingo
It seems that the St. Mary’s Church in Wimbledon village has maneuvered itself into a rather tight spot: church officials let tennis fan park their car on top of graves for £20!
The proceeds of the unofficial parking scheme go to charity but some residents are angry with the plan, describing it as 'disrespectful'.
Comments: 9 Score: [-] 275 [+].
Where do old neon signs go to die? Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
To the Boneyard museum in Vegas of course. For a small fee you can tour the museum, or just click on the link above for a Flickr set of images
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 41 [+].
Darlington will have Australia's first vertical cemetery Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
* Nation's first vertical cemetery on its way
* Body will be put into holes feet-first
* It's cheaper and saves space
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 258 [+].
Cemetery full, mayor tells locals not to die Posted: 2 years ago by nursevl
"Offenders will be severely punished."
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 248 [+].
Grave offenses at Arlington National Cemetery Posted: 3 weeks ago by 2manyusernames
A criminal investigation and allegations of misplaced bodies and shoddy care have roiled the famous burial ground
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 220 [+].
Drunk driver stuck in grave after crash Posted: 2 years ago by muppet
She is German? Ya don't say...
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 68 [+].
The Saddest Acre Posted: 6 months ago by JoshSF49
For years Section 60 has been the one of busiest parts of the cemetery. Every day new burials bring precision marches, the somber tones of taps and the nerve-rattling three-gun salutes.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 120 [+].
Deadly Getaway Posted: 3 years ago by tlovesd
A man who had apparently burglarized a home and stolen a car died a short time later when he crashed into a cemetery's locked gate.
Kind of ironic, no?
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 13 [+].
Solar panels on graves give power to Spanish town Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change.
Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town outside Barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its cemetery, transforming a place of perpetual rest into one buzzing with renewable energy.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 257 [+].
Muslim graves desecrated in French WW1 cemetery Posted: 2 years ago by doggylives
Vandals desecrated 148 graves in the Muslim section of a military cemetery in northern France, hanging a pig's head on one of the headstones, police said on Sunday.
Whatever your beliefs, this is just plain wrong. Wtf is wrong with some people.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 94 [+].
Germany to Build Greater Pyramid Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
A group in Dessau, Germany, will start building a new "Great Pyramid," which is estimated to take about 30 years to complete, be about 1,900 feet tall and 10 times larger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt. It will offer burial space in the form of a "tomb container with ashes of the deceased" and engraved "memorial stones" with time capsules to store personal memorabilia.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 89 [+].
Catholics call time on long-winded eulogies Posted: 3 years ago by Bornbad
On not a few occasions, inappropriate remarks glossing over the deceased's proclivities (drinking prowess, romantic conquests etc) or about the Church (attacking its moral teachings) have been made at funeral masses.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] -11 [+].
Beautiful Gravestone Posted: 2 years ago by misswinkle
May be NSFW.
Comments: 8 Score: [-] 414 [+].
Dead man billed for his own gravestone Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
COUNCIL workers have billed a Worcester man £440 for his own gravestone – more than a decade after his death.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 152 [+].
Builders find skeletons beneath home Posted: 2 years ago by Kevertje
A woman in Potters Bar (England) was having some work done in her house when the building crew discovered a dozen skeletons in her basement.
Some research discovered that her house is built on an old Quaker cemetary. Now it seems that in order to get rid of them, the remains have to be cremated in a way satisfactory to Quakers, costing $60,000.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 179 [+].
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