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Commonly referred to as ‘The Corpse Flower’ or ‘Stinky Plant’, a Titan Arum is about to bloom at the United States Botanic Conservatory and you can watch it bloom via streaming video. The Corpse Flower doesn’t have a regular blooming cycle
King Richard III’s body has been missing for several centuries now. Most historians figured the guy was buried near Leicester, England…somewhere. Nobody could figure out where the hell the body ended up after Henry VIII’s people lost the re
Clarence Bright passed away at 93 years of age and his corpse was being prepped for burial in his final resting place. Key word in that last sentence? ‘Was’. Just hours before being buried, the body of Clarence Bright went missing. After re
Ever grill during the summer? Ever notice how much more the flames rage when they hit a nice piece of fat? It’s no different for human beings. A crematorium in Austria caught fire recently not because of an arsonist, not because of some kid
An 80-year-old South African man was reported dead by his family and taken to the morgue where the undertaker checked his vitals and verified the death. The body was then locked up in a morgue fridge for 21 hours when he suddenly woke up an
In 1875 a body was dug up while building a new train depot in Philadelphia. Thought to have been buried originally in 1800, the entire body has been turned into soap. “This unusual preservation occurred because water seeped into the casket
Due to a harsh food shortage Russian bears have been unable to find enough of their traditional berries, mushrooms, frogs, and fish to keep them going. These hungry bears have taken matters into their own hands and turned to digging up and
Daniel Scott Lasky final wish was to be buried at sea. Unfortunately he accidentally set of a murder investigation when those hired to lay him to rest in a watery grave did not properly weigh down his corpse. …Lasky’s body resurfaced Saturd
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Cadillac of dead body retrieval technology… The system involves a small aluminum pipette that can detect trace amounts of a chemical called ninhydrin-reactive nitrogen, which collects in air pocket
Flower, for my dearest? A rare behemoth flower — dubbed the “corpse flower” for its rotting-meat smell — is set to bloom at Western Illinois University this week. It’s one of a small group of these flowers that have bloomed in cultivation s