Most people tend to their ground to make it more fertile. They add compost and fertilizers. They plant crops. They till the ground, and they reap what they sow. There is a season for everything under the sun. And it is good. But what happens when a ground has been…
We spend a good deal of our time in cemeteries. Sleeping, picnicking, chasing down the screaming high schoolers who snuck in under the fence to make out after dark. And in all that time, we occasionally come across a good crypt to hide behind or a nice tree to lounge…
Yes, you read that correctly. In other words, coffin torpedoes. We didn’t make that up. They were very real. First patented in 1878. In fact, if you feared weird, Victorian body snatchers coming for your corpse in the middle of the night for professorial experiments before your Lord and Savior…
Someday, we’ll all be ghosts, cursed to return to Earth to haunt the places we once loved and torment the still-living who wronged us. Well, at least I hope that’s what happens. If we don’t get to exact revenge upon our enemies while floating around in a semi-opaque holographic shell,…
I’ve always thought lying around in a pine box for all eternity with nothing to read would get kind of boring after a few centuries. If I were dead, I would want visitors to come and see me. And it would be even better if they brought food and drinks.…
Say what you want to about Romanians. But they sure do have a sense of humor about dying. Well, at least they do in the tiny little burg of Sapanta. When its residents pass away, they are lampooned for all eternity. I think this is what you call adding insult…
Do you have a problem with trespassers and vagrants always congregating on your lawn? Do you wish you could just make all of these ordinance-disobeying hooligans go away? Well now you can. Apparently, nothing keeps litter, the homeless, and neighborhood kids off your lawn like some good, old-fashioned, run of…
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