Jonathan Gerlack of Pennsylvania is facing over 500 criminal charges after he was caught digging up local graves for human trophies. More than 100 sets of skeletal remains were found inside of his home and a storage locker. local12.com/news/nation-...

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1991, “Untitled”. A pile of free candy, the pile can be staged in any art gallery anywhere but must weigh 175 pounds, which was the healthy weight of Gonzalez-Torres’ partner Ross Laycock, who died of AIDS.

Sandie Wood had a terminal cancer diagnosis so she knew what she had to do. Hire a flash mob to dance to "Another One Bites the Dust" at her funeral. youtu.be/Fl-_ed513RY?...

81 years after their deaths, the bones of Nicholas II and his family were found by an amateur archeologist and confirmed by DNA. They were interred with honors on 7/17/98. #morbidminute

The Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana is a manmade lake of death thanks to its toxic pH levels. This body of water was created to manage acidic overflow from the copper mine that functioned on the spot until 1982. #morbidminute pitwatch.org

"The ritual to create a tilberi is both chilling and secretive. At dawn on Whitsunday, a woman must steal a rib from a freshly buried body. She then wraps this rib in grey wool—wool that must also be stolen, plucked from a widow’s sheep just after it has been sheared..."

We are NOT the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn. Historians pushing back against a flawed narrative. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

The abandoned mansion of Kenny Rogers. youtu.be/XRpAnaEwQsw?...

Franklin Roosevelt was given a gift of a letter-opener made of a Japanese soldier's arm by U.S. Representative Francis E. Walter from Pennsylvania in 1944. Roosevelt called for its proper burial. #morbidminute

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There's an incorrect post circulating that Bonnie Parker's body was never claimed. Bonnie's family did claimed her, in Dallas, but they refused to bury her beside Clyde as they blamed him for their daughter's corruption and young death. #morbidminute

The White Star Line stopped its employees' wages the moment the Titanic sank. Further atrocity, if a body was found and a family wanted a plot burial, they were required to purchase two first class rail tickets for transport. One for the escort, one for the corpse. #morbidminute

Shout out to catcosplay who does real photography shoots with their cat for this Krampus outfit.

In 1861, Florence Ford passed from yellow fever at age 10. Her mother requested Florence's casket have a window and an adjacent chamber so she could comfort her daughter during the thunderstorms that had scared her in life. People continue the tradition today. www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-g...

Ed Binkley has created fantasy artwork for three decades. His client list includes Lucasfilm, Ltd., Tool, Suntup Editions, Wizards of the Coast, ImagineFX, among others. www.edbinkley.com/gallery

"On December 8, 1976, a television production crew filming The Six Million Dollar Man at The Pike needed to move what they assumed was a hanging mannequin. When a prop man grabbed the figure’s arm, it broke off, revealing not wax or plastic..." thedeadhistory.com/2025/10/08/e...

Saint Munditia, patron saint of spinsters, died circa 310 AD, beheaded by a hatchet. She was transferred from the Roman catacombs in 1675 and put on display in Munich, her bones encased in a bejeweled shroud, her hands clasping a glass container of dried blood. www.atlasobscura.com/places/jewel...

A group of crows is a murder of crows. A group of ravens is a conspiracy of ravens. #morbidminute

Creepy Antiques Roadshow items! youtu.be/nX_ODIY-bos?...

NOBODY EAT THE CURSED SOUP (h/t unevendays)

BALTIMORE — Local metalhead Matt Franklin attempted to convince a police officer that the blood and bodily fluids covering his body were due to the fact he was returning home from a particularly messy GWAR show, dispatch confirmed.

A medieval knight's intact stone tomb was discovered under the old site of an ice cream parlor in Gdańsk, Poland this summer. The gentleman was in his 40s and dates back to the 13th or 14th century. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

The rise in taxidermy fandom means certain types of bats are being decimated at alarming rates. Bats are protected in western countries, so if you see taxidermied bats for sale, big warning. Be a considerate gloom cookie, please. unfortunatecadaver.com/pages/the-un....

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank fifty years ago yesterday. It has been decreed a graveyard and therefore cannot be further studied after a diving team released unethical photographs of a saponified corpse floating inside of the vessel in the 90s. #morbidminute

[TW: animal death] Bulgarian chariot burials were common 2500 years ago. In August, an intact chariot and horses were found at a Thracian tomb. The horses pulled the funereal chariot to the resting place and then were sacrificed as per religious custom. www.ancient-origins.net/news-history...

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When the Princess of Sarazm died 5500 ears ago at the age of 37, she was adorned in beads made of lapis lazuli, turquoise, and limestone. adventuresoflilnicki.com/sarazm-tajik...

This is actually so frikken cooool, they've just found the perfect home and learned to live together to enjoy it Obvious cw for spiders

DNA has revealed the identity of another victim of Fox Hollow Farm, where suspected serial killer Herb Baumeister killed 12 gay men thirty years ago. Rest well, Roger Goodlet. fox59-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/fox59.co...

Plague vampires were thought to feast on their own burial shrouds to grow in strength before rising to feed on the living. The cure? A brick in the mouth so they can't eat the shroud. www.reuters.com/article/life...

"A Swedish radiologist was submerged in icy water for over an hour with her core body temperature dropping to a record-low 13.7°C (56.7°F). Her survival defied expectations, largely due to the protective effect of extreme hypothermia on her organs, especially her brain." em-med.com/blog/the-sto...

A child's skull pre tooth evictions. This is the least troubling picture. TW: teeth/trypophobia dangerousminds.net/history/gnar...

Hedviga Golik, a nurse, died alone in her apartment in Zagreb — then part of Yugoslavia, but now the capital of Croatia — in 1966. Her body allegedly went undiscovered for 42 years until found during renovations in 2008. www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

Arizona allowed an AI murder victim (made by his sister) to make a victim impact statement in court. Not only was it allowed, the judge sent the accused murderer to jail for longer than what the prosecution asked for because he was moved by the robot. youtu.be/GWir9notTag?...

The remains of Jane were found in 2012 in Jamestown and serve as clear evidence of cannabilism during the famine of the early settlement. #morbidminute encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/jane....

Edward Russell, a Ripper researcher, says DNA found on the shawl of one of Jack the Ripper's victims is a 100% match to longtime suspect Polish barber Aaron Kosminski, a schizophrenic who died in a mental asylum. #morbidminute

Prosthetic Lestat makeup from the '94 film Interview With the Vampire. #morbidminute

We already discussed zombie fungus ants, but now, there's... www.popsci.com/environment/...

Artwork by Ana Ciorcila.

Ed Kemper used to hang out at a cop bar in Santa Cruz. Kemper always wanted to be a cop but at 6'9", 280 lbs he was too big. After he killed his mother and her best friend, he called the cop bar and confessed. They didn't believe him and hung up on him, so he had to call back. #morbidminute

On an episode of Decoding the Unknown, they did a deep dive on Elizabeth Bathory who probably ran a hospital that performed abortions versus the bathing in the blood of virgins thing, and I feel like Christmas was ruined. #morbidminute

An UPDATE. The white cast, thick makeup we associate with Queen Elizabeth I? Was likely plain old misogyny. The source was a Catholic priest who saw her once from afar, and as she was murdering Catholics at the time, not a reliable source. Further, lead makeup doesn't cast white! #morbidminute

"There are quite a few instances of death at Disneyland, sometimes witnessed by other guests. But what’s rarely explored is the 1981 tragedy that likely sparked the legend — and marked the first homicide in the park’s history." 3/7/1981. #morbidminute www.sfgate.com/disneyland/a...

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Laroche booked another liner to cross the Atlantic but when they discovered the liner disallowed eating with your children, they switched to the Titanic to avoid separation. Mr. Laroche would perish at 25, but his daughters and pregnant wife escaped on lifeboat 8. #morbidminute

Handpainted silk kimono from the 19th century. www.itsyourlondon.co.uk/kimonos-at-t...

John Collier's "The Witch"