Dimensions
135 x 204 x 14mm
Strange Funerals, Embalming Secrets and the Life of a Corpse After Death.
Katherine Ramsland goes undercover and has conversations with mortuary assistants, gravediggers, funeral home owners, and others so that readers can delve into the fascinating and often morbid world of cemeteries. From the moment a hearse gets called to embalmings to putting bodes in the ground, 'Cemetery Stories' gathers funny, strange, and often disturbing tales from cemeteries - and other places of the dead - all over the world.
Included in this book are stories about:
- Embalmers who have sex with the bodies they work on
- Testing practices on corpses performed at a forensics compound called The Body Farm
- A man who awoke in his grave, clawed his way out, and attended his own funeral
- An undertaker who explains his stitching and cosmetic secrets on a mutilated body
- The cemetery established for slaves freed by way of the Underground Railroad
- The son of Satan, who has a small but prominent burial site in a small town in Illinois
