enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Incidents of necrophilia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_of_necrophilia

    Incidents of necrophilic abuse are noted to have occurred throughout history. Greek author Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC) stated in his Histories that in Ancient Egypt, bodies of exceptionally beautiful women were not embalmed immediately after their deaths, but only after several days had passed, in order to prevent a recurrence of a case where it was discovered that an embalmer had sex with the ...

  3. Mountain Meadows Massacre - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre

    The Utah War delayed any investigation by the U.S. federal government until 1859, when Jacob Forney and U.S. Army Brevet Major James Henry Carleton conducted investigations. [39] [40] In Carleton's investigation, at Mountain Meadows he found women's hair tangled in sage brush and the bones of children still in their mothers' arms. [41]

  4. List of mortuary customs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mortuary_customs

    Mortuary house is any purpose-built structure, often resembling a normal dwelling in many ways, in which a dead body is buried. Mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals. Mummies of humans and animals have been found on every continent. [16]

  5. Necrophilia in popular culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia_in_popular_culture

    The song "Last Kiss Goodbye" by Lordi talks about hiding a girl's body, and being in love with her. Norwegian Black Metal band Ancient's song "Willothewisp" is about a man's love story with his dead lover, which is depicted in the video clip. The Black Dahlia Murder released the song "A Vulgar Picture". It tells the story of a man going into a ...

  6. Jim Jones - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

    James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.

  7. Resurrectionists in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrectionists_in_the...

    A fifteen-strong gang of such men, exposed in Lambeth in 1795, supplied "eight surgeons of public repute, and a man who calls himself an Articulator". [c] The report into their activities lists a price of two guineas and a crown for a dead body, six shillings for the first foot, and nine pence per inch "for all it measures more in length". [20]

  8. Fascination with death - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascination_with_death

    The ancient Egyptians are most famous for their fascination of death by mummifying their dead and building exquisite tombs, like the pyramids of Giza, for their dead.Many of their deities were death-related, such as: Ammut, the devourer of unworthy souls; Anubis, the guardian of the Necropolis and the keeper of poisons, medicines, and herbs; and Osiris, the king of the dead.

  9. Evil Lives Here - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Lives_Here

    Evil Lives Here is an American documentary television series on Investigation Discovery that debuted on January 17, 2016. This 60-minute true crime show spends each episode interviewing a family member of the highlighted criminal.