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Death & Rituals

A collection of 4 issues

Disney's Secret Code for a Macabre Theme Park Ritual

While many see Disney parks as the 'Happiest Place on Earth,' this morbid trend is so common that Disney has an official protocol, a 'white powder alert,' to dispatch specialized cleanup crews for human ashes scattered on its most iconic rides.

Death & Rituals Culture & Design Oddities & Curiosities

The Diver's Promise: Searching the Seabed for the Wife He Lost to the Tsunami

Haunted by his wife's final text message—"I want to go home"—Yasuo Takamatsu learned to scuba dive in his late 50s after she was lost in Japan's 2011 tsunami. For over a decade, he has conducted a weekly search for her in the cold Pacific waters.

Biography & Personal Stories Death & Rituals Mysteries & Unsolved Cases

The Permafrost Proviso: A Town's Uneasy Truce with Death

In the Arctic town of Longyearbyen, dying is effectively forbidden. This isn't morbid bureaucracy, but a chilling necessity born from the permafrost, which preserves buried bodies—and the lethal viruses within them—indefinitely.

Geography & Places Death & Rituals Oddities & Curiosities

Bones of the Feast: Unearthing a 7,000-Year-Old Cannibal Ritual at Herxheim

In a quiet German village, a 7,000-year-old pit revealed the remains of over 500 people. Marks of butchery and cooking point not to starvation, but to a massive, systematic cannibalistic ritual, offering a chilling glimpse into the turbulent end of one of Europe's first farming cultures.

History Death & Rituals Mysteries & Unsolved Cases

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