🪦 #31DaysOfGraves — Day 8: Animal Horse-drawn funeral hearse belonging to John Hislop in Toowong Cemetery 1895. The decorative cloths the horses are wearing are called caparisons 📍 Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 🦘 fotc.au 🔍 Details in Alt text…

The Bulgarian dissident writer was poisoned on a London street via a micro-engineered pellet containing ricin, fired into his leg from an umbrella wielded by an assassin associated with the Bulgarian Secret Service. Georgi Markov died 4 days later. No one was ever charged with the assassination.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 5 - Vehicle The Old Stone Church Burial Ground, East Lyme, Connecticut, USA Edmund Kelly, d. 1820, “was killed by the Oxen starting and overseting the Cart”.

Born in 1871 to a wealthy family, Grace Laverne Galloway was a talented musician who died of tuberculosis at 26. Her grieving mason father and randfather commissioned a life-size marble statue carved in Italy.To protect it from weather damage, they enclosed it in glass, creating the famous memorial.

Freddy Jackson was an air mechanic serving in the Royal Air Force (RAF) aboard HMS Daedalus during World War I. His story produced one of the most famous spirit photographs in history—a group portrait where an extra face appears directly behind one of the airmen. Do you see a face? #GhostAtlas

#31DaysOfGraves Day 4: Entrance/Eingang Katholischer Friedhof Neviges Catholic Cemetery Neviges

Some stories never get an ending. Cold cases. Missing persons. Unexplained crimes. Mysteries that still leave behind more questions than answers. Soon, you’ll be able to explore them all on the map. 🔎 UNsolved Atlas Coming Soon. Somewhere out there, the answer is still waiting to be found.

After Will West Long died in 1947, his nephew Walker Calhoun (1918–2012) dedicated his life to preserving Cherokee culture. Calhoun taught traditional dances and medicine songs, helped found the Raven Rock Dancers, and revived sacred heritage, earning a 1992 National Heritage Fellowship.

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Grissel Jaffray was burned at the stake during the Scottish Witch Trials, which tried 4,000–6,000 people. As the last person executed for witchcraft in Dundee, she is commemorated in the city with a plaque at her execution site. #DeathAtlas #Scotland #history #witchtrials #Scottishwitchtrials

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The actress died when her car crashed into a tractor-trailer hidden by mosquito-spray fog. Her lover Brody and driver Harrison also died, but her children, including 3-year-old Mariska Hargitay, survived. Many speculated the crash was caused by a Satanic curse. #DeathAtlas #Hollywood #CA

In Borley graveyard, UK, even the dead seem restless. Ancient trees shelter a strange iron-bound grave locked beneath rusting bars—as if to keep something from escaping. Though Borley Rectory is gone, this still churchyard remains unnaturally alive with lingering shadows and haunting presence.

In January 1863, Confederate soldiers executed 13 Unionist civilians, aged 13 to 65, in North Carolina's Shelton Laurel community. Prompted by a civilian raid for food and salt, troops tortured locals and shot the victims without trial, exemplifying the brutal guerrilla war among Southern neighbors.

After watching the "Kung Fu Kapers" episode of The Goodies, Alex Mitchell of King's Lynn, Norfolk, laughed continuously for 25 minutes and then fell dead on his sofa from heart failure due to what doctors discovered years later, via his granddaughter, was a genetic condition called Long QT syndrome.

👻Old cemeteries, abandoned places, and dark forests—where footsteps echo in empty halls. This National Ghost Hunting Day (Sept 26), grab your gear! Ghost Atlas maps haunted hotspots and local legends. Know a haunted spot? Submit it in the app and discover what waits in the darkness.👻 #GhostAtlas

Mary Hardy Reeser (1951) was a 67-year-old widow who became the subject of one of the most famous and baffling forensic mysteries in modern history. Discovered in her St. Petersburg, Florida apartment, her near-total incineration became the definitive poster case for spontaneous human combustion.

Alessandro Moreschi was the last Sistine Chapel castrato and the only one to make solo recordings. Italian castrati were trained to preserve high vocal ranges, peaking in the 17th–18th centuries. Moreschi joined the choir in 1883, recorded in 1902–1904, retired in 1913, and died in 1922. #DeathAtlas

In 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers died mysteriously on Kholat Syakhl in the Ural Mountains. Their tent was cut open from inside, and inadequately dressed bodies were found 1.5 km away. Six died of hypothermia and three of severe trauma, sparking decades of speculation. #DeathAtlas #Russia

After Monterey Pop, Otis Redding wrote "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" on a houseboat, finishing it on Dec 7, 1967. Three days later, his plane crashed into Lake Monona, killing him and six others. Released posthumously in January 1968, the song became his first and only #1 hit.

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President James A. Garfields life was cut short not by an assassin’s bullet alone but by a septic infection caused by unsterilized instruments probing his wound.Garfields death shocked the country into facing modern medicine & energized the reform movement created the Pendleton Civil Service Act.

Thomas Midgley Jr., best known for inventing leaded gasoline & chlorofluorocarbon gas, contracted polio in 1941,which left him severely disabled,leading him to devise an elaborate system of ropes & pulleys to lift himself out of bed. In 1944, he became entangled in the device& died of strangulation.

Nov 24, '09,John Edward Jones entered Nutty Putty Cave.While exploring John crawled headfirst into a narrow passage & got wedged vertical in an 18" wide & 10" high space.John eventually died on Nov 25.Recovering his body was decided to be too dangerous.Nutty Putty was sealed,with John still inside.

Author; Sherwood Anderson: The 64-year-old American writer died of peritonitis after accidentally swallowing an olive that had a toothpick inside. #DeathAtlas

Andrew Myrick, a trader who told starving members of the Dakota tribe to "eat grass or dung." On the first day of the Dakota War of 1862, his head was cut off and his mouth was stuffed with grass. #DeathAtlas

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