Morbid History: Because You're Just More Interesting When You're Dead

This light-hearted and heartfelt presentation from devoted taphophile (cemetery enthusiast) Lorissa takes you around the world with spine-tingling true tales and bizarre history that you never learned in history class.

Stories include:

Grand Corpse Larceny—how St. Mark’s corpse was smuggled into Venice.

Chicago’s Lincoln Park—the massive Victorian cemetery that still delivers “easter eggs” to unsuspecting contractors.

The Resurrectionists who robbed graves for medical school dissections.

The Smithsonian’s mysterious origins and epic collection of human remains.

The inbred Habsburg Royals and their organs posthumously divided between three crypts.

The medieval Bone Chapel of Sedlac, Czechia, complete with a skull chandelier.

Battling racism in American graveyards.

How the feds turned Robert’s Lee’s estate into Arlington National Cemetery so he’d never want to return.