Body Snatching

This former burial ground, built atop discarded ballast from cargo ships, is now a public park.

These unassuming buildings in the tranquil churchyard of rural Warblington are in fact grave watchers’ huts.

A watchhouse constructed from tombstones, to make way for a burial pit, for the victims succumbing to a deadly disease.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

A grave marker depicting a body snatching tableau on a 19th-century tombstone.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

These tiny effigies on display in Scotland's National Museum are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh's notorious Anatomy Murders.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.