A religious family has been quizzed by police after they kept praying over a son's decomposing body for three days in an attempt to revive him. Gaston Claudio Chaves, 24, had died of natural causes in Las Brenas, Chaco, Argentina. But he was reported missing by his uncle after he…
A whale washed up dead on a tourist beach in Qatar is understood to have starved to death when the jaw bristles that filter its food died out. The giant Bryde's whale corpse was discovered in the surf on the coast of the Persian Gulf's Mesaieed Sealine coast. Environmental officials…
A woman in Germany lived with the mummified corpse of her dead husband in the other room for months before anyone noticed. The gruesome discovery took place on Berliner Strasse, in the town of Elsterwerda, in the north-eastern German state of Brandenburg. The unnamed man was reportedly 60 at the…
The body of a missing German teenager has been found near a sewage treatment plant following the arrest of a Syrian man over her murder. Tabitha E., 17, took the bus to go shopping in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg state, on Tuesday, 12th July, but failed to return home. Police officers scoured…
A mutant pig born with two bodies but one head has stumped scientists. The baffling creature arrived stillborn in Sao Miguel do Oeste, Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil last week. A pig with two bodies, one head and eight legs was born in the west of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in…
A rare Siberian tiger has been found dead on a road in Russia after apparently being killed by a stronger alpha-male rival. The incident took place near the village of Yuzhny, which is located in the Khabarovsk Krai region in far-eastern Russia, on Friday, 18th February. The Amur Tiger Centre,…
This is the moment a group of hunters stalk an injured, endangered cougar in the woods before throwing stones at it and later releasing sick images of them posing with the big cat’s bloodied corpse, prompting a police probe. The cougar (Puma concolor) was hunted and killed in the municipality…
These images allegedly showing a poacher in Brazil posing with a dead panther as a trophy has gone viral in South America. The incident took place in the municipality of Arame, which is located in the north-eastern Brazilian state of Maranhao, when an alleged poacher shared images online of himself…
The rotting naked body of a missing teen woman has been found on a roadside surrounded by vultures. A local resident called the police after he spotted several vultures in a ditch in a rural part of the municipality of Avare in the south-eastern Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. The…
A 76-year-old woman has been arrested after calling the emergency services to seek advice for the foul smell coming from her son’s rotting corpse after he died earlier this month. Despite not being considered a suspect in her 53-year-old son’s death, Toshiko Ujibe, who lives in Asaminami Ward in the…