Caitlin Doughty | CORPSE HOAXES: Aliens & Cadaver Factories @AskAMortician | Uploaded January 2018 | Updated October 2024, 5 days ago.
We're afraid of death, yet we seem to love a good corpse conspiracy theory.

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Mortician: Caitlin Doughty
Writing & Research: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1)
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***LEARN MORE***

“The Corpse Factory and the Birth of Fake News”
bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38995205

“The Racism Behind Alien Mummy Hoaxes”
theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/how-to-fake-an-alien-mummy/535251

“In the Joints of Their Toes”
theparisreview.org/blog/2016/11/04/in-the-joints-of-their-toes

“Mourned Beef”
snopes.com/china-corned-beef-dead-bodies

“China Denies Exporting Human Meat to African Supermarkets as Fake Photos Go Viral”
telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/20/china-denies-exporting-human-meat-to-african-supermarkets