Spiritualists use a variety of methods to attempt to contact the dead, often depending on their beliefs, traditions, or personal practices.

Under the ice freeze of Antarctica, the water normally remains around minus two degrees. This might sound cold, but compared to the icy surface, it's a balmy and stable climate. However, danger from above can sometimes make its way down to the ocean floor...

Mozart's "Requiem in D minor," K. 626, is a profound and evocative choral work written for the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead. Composed in 1791, it was left incomplete at Mozart's death, and was later finished by his student Franz Xaver Süssmayr.

Do humans have to die? What causes aging, and can we get around it? We'll talk about why we age and what kind of treatments can help us live longer.

Mictecacihuatl is the Aztec goddess of death and queen of the underworld. She is depicted as a skeletal figure wearing a crown of skulls. She rules Mictlan, the kingdom of the dead, and is celebrated in the Mexican festival of the Day of the Dead.

The mummies of Chile are the oldest in the world, but time, human development and climate change all pose a threat to the ancient relics.

In this comprehensive video, we unravel the rich tapestry of Greek and Roman funerary practices, revealing how these ancient civilizations perceived the soul's immortality and its continued existence beyond the grave.

Death (John Cleese) makes himself comfortable as he joins for dinner and continuously repeats he is the Grim Reaper.

The Stanley Hotel, in Estes Park, Colorado, is renowned for its history, its isolation (it inspired Stephen King's "The Shining"), and now as the home for Bredo Morstøl, a deceased Norwegian whose remains had been kept on ice since 1989, and which are now...

Ereshkigal was the goddess of the underworld in Sumerian mythology. She is the sister of the goddess Inanna (Ishtar) and ruled over the dead, symbolizing justice and the inevitability of death. Respected and feared, her figure represented the cycle of lif...

A walk to the beautiful Mám Éan and St.Patrick's Shrine which was a pre-Christian sacred site.

The Electric Grandmother is a television movie that originally aired January 17, 1982, on NBC as a 60-minute Project Peacock special, based on the 1969 science fiction short story "I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradbury. It stars Maureen Stapleton and...

What if we could live forever? Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us through life and death: if we could live forever what would life really mean? We explore why fresh flowers have meaning and why dogs make every day count. Learn about the Cretaceous-Tertiary Even...

National Geographic Explorer Albert Lin is on an extraordinary mission to unlock the secrets of our lost cities. Using cutting edge technology to strip back the layers of time, Albert pushes himself and his team to the edge in some of the most remote and...

This specialist hunter knows just how dangerous their prey can be. To solve this problem, they hypnotise crabs by changing the colour of their skin.