A Calvert County fossil hunter found a coffin and human skeleton in the Chesapeake Bay, prompting questions about how old the body is and where it could have originated. NBC reported Friday that ...

The coffin she was buried in is called a Fisk Iron Casket. Those types of caskets were popular in the mid-1800s. They kept ...

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The unusual coffin was discovered along the A47 ... Interestingly, the plaster also took the shape of the body itself. Experts found other oddities in the surrounding graves, including what ...

The rental unit where teacher Joseph Gathogo was found dead ... Detectives pried open the concrete coffin and discovered Joseph Gathogo's body. [Jefitha Mwai, Standard] "There was no smell ...

Evidence points to the possibility that the coffin belonged to an important person, perhaps the head of a prominent family.