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    Body snatching is the illicit removal of corpses from graves, morgues, and other burial sites. Body snatching is distinct from the act of grave robbery...
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    Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science-fiction horror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy...
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  • The Body Snatchers is a science fiction horror novel by American writer Jack Finney, originally serialized in Collier's magazine in November–December 1954...
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  • Look up body snatcher in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Body snatcher or The Body Snatcher may refer to: Body-snatcher, a person who secretly exhumes...
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  • Body Snatchers is a 1993 American science fiction horror film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly...
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  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 American science-fiction horror film directed by Philip Kaufman, written by W. D. Richter, and starring Donald...
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  • "The Body Snatcher" is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). First published in The Pall Mall Gazette in December 1884...
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  • (also known as body snatchers) is the colloquial term for a species of plant-like aliens featured in the 1954 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney...
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    been posted at the cemeteries because he killed a dog during the last body-snatching, instead of digging someone up, Gray murders a young street singer....
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    Cadaver (redirect from Dead human body)
    body snatching was performed by four medical students who were arrested in 1319[citation needed] for grave-robbing. In the 1700s most body snatchers were...
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    ] a self-confessed robber came forward and admitted the body-snatching [...] leaving the body in the car [...] he took the head home and kept it on his...
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    theft, or destruction in places where humans are interred, such as body snatching or grave robbing. It has long been considered taboo to desecrate or...
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  • body snatching was a common way of acquiring bodies for research up until the 20th century, modern body brokers usually receive cadavers via body donation...
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  • common being graverobbing (or body snatching) of impoverished communities; other doctors would pay slave owners for the bodies of deceased slaves. For many...
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  • The London Burkers were a group of body snatchers operating in London, England, who apparently modeled their activities on the notorious Burke and Hare...
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    Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer, suspected serial killer and body snatcher. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin...
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  • The Invasion (film) (category Body Snatchers films)
    Squires, John (November 7, 2024). "'The Invasion' – Arrow Video Brings Body Snatching Movie Starring Nicole Kidman to 4K". Bloody Disgusting. Archived from...
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    John Scott Harrison (category Victims of body snatching)
    States of America. The Author. p. 78. Retrieved November 8, 2023. "A body-snatching horror". The Ottawa Free Trader. Ottawa, Illinois. June 8, 1878. p. 2...
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  • Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell (Japanese: 吸血鬼ゴケミドロ, Hepburn: Kyūketsuki Gokemidoro, lit. 'Vampire Gokemidoro') is a 1968 Japanese science fiction horror...
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  • Biomedical Tissue Services (category Body snatching)
    an episode of Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? (The body snatcher's wife) Organ harvesting Body snatching Tri-State Crematory Holtzclaw, D; Toscano, N; Eisenlohr...
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  • people dishonor the dead: Body snatching is the secret removal of corpses from burial sites. A common purpose of body snatching, especially in the 19th...
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    known for her film roles in Days of Heaven (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and The Dead Zone (1983). Adams was born on February 8, 1949...
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    Charlie Chaplin (category Victims of body snatching)
    obsession". The actress Minnie Maddern Fiske wrote that "a constantly increasing body of cultured, artistic people are beginning to regard the young English buffoon...
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    platform and goods shed remain intact. Edrom was notable as the site of Body snatching which resulted in a riot in Duns. George Buchan of Kelloe (1775–1856)...
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    Eva Perón (category Victims of body snatching)
    arrangements to secure Evita's body. Following his flight, a military dictatorship took power. The new authorities removed Evita's body from display, and its whereabouts...
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    or personal property. A related act is body snatching, a term denoting the contested or unlawful taking of a body (usually from a grave), which can be extended...
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    The stolen body hypothesis posits that the body of Jesus Christ was stolen from his burial place. It theorises that his tomb was found empty not because...
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    foundlings and orphans. The shortage of corpses led to an increase in body snatching by what were known as "resurrection men". Measures to ensure graves...
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  • was a body snatcher. He was active from 1855 to 1871. Cunningham was described by the physicians who worked with him as an expert in body snatching. To...
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    Thomas Paine (category Victims of body snatching)
    He appears in the Town Book as a member of the Court Leet, the governing body for the town. He was also a member of the parish vestry, an influential local...
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