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unusual facts about crypt



Aaron Clark

Both he and his wife are buried in the Clark family crypt at the New York Marble Cemetery on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Andy Stamets

Rocket from the Crypt disbanded after playing their final performance on Halloween 2005, which was recorded and later released as R.I.P.

Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen

When he died in Arco on 18 February 1895, Archduke Albrecht received a state funeral and was buried in tomb 128 of the Imperial crypt in Vienna.

Ashish Gulhati

He is an open source developer and the author of several extensions to the Perl programming language, including PerlVision, Crypt::GPG, Crypt::Schnorr::AuthSign, Persistence::Database::SQL and Persistence::Object::Postgres.

Capuchin Crypt

The Marquis de Sade noted that he found his 1775 journey to the crypt was worth the effort, and Nathaniel Hawthorne noted its grotesque nature in his 1860 novel The Marble Faun.

Carlos Condell

His remains were carried to the Crypt of the Naval Heroes (Cripta de los Héroes Navales) in Valparaíso.

Charles Pratt

Known as "Pratt Cemetery", behind ornate gates and up a winding drive stands a pink granite Romanesque mausoleum designed by William Tubby, as well as a crypt and a tower connected by a "bridge of sighs".

Church of St Petka of the Saddlers

The theory was supported by the noted research worker of Levski Nikolay Haytov and to an extent backed by the 1956 excavations that discovered several skeletons in the crypt, as well as by press reports from 1937 retelling the stories of those who carried out the burial.

Coalescent

In 1537 the Order survives the pillage of Rome by Antipope Clement VII by sacrificing five of its members to rape and death to divert Clement and his men's attention from an entrance to the Crypt.

Crypt Style

Crypt Style is the second official album by the group The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and was first released in 1992 on CD in Japan on the "1+2" label.

Daniel, Count of Waldeck

Daniel died on 7 June 1577 and was buried in the family crypt in Marienthal Abbey in Netze (now part of Waldeck).

F. G. Loring

Ray Danton's 1972 film Crypt of the Living Dead was an uncredited adaptation of this.

G. T. Abraham

While attending the Lambeth Conference, 1998, the Virginia Theological Seminary conferred upon Abraham an honorary doctorate at a special academic convocation on 27 July 1998 in Canterbury Cathedral's Crypt in Canterbury, Kent by Bishop Peter James Lee of Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.

George Elias Tuckett

He is buried in the Tuckett family crypt, located in Hamilton Cemetery.

Gulcher Records

They have released music for acts such as John Cougar Mellencamp, The Gizmos, Kurt Vile, Dancing Cigarettes, Crawlspace, Magik Markers, Dow Jones and the Industrials, MX-80 (band), the Panics, Home Blitz, the Screamin' Mee-Mees, Hypocrite in a Hippy Crypt, and Handglops.

Heinrich Fichtenau

Fichtenau is buried at his family's crypt in the town of Baden, near Vienna.

Helmut Kirchmeyer

The crypt below it was decorated by Emil Schult, and Karlheinz Stockhausen composed the piece 50 Klangbilder as musical illustration of Schult's work.

Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor

In 1962 the Society established its own Chapel in the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, London; in 2005 this Chapel was moved to the Crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

James Darcy Freeman

He died on 16 March 1991, St Vincent's Hospital at the age of 83 and is buried in the crypt of St Mary's Cathedral.

James Edward Keeler

His ashes were interred in a crypt at the base of the 31-inch Keeler Memorial telescope at the Allegheny Observatory.

Jewel House

Although a treasury had been found in the Tower of London from the earliest times (as in the sub-crypt of St. John's Chapel in the White Tower), from 1255 there was a separate Jewel House for state crowns and regalia, though not older crowns and regalia, which remained at Westminster Abbey.

John Reis

2005 marked the end of Reis' multi-band involvement, with the breakups of Hot Snakes in July and Rocket from the Crypt on Halloween.

Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

Pulver started his publishing career in the early 1990s with a number of short stories published in various American small press magazines, foremost among them Robert M. Price’s Crypt of Cthulhu.

Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe

He was buried in the family crypt in 13th-century Saint-Lubin church of the village of Rambouillet near the Château de Rambouillet, his father's favorite residence.

Manoel Island

The original plans for the Fort are attributed to Louis d'Augbigne Tigné, and are said to have been modified by his friend and colleague Charles François de Mondion, who is buried in a crypt beneath Fort Manoel.

Matthew Gibney

During restoration work in the Cathedral between 2003 and 2006, the brick and plaster crypt containing the coffins of Gibney and Bishop Martin Griver was discovered by archaeologists under the floorboards of the Cathedral.

Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great

During the restoration of the big Church of Saint Macarius, the crypt of Saint John the Baptist and that of Elisha the Prophet were discovered below the northern wall of the church, in accordance with the site mentioned in manuscripts from the 11th & 16th centuries found in the library of the monastery.

Mount Chocorua

Most of the events in John Bellairs' novel The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt happen near this mountain.

Oliwa Cathedral

The interior also holds Rococo chapels of the Holy Cross and St John of Nepomuk, an ambo, tombstones, epitaphs, the Pomeranian Dukes tomb, the Kos family tomb, bishop’s crypt, antique chandeliers, canopies, and many other antiquities, including a feretory of great cultural value, showing Our Lady of Oliwa with an Infant Jesus.

Perversions of Science

The format of Perversions of Science is very similar to Tales From The Crypt, the show was introduced by a sexualized female robot named Chrome (voiced by Maureen Teefy) and then an individual episode would start.

Peter Melander Graf von Holzappel

He was buried in the princely crypt (the Melandergruft) in the Lutheran St. John church in Holzappel, which was known as Esten at the time.

Phil Esbenshade

Esbenshade also played bass guitar and sang in the underground indie rock band Custom Floor with Miki Vuckovich, Garry Davis, and then later, Atom Willard (longtime drummer for Rocket From The Crypt and current drummer for The Offspring and Angels & Airwaves).

Princess Victoria Charlotte of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym

She died in 1772 and was buried in the Melander Crypt in Holzappel.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth

During restoration work in the Cathedral between 2003 and 2006, the brick and plaster crypt containing the coffins of Bishops Matthew Gibney and Martin Griver was discovered by archaeologists under the floorboards of an aisle in the Cathedral.

Seeon Abbey

Between 1657 and 1670 the church was extended by the construction of a sacristy in the Lady Chapel, an oratory and a crypt beneath the chapel of Saint Barbara.

Sepulcher Mountain

The peak was named Sepulcher by Captain John W. Barlow, U.S. Army in 1871 because of it resemblance to a crypt when viewed from Gardiner, Montana.

Sidney Lovell

A few of the Chicago businessmen that purchased crypt space in the newly built mausoleum were: John G. Shedd, president of Marshall Field & Co., A. Montgomery Ward of Montgomery Ward & Co., and many other Chicago area businessmen.

St Andrew's Church, Westland Row, Dublin

Dominic Corrigan (1802-1880), a noted physician, is buried in the crypt of the church.

St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier

Maximin (died 346) and other early bishops of Trier were buried in the crypt of the church on the site, an early Christian cemetery, and the church, at first dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist, was later renamed after Maximin.

Sven Berlin

Around this time, Berlin founded the Crypt Group of modern-minded young artists, along with Peter Lanyon, John Wells and Bryan Wynter, and joined the Penwith Society of Arts for a short time, before leaving the group in distaste at its abstract tendencies.

Tales from the Crypt

Tales from the Cryptkeeper, a 1993 animated TV series based on the Tales of the Crypt movies and comics

Demon Knight, also known as Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, a 1995 film starring Billy Zane, William Sadler and Jada Pinkett Smith that acted as a spin-off from the television series

Todd Holland

His episodic work spans the gamut of genres from Twin Peaks and My So-Called Life to Shameless, and from Tales from the Crypt to Friends and 30 Rock.

Tommy Vicini

Several of Vicini's post Hamburglar credits include Playing the Crypt Keeper in the Tales from the Crypt film Demon Knight, Star Trek: Insurrection.

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

Drake then follows the ruins to a crypt that contains the Sword of Stephen - the personal sword of Esteban, de Niza's guide; however, they are interrupted by Dante, who had followed them with Guerro.

Undercroft

For example, there is a 14th-century undercroft or crypt extant at Muchalls Castle in Scotland, even though the original chapel above it was destroyed in an act of war in 1746.

Victorids

The Victorid bishop was Tello (758–763) began the construction of the cathedral, which has an unusual crypt and was renovated in the Romanesque style.

Zăbrani

Among the most important touristic sights of the commune we can mention the rural architectural complex in Zăbrani dating from the 9th century, the Roman Catholic church in the centre of Neudorf village (1771), the crypt of archduchess Marie Anne Hapsburg in Neudorf (1809) with a funeral monument raised in 1841, as well as the memorial museum of Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn, an outstanding personality of German literature.


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