You might think that once someone is buried, their story is finally over, but for some of history's most famous figures, death was only the beginning of an extremely strange second chapter. From corpses snatched from graves for ransom to skulls that mysteriously vanished and body parts that ended up in private collections, these 15 famous figures weren't left to rest in peace.
Some of these stories involve entire bodies, while others concern stolen remains or body parts, and a few are still a mystery. But every one of them reveals just how far people have gone to possess, or profit from, the remains of the famous dead.
Click through the gallery to learn about this morbid phenomenon.