Paul Bearer (April 10, 1954 – March 5, 2013)

Depending on your age at the time of Bearer’s unsettling debut, we either found him scary, appalling, hilarious, creepily convincing, or a healthy sprinkle of each. Whatever it was, he was truly an impossible figure to shake from memory.

Bearer’s overwhelming presence, from his harrowing voice to his ghastly appearance, greatly assists in summarizing the WWE during the early 90s in that he was such a well-defined, human cartoon you almost forgot he wasn’t actually a guy named Paul Bearer who carried around a gold urn like a prized pet.

The magnetic mortician will be sorely missed, and most certainly never repeated.

RIP Bill Moody aka Paul Bearer.

[via WWE]