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The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

Welcome to The Grim, where host Kristin Lopes guides you through the world"s most haunted cemeteries and forgotten burial grounds.Each week, we explore ghost stories, historical mysteries, and the art carved into centuries-old stones—from New England witch trials to European ossuaries, Victorian mourning customs to modern hauntings. Through vivid storytelling and deep research, we uncover the lives, legends, and restless spirits that refuse to stay buried.Perfect for lovers of:Haunted cemeteries

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17:52

The Forest of Sorrow | Aokigahara, Japan

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2026/03/31

Grim Mourning and Welcome to The Grim. This week, Kristin opens the gate on one of the most haunted and heartbreaking places in the world — Japan's Aokigahara Forest. Known as the Sea of Trees, this dense wilderness sprawls across 13.5 square miles at the base of Mount Fuji, less than 100 miles from Tokyo. Ancient volcanic eruptions carved the land beneath it, leaving roots tangled across a maze of hardened lava and iron-rich stone that silences compasses, weakens cell signals, and swallows s...

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14:29

Graves in a Ghost Town | Odd Fellows Cemetery,...

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2026/03/24

Where the dead are remembered and the earth still burns. Beneath the quiet rows of Odd Fellows Cemetery in Centralia, Pennsylvania, a fire has been burning since 1962 — and it shows no sign of stopping. In this episode of The Grim, we open the gate on one of America's most unsettling burial grounds: an active cemetery inside a ghost town, maintained by a church miles away, visited by families who no longer have a home to return to. Centralia was once a thriving coal-mining community in Columb...

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18:07

Ireland's Three Saints | Down Cathedral Graveyard,...

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2026/03/17

In this episode of The Grim, Kristin opens the gates to Down Cathedral Graveyard in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland — a hilltop burial ground sacred since the Bronze Age, where centuries of pilgrimage, legend, and quiet reverence converge on a single unadorned stone. One of the oldest continuously sacred sites in Ireland, Down Cathedral Graveyard sits atop a hill that has drawn the faithful for thousands of years — long before any cathedral stood along its crest. Today it is best known as the ...

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15:26

The Ghoul of Plainfield | Plainfield Cemetery, Wisconsin

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2026/03/10

In this episode of The Grim, Kristin opens the gates to Plainfield Cemetery in Plainfield, Wisconsin—a modest Midwestern burial ground rooted in pioneer history, where the quiet rows of headstones conceal one of the most disturbing legacies in American true crime. Home to the earliest settlers of rural Wisconsin, the cemetery is perhaps best known today as the final resting place of Ed Gein—a body snatcher who robbed the very graves he now lies among, buried unmarked between his mother and br...

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The Final Haven | Old Church Cemetery, Cobh

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2026/03/03

In this episode of The Grim, Kristin opens the gates to Old Church Cemetery in Cobh, Ireland—a hillside burial ground stretching back to Ireland's Celtic past, where maritime catastrophe, extraordinary lives, and restless spirits converge above one of the world's great natural harbours. Home to victims of the RMS Lusitania, a celebrated Irish boxer, a surgeon who stood beside Napoleon's deathbed, and an Antarctic explorer who carried the cold home in his hands—Old Church is one of Ireland's m...

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The Black Hope Curse | Black Hope Cemetery

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2026/02/24

Descend into Black Hope Cemetery in Crosby, Texas, where an entire post-Civil War freedom colony was swallowed by fire, forgotten by history, and buried beneath a modern subdivision — and where the dead refused to stay silent. Host Kristin uncovers Charlie and Betty Thomas — formerly enslaved people exhumed from a family's backyard still wearing their wedding rings — the Haney family's nightmare of glowing unplugged clocks, ghostly figures hovering over the bed, and a pair of red shoes that v...

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16:37

Phantoms of the Track | African Cemetery No. 2

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2026/02/17

Descend into African Cemetery No. 2 in Lexington, Kentucky, where the first Kentucky Derby winner rests in unmarked ground alongside Civil War heroes, Buffalo Soldiers, and the grooms and trainers who built America's thoroughbred empire. Host Kristin uncovers Oliver Lewis—who won the 1875 Derby at nineteen and died laying asphalt—journalist Robert Charles O'Hara Benjamin, murdered for defending Black voters, and over 5,000 souls buried in one of the nation's oldest African American-owned ceme...

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25:53

Pickett's Souls | Gettysburg National Cemetery

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2026/02/10

Join host Kristin as The Grim descends into Gettysburg National Cemetery—where blood-soaked earth birthed America's first monument to mass death. This episode unveils the horror behind the Battle of Gettysburg: over 50,000 souls torn apart in three days of slaughter, obsolete tactics meeting modern killing machines, and fields transformed into open graves before national cemeteries existed to contain the carnage. Featured Dark History & Hauntings: The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863)...

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24:08

The Erasure of Death | African American Burial Grounds

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2026/02/03

Join host Kristin as The Grim explores African American Burial Grounds and Enslaved Persons Cemeteries throughout the United States—sacred spaces erased by time, neglect, and systemic racism. This episode uncovers the heartbreaking truth behind America's lost burial grounds: nearly 4 million enslaved people by 1860, yet their final resting places remain largely undocumented, paved over, or forgotten. Featured Sites & Stories: The New York African Burial Ground—10,000-15,000 souls discover...

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21:33

Blood on the Irons | St. Philip's Graveyard & Cemetery

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2026/01/27

Descend into the moss-draped grounds of St. Philip's in Charleston, South Carolina, where the nation's oldest Anglican congregation has buried its dead since 1681. Host Kristin explores a city built atop graves, uncovering the Revolutionary War heroes, Vice Presidents, and enslaved protectors whose legacies—and spirits—refuse to stay buried. Featured Historical Figures: John C. Calhoun – The Vice President who resigned his office to defend an ideology so divisive, his grave was hidden during ...

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30:15

A Garden Built on Bones | St. James Cemetery, Liverpool

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2026/01/20

What happens when a cemetery built to honor the dead becomes their greatest indignity? St. James Cemetery in Liverpool was designed as a modern answer to Victorian burial chaos—but instead recreated every horror it promised to solve. Now 57,000 souls lie beneath what's officially called a public park, their gravestones cleared away, their names reduced to lists on communal stones. Host Kristin descends into this haunted quarry-turned-cemetery to uncover the stories of those buried within: Sar...

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29:24

The Rebel Royal | Kensal Green Cemetery, London

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2026/01/13

In this episode of The Grim, Kristin opens the gates to Kensal Green Cemetery in London, England—the first of the city's Magnificent Seven, where innovation, artistry, and royal rebellion lie beneath seventy-two acres of leaning stones. Built in 1833 to relieve London's overcrowded graveyards, Kensal Green now faces its own crisis: caught between preservation and a city desperate for space. Over 250,000 souls rest here, including nearly a thousand recorded in the Dictionary of National Biogra...

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The Harbour of Corpses | Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax

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2026/01/06

In this episode of The Grim, Kristin opens the gates to Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia—a place where tragedy, memory, and history converge. Best known as the final resting place of 121 Titanic victims, Fairview offers a tangible encounter with sorrow: rows of granite markers transform distant history into something immediate and haunting. From the meticulous recovery work of John Henry Barnstead to the long-unidentified Unknown Child, the cemetery preserves lives lost at sea w...

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2025 | A Grim Review

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2025/12/30

Descend into reflection as The Grim closes the gates on 2025, a year that saw this niche podcast defy brutal industry statistics—where 47% of shows never reach episode three and only 8.5% make it to 50 episodes. Host Kristin marks episode 73 with gratitude, looking back at the cemeteries that fascinated her most and the stories that asked to be told, while acknowledging the listeners who made survival possible in a landscape littered with abandoned feeds and forgotten voices. Featured Cemeter...

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A Gothic Yuletide | St. Patrick's Cathedral Crypt

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2025/12/23

Descend beneath the marble floors of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, where Gothic spires pierce the winter skyline above Fifth Avenue and Christmas lights glow against ancient stone, while twenty archbishops and cardinals rest in eternal vigil below the high altar. Host Kristin guides listeners through the crypts of America's most iconic cathedral during the season when millions gather for Midnight Mass above—unaware of the voices that linger below. Founded in 1858 on land once cons...

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Blood & Marble | Chicago's Rosehill Cemetery

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2025/12/16

Explore the snow-covered grounds of Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, where Gothic towers stand sentinel over 350 acres of American ambition, tragedy, and memory. Host Kristin guides listeners through Chicago's first private cemetery, founded in 1859 on the city's highest natural elevation, uncovering the lost Victorian tradition of Christmas festivities among the graves and the spirits that linger in the winter twilight. Featured Historical Figures: Richard Warren Sears & Aaron Mon...

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Snowbound Souls | The Literary Dead of Sleepy Hollow...

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2025/12/09

Explore the snow-covered grounds of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts, where America's greatest literary minds rest among the pines. Host Kristin guides listeners through the historic 119-acre rural cemetery, uncovering the winter connections between graveyards, ghosts, and the holiday season. Featured Historical Figures: Henry David Thoreau – Discover the Walden author's winter experiments, his work with the Underground Railroad, and the rainstorm that ultimately led to his de...

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20:12

Legacy within Trinity

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2025/12/02

In this episode of The Grim, Kristin guides you through the historic shadows of Trinity Churchyard in New York City—the final resting place of Alexander Hamilton, Eliza Hamilton, Angelica Schuyler, Robert Fulton, Albert Gallatin, John Peter Zenger, and the mysterious James Leeson. Step beyond Wall Street’s noise and into a world where America’s early history and lingering hauntings intertwine. Discover the stories etched into these stones, from Revolutionary heroes to whispered legends said t...

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19:15

Pirate in the Pumpkin Patch

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2025/11/25

In this haunting Thanksgiving-week episode of The Grim, host Kristin unlocks the wrought-iron gates of King’s Chapel Burying Ground, Boston’s oldest cemetery and one of the most actively haunted sites on the Freedom Trail. Once a humble pumpkin patch belonging to Isaac Johnson, the grounds grew into the city’s first field of the dead—a place where colonial grief, Revolutionary history, and restless spirits have shared the same soil for nearly four centuries. Listeners are guided through the c...

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28:20

Eternal Enemies

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2025/11/18

In this haunting episode of The Grim, host Kristin leads listeners through Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville’s most atmospheric historic burial ground. Founded in 1850 and named for poet Thomas Gray, Old Gray is a Victorian garden cemetery filled with marble angels, weathered obelisks, and stories carved deep into Tennessee’s past. This episode uncovers the cemetery’s origins, from Knoxville’s deadly cholera epidemic of 1854 to the tragic New Market train collision of 1904, both of which brought w...

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