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Taphophilia: [noun] Love of Funerals, Cemeteries, and the Rituals of Death · The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

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  Good morning and welcome to the grim.
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  I'm your host, Kristen, on today's episode, we'll be opening the gate and entering TAF Ophelia.
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  Located anywhere and everywhere.
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  So grab your favorite mug cozy up and let's take a Daikin to history.
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  This week's episode is a little different, but trust me, we'll be back next week.
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  Opening another gate into a fantastic graveyard.
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  I thought it might be ideal to share a little bit more of the where and why for the Grimm's creation and the subject of taffeta feely in this episode for listeners.
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  Something.
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  I rather thought I was alone in, in my interest of yet found I really wasn't.
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  Tough Ophelia is a now meeting the love of funerals, cemeteries, and the rituals of death, by the way.
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  If today's title, wasn't clear enough.
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  The main ingredient of the grim Ville, other than Veolia stumps where my love of history.
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  As a child history was one of my favorite subjects in school.
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  And even as I grew up, never faded away.
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  I read various books outside the classroom and eventually in college.
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  Living in London for four years, immerse myself even more into the subject through tours and history classes.
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  No, I wasn't a history major though, which made some of my history course choices.
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  Bizarre.
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  For a computer engineering student yet when talking about the czar within history, tough Ophelia is rather essential.
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  When you think about what we know from our ancestors or science had discovered.
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  Came from in a way of grave robbing without the historical and anthropology information destroyed.
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  Uncovering your ancestor to know more from their final resting places has given us invaluable information from the past that we would have never been able to achieve because we just can't ask them.
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  How they died, what they ate, they condition of their bones and how they were buried can and has given us insights into their culture.
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  We would have never known.
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  In the name of history and archeology dig uncovering ancient tombs or ruins is looked at respectfully, but the love of graves are deaf.
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  This deemed McCobb.
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  One scene strolling through a local graveyard is looked at vastly different and quite frankly shot.
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  And when the passions are practically the same, I absolutely not am saying to go to your local graveyard and start your own archeological dig.
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  Please don't it's illegal.
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  And not the point of this episode, just saying.
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  As archeologists are expert, and I am not nor are many others, but the interest and passions from most of the Tatler feely community, I find.
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  Are similar.
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  We want to know more about them, where we came from and find those who came before us who are aptly found most likely in her local graveyard, which is the best place to start.
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  The first time I walked through her gray Farad as a daily occurrence and not for a special tour.
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  Or for any particular reason was in London, England during university.
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  A pathway into town leads you through a small graveyard, just briefly for a moment.
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  That moment was enough for Tathra.
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  to take.
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  Graveyards or serene, peaceful and a remembrance of loved ones.
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  But in this one I knew no one.
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  Completely unknown to me, their lives, families and existence would have never crossed my paths, but because of this pathway, I saw their graves countless times.
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  Teach passing.
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  I noticed something different, bringing a short memory alive of a life past, however brief.
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  Cemeteries also were more elaborate Gothic and extravagant as well.
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  In times past taking a look at Highgate cemetery.
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  It's hard not to admire the ordinate detail that went into grave statues and Crips.
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  Life in cities, hundreds of years ago, dealt with death very differently throughout their ages.
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  The exposure in daily life Descemet's Mary's graveyards is far more likely to happen as well.
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  Or let us just say, there are far more graveyards within these towns growing up in the Midwest, we have the ability to have large towns with cemeteries and graveyards are moved and distance from our daily lives, which is what I was accustomed to.
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  American culture also treats death as a taboo moral issue.
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  That led me to have a very sheltered life from graveyards or cemetery visits.
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  They'll the reason you go to a graveyard or a cemetery is to see a loved one who has passed on not to just explore or two or one.
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  My small exposure from my past of graveyards, and then to seeing them daily fed into my curiosity and started an entrust and becoming a tombstone tourist unknowingly.
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  This interest, however, took a backseat to life and it wasn't until later into my late twenties, it came back to haunt me.
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  On a trip to new Orleans with a good friend of mine.
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  A few of the sightseeing attractions or cemeteries, ghost tours and video shops.
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  New Orleans is notorious for bearing their loved ones above ground due to the natural landscape of their city.
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  As we went over in this city is at the dead episode.
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  That has also become embraced in the culture of the city, a unique ways, not found in other places of the world.
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  This reopened my fascination at once with cemeteries and the rituals of death.
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  But took a turn for me was the celebration of life within a death.
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  And new Orleans.
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  They simply don't just mourn as others do, but have a second line or jazz funeral.
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  Starting on his mourning and grief.
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  The second line progresses to a joyful remembrance parading through the streets to the honorees grave.
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  As family members bear the burden of death, not alone.
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  Pilbara each other and their community.
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  He bought me to the stark realization of how diverse, the celebration of death rituals and even the attitude or culture toward death can be in America.
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  From that moment on, in my travels, I included graveyards or cemeteries on the itinerary, seeing how each city lived, but also diet created a complete comprehensive way to their circle of life.
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  Doing has historians have done for years and years before me.
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  I want to learn about their past by learning about death.
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  I was hooked and now years into my interests learn I'm not alone, but one of many who too have the same fascination.
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  Not all visitors within graveyard gates are mourning the loss of loved ones, but are there for other reasons too.
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  Using social media.
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  It's now easy to tour peer LeShae or Bonaventure, but the significance is never the same virtually.
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  In their presence.
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  These places hold you in ways.
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  Pictures could never grasp.
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  It's a humbling piece that some never have the taste for, and yet others, it can lead you on a journey of fascination and probably down a rabbit hole and a history.
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  I find many times while digging into the history of these graveyards and cemeteries.
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  There's so much history.
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  We weren't taught in school.
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  There's dark sides uncovered from whitewashing historical figures.
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  Parts deliberately left out or in some cases just completely forgotten.
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  Which in a way brings to mind the Disney movie, Coco.
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  The beautifully done animated film based on the significance of remembering our loved ones and cherishing our past while living out our own dreams and the future.
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  Remembering those who've gone before us and honoring them is an essential part of our path forward.
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  That's my takeaway from the film.
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  Anyway, there's so many lessons, disturbing details and odd facts that surface and researching Gravers that makes it even more fascinating.
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  Some cemeteries like Highgate or gardens or natural reserves.
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  The large acreage of land provides green spaces for wildlife and plants undisturbed from destruction and become safe havens.
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  It's a wildly different view that from our own ritual of burying our dead, the peace of that passing gives wildlife a Haven from humanity.
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  It's very odd.
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  Birds plants.
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  And for example, foxes have homes within that are protected by those of past.
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  They become sacred grounds in more ways than one hit grave.
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  Herds also have reputations, haunted, Erie, and demonic tales are born from experiences or the aura of the grounds.
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  Chilly fall nights of those looking very good ghost tale intertwined with the atmosphere within graveyards during Halloween can be compelling to anyone.
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  History becomes greater than fiction with tales, such as the Salem witch trials, where those involved are buried.
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  And if their souls are truly laid to rest.
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  It can drive millions to the grounds like charter Howard street in the fall season alone.
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  All because the ground's history that intrigues the public in rumors of hauntings.
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  The history intertwined with claims of those reaching out beyond the veil from the afterlife and hauntings after suffering.
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  Great tragedies.
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  I can easily add to the aura of a burial ground.
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  No in troubled souls laid to rest within, but might seek vengeance or desperate to tell their truths can lead to notoriety.
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  Mechanical cemetery.
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  M Alabama is a perfect example of this being notoriously haunted.
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  Visitors claim to see union soldiers within the grounds, riding horses, after tragically passing away in America, civil war, depending on personal beliefs, it's rumored when a human loses their life in a horrific or an extremely tragic event, their soul can be calm and trapped in a residual haunting.
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  Such as the union soldiers, solos, riding their horses forever caught in their last moments alive.
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  In 1837, a man named Charles Babbage suggested that spoken words may leave permanent impressions in the air.
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  Even after they become inaudible due to the motion transom between particles, thus creating the possibility that visitors and a graveyard might leave lasting impressions, effecting others who may enter after they've long gone.
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  Some may not believe in such says gestion, but the grounds aura can still leave lasting impressions with temple, like Gothic, Tims, worshiping those past, making visitors feel inferior in life and remind those just how short our lives are when one person experienced such unexplainable events or airy atmospheres, others attempt to also find reasoning in them, or even a wish to repeat the experience on their own.
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  Thus urban legends can be born and lead some grounds to be infamous for reasons beyond history.
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  Just like stole cemetery in Kansas from episode eight, where the claims of the devil visiting having conjured up, but with little to no evidence existing.
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  Visitors expecting to experience something other worldly can lead to even the most mundane locations to change instantly to more.
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  What happens to us in the afterlife and our human curiosity to know or make sense at all, comes out in various ways with one beam hauntings, I find these stories or details within the history of the grounds of central.
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  Giving you a more complete history of these graveyards, whether you, the listener believes in hauntings or not really?
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  Isn't my, or anyone's business.
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  But if a vampire hunt, desecrates, the tombs and a famous graveyard that does in every way become part of its history and why some visitors might dare to enter and is essential to know.
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  So, whether you're here for a passing interest, history, hauntings, or never coming back to the grim, I hope in any of your daily travels or in your special ones, you might appreciate your local graveyard or cemetery.
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  A little more.
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  Acknowledging that morbid to some as a place of peace, curiosity, history.
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  Uh, nature or the very least a resting place of a loved one gone before us.
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  The grave grind per tackle.
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  Ophelia was a freshly homemade brewed batch of Colombian El Virgo by Speedwell coffee company in a French press.
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  For now we're closing the gate on TAF Ophelia.
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  We hope you enjoyed our dig into history.
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  If you did subscribe today and join us next time, when we open the gate on the grim.