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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.
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Sea of Flames | Mirogoj Cemetery, Zagreb, Croatia
The Grim is opening the gate to Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb, Croatia, which marks its 150th anniversary this month. Behind its long wall of arcades and green…
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Tardis, Nutkin & The Chelsea Football Club | Brompton Cemetery, London, England
The Grim is opening the gate to Brompton Cemetery in London, England, one of the Victorian Magnificent Seven cemeteries, nestled between Kensington and…
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The Boiled Heart | Museo Panteón de San Fernando, Mexico City, Mexico
The Grim is opening the gate to the Museo Panteón de San Fernando in Mexico City for a special Día de Muertos episode. Once the most exclusive cemetery in…
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Horror Within Mount Hope | Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor Maine
The Grim is opening the gate to Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine, during the week of Halloween. Founded in 1834, it is one of America’s oldest garden…
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The Upiory & Strzygi Burying Ground | Poland’s “Vampire” Grave at Pień Cemetery
The Grim is opening the gate to Pień Cemetery, a forgotten 17th-century burial ground in northern Poland where the dead were locked into the earth. In 2022…
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales | Goat Island, Newport, Rhode Island
The Grim is opening the gate to Goat Island’s Pirate Graves, an unmarked burial ground on the shore of Newport Harbor in Rhode Island. In July 1723, twenty-six…
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The Empty Tomb | Crown Hill Cemetery, Indiana
The Grim is opening the gate to Crown Hill Cemetery, the largest cemetery in Indiana and the third-largest non-governmental cemetery in the United States…
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The Bloodless Royals | Hohenzollern Crypt
The Grim is opening the gate to the Hohenzollern Crypt, Germany's largest dynastic burial vault. Hidden beneath Berlin Cathedral, it holds 91 members of the…
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Paris in Mourning: The Ghosts of Père Lachaise, Part 2
Paris in Mourning, Part Two — and the gate is open again. The Grim returns to Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France for the season two finale, and the dead…
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Mortsafes & a Mean Man | Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Grim is opening the gate and entering Canongate Kirkyard in Edinburgh, Scotland, one of the most storied burial grounds on the Royal Mile, where the dead…
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Silver Souls | Silver Terraces Cemeteries, Virginia City, Nevada
The Grim is opening the gate on Silver Terrace Cemeteries in Virginia City, Nevada, a sprawling collection of eleven distinct burial grounds established on a…
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The Trail Ghost | Norton Cemetery, Union County, Tennessee
The Grim is opening the gate and entering Norton Cemetery, tucked off the Ghost House Trail inside Big Ridge State Park in Union County, Tennessee. Small…
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The First Decoration Day | Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, South Carolina
The Grim is opening the gate into an American holiday that isn't as old as time. Memorial Day feels timeless, as though it has always existed on the American…
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Tombstones Under The Trees | Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland, Oregon
The Grim is opening the gate and entering the oldest cemetery in the Pacific Northwest. Portland was built by people who survived impossible journeys, and Lone…
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A Garden in the Gallows | Msida Bastion Cemetery
The Grim is opening the gate into a haunted garden hidden under the Mediterranean sun. Perched within centuries-old bastions overlooking Marsamxetto Harbour…
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Live Free, Die Haunted | New Hampshire
In the quiet hills of New Hampshire, two small burial grounds hide some of the most persistent and unsettling folklore in all of New England. This episode of…
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Light Above, Silence Below | The Old North Church Crypt, Boston, MA
Beneath one of America's most iconic landmarks lies a crypt holding more than 1,100 souls — and stories most visitors never hear. In this episode of The Grim…
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Reap What You Sow | Picpus Cemetery, Paris France
Hidden behind a plain residential gate in Paris, unmarked on most maps and open only a few hours a day, Picpus Cemetery holds a silence unlike any other…
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Graves of the Confined | Manzanar Cemetery, California
In this episode of The Grim — a podcast exploring cemetery history, dark history, and the stories the dead leave behind — we open the gates of Manzanar…
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The Marbled Whispers | Staglieno Cemetery, Italy
Step through the iron gates of Staglieno Cemetery, one of Europe's largest and most extraordinary burial grounds, nestled on a hillside above the Ligurian port…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Forest of Sorrow | Aokigahara, Japan
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…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesGraves in a Ghost Town | Odd Fellows Cemetery, Centralia PA
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…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesIreland's Three Saints | Down Cathedral Graveyard, Ireland
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…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Ghoul of Plainfield | Plainfield Cemetery, Wisconsin
In this episode of The Grim, Kristin opens the gates to Plainfield Cemetery in Plainfield, Wisconsin—a modest Midwestern burial ground rooted in pioneer…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Final Haven | Old Church Cemetery, Cobh
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…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Black Hope Curse | Black Hope Cemetery
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…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesPhantoms of the Track | African Cemetery No. 2
Descend into African Cemetery No. 2 in Lexington, Kentucky, where the first Kentucky Derby winner rests in unmarked ground alongside Civil War heroes, Buffalo…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesPickett's Souls | Gettysburg National Cemetery
Join host Kristin as The Grim descends into Gettysburg National Cemetery — where blood-soaked Pennsylvania earth became the birthplace of America's first…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Erasure of Death | African American Burial Grounds
Join host Kristin as The Grim opens the gate on one of America's most erased and overlooked histories — African American burial grounds and enslaved persons…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesBlood on the Irons | St. Philip's Graveyard & Cemetery
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…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesA Garden Built on Bones | St. James Cemetery, Liverpool
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…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Rebel Royal | Kensal Green Cemetery, London
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…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Harbour of Corpses | Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax
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…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales2025 | A Grim Review
Nearly 47% of podcasts never reach episode three. Only 8.5% make it to 50. The Grim just published episode 73 — and this week, host Kristin closes the gates on…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesA Gothic Yuletide | St. Patrick's Cathedral Crypt
Every December, millions pass through St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue — drawn by Gothic spires, Christmas lights, and the echo of Midnight Mass through…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesBlood & Marble | Chicago's Rosehill Cemetery
In 1900, Chicago families spent their Christmas inside a cemetery. Sleigh rides, carolers, children playing among snow-covered monuments — all of it unfolding…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesSnowbound Souls | The Literary Dead of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
December and graveyards have always belonged together. The Victorians knew it — they laid evergreen wreaths on the graves of their loved ones on Christmas Day…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesLegacy Within Trinity | Trinity Churchyard, New York City
Step through the wrought-iron gates of Trinity Churchyard and the roar of Wall Street disappears. What remains is one of the oldest and most storied burial…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Pumpkin Patch Burying Ground | King's Chapel, Boston MA
Before Boston was Boston, there was a pumpkin patch — and a grieving man who asked to be buried in it. That quiet wish became King's Chapel Burying Ground, the…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesEternal Enemies | Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville TN
Step through the iron gates of Old Gray Cemetery — Knoxville, Tennessee's most atmospheric Victorian burial ground, where Appalachian ghost lore, Civil War…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesBones of the Risorgimento | The Ossuaries of San Martino & Solferino, Italy
Step beyond the veil with The Grim as host Kristin explores the haunting ossuaries of San Martino and Solferino in Lombardy, Italy—where thousands of bones…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Dead Watch | Tolomato Cemetery, St. Augustine FL
In America's oldest city, beneath sighing oaks draped in Spanish moss, lies a cemetery that opens its gates to the living only three hours a month. The…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Vampire's Tree | Panteón de Belén, Guadalajara Mexico
Join host Kristin as The Grim opens the gate on All Hallows' Eve, crossing into Panteón de Belén — Guadalajara's most haunted cemetery, where Gothic arches…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesGunntown's Haunting Hollow | Gunntown Cemetery, Naugatuck CT
Join host Kristin as The Grim opens the gate to Gunntown Cemetery — one of Connecticut's oldest and most haunted burial grounds, tucked into the quiet folds of…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Grim's Guide to Salem | 8 Haunted Cemeteries in Salem MA
Join host Kristin as The Grim opens the gate on a guided walk through Salem's most historic and haunted graveyards — eight burial grounds, each carrying its…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesHungry Hill: The Ghosts of Oniontown | Old Wethersfield Village Cemetery, CT
Here's the refined, SEO-optimized episode summary in flowing prose: Join host Kristin as The Grim unlatches the gate to Old Wethersfield Village Cemetery — one…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Asylum of Horror | Danvers State Hospital Cemetery, Massachusetts
Join host Kristin as The Grim steps into the forgotten field of Danvers State Hospital Cemetery — where nearly 800 souls lie buried beneath numbered stones in…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesUnwelcomed Ghosts | All Saints' Church Cemetery, Pawleys Island SC
Join host Kristin as The Grim unlatches the wrought-iron gate of All Saints' Church Cemetery on Pawleys Island, South Carolina — a romantic gothic acre draped…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Controversy of Death | The Tophet of Carthage, Tunis
Join host Kristin as The Grim crosses deserts of time to step onto the sands of Carthage — where the ancient Tophet waits, steeped in ash, controversy, and one…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesParis in Mourning | The Ghosts of Père Lachaise, Paris
Join host Kristin as The Grim unlatches the rusted gate of Père Lachaise — Paris's most iconic necropolis, where over 3.5 million visitors a year wander among…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesA Tango with Death | Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
In the heart of Buenos Aires, tucked behind neo-classical gates and Doric columns, lies a city built entirely for the dead. Fourteen acres of marble…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesOne If by Liberty, Two If by Death | Granary Burying Ground, Boston MA
It doesn't haunt with spectacle. It broods. And when the last tourist passes through the gate and the city exhales into sleep, the ground stirs once more…
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The Reincarnation
Shhh… The Haunting Return of Season Two Begins Sept 2. Are you ready to step beyond the veil… and into the history of hauntings once again? Support the show…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesCoffee in the Crypt: Ghosts & Graves of St. Paul’s Cathedral
In this eerie season finale of The Grim, we're opening the gate and descending into one of the most iconic and haunted sites located in London England - the…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesBones in Bloom
The Grim is opening the gate and entering Friedhof Ohlsdorf, a cemetery unlike any other—a sprawling necropolis located in Hamburg where grief wears a garden’s…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesKiller in the Crypt
The Grim is opening the gate and entering Pine Grove Cemetery located in Truro, it might seem just another quiet New England burial ground—modest in size…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesWhen the Vultures Circled
The Grim is opening the gate and entering Georgiana Cemetery located on Merritt Island in Florida. Step away from the tourist crowds at Cape Canaveral and walk…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesLiberty's Shot
The Grim is opening the gate and entering Old Hill Burying Ground, where time doesn't just slow—it folds back on itself days after the 250th anniversary of the…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Eternal Tetsuya
The Grim is opening the gate deep in the forested mountains of Wakayama Prefecture lies a sacred realm suspended between worlds. Entering Okunoin Cemetery…
The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard TalesThe Redcoat Skeleton
The Grim is opening the gate and entering Bennington Centre Cemetery located in Bennington Vermont. Like bones catching the last light after sundown, the white…