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The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

Kristin Lopes

64 episodes

3 days ago

Grim Mourning and welcome to The Grim. On this special Halloween and Día de los Muertos episode, host Kristin opens the gate to one of Mexico’s most haunted cemeteries, the Panteón de Belén in Guadalajara. Beneath its gothic arches and jasmine-scented air lies a world where faith, folklore, and the restless dead intertwine. Once built to preserve life as part of the Hospital of Belén, this sacred ground became a city of the dead after the cholera epidemic of 1833. Today, its marble crypts and...

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Grim Mourning and welcome to The Grim. On this special Halloween and Día de los Muertos episode, host Kristin opens the gate to one of Mexico’s most haunted cemeteries, the Panteón de Belén in Guadalajara. Beneath its gothic arches and jasmine-scented air lies a world where faith, folklore, and the restless dead intertwine. Once built to preserve life as part of the Hospital of Belén, this sacred ground became a city of the dead after the cholera epidemic of 1833. Today, its marble crypts and...

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Episodes (20/64)

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

The Vampire’s Tree

Grim Mourning and welcome to The Grim. On this special Halloween and Día de los Muertos episode, host Kristin opens the gate to one of Mexico’s most haunted cemeteries, the Panteón de Belén in Guadalajara. Beneath its gothic arches and jasmine-scented air lies a world where faith, folklore, and the restless dead intertwine. Once built to preserve life as part of the Hospital of Belén, this sacred ground became a city of the dead after the cholera epidemic of 1833. Today, its marble crypts and...

3 days ago

30 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

The Haunting Hallow of Gunntown: Tales from a Haunted Connecticut Cemetery

Grim Mourning and welcome to The Grim. In this episode, we open the gate to Gunntown Cemetery in Naugatuck, Connecticut, a quiet, moss-draped burial ground where history and haunting intertwine. Beneath its bowed slate stones lie the early settlers and Revolutionary soldiers who shaped this forgotten corner of New England. But their stories don’t rest beneath the soil; they breathe through the cold wind, the flicker of shadows, and the whispered notes of phantom music said to drift through th...

6 days ago

21 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

The Grim’s Guide to Graveyards in Salem

Step through the veil with The Grim as host Kristin guides you on a haunting walk through Salem’s most historic and ghostly graveyards. In this special episode, The Grim’s Guide to Graveyards in Salem, we explore eight of the Witch City’s oldest cemeteries, uncovering stories of tragedy, remembrance, and lingering spirits that shaped Salem’s haunted legacy. From the Charter Street Cemetery (Old Burying Point), where the shadows of Judges Hathorne and Gedney still seem to linger, to the Witch ...

1 week ago

21 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

Hungry Hill: The Ghost's of Oniontown

Grim Mourning, and welcome to The Grim. In this haunting episode, host Kristin leads you through the Old Wethersfield Village Cemetery in Wethersfield, Connecticut, a quiet resting place steeped in colonial history, witchcraft, and ghostly legend. Once home to the Wongunk people, this land became one of Connecticut’s earliest settlements. Here lie Puritan founders, Revolutionary heroes, and exiled witches, their stories carved into slate and sandstone. From Leonard Chester and Colonel John Ch...

2 weeks ago

18 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

The Asylum of Horror

In this chilling October episode of The Grim, host Kristin guides listeners through the forgotten cemetery of Danvers State Hospital, once known as the “Palace on the Hill.” Located in Danvers, Massachusetts, this infamous asylum was built in 1878 on land tied to Judge John Hathorne of the Salem Witch Trials, a curse many believe doomed it from the start. The hospital became a symbol of overcrowding, neglect, and experimental treatments—earning notoriety as the birthplace of the lobotomy. Tho...

3 weeks ago

16 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

Unwelcomed Ghosts

The Grim is stepping through the moss-draped gates of All Saints’ Church Cemetery on Pawleys Island, South Carolina, where history and legend intertwine beneath the Lowcountry oaks. In this episode of The Grim, we explore one of the South’s most hauntingly beautiful graveyards, an acre of romance and ruin where ghost stories refuse to rest. Beneath weathered stones lie the names of Carolina’s planters, patriots, poets, and governors, their legacies etched in marble and memory. Yet it is the g...

1 month ago

13 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

The Controversy of Death: The Tophet of Carthage

The Grim is opening the gate to the Tophet of Carthage, an ancient Phoenician site buried beneath the soil of modern Tunis and steeped in centuries of mystery. Here, archaeologists uncovered thousands of urns filled with the ashes of infants, children, and animals, alongside dedications to the gods Baal Hammon and Tanit. Was this sacred ground a cemetery for the young taken too soon, or an altar of fire where lives were sacrificed to appease divine wrath? Ancient writers described flames devo...

1 month ago

16 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

Paris in Mourning: The Ghosts of Père Lachaise

The Grim is opening the gate to Père Lachaise, Paris’s most legendary and haunted cemetery. Step through its rusted gates and wander the shadowed avenues of a necropolis that cradles the bones of revolutionaries, rock stars, and romantics, whispering stories richer than fiction. Founded in 1804 as Napoleon’s answer to overflowing churchyards, Père Lachaise began as an empty hillside at the city’s edge. Only after the ceremonial reinterment of cultural giants like Molière did it transform into...

1 month ago

36 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

A Tango with Death: Inside Buenos Aires’ Haunted Necropolis

Grim Mourning, and welcome to The Grim. In this episode, we open the gate to Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina — one of the most famous cemeteries in the world and a haunting landmark of Argentine history. Often called the city of the dead, Recoleta is a gothic labyrinth of marble mausoleums, ivy-cloaked vaults, and shadowed passageways where legends and ghost stories breathe alongside the tombs of presidents, poets, aristocrats, and revolutionaries. To walk through Recoleta is to ...

1 month ago

31 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

One If by Liberty, Two If by Death

Grim Mourning… and welcome to The Grim. I’m your host, Kristin, guiding you through the crooked gates of Boston’s Granary Burying Ground, haunted ground where liberty and death rest side by side. Founded in 1660, this historic Boston cemetery is more than a stop along the Freedom Trail. It is a haunted landmark of the American Revolution, where over 5,000 souls are said to linger beneath soot-darkened skies. Here lie the patriots etched into history’s memory: John Hancock, Paul Revere, and Sa...

2 months ago

32 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

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 Grim by buying a cup of our next Grave Grind! https://buymeacoffee.com/kristinlopes Find All of The Grim's Social Links At: https://linktr.ee/kristinlopes

2 months ago

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

Coffee 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 crypt beneath St. Paul’s Cathedral. Spanning 30,000 square feet, it is the largest cathedral crypt in Europe and a resting place for Britain’s greatest legends—and, some say, its most restless spirits. We uncover the story of Admiral Lord Nelson, whose body lies in a black marble tomb originally carved for Cardinal Wolsey, the disgraced a...

5 months ago

36 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

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 face and history rests beneath sculpted stone and owl-shadowed trees. Spanning nearly 1,000 acres of winding paths, still ponds, and towering trees, Ohlsdorf is more than a final resting place—it’s a city of the dead, where history, war, and remembrance intertwine. Join The Grim as we explore this unforgettable cemetery’s layered past:...

5 months ago

43 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

Killer 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, overlooked by tourists, and far from the summer crowds drawn to nearby beaches. But appearances deceive. Since its establishment in 1799, this two-acre plot has become a repository for some of Massachusetts' darkest mysteries and most gruesome crimes. We begin with the haunting tale of the Commerce, a fishing vessel that drifted into Truro...

6 months ago

15 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

When 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 with us along a crooked mile, where sunlight filters through Spanish moss and century-old secrets whisper on the salt breeze. Georgiana Cemetery on Merritt Island might not make the Florida travel guides, but beneath its quiet exterior lies a tapestry of tragedy, mystery, and lingering spirits that refuse to be forgotten. Discover the...

6 months ago

13 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

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 midnight ride of Paul Revere. The weathered stones rising from the modest 1.16 acres in located Concord, Massachusetts don't merely commemorate the dead; they mark the resting places of those who shaped a nation's violent, necessary birth. The cemetery feels deceptively small until you understand its weight. Nearly 500 gravestones rema...

6 months ago

18 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

The 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 located at Mount Koya isn't merely Japan's most hallowed burial ground—it's a living testament to 1,200 years of unbroken spiritual devotion where the boundary between life and death seems remarkably thin. The journey begins where modern Japan recedes. After a bullet train and local railway, visitors ascend 800 meters by funicular into wha...

6 months ago

22 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

The 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 marble gravestones gleam with an otherworldly brightness. Founded in 1762 beside Vermont's Old First Church, this extraordinary burial ground transcends its purpose to become something far more profound – a cathedral of carved mortality where American history, art, and memory converge in breathtaking ways. What separates Bennington fr...

6 months ago

15 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

Ghosts in the Asylum

The Grim is opening the gate and entering Medfield State Hospital Cemetery located in Medfield Massachusetts. Revealing a haunting landscape where 841 former psychiatric patients lie buried beneath small numbered markers – their identities erased even in death. What began as the "Medfield Insane Asylum" in 1892 evolved into a sprawling mental health facility that operated for over a century before finally closing its doors in 2003, leaving behind a legacy of isolation, mistreatment, and forgo...

7 months ago

19 minutes

The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

Beneath Southern Stone: Atlanta's Haunted Soul

The Grim is opening the gate and entering Oakland Cemetery. Atlanta’s sprawling 48-acre Victorian garden of stone, where the South’s layered past lies buried beneath twisting paths and timeworn monuments. Founded in 1850, Oakland holds more than the remains of the dead—it preserves the social orders, injustices, and triumphs of a changing city. In the Original Six Acres, you’ll find the cemetery’s oldest graves, including that of Dr. James Nissen. The Jewish sections reflect a quiet tension b...

7 months ago

41 minutes