The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales

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 litter...

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—un...

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 twi...

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...

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 ...

The Pumpkin Patch Burying Ground | King's Chapel, Boston MA

Step through the wrought-iron gates with The Grim as host Kristin explores 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, this colonial burial ground has held nearly four centuries of grief, history, and restless spirits. From John Winthrop and Mary Chilton Win...

Step into Old Gray Cemetery with The Grim as host Kristin explores Knoxville's most atmospheric Victorian burial ground—where feuds, tragedy, and restless spirits linger beneath ancient trees.

Founded in 1850 and named for poet Thomas Gray, this 13-acre garden cemetery holds the stories of Tennessee's most influential figures: Governor William "Parson" Brownlow, diplomat Horace Maynard, suffragist Lizzie Crozier ...

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 rest in solemn tribute beneath cypress groves.

The Battle of Solferino and San Martino (1859) was a brutal clash that forged modern Italy and inspired the creation of the Red Cross. Here, in sacred charnel houses, skulls and bones are arranged in silent testimony to war's co...

Step through the haunted gates of Tolomato Cemetery with The Grim as host Kristin explores one of St. Augustine's most historic and ghost-filled burial grounds.

Beneath ancient oaks and Spanish moss rest displaced Guale Indians, Spanish settlers, Menorcan refugees, Cuban priests, and restless souls who never found peace. Once a Franciscan mission site, this cemetery holds over a thousand souls—victims of yellow fever, premature...

Step into Panteón de Belén with The Grim as host Kristin explores one of Mexico's most haunted cemeteries on this special Halloween and Día de los Muertos episode.

Beneath gothic arches and jasmine-scented air lies a world where faith, folklore, and the restless dead intertwine. Built to preserve life as part of the Hospital of Belén, this sacred ground became a city of the dead after the 1833 cholera epidemic.

Discover the lege...

Step into Gunntown Cemetery with The Grim as host Kristin explores a quiet, moss-draped burial ground where history and haunting intertwine in Naugatuck, Connecticut.

Beneath bowed slate stones rest Revolutionary soldiers and early settlers—David Wooster, founding settler Enos Gunn, and Leverett Osborn, whose lifetime bridged centuries. But their stories don't rest quietly. Phantom music drifts through the trees, shadows flicke...

Step through the veil with The Grim as host Kristin guides you through Salem's eight most historic and haunted cemeteries—your complete gothic guide to the Witch City's burial grounds.

Explore:

• Charter Street Cemetery (Old Burying Point) - Where witch trial judges Hathorne and Gedney rest uneasily
• Witch Trials Memorial - Twenty innocent names carved in stone
• Howard Street Cemetery - Where Giles Corey's spirit rises w...

Step through the gate of Old Wethersfield Village Cemetery with The Grim as host Kristin explores one of Connecticut's oldest and most haunted burial grounds.

Once home to the Wongunk people, this land became one of Connecticut's earliest settlements. Here rest Puritan founders, Revolutionary heroes, and exiled witches—Leonard Chester, Colonel John Chester, and the tragic patriot Silas Deane, whose stories whisper of a nat...

Step into the forgotten cemetery of Danvers State Hospital with The Grim as host Kristin explores the "Palace on the Hill"—one of New England's most haunted asylums.

Built in 1878 on land tied to Salem Witch Trials Judge John Hathorne, Danvers became infamous for overcrowding, experimental treatments, and as the birthplace of the lobotomy. Though demolished in 2006, its ghosts linger in tunnels, ruins, and the overgro...

Step through the moss-draped gates of All Saints' Church Cemetery with The Grim as host Kristin explores one of the South's most hauntingly beautiful graveyards on Pawleys Island, South Carolina.

Beneath weathered stones and Lowcountry oaks rest Carolina's planters, patriots, poets, and governors. But it's the ghosts that draw travelers and storytellers alike.

Discover the legends:

• The Gray Man - A cloaked figu...

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 ...

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 rein...

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, ari...

Step through the crooked gates of Boston's Granary Burying Ground with The Grim as host Kristin explores haunted ground where liberty and death rest side by side.

Founded in 1660, this Freedom Trail landmark holds over 5,000 souls, including the patriots etched into American memory: John Hancock, Paul Revere, and Samuel Adams.

But shadows dwell here too: Crispus Attucks, first to fall in the Boston Massacre; James Otis Jr., stru...