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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 & graveyard folklore
- Paranormal encounters & ghost stories
- Dark history, true crime & forgotten tales
- Cemetery tourism & historical exploration
Whether you're planning a graveyard visit or simply drawn to the shadows, The Grim blends atmosphere with meticulous research—bringing you stories that linger long after the episode ends.
So pour yourself a warm cup of coffee, cozy up with the whispers of the past, and step beyond the veil.
"Step carefully—it's time to descend into the hauntings of history."
With over 217,000 listens, The Grim has become a beloved companion for cemetery enthusiasts and paranormal lovers worldwide.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 a year of graveyards, uncomfortable histories, and stories that asked to be told. This isn't a typical episode. No single cemetery. No one ghost. Just an honest look back at the places that fascinated her most, the stories that lingered long after research ended, and the listeners who made survival possible in a landscape littered with...
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 marble vaults. Almost none of them know what lies directly beneath their feet. In this episode of The Grim, host Kristin descends into the crypts below St. Patrick's high altar, where more than twenty archbishops and cardinals rest in brick-lined tombs. Men who presided over Christmas Masses while influenza swept through tenements, whi...
In 1900, Chicago families spent their Christmas inside a cemetery. Sleigh rides, carolers, children playing among snow-covered monuments — all of it unfolding across 350 acres on the city's north side. It sounds like a Hallmark movie. It was Rosehill Cemetery. In this episode of The Grim, host Kristin explores Chicago's first and grandest private cemetery — a Gothic fortress of ambition, tragedy, and restless spirits receiving the city's dead since 1859. Its castellated limestone entrance gat...
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, symbols of eternal life enduring through the cold. And nowhere does that connection feel more alive than Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts, where winter wraps 119 acres of literary history in snow and shadow. In this episode of The Grim, host Kristin walks the frozen paths of one of America's most beloved rural cemeterie...
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 grounds in America — a quiet half-acre in the heart of Manhattan where thousands of souls have rested since the 1660s, and where the history of a nation is etched into weathered stone. In this episode of The Grim, host Kristin walks the grounds of Trinity Churchyard, tracing the lives buried in its shadow — from Revolutionary heroes and fo...
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 city's oldest cemetery, and one of the most haunted stops on the Freedom Trail. In this episode of The Grim, host Kristin traces nearly four centuries of history buried in less than half an acre. We begin with Isaac Johnson, whose 1630 death seeded this plot of earth as Boston's first field of the dead, and follow the ground through it...
Step through the iron gates of Old Gray Cemetery — Knoxville, Tennessee's most atmospheric Victorian burial ground, where Appalachian ghost lore, Civil War grudges, and marble angels have kept uneasy company since 1850. In this episode of The Grim, host Kristin traces the full haunted history of Old Gray: how a fear of epidemic drove Knoxville to build a garden cemetery beyond its city limits, how the cholera outbreak of 1854 filled its earliest rows before the grass had even settled, and how...
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 cost and Italy's fight for unity. Discover how Jean-Henri Dunant's c...
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 legends: The Vampire of Guadalajara and his cursed treeVictoriana Hur...
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 flicker beneath the pines, and the cold wind carries whispers. Discover ...
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