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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 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...
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 littered with abandoned feeds and forgotten voices. Featured Cemeter...
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—unaware of the voices that linger below. Founded in 1858 on land once cons...
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 twilight. Featured Historical Figures: Richard Warren Sears & Aaron Mon...
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 Underground Railroad, and the rainstorm that ultimately led to his de...
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 stones, from Revolutionary heroes to whispered legends said t...
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 Winslow to William Dawes, the "other" midnight rider, extraordinary figures re...
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 French, and General Lawrence D. Tyson. But tragedy also marks these grounds—from ...
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 ...
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 uneasilyWitch Trials Memorial - Twenty innocent names carved in stoneHoward Street Cemetery - Where Giles Corey's spirit rises with autumn's chillBroad Street Cemetery - The infamous Corwins of the Witch Hou...
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 nation's uneasy birth. Discover Katherine Harrison, accused of witchcraft ...
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 overgrown burial ground where nearly 800 patients rest in numbered graves—their nam...
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 figure who appears before hurricanes as omen and protectorAlice Flagg - Whose restless ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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., struck by lightning after his thunder against tyranny; and Samuel Sew...
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