Reading Time: 6 minutes Situated southeast of downtown Denver sits a large park that on any given summer day is full of people basking in the sun, jogging, or playing with their dogs. It…
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CemeteriesForgotten HistoryHaunted America
Shadows From Beyond the Grave: The Ghost Lore of Cheesman Park
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Wandering through the Salt Lake City cemetery one day I came upon the headstone of Lester F. Wire. It’s not unusually ornate or otherwise eye-catching, except for the epitaph. Lester…
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Reading Time: 5 minutes What does the beginning of WWI, anti-immigrant sentiment, and a vampire have in common? Oddly enough, a small dilapidated cemetery located in Park Hills, Missouri. Due to decades of neglect…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Today’s Posthumous Profile features Witcher Jones. What a name, right? I really wanted to know more about this man with the unusual name, so I started researching his life. Witcher…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Cornelius McLaughlin is buried in one of Utah’s most beautiful cemeteries, Glenwood Cemetery in Park City. Glenwood Cemetery was established in 1885 as a private burial site. Spread out on…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes I picked Catharine Westwood for this week’s Posthumous Profile because of the unusual shape of her headstone. Catharine Caroline Dallin was born on November 6th, 1840 in Ilfracombe, England. Her…