Welcome to a FAN FAVORITE EPISODE on the Made of Savannah podcast, host Dee Daniels sits down with Enocha Edenfield - a former NBC Savannah broadcast journalist who moved to Savannah in 2010 and began researching the origins of local ghost stories during the pandemic, which grew into a busy private tour business focused on accuracy and archival sources.

The episode explores Savannah’s cemeteries, noting about 80 in Chatham County and six city-owned sites (Colonial Park, Laurel Grove North and South, Bonaventure, Greenwich, and Evergreen), and explains why preservation matters, using Colonial Park’s long neglect and an estimated 7,000–9,000 graves as a cautionary example. Ika shares stories and landmarks from Bonaventure (Little Gracie, John Walz, Conrad Aiken, the Bird Girl relocation, and Johnny Mercer), discusses Greenwich’s plantation past and Midnight-related graves, clarifies hoodoo vs. voodoo, and outlines Laurel Grove’s segregated origins and notable sections.

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FIND A FAVORITE SPOT IN THIS EPISODE:

00:00 Welcome to Savannah

01:13 Enoch’s Origin Story

02:50 Building a Tour Business

03:56 Accuracy Over Hype

05:13 Sponsor Break Ethan Allen

08:00 How Many Cemeteries

09:55 Why Preservation Matters

13:24 Lost Records and Fires

14:58 Searching for a Soldier

18:41 Ghosts Aren’t Always Scary

19:34 Why Bonaventure Wins

23:49 Little Gracie Legend

29:09 Women Who Saved Savannah

32:19 Conrad Aiken Bench

33:50 Bird Girl Relocated

34:54 Graveyard Etiquette

36:05 Hoodoo vs Voodoo

38:47 Johnny Mercer Legacy

43:51 Greenwich Cemetery Walk

48:19 Unmarked Burial Grounds

51:52 Pulaski and Square Burials

53:57 Forsyth Catacombs Myth

56:12 Laurel Grove Segregation

58:20 Pet Cemetery and Farewell

59:41 Podcast Outro and Sponsor