Grim Mourning and welcome to The Grim. In this chilling episode, host Kristin leads listeners through the haunted gates of Tolomato Cemetery — one of St. Augustine, Florida’s most historic and ghost-filled burial grounds. Beneath ancient oaks and Spanish moss, this cemetery holds the stories of displaced Guale Indians, Spanish settlers, Menorcan refugees, Cuban priests, and the restless dead who never found peace.

Once the site of the Franciscan mission Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Tolomato, the ground became a cemetery haunted by war, exile, and faith. More than a thousand souls rest here, including victims of yellow fever, Menorcan laborers, colonial families, and even criminals — all entwined in a dark legacy of grave desecrations, premature burials, and ghost sightings.

We explore notorious hauntings like:

• The Rebel Bishop, Augustin Verot — whose explosive funeral left the dead refusing to rest
• Venerable Félix Varela — a Cuban priest and freedom fighter whose spirit may still linger
• The Lady in White — saved from premature burial, yet still seen wandering the grounds
• Little James Morgan — a child ghost often spotted in the branches of his favorite oak tree

Tolomato Cemetery is only open to the living a few hours each month, but its spirits are said to appear far more often. From phantom clergy to playful ghost children, St. Augustine’s most haunted cemetery continues to blur the line between history and horror.

Join us as we descend into the real ghost stories, eerie legends, and dark history that make Tolomato Cemetery a must-visit for paranormal seekers and lovers of America’s oldest city.

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Grim Mourning and welcome to The Grim. On this special Halloween and Día de los Muertos episode, host Kristin opens the gate to one of Mexico’s most haunted cemeteries, the Panteón de Belén in Guadalajara. Beneath its gothic arches and jasmine-scented air lies a world where faith, folklore, and the restless dead intertwine.

Once built to preserve life as part of the Hospital of Belén, this sacred ground became a city of the dead after the cholera epidemic of 1833. Today, its marble crypts and whispering colonnades stand as a museum of the macabre and a gateway into some of Mexico’s most chilling legends.

Step carefully through the shadows as we uncover the Vampire of Guadalajara, the tragic tale of Victoriana Hurtado, the spectral boy Nachito, and the Lovers of Belén, doomed souls who found in death the union denied to them in life. From ghostly carriages and cursed trees to buried treasure guarded by pirates and spirits, Panteón de Belén is a place where history and legend blur beneath the flicker of candlelight.

As the veil thins on All Hallows’ Eve, we descend into this realm of memory and mourning, where Día de los Muertos transforms sorrow into celebration. Candlelit altars blaze against the dark, offerings of marigolds and chocolate guiding souls home for one more night among the living.

Join us as The Grim ventures into Guadalajara’s most haunted cemetery, where every stone holds a story and every legend refuses to rest.

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Grim Mourning and welcome to The Grim. In this episode, we open the gate to Gunntown Cemetery in Naugatuck, Connecticut, a quiet, moss-draped burial ground where history and haunting intertwine. Beneath its bowed slate stones lie the early settlers and Revolutionary soldiers who shaped this forgotten corner of New England. But their stories don’t rest beneath the soil; they breathe through the cold wind, the flicker of shadows, and the whispered notes of phantom music said to drift through the trees.

We’ll uncover the lives of those who built and defended this land: the patriot David Wooster, the founding settler Enos Gunn, and the steadfast Leverett Osborn, whose lifetime bridged centuries of transformation. And when twilight falls, we descend into the legends that have earned Gunntown its chilling reputation—the Phantom Child, the mournful fiddler’s song, and the ominous Shadow Man said to stalk the perimeter beneath the pines.

Declared haunted by Ed and Lorraine Warren, Gunntown is a place where the veil between the living and the dead grows thin, a cemetery that feels alive with memory and shadow. Here, time folds upon itself, and the dead do not merely rest... they linger.

Step carefully, dear listener. The gate stands open, and it’s time to descend once more into the hauntings of history.

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Grim Mourning, and welcome to The Grim. In this haunting episode, host Kristin leads you through the Old Wethersfield Village Cemetery in Wethersfield, Connecticut, a quiet resting place steeped in colonial history, witchcraft, and ghostly legend.

Once home to the Wongunk people, this land became one of Connecticut’s earliest settlements. Here lie Puritan founders, Revolutionary heroes, and exiled witches, their stories carved into slate and sandstone. From Leonard Chester and Colonel John Chester to the tragic patriot Silas Deane, each grave whispers of a nation’s uneasy birth.

You’ll uncover the chilling tale of Katherine Harrison, accused of witchcraft decades before Salem, and explore reports of cold spots, phantom voices, and shadowy figures that still wander Hungry Hill.

Part history, part haunting, this episode unearths the forgotten souls of Old Wethersfield, where memory refuses to rest and the veil between past and present grows thin.

Step through the gate if you dare.

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In this chilling October episode of The Grim, host Kristin guides listeners through the forgotten cemetery of Danvers State Hospital, once known as the “Palace on the Hill.” Located in Danvers, Massachusetts, this infamous asylum was built in 1878 on land tied to Judge John Hathorne of the Salem Witch Trials, a curse many believe doomed it from the start.

The hospital became a symbol of overcrowding, neglect, and experimental treatments—earning notoriety as the birthplace of the lobotomy. Though most of the complex was demolished in 2006, the asylum’s ghosts linger in its tunnels, ruins, and overgrown burial ground. Nearly 800 patients lie in numbered graves, their names erased by stigma, their voices silenced by time.

Kristin explores both the history and the hauntings of Danvers: disembodied voices, phantom footsteps, shadow figures, and chilling EVP recordings captured by paranormal investigators. The asylum’s legacy has seeped into horror culture—from H. P. Lovecraft’s Arkham Sanitarium to films like Session 9.

Through the Danvers State Memorial Committee’s efforts, fragments of identity are being restored to the forgotten dead. But the asylum’s cemetery remains one of New England’s most haunted places—where whispers drift among the stones and sorrow hangs heavy in the air.

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The Grim is stepping through the moss-draped gates of All Saints’ Church Cemetery on Pawleys Island, South Carolina, where history and legend intertwine beneath the Lowcountry oaks. In this episode of The Grim, we explore one of the South’s most hauntingly beautiful graveyards, an acre of romance and ruin where ghost stories refuse to rest.

Beneath weathered stones lie the names of Carolina’s planters, patriots, poets, and governors, their legacies etched in marble and memory. Yet it is the ghosts of Pawleys Island that draw travelers and storytellers alike. From the cloaked figure of the Gray Man, said to appear before hurricanes as both omen and protector, to the tragic tale of Alice Flagg, whose restless spirit still searches for her lost ring, the cemetery’s legends echo through salt air and shadow.

We trace the church’s origins from the 18th century to its fiery rebirth in 1917, uncovering stories of Southern history woven with grief, resilience, and Gothic beauty. As autumn deepens and the veil thins, the graveyard becomes more than sacred ground. It is a stage where mourning, faith, and folklore converge.

Whether you come seeking Lowcountry history, haunted cemeteries, or the timeless allure of Southern Gothic ghost stories, All Saints’ Cemetery is a place where the past lingers and the dead are never truly silent.

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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 devouring innocence, while modern scholars continue to debate whether these were acts of grief or offerings of blood. Within these charred remains, history has left behind one of its most haunting enigmas, a place where archaeology, legend, and sorrow converge. Step carefully, for in Carthage, the past still burns.

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Step through the rusted gates of Père Lachaise with The Grim as we wander among the haunted avenues of Paris's most legendary cemetery. Far from a mere collection of tombstones, this necropolis cradles the bones of revolutionaries, rock stars, and romantics while telling a story richer than fiction.

Founded in 1804 as Napoleon's solution to Paris's overflowing churchyards, Père Lachaise initially stood empty and forgotten on the city's outskirts. Only after a calculated publicity campaign – the ceremonial reinterment of cultural giants like Molière – did it transform into the coveted final address for Parisian society. Today, over 3.5 million visitors annually thread between its marble monuments, seeking ghosts both famous and forgotten.

Along moss-lined avenues, we visit the graves and legends that draw millions: Jim Morrison, Héloïse & Abélard, Édith Piaf, Honoré de Balzac, and Eugène Delacroix. We touch the site’s darker seams - the Paris Commune executions at the Communards’ Wall and the 1814 assault on Paris. Between chapels and catacombs, 5,000 trees turn this “cathedral of the dead” into a living refuge for birds and foxes.

Join The Grim as we explore this cathedral of memory where Paris wears its decay like perfume, both old and dirty, yet irresistibly charming. The gates stand open. Will you step inside?

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