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In this Episode:Dcn. John Johnson and his journey in TulsaHow does Calvary Cemetery serve the diocese?Why we should prepare for death now Watch Tulsa Time on YouTubeStream, Download, and Listen on Your Favorite PlatformFollow @dioceseoftulsa The Eastern Oklahoma Catholic Podcast is brought to you by The Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma.

This week Spencer is bringing us another funeral home scandal and it's outrageous!!! Next, Madison is taking through the reality of strikes in the funerary world. We've got an obituary that's just soooo halloween, and one for a man who loved a joke. Oh, and we didn't forget, we've also got some dumb.ass.criminallllllls! Buy our book: prh.com/obitchuaryGet your Merch: wonderyshop.com/obitchuaryCome see us live on tour: obitchuarypodcast.comJoin our Patreon: Patreon.com/cultliterNew episodes come out every Thursday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.Follow along online: @obitchuarypod on Twitter & Instagram @obitchuarypodcast on TikTokCheck out Spencer's other podcast Cult Liter wherever you're listening!Write to us: obitpod@gmail.comSpencer Henry & Madison ReyesPO Box 18149 Long Beach, CA 90807Sources:https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/arundel-woman-accused-of-screaming-obscenities-flashing-trick-or-treaters-halloween-indecent-exposure-wendee-kaczorekhttps://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2024/02/01/36-years-ago-detectives-found-the-remains-of-36-people-in-a-jacksonville-funeral-home-now-a-similar-case-unfolds/https://www.newspapers.com/image/229645512/?match=1&terms=%22morning%20glory%20chapel%22https://www.newspapers.com/image/229645147/?match=1&terms=%22morning%20glory%20chapel%22%20https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Glory_Funeral_Home_scandalhttps://www.newspapers.com/image/1038237873/?article=f9d08b8c-a6bc-423e-878f-a09a41006d2b&terms=wobblehttps://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/james-everett-obituary?id=54883527https://www.newspapers.com/image/993985790/?match=1&terms=%22housewife%20arrested%22%20https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_Calvary_Cemetery_strikehttp://cemeteryworkersseiu265.weebly.comhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_Calvary_Cemetery_strikehttps://proteanmag.com/2021/10/31/picket-lines-in-the-graveyard-a-history-of-cemetery-workers-strikes/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_New_York_City_gravediggers%27_strikehttps://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/07/archives/gravedinggers-union-ends-27day-strike-gravediggers-reach-accord.htmlhttps://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8213/NY-gravediggers-strike-growshttps://www.newspapers.com/image/418742605/?match=1&terms=%22funeral%20drivers%22https://www.newspapers.com/image/418734697/?match=1&terms=%22funeral%20drivers%22https://www.newspapers.com/image/466373541/?match=1&terms=coffin%20strikeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today's “Breakfast Bribe” was for Legion Post 104! We talked with Betty Zoller from the Legion Auxiliary.  Do you know that they visit nursing homes every month to visit veterans to remind them they are not alone! When you see them this weekend passing out Poppy Flowers in memory of our Military that gave the ultimate sacrifice, consider giving a donation to group that helps our Veterans!  Thanks to Mayor Brandon Sakbun for his great comments & for stopping by to make today “Poppy Day” today in Terre Haute! Tonight look for the Legion at Lows. Tomorrow at 9am they will be at the Calvary Cemetery to place flowers on the graves! Monday they will be a part of a service at Veterans Cemetery at Highland, as they lay wreaths on the graves of the fallen! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jennie and Dianne return to Dayton Ohio's Calvary Cemetery, this time to visit the grave of Maurice Breen, an Irish immigrant who spent some of his early years in America helping those who were enslaved to escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Maurice Breen was a man who worked hard but always made the best of life. He lived through plenty of hardships, but he didn't let them prevent him from wearing a smile, cracking a joke, and helping those in need. This is Maurice Breen's story but it is also the story of so many others who have come to America seeking to improve their lot in life, to secure employment, food, and better futures for themselves and their children.Now available on YouTube! https://youtu.be/bqEL3Shpo9U?si=k-y5JWlzASPxWpVsResources used to research this episode include:Various historical news articles found on www.newspapers.com, Calvary Cemetery . "About Calvary Cemetery ." https://calvarycemeterydayton.org. calvarycemeterydayton.org/about/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2024., Calvary Cemetery . "Historical People." https://calvarycemeterydayton.org. calvarycemeterydayton.org/historical-people/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2024.Breen, Ed. "Maurice Breen." https://www.findagrave.com/memorial. 14 July 2014. www.findagrave.com/memorial/132821238/maurice-breen?_gl=1*5cpak*_gcl_au*MTAwNTU3MTMxNi4xNzA0MjUzMjIz*_ga*MTE3ODc2MTA3MS4xNjYzNjkxMTEx*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*NjI3MTYyMmUtOWMxNi00ZTc3LWI5M2MtNDllZmE0NTQ1NDY5LjE5LjEuMTcwOTA5NDE2Ny42MC4wLjA.*_ga_LMK6K2LSJH*NjI3MTYyMmUtOWMxNi00ZTc3LWI5M2MtNDllZmE0NTQ1NDY5LjE2LjEuMTcwOTA5NDE2Ny4wLjAuMA. Accessed 25 Feb. 2024.Breen, Ed. "Mary O'Neal Breen." https://www.findagrave.com. 7 Sep. 2008. www.findagrave.com/memorial/29638880/mary_breen. Accessed 25 Feb. 2024.Ulster University , and CAIN . "A Chronology of Key Events in Irish History 1800 to 1967 ." https://cain.ulster.ac.uk. 6 Apr. 2023. cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch1800-1967.htm. Accessed 25 Feb. 2024.Library Of Congress . "Irish-Catholic Immigration to America ." https://www.loc.gov. www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/irish/irish-catholic-immigration-to-america/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2024.Rocky Mountain PBS, and History Detectives. "Causes Of The Civil War ." https://www.pbs.org. www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/causes-of-the-civil-war/#:~:text=What%20led%20to%20the%20outbreak,was%20central%20to%20the%20conflict. Accessed 25 Feb. 2024.Cemetery , Calvary . "Ed Breen Shares Family Stories and Insights into Early Dayton Businesses ." https://calvarycemeterydayton.org. 20 Sep. 2011. calvarycemeterydayton.org/news/ed-breen-shares-family-stories-and-insights-into-early-dayton-businesses/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2024.Ohio, Touring . "Underground Railroad in Ohio ." http://touringohio.com. touringohio.com/history/ohio-underground-railroad.html. Accessed 25 Feb. 2024.

This episode is part one of at least two episodes covering one of Dayton, Ohio's largest green spaces, Calvary Cemetery. Founded in 1872 to accommodate three Catholic parishes that grew out of the German, Irish, Polish, Hungarian, Italian and Lithuanian immigrants who flocked to the area in the mid 1800s, it replaced the overflowing St. Henry's cemetery, and has become a crown jewel among Midwestern cemeteries. In this first episode Jennie and Dianne delve into the cemetery's beginnings and discover many of the beautiful buildings, natural spaces and Ordinary Extraordinary monuments that make up the cemetery. In part two they will cover some of the stories of those who made Cavalry cemetery their final resting place; a cemetery that is not just a place of final rest, but a living testament to the beauty of the human experience.All photos used in this episode belong to Calvary Cemetery and are borrowed from their website: https://calvarycemeterydayton.org/To view this episode on YouTube, click here: https://youtu.be/5xz77afh580?si=6dm7vaOmFpBUFw-nResources used to research this episode include:Various news articles found on www.newspapers.com, Calvary Cemetery . "About Calvary Cemetery ." https://calvarycemeterydayton.org. calvarycemeterydayton.org/about/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2024., Calvary Cemetery . "Historical People." https://calvarycemeterydayton.org. calvarycemeterydayton.org/historical-people/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2024.Powell, Lisa. "Memorial to ‘unclaimed dead' undergoing renovation at Calvary Cemetery ." https://www.dayton.com. 23 June 2021. www.dayton.com/lifestyles/crown-centerpiece-memorial-to-unclaimed-dead-undergoing-renovation-at-calvary-cemetery/WQMQVSA3VBFBNM6YOFFP7ZKPJ4/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2024.Encyclopedia Britannica , The Editors Of. "St. Kateri Tekakwitha ." https://www.britannica.com. 1 Jan. 2024. www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Kateri-Tekakwitha. Accessed 18 Feb. 2024., Cyaneyed. "Frank Mills Andrews ." https://en.m.wikipedia.org. edited by Pedantical, 23 Oct. 2012. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Mills_Andrews. Accessed 18 Feb. 2024., Mike Does History . "Ancient America Vol 1 - Calvary Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio." https://youtu.be/, 26 Apr. 2018, youtu.be/Mv7WMiN1zGA?si=SFUJb-Lp9ZZF3U6E.Goldstein , Stan. "ACE Awards Runner-Up." American Cemetery & Cremation , 1 Nov. 2023, pp. 20 - 21.

Families visiting cemeteries on the White Earth reservation to honor and remember loved ones this Veterans Day might notice 12 new headstones. They were updated this summer because the names on the old ones were wrong. And this was a common problem for many serving in the Civil War who couldn't read or write — Native Americans, as well as non-native Americans.Many had to take anglicized names to enlist, and sometimes even those names were recorded with errors. Budd Parker and other volunteers from Calvary Cemetery & St. Benedict's Catholic Church have been working for more than 30 years to correct those mistakes.For the full conversation, click play on the audio player above or read the transcript below. The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.Can you give us an example or two of some of the errors that you found on headstones and how they came to be that way?A lot of times they were full blood or mixed blood, Chippewa and French or just full blood Chippewa. They didn't speak English. So when they would try to say their names to the people doing the enlistment … they weren't familiar how to do this.Once we were able to document it with the VA to prove that these were their real names, they allowed us to put up new gravestones up with their actual names. We also put the “also known as” so that in the future, if somebody was trying to find out their military record, they wouldn't find it under their real name, they'd have to know this false name.You mentioned working with the VA, what kind of research goes into this? It takes a lot of research, a lot of time. I traveled out to Washington, D.C., 20 some odd years ago, to get all of their pension records, if they had them and their military records and then go through church records. The Catholic Church has very good records from White Earth. I had to go through allotment records, sometimes probate records, newspapers — so all of these have taken years and years of research. How many veterans have you done this for? Well, I've done research and then my husband Bruce, and my cousin Pete Fairbanks and Kibby Sullivan, there's been about five of us. My cousin's wife, Bobby calls us the Grim Reapers that put these headstones up, and so they're all over.We put up over 56, just for the Civil War soldiers on White Earth. We've also done two on our reservation that served in the Mexican War in the 1840s.Why is this work so important to you?My grandparents raised me, and they were both from White Earth. They're mixed bloods. My grandpa was born 1885, my grandma 1901. So they were adults when a lot of these Civil War soldiers were still living, and told me stories about them.They were very important people and then it got to the point where as older folks were passing on, I would tell people about them and they're like, ‘Oh, I never heard of this person or never.' And it's like, well, ‘It's your great grandpa.'When I'd come back home on leave from the Navy my uncle Him-Him and I would go up to the Catholic cemetery on White Earth and straighten some of these old stones up or clean them up. Then I got the idea and I was like well, I want people to remember these people.What conversations pop up about military service in the Native community? How do people talk about it?I'm not sure, it depends. I mean, every group is different. In my family and my friends, they tell these stories, I mean some of these amazing stories that we have just on our reservation. I'm sure every reservation, every community, reservation or not, has the same amazing stories and that's why it's so important for them to be remembered — the truth about them, the good and the bad. And the mundane, the boring. It's all part of our fabric.Do you ever get reaction from families of the veterans you've researched that say, ‘Wow, we didn't even know about this.' What is that like?It's rewarding to know that. It's like wow, okay, so now maybe this story will be passed on to their family. One of these instances was a stone we put up this summer, his grave had been unmarked for 101 years.He was a World War I soldier and he had no wife or kids. We did a big article and it ran in the tribal paper and now I've heard so many people talking about John Turpin this and John Turpin that. Finally, his name is being spoken again.

In this truly spooky episode. Greg and Tom from the Bowery Boys podcast travel to Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island to delve into four tales of the unexplained, the perhaps unforgotten and definitely the unsettling.  Our stories include a massive elegant mansion that once graced the Hunts Point neighborhood in the Bronx. Built by merchant and trader Benjamin Whitlock in 1850 and later owned by Cuban sugar importer Inocencio Casanova, the mansion is the site of numerous unexplained mysteries including an extensive system of vaults and secret rooms hidden well beneath the mansion's main floors. A stop on Manhattan's East 27th Street (near the Gilded Age's fashionable Madison Square) uncovers reports of a curious and very active poltergeist and a trip out to Queens explores two mysterious deaths at the location of a remote farmhouse, the site now part of Calvary Cemetery.  Greg and Tom conclude their visits with a few of the ghosts of the Gilded Age with a stop at the Vanderbilt Mausoleum in Staten Island, the final resting place of Cornelius Vanderbilt as well as his son William H. Vanderbilt and grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II.  And as with any visit with the Vanderbilts, one discovers a few secrets that may lurk beneath the surface. Visit the Bowery Boys website for images related to this show.

In the mid-1800s, an enslaved man named Dred Scott sued for his freedom in St. Louis. Scott's yearslong legal battle culminated in an infamous U.S. Supreme Court ruling that helped push the country closer to civil war. Today, Dred Scott and his wife, Harriett Scott, are celebrated, and there's a new monument that befits that legacy in Calvary Cemetery in north St. Louis. STLPR's Marissanne Lewis-Thompson talked with the Scotts' great-great-granddaughter Lynne Jackson about that legacy in front of the newly erected monument.

Lynne Jackson, she's the President & Founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation...and a descendent  of Dred and Harriet Scott joins Tom and Megan in studio discussing Dred Scott his connection to St. Louis and why a new monument in Calvary Cemetery. Photo Courtesy Lynne Jackson

We're taking a journey back in time, guided by our special guest - John Grabowski from Case Western University! In this episode, John explores the devastating impact of the Influenza Pandemic on Cleveland, particularly on our own Calvary Cemetery.  Join us as we contemplate how our past continues to shape our present through personal histories, global pandemics, and the enduring impact it has on our lives.  Do you have a topic you'd like us to discuss? Please email us at podcast@clecem.org!Please feel free to "Connect With Us" via our website at www.clecem.org.Follow us on:Facebook: @catholiccemeteriesassociationTwitter: @CLECatholicCemsInstagram: @clecatholiccemsBlog: @clevelandcatholiccemeteriesPodcast: "CCAirwaves" on your favorite streaming platform!

The United States largest cemetery is a Catholic cemetery. One of it's most intact mortuary archaeological sites is a Catholic cemetery. Yet despite this, little has been written about Catholic cemeteries themselves, how they are founded, how the y should be run, or how they are designed. Catholic cemeteries are all about one thing... and they do it well. Volume. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@instagram.comFacebookInstagramMake People Better PodcastScience fiction is becoming science fact. In 2018, the team behind this podcast...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

This week Jonella's talking about Pioneer Park also known Calvary Cemetery and the horrible thing done to the folks buried there and their families by the City of San Diego and the Catholic Church. SOURCES Websites: The San Diego History Center https://sandiegohistory.org/collection/photographs/ac024/ The History of Calvary Cemetery https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~clement/genealogy/Calvary/Ack.htm Locations: Guy B Woodward Museum: https://www.facebook.com/GuyBWoodwardMuseum/ Lemon Grove Parsonage Museum: https://www.lghistorical.org/museum/ Articles/Posts: Exploring San Diego County and Beyond By Lens https://www.exploresandiego.net/pioneer-park.html San Diego Reader, August 29, 2018 https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2018/aug/29/unassuming-cemetery-mission-hills/ Voice of San Diego, November 24, 2010 https://voiceofsandiego.org/2010/11/24/fact-check-the-bodies-beneath-a-san-diego-park/ Books: Abandoned San Diego by Jessica D Johnson Additional Sources: Ancestry.com Find A Grave Newspapers.com ObitsArchive.com SHOW INFORMATION

This is a true story that begins in 1931 and is still developing as we live and breathe. You will learn about a woman who served God and died too early. Her service and devotion to God and St. Joseph was almost eclipsed by her friend Father John J. Crowley, also known as the Padre of the Desert, a larger-than-life servant of the Catholic Church. Their stories are forever intertwined and with the help of special guest, Molly Hudson, we will share what happened to us after I mentioned Sister Irenita in Curious Cat Episode 14: Cemeteries. Woo. It's a doozy.If you'd like to research their lives and fill in the gaps for yourself about what may have kept Sister Irenita discontent, haunting the St. Johns Cathedral and property for 91 years, please have a read. This episode was recorded and is shared with the sole hope of wishing eternal peace and love to Sister Irenita Zimmerman and Father John J. Crowley. May they rest in peace.Additional Reading Materials:https://kingsriverlife.com/12/18/holy-ghost-the-haunting-of-st-johns-cathedral/https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23634573/mary-irenita-zimmermanhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6881274/john-j-crowleyhttps://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=1576Link to California's God Episode 110 – Wedding of the Waters https://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/1999/08/12/71Additional Links:https://www.stjohnsfresno.orghttps://califolk.blogspot.com/2007/11/incorruptible-sister-irenita.htmlhttps://www.ghostlyworld.org/tag/sister-irenita/https://kingsriverlife.com/12/18/holy-ghost-the-haunting-of-st-johns-cathedral/“Listening In.” Denver Catholic Register, Thursday, Aug. 13, 1931, p. 4. https://archives.archden.org/islandora/object/archden%3A6664/datastream/OBJ/view. Accessed Nov. 17, 2021.White, Betty Lou. “The Ghosts of Fresno.” Fate, Vol. 20—No. 8, August 1967, pp. 83-85.Crowe, John. “The Haunting of Fresno.” The Fresno Bee, Sunday, Dec. 17, 1978, pp. A1, A16.Marinacci, Mike. Mysterious California: Strange Places and Eerie Phenomena in the Golden State. Los Angeles, California: Panpipes Press, 1988, pp. 63-65.McCarthy, Charles. “Spirits Seem Willing to Stay at Cathedral.” The Fresno Bee, Thursday, Oct. 31, 1991, pp. A1, A16.Branam, Chris. “BOO!” The Fresno Bee, Thursday, July 21, 1994. “Northwest Neighbors,” p. 3.Branam, Chris. “Ghosts Said to Occupy Local Haunts.” The Fresno Bee, Thursday, July 28, 1994. “Northeast Neighbors,” p. 10.Pollock, Dennis. “Dead Nun, Priests Seem Reluctant to Leave Church.” The Fresno Bee, Sunday, Oct. 30, 1994. “Life,” p. F1.Curious Cat and Crew on Socials:Curious Cat on TwitterCurious Cat on InstagramArt Director – Nora HotesAudio Engineer - Aidan Conners

Robbie tells his story about vandalism in Calvary Cemetery

Today on the train we figured we'd go back to the land of unsolved true crime as we like to do, on occasion.  So, as with all these unsolved true crime episodes, we like to bring these crimes back into the limelight and bring the stories back into the conversation. Once these stories stop getting talked about any chance of solving them goes by the wayside. This one is a strange one for sure. We're talking a look at what are called the Chicago Tylenol murders.    The Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. The victims had all taken Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide. To date, no suspect has been charged or convicted of the poisonings.   The incidents led to reforms in the packaging of over-the-counter substances and to federal anti-tampering laws. The actions of Johnson & Johnson to reduce deaths and warn the public of poisoning risks have been widely praised as an exemplary public relations response to such a crisis.   There were 7 victims total from the original incident with even more deaths resulting from copycat incidents after the fact.    Let's first take a look at the victims.   MARY KELLERMAN   September 29, 1982   The first victim was 12-year-old Mary Kellerman, a seventh grader at Addams Junior High School in Schaumburg and living in Chicago's northwest suburbs. She enjoyed horseback riding and earned extra money after school babysitting for neighborhood children. Mary woke up early in the morning hours of September 29, 1982. Feeling ill, she took an Extra Strength Tylenol to help with a runny nose and sore throat. At 7 am, her parents found Mary unconscious on the bathroom floor. Her parents rushed her to the hospital where Mary was pronounced dead by 9:30 am. Her death was first assumed to be a stroke, but the toxicology report and connection to other deaths soon proved it to be a murder.  She left behind her parents Dennis and Jeanna M. Kellerman. Mary Kellerman was laid to rest in the Saint Michael The Archangel Catholic Cemetery.   ADAM, STANLEY AND THERESA JANUS   September 29, 1982   Twenty-seven-year-old Adam Janus was the next person to die after taking Extra Strength Tylenol. He was the father of two young children, and living in Arlington Heights. The day of his death, Adam thought he was coming down with a cold. He stayed home from work that day. On his way home from picking up his children from preschool, he stopped at a Jewel grocery store and purchased a bottle of Extra Strength Tylenol.   "After taking several capsules, he walked into his bedroom, collapsed and fell into a coma. He died in the emergency room at Northwest Community Hospital." — SARA OLKON, The Chicago Tribune   After the death of Adam Janus, his family gathered at his home to mourn and begin making funeral arrangements. Stanley, Adam's brother, and his wife Theresa (Adam's sister-in-law), were visiting with family when they complained of headaches and looked for a nearby remedy. In Adam's bathroom cabinet, they found the same bottle of Extra Strength Tylenol. Moments after taking the disguised cyanide capsules, Stanley and then Theresa collapsed.  Fearing carbon monoxide poisoning, the rest of the Janus family was taken to hospital for observation. They were given their last rites, but did not die.  The Januses were survived by Janus parents Tadeusz "Ted" and Alojza Janus, niece Monica Janus, brother Joseph Janus, Theresa's brother Robert Tarasewicz, her mother Helena Tarasewicz, and a host of other bereaved family members and friends. A joint funeral was held for the three Janus family victims on October 5, 1982, with the Archbishop Joseph Bernardun presiding. Adam Janus was laid to rest at Maryhill Catholic Cemetery & Mausoleum in Niles, Cook County, Illinois. Stanley and Theresa Janus were laid to rest at Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Naperville, DuPage County, Illinois.   MARY REINER   September 29, 1982   Mary Reiner was happily married to her husband Ed, and the couple had just welcomed their fourth child into the world. She used Tylenol to relieve symptoms of post-birth discomfort.  Like the other victims, Mary Reiner collapsed shortly after taking the fatally disguised dose of cyanide. Mary's daughter, Michelle Rosen, was just eight years old when she witnessed her mother's poisoning, collapse, and death. Mary's husband arrived at the scene shortly after: "I came home right after she had fallen on the floor. An ambulance came [and rushed her to Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield]. I'm not gonna say a whole lot more than that." — Ed Reiner, as quoted by Chicago Magazine "Mary Magdalene Reiner grew up in Villa Park and was "100 percent Irish." Rosen remembers her being a good cook and preparing corned beef and egg noodles for the family. She also loved playing softball, the drums, and bowling." — James Sotonoff, Daily Herald   Her death left husband Ed Reiner to mourn, and four children, including an infant son to grow up without a mother.   MARY MCFARLAND   September 30, 1982   Thirty-year-old Mary McFarland was working at her job at the Illinois Bell in Lombard, when she felt a bad headache coming on. According to her brother Jack Eliason, Mary took Tylenol in the back room of her workplace, and died shortly after. He told the Associated Press:   "...she went in the back room and took I don't know how many Tylenol — at least one, obviously — and within minutes she was on the floor."    She was a single mother, working and raising two young sons at the time of her death. Her two boys Ryan and Bradley McFarland, now grown, survive Mary McFarland. She was also survived by parents John and Jane Eliason, brother Jack Eliason and sister-in-law Nancy Eliason, and siblings. A granddaughter she never had the chance to meet was named Mary in her honor.    PAULA PRINCE   October 1, 1982   Paula Jean Prince, 35, was a flight attendant who worked for United Airlines. On the day of her death, she flew from Las Vegas to O'Hare International Airport. She purchased Tylenol from a Walgreens on her way home. An ATM surveillance camera captured the purchase.  Exhausted from a long flight, Paula took Tylenol to relieve the symptoms of a cold as she got ready for bed. She was found dead in her apartment, and an open bottle of Tylenol was found on her bathroom counter. While other victims of the Tylenol Scare were from the suburbs of Chicago, Paula was the only victim to live in the city. The deaths of Mary Kellerman, Adam Janus, Stanley Janus, Theresa Janus, Mary Reiner, Mary McFarland and Paula Prince shared many similarities. All turned to Tylenol, a trusted, safe and common over-the-counter drug, to relieve minor ailments, and lost their lives. Their stories are almost universally relatable. Who hasn't taken a Tylenol for quick relief from a headache, cold or other aches and pain? The ordinariness of the circumstances coupled with the heinousness of the crime created a wave of panic in the Chicago metropolitan area. Paula's funeral was held in Omaha at the same time as the Janus family victims, on October 5, 1982. She was laid to rest at Calvary Cemetery in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. She was survived by her father Lloyd Prince, mother Margaret Prince, and siblings Carol Lisle, Margaret Conway and Robert Prince.    All of the victim information was taken from an article on beyondthedash.com   Next up let's look at the suspects…what few there actually were!   First up is James William Lewis. Here is what we know about Lewis as it pertains to this case:   Worked as a tax accountant   Also known to be a fraudster   Handwriting was positively matched to that of two letters sent to Johnson & Johnson and the White House, the Johnson & Johnson letter demanding an end to the poisonings, The White House letter threatening to bomb it and continue the Tylenol poisonings   Was at New York City with his wife during the time of the murders, left the Chicago area in the early days of September 1982.   Was able to show the authorities how an offender could, hypothetically, tamper Tylenol pills with Cyanide. Claimed he did it for helping out. This is typical of other offenders, such as Ted Bundy   An unidentified man seen in a CCTV footage of one of the affected drugstores bears a striking resemblance to him. The man appears to have been watching victim Paula Prince, who is also shown in the footage, buying the tainted pills.   Sentenced to 20 years in prison for extortion and letter and credit-card fraud, but served only 13 years of the sentence and was paroled in 1995   In February 2009 his Cambridge, Mass., home was raided by the FBI; agents were seen leaving with boxes of evidence and an Apple computer.   In 2010, Lewis, then 63, and his wife, Leann, appeared at a closed hearing at the Middlesex Superior Court Wednesday to determine whether they have to submit to the grand jury's subpoena, which was a request to submit DNA, according to sources close to the case.   The judge ordered them to comply with the subpoena and both James and Leann Lewis turned over samples, according to investigators.    But Lewis has always maintained his innocence in the actual poisonings of the Tylenol capsules. When asked about the drawings, he has claimed he was only trying to be a "good citizen" by giving authorities detailed sketches depicting how someone might go about injecting cyanide into Tylenol capsules.   "I could tell you how Julius Caesar was killed, but that does not mean I was the killer," Lewis told the Chicago Tribune in a 1992 jailhouse interview.   Pressed as to why he and his wife would have been subpoenaed for DNA if they are innocent, Lewis declined to comment.    According to the Daily Herald in Chicago in in 201⁰0 new scientific technology available to analyze a smudge on one of the original Tylenol bottles could help establish a link between Lewis and the crimes.   The paper, quoting an ex-state official involved in the original investigation whose name was not mentioned because he agreed to speak only with a guarantee of anonymity, said that "advances in DNA and fingerprint technology may make the 'smudge' evidence relevant today."   In receding to whether all of the evidence collected could've bring about a trial:          "The evidence investigators presented to prosecutors so far remains circumstantial, but it could be bolstered by statements from potential witnesses who have declined to sit for interviews, according to sources close to the investigation.   So far, however, no decision has been made on whether to give the grand jury a green light. Sources say both state's attorneys from Cook and DuPage counties have been briefed on the evidence. The investigation, handled by an FBI-led task force of law-enforcement agents, still centers on the same man: James W. Lewis, sources tell the Sun-Times."   In a lengthy chronicle of the case for the Reader, Joy Bergmann paints Lewis as a suspicious character… but not, aside from his extortion, necessarily suspicious as the Tylenol killer:   Lewis maintained he was a "political prisoner," a "scapegoat," and an "all-purpose monster…fathered by the wild-eyed hyperventilated imaginations of two brutal men, Tyrone Fahner and Daniel K. Webb," who simply "blew" the Tylenol investigation thanks to "bureaucratic blundering incompetence."   McGarr had already listened to Dan Webb reiterate Lewis's biography: the violence toward his parents, the mental hospital commitment, the Raymond West murder charge, the Kansas City fraud schemes for which he was convicted in May of 1983 and sentenced to ten years, the fugitive flight, the extortion conviction, the breadboard schematic, the grandiose and quick-to-explode temperament, the innumerable aliases and deceptions.   Years later, some still show skepticism towards Lewis as the killer:   Superintendent Brzeczek It wasn't James Lewis. James Lewis was an asshole, an opportunist. He tried to extort some money from Johnson & Johnson, and he went to jail. He was in the joint a long time. When someone is in the penitentiary, you can go and talk to him, with or without his lawyer present. In all those years, all the work on James Lewis to put it together: nothing.   Attorney General Fahner Do I think James Lewis was involved? I did, and I do. And the head of the FBI office here at the time—I can't speak for him, but I think he felt as I did. But we could never put him in the city, in the places, at the right time.   August Locallo Lieutenant with the Chicago Police Department I was the top man in violent crimes. [Lewis] had lived in Chicago, and that's why they zeroed in on my unit. He was in custody in New York, and I was assigned to go to New York to interview him. Basically, the FBI had him in custody, and by the time we got to New York, he had his attorney and he wouldn't talk to us. That was a futile effort. He's a con man. Strictly a con man. And he'll do anything to get to his goal. I really believed he might have killed somebody, but they couldn't put anything on him.   Interesting to say the least. Why would this guy straight up insert himself in the crime for no reason? Did he really think an extortion letter would work?   Interesting either way!   There were a  couple more suspects besides Lewis.   Roger Arnold:   Roger Arnold was a 48-year-old dock worker. He was overheard saying some “suspicious things” about the Tylenol murders in a bar. While the police were questioning him, they found several connections. He worked at a jewel warehouse with Mary Reiner's father, Adam Janus bought his Tylenol from a Jewel convenience store, Mary Reiner bought her bottle from a store that is right across from the psychiatric ward where Arnold's wife was.   The officers found “How-to” crime books in Arnold's home and there was evidence of “chemistry” as well. The evidence of “chemistry” included beakers and other equipment, along with a bag of powder that turned out to be potassium carbonate.   Arnold refused to take a polygraph and there was never enough evidence to prosecute him.   Arnold went on to have a nervous breakdown from the attention in the media. He blamed everything on a bar owner, Marty Sinclair. In 1983, during the summer, Arnold shot and killed a man named John Stanisha, he thought Stanisha was Sinclair. Roger Arnold received a 30-year sentence for second-degree murder but only served 15 years of it. He died in June of 2008.   Laurie Dann:   Not much evidence to tie her to the murders but an interesting case with this one.   Laurie Dann  shot and killed one boy, Nick Corwin, and wounded two girls and three boys in a Winnetka, Illinois elementary school. She then took a family hostage and shot another man, non-fatally, before killing herself.   Dann was born in Chicago and grew up in Glencoe, a north suburb of Chicago.   She met and married Russell Dann, an executive in an insurance broker firm in September 1982, but the marriage quickly soured as Russell's family noted signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder and strange behavior[2] including leaving trash around the house.[3] She saw a psychiatrist for a short period, who identified her childhood and upbringing as a cause of her problems.[3]   Laurie and Russell Dann separated in October 1985.[2] The divorce negotiations were acrimonious, with Laurie claiming that Russell was abusive. In the following months, the police were called to investigate various incidents, including several harassing phone calls made to Russell and his family.[3] In April 1986, Laurie Dann accused Russell of breaking into and vandalizing her parents' house, where she was then living. Shortly after, she purchased a Smith & Wesson Model 19 .357 Magnum, telling the salesman that she needed it for self-defense. The police were concerned about her gun ownership and unsuccessfully tried to persuade Dann and her family that she should give up the gun.[2]   In August 1986, she contacted her ex-boyfriend, who was by then a resident at a hospital, and claimed to have had his child. When he refused to believe her, Dann called the hospital where he worked and claimed he had raped her in the emergency room.[3][5]   In September 1986, Russell Dann reported he had been stabbed in his sleep with an icepick. He accused Laurie of the crime, although he had not actually seen his attacker. The police decided not to press charges against Laurie based on a medical report which suggested that the injury might have been self-inflicted, as well as Russell's abrasive attitude towards the police and his failed polygraph test.[2][3] Russell and his family continued to receive harassing hang-up phone calls, and Laurie was arrested for calls made to Russell's sister. The charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.[3]   Just before their divorce was finalized in April 1987, Laurie accused Russell of raping her. There were no physical signs supporting Laurie's claim, although she passed two polygraph tests.[3] In May 1987, Laurie accused Russell of placing an incendiary device in her home.[2] No charges were filed against Russell for either alleged event. Laurie's parents believed her claims and supported and defended her throughout. By this time, Laurie Dann was being treated by another psychiatrist for obsessive-compulsive disorder and a "chemical imbalance"; the psychiatrist told police that he did not think Laurie was suicidal or homicidal.   In the summer of 1987, Dann sublet a university apartment in Evanston, Illinois. Once again, her strange behavior was noted, including riding up and down in elevators for hours, wearing rubber gloves to touch metal, and leaving meat to rot in sofa cushions. She took no classes at the university.   In the fall of 1987, Dann claimed she had received threatening letters from Russell and that he had sexually assaulted her in a parking lot, but the police did not believe her. A few weeks later, she purchased a .32-caliber Smith & Wesson Model 30-1 revolver.[2]   With her condition deteriorating, Dann and her family sought specialized help. In November 1987, she moved to Madison, Wisconsin, to live in a student residence while being observed by a psychiatrist who specialized in obsessive-compulsive disorder. She had already begun taking clomipramine, a drug for OCD, and her new psychiatrist increased the dosage, adding lithium carbonate to reduce her mood swings and initiating behavioral therapy to work on her phobias and ritualistic behaviors.[3] Despite the intervention, her strange behavior continued, including riding elevators for long periods, changing television channels repetitively, and an obsession with "good" and "bad" numbers. There were also concerns about whether she was bulimic.   Dann purchased a .22-caliber Beretta 21A Bobcat at the end of December 1987. In March 1988, she stopped attending her appointments with the psychiatrist and behavior therapist.[3] At about the same time, she began to make preparations for the attacks. She stole books from the library on poisons, and she diluted arsenic and other chemicals from a lab. She also shoplifted clothes and wigs to disguise herself and was arrested for theft on one occasion. Both her psychiatrist and her father tried to persuade her to enter the hospital as an inpatient, but she refused.[3]   Dann continued to make numerous hang-up phone calls to her former in-laws and babysitting clients. Eventually, the calls escalated to death threats. An ex-boyfriend and his wife also received dozens of threatening calls. In May 1988, a letter, later confirmed to have been sent by Laurie Dann, was sent to the hospital administration where her ex-boyfriend then worked, again accusing him of sexual assault. Since the phone calls were across state lines, the FBI became involved, and a federal indictment against Dann was prepared. However, the ex-boyfriend, fearful of publicity,[2] and concerned about Dann getting bail and then attempting to fulfill her threats against him, decided to wait until other charges were filed in Illinois.[3][5][6] In May 1988, a janitor found her lying in the fetal position inside a garbage bag in a trash room. This precipitated a search of her room and her departure back to Glencoe.   During the days before May 20, 1988, Laurie Dann prepared rice cereal snacks and juice boxes poisoned with the diluted arsenic she had stolen in Madison. She mailed them to a former acquaintance, ex-babysitting clients, her psychiatrist, Russell Dann, and others. In the early morning of May 20, she personally delivered snacks and juice "samples" to acquaintances, and families for whom she had babysat, some of whom had not seen her for years.[2][3] Other snacks were delivered to Alpha Tau Omega, Psi Upsilon, and Kappa Sigma fraternity houses and Leverone Hall at Northwestern University in Evanston.[2][3] Notes were attached to some of the deliveries.[7][8][9] The drinks were often leaking and the squares unpleasant-tasting, so few were actually consumed. In addition, the arsenic was highly diluted so nobody became seriously ill.[2]   At about 9:00 a.m. on the 20th, Dann arrived at the home of the Rushe family, former babysitting clients in Winnetka, Illinois, to pick up their two youngest children. The family had just told Dann they were moving away.[3] Instead of taking the children on the promised outing, she took them to Ravinia Elementary School in Highland Park, Illinois, where she erroneously believed that both of her former sister-in-law's two sons were enrolled (in fact, one of Dann's intended targets was not even a student at the school). She left the two children in the car while she entered the school and tried to detonate a fire bomb in one of the school's hallways. After Dann's departure, the small fire she set was subsequently discovered by students, and quickly extinguished by a teacher. She drove to a local daycare attended by her ex-sister-in-law's daughter and tried to enter the building with a plastic can of gasoline, but was stopped by staff.   Next Dann drove the children back to their home and offered them some arsenic-poisoned milk, but the boys spat it out because it tasted strange to them. Once at their home, she lured them downstairs and used gasoline to set fire to the house, trapping their mother and the two children in the basement (they managed to escape).[2][3][10] She drove three and a half blocks to the Hubbard Woods Elementary School with three handguns in her possession. She wandered into a second grade classroom for a short while, then left. Finding a boy in the corridor, Dann pushed him into the boys' washroom and shot him with a .22 semi-automatic Beretta pistol. Her Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver jammed when she tried to fire it at two other boys, and she threw it into the trash along with the spare ammunition. The boys ran out of the washroom and raised the alarm.[2] Dann then reentered the second grade classroom where students were working in groups on a bicycle safety test. She ordered all the children into the corner of the room. The teacher refused and attempted to disarm Dann, managing to unload the Beretta in the struggle. Dann drew a .32 Smith & Wesson from the waistband of her shorts and aimed it at several groups of the students. She shot five children, killing eight-year-old Nick Corwin and wounding two girls and two boys before fleeing in her car.[3]   Dann was prevented from leaving the area by car because the roads were closed for a funeral cortege. She decided to drive her car backwards down the nearby street, but the road dead-ended into a private drive. Abandoning her car, she removed her bloodstained shorts and tied a blue garbage bag around her waist. With her two remaining guns she made her way through the woods and came upon the house of the Andrew family. Dann entered the house and met a mother and her twenty-year-old son, who were in the kitchen. She claimed she was raped and had shot the rapist in the struggle.[3][11] The Andrews were sympathetic[11] and tried to convince her that she need not fear the police because she had acted in self-defense. Mrs. Andrew gave Dann a pair of her daughter's pants to wear. While she was putting them on, Philip Andrew was able to pick up and pocket the Beretta. He suggested that she call her family. Dann agreed and called her mother, telling her she had done something terrible and that the police were involved. Philip took the phone and explained Dann's story about the rape and shooting, suggesting that Mrs. Wasserman come to get Dann; Mrs. Wasserman said she could not come because she did not have a car.   Mr. Andrew arrived home, and they continued to argue with Dann, insisting she give up the second gun. Dann called her mother again and this time Mr. Andrew spoke with Mrs. Wasserman, asking her to persuade Dann to give up the gun. While Dann spoke with her mother, Mrs. Andrew left the house and alerted the police. Mr. Andrew told Dann that he would not remain in the house if she did not put down the gun, and also left the house. Dann ordered Philip to stay. Just before noon, seeing the police advancing on the house she shot Philip in the chest, but he managed to escape out the back door before collapsing and being rescued by the police and ambulance personnel.   With the house surrounded, Dann went upstairs to a bedroom. The Wassermans and Russell Dann were brought to the house. At about 7:00 p.m., an assault team entered the house while Mr. Wasserman attempted to get Dann's attention with a bullhorn. The police found her body in the bedroom; she had shot herself in the mouth.   Soooooo yea…there's that…she did try and poison people and she was definitely crazy…   So there's pretty much everything known in this case .. Which is to say… Not a ton. It's an interesting case that remains open to this day. And while it seems Lewis is a strong suspect as they kept after him  as late as 2012…still no one has been charged.   The aftermath literally changed the way medication is sold.    McNeil Consumer Products, a subsidiary of the health care giant, Johnson & Johnson, manufactured Tylenol. To its credit, the company took an active role with the media in issuing mass warning communications and immediately called for a massive recall of the more than 31 million bottles of Tylenol in circulation. Tainted capsules were discovered in early October in a few other grocery stores and drug stores in the Chicago area, but, fortunately, they had not yet been sold or consumed. McNeill and Johnson & Johnson offered replacement capsules to those who turned in pills already purchased and a reward for anyone with information leading to the apprehension of the individual or people involved in these random murders.   The case continued to be confusing to the police, the drug maker and the public at large. For example, Johnson & Johnson quickly established that the cyanide lacing occurred after cases of Tylenol left the factory. Someone, police hypothesized, must have taken bottles off the shelves of local grocers and drug stores inJohnson & Johnson developed new product protection methods and ironclad pledges to do better in protecting their consumers in the future. Working with FDA officials, they introduced a new tamper-proof packaging, which included foil seals and other features that made it obvious to a consumer if foul play had transpired. These packaging protections soon became the industry standard for all over-the-counter medications. The company also introduced price reductions and a new version of their pills — called the “caplet” — a tablet coated with slick, easy-to-swallow gelatin but far harder to tamper with than the older capsules which could be easily opened, laced with a contaminant, and then placed back in the older non-tamper-proof bottle.   Within a year, and after an investment of more than $100 million, Tylenol's sales rebounded to its healthy past and it became, once again, the nation's favorite over-the-counter pain reliever. Critics who had prematurely announced the death of the brand Tylenol were now praising the company's handling of the matter. Indeed, the Johnson & Johnson recall became a classic case study in business schools across the nation. the Chicago area, laced the capsules with poison, and then returned the restored packages to the shelves to be purchased by the unknowing victims.   In 1983, the U.S. Congress passed what was called “the Tylenol bill,” making it a federal offense to tamper with consumer products. In 1989, the FDA established federal guidelines for manufacturers to make all such products tamper-proof.   Copycats:   Hundreds of copycat attacks involving Tylenol, other over-the-counter medications, and other products also took place around the United States immediately following the Chicago deaths.[1][25]   Three more deaths occurred in 1986 from tampered gelatin capsules.[26] A woman died in Yonkers, New York, after ingesting "Extra-Strength Tylenol" capsules laced with cyanide.[27] Excedrin capsules in Washington state were tampered with, resulting in the deaths of Susan Snow and Bruce Nickell from cyanide poisoning and the eventual arrest and conviction of Bruce Nickell's wife, Stella Nickell, for her intentional actions in the crimes connected to both murders.[28] That same year, Procter & Gamble's Encaprin was recalled after a spiking hoax in Chicago and Detroit that resulted in a precipitous sales drop and a withdrawal of the pain reliever from the market.[29] In 1991 in Washington state, Kathleen Daneker and Stanley McWhorter were killed from two cyanide-tainted boxes of Sudafed, and Jennifer Meling went into a coma from a similar poisoning but recovered shortly thereafter. Jennifer's husband, Joseph Meling, was convicted on numerous charges in a federal Seattle court regarding the deaths of Daneker and McWhorter and the attempted murder of his wife, who was abused during the Melings' marriage. Meling was sentenced to life imprisonment and lost an appeal for a retrial.[30][31]   In 1986 a University of Texas student, Kenneth Faries, was found dead in his apartment after succumbing to cyanide poisoning.[32] Tampered Anacin capsules were determined to be the source of the cyanide found in his body. His death was ruled as a homicide on May 30, 1986.[33] On June 19, 1986 the AP reported that the Travis County Medical Examiner ruled his death a likely suicide. The FDA determined he obtained the poison from a lab in which he worked.   There you have it…the Tylenol murders! Crazy shit for sure!   Top ten medical horror movies   https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/17726/1/top-ten-medical-horror-films

Alvin “Creepy” Karpis once said, “Of all the midwest cities the one I knew best was St. Paul and it was a crook's haven." In this episode Jennie and Dianne visit the mausoleum of Police Chief John J. O'Connor in Calvary Cemetery in St. Paul, Minnesota. They delve into O'Connor's plan to fight "organized crime with organized intelligence", and how this led to creating a sort of gangsters' paradise during the age of prohibition through the mid-1930s. Join us for this ordinary, extraordinary story of power, lawlessness, glamour and downfall with a visit to one of St Paul's oldest cemeteries.Resources used to research this episode include: "Calvary Cemetery." https://catholic-cemeteries.org/. catholic-cemeteries.org/calvary/. Accessed 17 Jan. 2022. "An Early History of Saint Paul ." https://www.visitsaintpaul.com/. www.visitsaintpaul.com/blog/an-early-history-of-saint-paul/. Accessed 17 Jan. 2022.Ratsabout, Saengmany. https://www.mnopedia.org/. 18 Dec. 2018. www.mnopedia.org/immigrants-and-refugees-minnesota-connecting-past-and-present. Accessed 17 Jan. 2022. "John J. O'Connor St. Paul's Chief of Police ." http://www.spphs.com/. 1 Jan. 1919. www.spphs.com/history/1919/oconnor.php. Accessed 17 Jan. 2022.Steenberg, Edward J. "John Joseph O'Connor and the "Layover Agreement" (One Person's Observations) ." http://www.spphs.com/. www.spphs.com/history/oconnor/index.php. Accessed 17 Jan. 2022.Reicher, Matt. "When St. Paul — officially — served as a safe haven for criminals ." https://www.minnpost.com/. 29 July 2014. www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2014/07/when-st-paul-officially-served-safe-haven-criminals/. Accessed 17 Jan. 2022.Society, Minnesota Historical. "St. Paul: Gangster Haven." https://youtu.be/, 6 Dec. 2010, youtu.be/oVgrhFOiVS4.Underworld Compilation, The Criminal . "Gangster History of St. Paul, Minnesota." https://youtu.be/, 30 Mar. 2020, youtu.be/MGjwIyzlG5U.History, Travel Thru. "Wabasha Street Caves - St. Paul, Minnesota - Travel Thru History." https://youtu.be/, 24 June 2014, youtu.be/SM0bbzo_zxM., C-SPAN. "C-SPAN Cities Tour - St. Paul: Gangster Era in St. Paul." https://youtu.be/, 19 Sep. 2014, youtu.be/v3WrckIXpY4.

Jennie and Dianne visit the Land of Enchantment, specifically Mount Calvary Cemetery in Albuquerque, New Mexico where every Christmas Eve the cemetery is full of of candlelit luminarias. What are luminarias and how did this tradition start? Find out in this episode of the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery. We also give a quick news update on the Wreaths across America events around the United States happening on Saturday December 18th. Resources used to research this episode include:"Wreaths Across America Announces the Annual Wreaths Escort to Arlington for 2021 ." https://wreathsacrossamerica.org/. 16 Nov. 2021. wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/19520/News/686/?relatedId=0. Accessed 12 Dec. 2021.Barnitz, Katy. "Mount Calvary Cemetery ." https://www.abqjournal.com/. 24 Dec. 2017. www.abqjournal.com/1110878/luminarias-pay-homage-to-loved-ones-remembered-in-christmas-eve-tradition.html. Accessed 12 Dec. 2021.Harris, Cheryl. "Mount Calvary Cemetery Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico ." http://www.interment.net/. 5 Sep. 2012. www.interment.net/data/us/nm/bernalillo/mtcalvary/index.htm. Accessed 12 Dec. 2021. "LUMINARIAS ." https://www.visitalbuquerque.org/. www.visitalbuquerque.org/about-abq/culture-heritage/holiday-traditions/luminarias/. Accessed 12 Dec. 2021.Raub, Cheril, and Nancy Rogers. Santa Barbara Cemetery: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Burials 1869-1924, Transcriptions 1877-2013 . Albuquerque, ‎New Mexico Genealogical Society , 2015.

Join us as Joel introduces Kathy McKiernan, the newly appointed Marketing and Communications Manager at Catholic Cemeteries Association.  Kathy shares her perspective on the re-opening of our world from the Covid-19 Pandemic and her new role at CCA bringing her full circle. June brings fond memories of family roots at Calvary Cemetery,  along with the hopefulness that our faith gives us as we focus on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Father's Day and remembrance of loved ones this month. 

In this special guest interview episode I interview Fran Boarders, the manager at Calvary Cemetery in Lexington, KY on the importance of the burial and remembrance services, naming your baby, and how we all grieve differently. Fran walks me through how people can utilize he cemetery and work with the hospital to collect their lost little one to be prepared for a burial. Sound note: We were wearing masks and social distanced so the sound is a little different than usual but we were being safe! Additional Notes: St. Joseph Hospital in Lexington, KY videos the services where peopled to not attend and have it available for those families to view the service. https://cdlex.org/calvary-cemetery https://www.wordonfire.org/resources/blog/to-jesus-through-mary-why-yes-and-twas-ever-thus/5970/ www.theforwardhealingproject.com forwardhealingproject@gmail.com healinghopefulhearts@gmail.com Instagram/forwadhealingproject Instagram/healinghopefulhearts Twitter/forwardhealing

Lynne Jackson sometimes struggles to find her great-great-grandfather’s grave. Located in north St. Louis’ sprawling and historic Calvary Cemetery, the headstone is just two and a half feet high. A cemetery map helps, and on it, his grave is indicated in the key, with the number 19 beside his name: Dred Scott. It’s a modest memorial, and it’s also “the most asked-for grave out there,” according to Jackson, who last week launched a fundraiser in hopes of creating a nine-foot-tall educational memorial at the spot.

Dagger John, New York City's most influential and vicious archbishop, had a huge impact, whether he was consecrating Calvary Cemetery and founding Fordham University, or peppering the mayor with threats to burn down the city. "Are you afraid," asked the mayor, "that some of your churches will be burned?" "No, sir; but I am afraid that some of yours will be burned. We can protect our own. I come to warn you for your own good." Highlights include: • The "Black Coats," aka America's evil wizards, aka the Jesuit colonizers • The Mohawks who built Manhattan • Threats to burn down the city • What happened on the land that became Calvary Cemetery • The first saint born in the US, a Protestant society woman with eleven children who became a Catholic nun • Secret societies in Ireland For all of our shownotes, including our sources, visit buriedsecretspodcast.com. You can listen to more audio on our patreon ($3/month): https://www.patreon.com/buriedsecrets Follow us on instagram @buriedsecretspodcast E-mail us at buriedsecretspodcast@gmail.com. 

More people are buried at Calvary Cemetery, in Queens, New York, than in any other cemetery in the United States.  This episode is focused on the history of the cemetery, what it's like to visit it nowadays, and some of the most interesting people buried there. Highlights include: • The Cemetery Belt, a collection of NYC cemeteries that can be seen from space • A rich man who died in a barn • A Black, queer communist author and poet • Rome's ancient catacombs • Some NYC mobsters • A female author who grew up in a castle • A NYC cop who was assassinated in Sicily   For all of our shownotes, including our sources, visit buriedsecretspodcast.com. You can listen to more audio on our patreon ($3/month): https://www.patreon.com/buriedsecrets Follow us on instagram @buriedsecretspodcast E-mail us at buriedsecretspodcast@gmail.com. 

In this episode, we discuss the life of Helena Pelczar - a Polish American mystic and stigmatic who is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Cleveland, OH. Click here to learn more about Helena Pelczar. Click here to learn more about the Catholic Cemeteries Association.Follow us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterFollow us on InstagramSubscribe to our blog

In episode #10 of Tombstone Shadows we will visit the Calvary Cemetery in South Portland, Maine. History: The Calvary Cemetery was established in 1858 as a resting place for those who followed Catholicism (all denominations were welcome, though). Tombstone Shadows Investigations: Lillian I. MacDonald (Born: June 1, 1910; died July 12, 1930). Calvary Cemetery James M. Mitchell (Born: May 27, 1909; Died: March 20, 1982?) Hillside Cemetery, Libson Falls, Maine (?)

Cemetery tourism seems to be trending around the world. it seems to be. The Aemricans have nicknamed tombstone tourism, and as D Day has illustrated, war graves are immensely popular pilgrimages too. In Bali, death tourism has gone next level. There’s been a bit of news coverage recently about how you can visit the northern island village of Tunyan, to see and even touch bodies that are laid out to rot in bamboo cages, instead of being buried or cremated. Tourists are flocking there. How crass is that! And once the flesh has rotted away, the skull and bones are added to a shrine under a sacred tree. That’s too macabre for my liking, I’ll stick to the stand-out cemeteries around the world.Paris reigns supreme in these stakes with Pere Lachaise considered the world’s most visited cemetery.  First established for Paris’ rich and famous, business boomed and headlining the roll call of famous corpses buried there is Jim Morrison, who’s grave has been repeatedly graffitied. All manner of unmentionable offerings are laid at his gravesite, particularly underwear. Other luminaries at Pere Lachaise include Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein and Frederic Chopin.If you’re in London, Highgate is fantastic. The most famous recent arrival to be interred at Highgate is George Michael, although his grave is currently off-limits to the public. But like a lot of the most famous cemeteries, it’s the landscaping, the ostentatious tombs and museums that pull in the crowds. Highgate’s so called Egyptian Avenue is very stately, home to Karl Marx and George Eliot.If you’re a classical music fan and find yourself in Vienna, you must stroll through Zentral Friedhof, a veritable symphony of music gods. Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Strauss all lie at rest here,  and Mozart’s got his own cenotaph. Hollywood Forever Cemetery is classic Hollywood, with palm trees, swaggering peacocks and stuffed with dead celebrities. Johnny Ramone’s tombstone is a life-size statue of himself. People go ga-ga over Judy Gardland’s grave, then there’s the likes of Mel Blanc and Rudolph Valentino. So it’s the place to schmooze with the ghosts of golden age Hollywood. There are even tour guides on hand.Buenos Aires – Recoleta Cemetery would take the cake for me, in the beauty stakes. It’s like a small city lined with streets of marbled mansions. Thousands of them. Huge, ornate mausoleums – like trophy homes, housing the remains of Argentina’s one per centers. And as much as the extravagance and elitism is shameless, the sense of history and sheer artistry of Recoleta is impressive. Of course, it’s most famous resident is Eva Peron. Other stand-outs include Calvary Cemetery in New York City, with towering tombstone monuments to mimic the city’s skyscrapers. There’s also a huge contingency of mobsters buried there, and the grounds served as the set for a burial scene in the Godfather. Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem is pretty special. Jewish people earnestly believe they’ve got the front-row seat here, on Judgement Day. And Moscow’s prestigious cemetery is a stunner too, stacked with the who’s who of the Soviet Union, all the way through to Raisa Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. I appreciate that strolling through graveyards might creep some people out. But it never ceases to amaze me how you don’t just get a history lesson, but a personal sense of resonance with famous individuals. It’s a bit like seeing Elvis’ grave at Graceland. Somehow, even in death, there’s a very human connection. Seeing their final resting place makes them feel more real, more relatable.Mike Yardley is our Travel Correspondent on Jack Tame Saturday Morning.  

Content note: mention of suicide, anti-semitism In this week's belated episode, I talk about the witches of Whitewater, the Morris Pratt Institute, and how traditional views of what's 'weird' shift throughout time. Don't forget to check out the True Crime Podcast Festival in Chicago. Look, I know it's not until July, but it was SNOWING today and I need something to look forward to in my new older age. Photo of the Morris Pratt Institute from Wisconsin Historical Images Resources Second Salem Whitewater college paper on hauntings Spine-tingling tales from a weird site Roots of Whitewater's witch lore Whitewater Historical Society on the Morris Pratt Institute WPR piece on the MPI MPI site In Frightening Times, Witchcraft Rediscovers Its Political Roots You can’t control the government—but you can hex it Why millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology Intimate photos of modern-day witches across America 9 Myths About Witchcraft That Modern-Day Witches Like Me Are Tired of Hearing Anti-Semitic Legends Why Do Witches Wear Pointy Hats? Transcript Welcome to another edition of the Spooky Sconnie Podcast, the podcast that talks about everything, wonderfully creepy, spooky, criminal, and weird in the state of Wisconsin. I'm your host, Kirsten Schultz. And before we dive in to today's very interesting topic, I do just want to remind everybody that I will be at the true crime podcast festival in Chicago that's coming up in July on the 13th. It's a Saturday, it's just the one day, but it's like all day. We did get some more details that um, there's going to be a meet and greet portion of the event with a kind of a relaxed atmosphere and that podcasters are going to be around in the main hall, um, so that you can come meet with us and hang out. So you know, come hang out. The website for that is tcpf2019.com and you can get your tickets and see all the cool stuff going on. I apologize for this episode being late. Um, yesterday was my birthday and I chose to go get drunk and eat a hamburger instead of recording my podcast. But also I have just started a new full time job and my schedule's been a lot busier because of that and because of some of the other volunteer stuff I'm doing. So I just didn't have time to record. I mean I probably did, let's be honest, but I didn't really. ----more---- So, um, for today's episode we're going to be talking about the witches of Whitewater and as I was digging into this, it's really interesting and it's part of why I do a lot of research on the topics I'm covering because if you just kind of take a cursory Google search, um, things you'll find are, you know, like haunted stories of, of people relaying information from another person about like the campus of UW-Whitewater or being haunted and things like that. And a lot of that stuff is actually not entirely true - surprise. And so what I'm going to be talking about today is more about not only, you know, things that are supposedly haunted but also debunking some of the other issues like I do. In the late 19th century, whitewater began being referenced to as the Second Salem and why water is really interesting because it's about an hour from both Milwaukee and Madison. So it's a little bit more south of both of those cities. Um, and it's right at the edge of the kettle moraine state forest. So there's kind of a lot of greenery and a lot of stuff that's already kinda spooky. Anyway, so the tales about Whitewater being haunted popped up. Um, as I said, it was the late 19th century - the late 1800s hundreds - and that was about the same time that the Morris Pratt institute was built in town. The institute was known for Teaching Spiritualism, and that was a really popular belief during the 1800s and incorporated things like seances and mediums and a lot of the spooky stuff we discuss today, Ouija boards, et Cetera. So there were regular lectures at the institute about, um, paranormal items, psychic items, and they also taught people how to be better and mediums, which is interesting. The building supposedly also had an all white room that was used to conduct seances and, um, a couple of the articles that I found had some really influential people involved, um, within Whitewater itself. So as somebody who's an archivist or historian for Whitewater, another person who's a historian that really focuses on the area as well. Um, so I'll be quoting them throughout this episode too. Morris Pratt was someone who was born in New York and he built the institute in Whitewater in 1899 ish is what it was finished. It wound up being a three story building, had two auditoriums and one of those was big enough to hold 400 people. Morris Pratt's dive into spiritualism was interesting. It was around 1840s and 50s when he became interested in it. And that's a pretty popular, um, subject for that time period. There have been a lot of podcasts to kind of go over what spiritualism is, what it isn't the rise of spiritualism so I'm not going to go into that because this would be another really long episode. Um, but during that time period, not only did Pratt get really interested in spiritualism, he really got serious about practicing it. In the 1880s, he met with a medium here from Wisconsin named Mary Hayes-Chynowith and she really focused on using her skills to heal and then also give advice to rich people naturally. She had, um, told Pratt to invest in land in northern Wisconsin and that land turned out to have some of the richest iron ore in the state. And Pratt got super rich. Um, naturally it probably didn't take her to, to convince him to do this. The state of Wisconsin was really going through a large population boom at the time. People moving in, a lot of lumber jack-related things and companies getting set up here and you know, people were finding iron ore already in the far north part of the state. So yeah, Pratt took the time to find land and uh, and bought it and had an iron ore mine and became extremely rich. And I guess in those conversation with Chynowith, he promised that if he ever like made it rich because of her assistance that he would somehow invest in teaching spiritualism to others. So he began building what he referred to often as the 'temple of science' in Whitewater using the profits from the sale of his mining stock. Of course the residents of Whitewater weren't super enthused like at all. And then would always refer to as Pratts folly, which I think is interesting. In April of 1888, um, that's when the, they broke ground and began to actually construct the building. And by December the building was getting closer to completion and editor, an editor of a local paper, the Whitewater Register, got a grand tour. So, um, he was really very hush hush about what this building was actually supposed to be for - a lot of rumors began circulating throughout the community and you know, people knew he was very into spiritualism, but a lot of people didn't really understand what that was. And so there were a lot of rumors flying around, a lot of gossip about what does this man, what is he doing here? What is he doing to our town? Who is he going to windup inviting into the town? And even as he's giving this newspaper editor the tour, he's really vague about it, right? So what he says is that he 'hopes it may prove a useful factor in the education, morally, mentally, scientifically, and philosophically of that class of society that needs it most.' The editor summarized it as 'let us give him the credit he deserves of making the splendid improvement, which adds to the beauty and business of our city. And having done it without a selfish motive,' which I think is a nice touch. But of course the following year, um, when it opened, things were not as great. And I just want to go back. I think I said 1899 when it opened was 1889. Um, so April of that year they published an opening - Um, you know, a little thing that said they were opening in the register. So it was the opening and dedication of m Pratt sanitarium and hall of Psychic Science. And actually what's happening this weekend, April 26th, 27th and 28th, the announcement didn't wind up being written by the editor of the newspaper, but it was something that like Pratt and his pals had submitted and had publish. The next issue though of the newspaper talked a bit about the dedication of the building and it wasn't great. It didn't go well. Um, the dedication wound up being buried within the newspaper was very short and the editor was not thrilled with what he'd heard of the ceremony. He was really critical about the spiritualists that were speaking there and of how, um, critical they were of organized mainstream religion at the time. So that was kind of, I think, their motive behind hiding really the, the report on the dedication. So, you know, that wasn't a great start. Things were still really tense. In December of that year, Pratt had issued a challenge to the clergy within the city, um, and wanted to debate them on religious issues and he publishes it in this newspaper that isn't thrilled with him and I don't know how he keeps being able to do that. Um, he proposed a debate topic and it was 'resolved that the so called teachings of Jesus Christ as found in the new testament are immoral and their tendencies.' So, you know, no one really jumped into that debate. So you can imagine in January of the next year, he again issued an invitation for people to come to the institute and see what it was like. He was a lot more friendly at this point though, probably realizing that he had come off real standoffish the year earlier. So his call this time was to 'both young and old, the president and professors of our schools, the clergy, lawyers, doctors, and business men to meet . . . for a social and intellectual feast, and if they see fit to lay out a plan for future work to build up and maintain a higher state of civilization.' Yeah. Other than that, there really wasn't much within the newspaper about what was going on at the temple. Um, it was either because Pratt was being really reserved and quiet or because of the editor and their run-ins. Given the way the building was set up, it wound up being used for a lot of lectures and meetings and it really wasn't at the time set up as a school or a college, but more like where spiritualists from around the country you could come through as they were like going on speaking tours and um, that people could come and meet them and hear what they had to say, or that spiritualist relatively locally, you could also come and meet and mingle together. There was always an evening lecture on Sundays that was open to everybody, so that tended to be then those kinds of lectures were scheduled. By early 1902 Pratt was now 80 years old and the temple wasn't sure it was going to do. He decided to about that time period form something called the Morris Pratt Institution Association and then gave the temple to them and they made plans to run the temple, um, as a more formal spiritualist school that not only had classes on spiritual isn't, but also general education. And they did this rather quickly. So by late June of 1902, the newspaper reported that the meeting of the trustees was really successful and that public interest was really high, um, about turning the building into a school. And so at that time is when it was actually formally, um, renamed as the Morris Pratt Institute. The full course of study consisted of two different areas. So the first area was general education stuff - so grammar, rhetoric, writing, lit, history, geography, all the good stuff, right? And that was pretty typical of what people were expected to learn at secondary schools throughout the country. Um, and was really helpful, I think at this point because there really wasn't an extended organized school system. The second area of study was only open to people who were practicing spiritualists and it included things like psychic research, comparative religion, evolution. And Bible study as it relates to the principles of spiritual wisdom. Like, dude, I want to take those classes. Tuition was really, really reasonable. It's $50 a year. Um, and then plus you got a room that was $1.50 to $2 a week. Only girls were allowed to board at the meeting or at the building, excuse me - while dudes were boarded in private homes instead. And even though there was a separation between Gen ed and um, spiritualism - it didn't give degrees. Um, you could not get a college degree from the institute. It was more set up like a, like a boarding high school. They could become really well versed in being a medium, um, giving lectures, working as a spiritualist, but also could, you know, have a really nice firm background in their studies from which to um, ease into college or something else later on. And this was really, they saw themselves as offering ways for people to pursue self improvement activities. That was, whether they were spiritualists or not. And I couldn't find anything about how many people actually took the institute classes to become mediums and to just go through, um, you know, the Gen ed curriculum. But, um, there was an article in 1917 that reported students that had come to the institute, um, from all parts of the United States. The, the, the current number was about 25 people in the school of the time, mostly coming from the Midwest. As I said earlier, the community kind of just keeps being really unsure about how they feel about the institute. Um, you know, on the one hand it was this really helpful space and provided needed education and was relatively low cost a boosted the city's economy. And on the other hand, you know, it was still weird. It was not normal. Um, one thing I saw some of the students at the State Teacher's College, which was also in Whitewater, would go to the Sunday services just to like make fun of everything. And it seems like the institute became kind of a running joke throughout the town During the Great Depression in the 1930s, the institute really struggled and wound up closing its doors, but it did move to Milwaukee. There's a local historian named Carol Cartwright and I found several interviews with her about the institute and about like haunted Whitewater. And she thinks that Whitewater residents were distrustful of the Institute for a couple of reasons. So one is that spiritualism was much more popular in larger cities than isolated kind of rural areas. And Whitewater, even though it's grown to a sizable city, at least in Wisconsin, which is not saying much, um, it's still really rural. It's still pretty. And you know, if people want to do something cultured or something fancy, they would just drive to Milwaukee or Madison. Like the Whitewater is not a fancy place. Um, it's still today. So, and then the fact that only spiritualists could go to seances or attend certain programs made everybody wonder what was actually happening. Like what is going on? Are they devil worshipers? Are they sacrificing babies? All of those kinds of things. And of course, once the school stopped operating there, everything became embellished. It turned into like, oh yeah, like some of the other students at other places would come and mock this place too. Oh yeah, no, we totally saw witches from that place, like practicing witchcraft. So I dunno. Um, this building was torn down in 1962 but before that it served as a women's dorm and the forties and 50s. Um, Cartwright said “You can imagine how those stories picked up steam. There’s a lot of confusion between who the spiritualists were and what they were doing as opposed to other occult practices. Many of the spiritualist mediums were women. They were engaging in nontraditional activities for women, so making that step from mediums to witches was easy for some people to take." Before the institute was established, there were actually already rumors of witches throughout Whitewater. I mean, it's probably true of just about everywhere. Gotta be honest. Um, but one of the legends, um, talks about the fact that there was an active coven in the late 19th century that had ceremonies and tunnels and kept an altar either in the field behind, um, one of the dorms at university or in one of the cemeteries. And supposedly all these things are like buried where they once stood. So like the altars buried where they were, that once stood. And then like there's several dead coven members that are supposedly buried around there. I don't know. Um, it's an interesting place. One of the other legends talks about the three cemeteries in Whitewater and proposes that they form a triangle known as the witches triangle. A home buildings and land on the sides of the triangle are supposedly haunted and um, one of those cemeteries called Calvary Cemetery has Gates that supposedly close on unsuspecting freshmen that sneak in at night? So there's, um, Calvary Cemetery, Oak Grove Cemetery and Hillside Cemetery are the ones that are supposedly positioned in a perfect isosceles triangle. Um, there are stories from Oak Grove Cemetery. Um, it said that it was the final resting place of this ax murderer named Mary Worth. And legend says on Halloween night she can be spotted among the tombstones. And it's interesting because that's supposedly from Oak Grove and then Cartwright shared that according to another legend, she's buried in an unmarked crypt in Hillside. And the problem is though, there's literally no evidence she ever existed, not in city directories, not in the census, no birth or death certificates, nothing. And that's not - it's hard, right, because it's not that uncommon for people to like not have many written records during that time period by Wisconsin actually did pretty well with some of those things. So Cartwright believes that the stories circulated for so long that like eventually a composite of somebody named Mary Worth just kind of popped out of them. Another story is about the stone water tower in Stairin Park. Stories say witches would surround the tower at night and perform rituals in the park. An iron fence was put up around the tower with barbed wire spikes pointed inward as if it was trying to keep something in rather than people out. The tower sits just south of Wells Hall, which is also said to be super haunted since being built in the late sixties. And that's actually not the only student housing hall that has questioning stories. Um, in 1981, the Alpha Sigma Sorority heard loud noises coming from their basement while they ate dinner. Bricks of the basement floor were scattered around everywhere when they went to check it out, revealing a tunnel that had never been seen before. Story of that goes on to talk about the tunnel system having been used by witches as a way of traveling between the town's oldest mansion sized homes without being spotted by civilians. And here's the other interesting thing, right? That actually exists. Um, the tunnels are probably, um, from the underground railway, from hiding people from them, um, from, from, you know, slave owners trying to find these people and, um, and as a part of the system that moved them up towards Canada, it's just really interesting. Um, yeah, everything I saw said that, you know, those exist. I don't know. I'm going to take that with a grain of salt. The most recent story about witches took place in 1982, three students supposedly witnessed a late night ritual on the beach, near Whitewater Lake, and during the ritual it appeared as if a huge object was coming out of the lake and when they saw that they split naturally. Another interesting, um, rumor is that there's a locked book in the special collections section in the basement of Anderson Library. We're immersed say that the dark contents of the book have driven three students and a professor to commit suicide. Supposedly one person who borrowed the book wound up being locked in an insane asylum. Because of that, the book is not hidden under locking key at there is now hidden under locking key at the library. If you ask to see the book, supposedly you'll be expelled. Um, and a librarian at the, this location [acutally an historian named Weston] helps clear that up: "The only locked book we own is actually a Catholic hymnal. We think the stories about it come from the fact that up until 1989, 100 years after the Morris Pratt Institution was founded, the storage we used for the book was a locked cage because it’s the only storage unit we had. A locked book in special collections got this image of being dangerous. However, none of the people who have ever talked about this Catholic hymnal have given us a publisher, a title, an another, no date, nothing.” It's unknown if this mysterious book remains unlabeled for reasons or if it's just a coincidence. In 1909 there were large ice flows in the lake in June. There's a lot of weird stuff that happens in Whitewater. In 1923 some fishermen said their boat turned over and they were dragged underwater by a creature with large tentacles. They had a really hard time getting back up and when they came back up, they were supposedly covered with small bite marks. In fall 2003 while hiking the trails near Calvary, a professor and several other people supposedly saw a strange flying objects. They were sure it was an alien and posted fliers asking others who had seen it to let them know. Of course it wouldn't be, uh, a story full of shitty haunting rumors if I didn't share that supposedly many of this, these disturbances are caused by the development of the city and the ruining of Indian burial grounds. We've already talked about this, right? How that's bullshit? And some fucking colonialist narrative that does not need to be continually perpetuated by anybody? Okay, cool. One of the interesting things I found too, um, in articles that I read were some personal story is related to these hauntings and spooky things. So I wanted to share some of them cause I thought they were interesting. This first one is from someone named Jeff: "I live in Whitewater, and according to legends, the whole town is haunted. The university that is in town was originally built as a school for mediums and research into the paranormal. I have been told that all possible ways to leave town require going over running water and that the cemeteries form a five-pointed star when looked at from above. There is a hill behind the student dorms that is supposed to where a coven of witches (evil ones, of course) meet. Also, an apartment building was once the residence of a guy who fancied himself a master of the black arts, and is haunted. Whitewater has been referred to as the "Second Salem." I can attest that some areas of town just really give me the creeps. The problem is this: There is reputed to be documentation telling about the weird things in town. However, the town council has made sure that none of that exists in town anymore." I don't know. I just seems to me that sometimes some of these people don't question anything they hear like at all. I don't understand that. Anyway, I like this, this next story a lot better. There a man named Dave Saalsa - It's s a a l s a - and he remembers walking his dogs one evening across the wooded lawns of Whitewater's Hillside Cemetery. The animals completely stopped and stood extremely still, and Dave looks up to see what the dogs are looking at, but he doesn't see anything - until he sees it, right? He says “Right across from a crypt, I saw this full-bodied apparition of a woman. She was floating up the hill.” The owner of the Quiet Huts Sports in Whitewater - That's Dave's job - wasn't sure what it was he saw, but people who come to his store have shared really similar stories of encounters at that cemetery. “I don’t know,” Dave said. “I don’t discount it. I’ve talked to people who have seen firsthand some strange things. There are logical explanations for things, but there are also legitimate goings-on that can’t be explained away.” His longtime interest in local history really became ignited when he was a student at Whitewater in the 1970s he was working on this class project and wound up interviewing a local historian for it and heard a lot of local budgets, including the head of Mary Worth, who we've already talked about. Um, you know, one of the articles that I found earlier that I referenced like earlier in the podcast was that she was an ax murderer. Here, she's supposedly a self proclaimed witch, and Dave learned in this conversation with the historian that Mary Worth put a curse on a Whitewater manufacturer of wagons, and the company's owners died not long afterwards. People now living at the former house of one of those owners named Lucius Winchester have reported here in footsteps without seeing anyone and light switches mysteriously turning on and off. Dave has heard of a coven that still supposedly practice and local cemeteries according to local cemetery workers, circles of stones can be found around the properties and a pyramid shaped cap that topped the monument on the gravesite of Morris Pratt was stolen at some point back. “Back in 1971 when I was still a student, on Halloween night, one of the students broke into the crypts at the cemetery, stole a coffin and brought it to the fountain on the mall. We have to admit we have a rich history in Whitewater of all kinds of things, from stops along the Underground Railroad to a school for spiritualism, whose founder promised to connect people with the departed," Dave said, and there you have it. Is Whitewater haunted? Are there still really witches? I have no idea. I think it's plausible. Um, I think that most places probably have more occult-related activities than anyone realizes. But I also think that the notion of which is being creepy, people with pointy hats who were all black and hang out in cemeteries is outdated. That's not what a witch is anymore. Witches are everyday people. Witches are people who use their powers for good and for evil. And you know, the mark of a witch is not necessarily the ridiculous, the overdone antisemitism of, you know, witch drawings of days past. And I think too, one thing to note as we talk about witchcraft is that within the last few years, More women and other femme people have gotten involved in witchcraft. And it's not anything like, it's not a bad thing. Um, for them, it represents a way to take control of your life. In a way to honor nature sometimes. Um, like for people who engage more in Wicca related activities. It's also I think, um, a giant fuck you to people like Donald Trump, um, who dislike the idea of women having power or of, of anybody of any, um, gender identity that is not a cis male having power. And it's really helped people find others who are likeminded, right? Just like listening at creepy podcasts, um, you run into somebody and you're like, oh, I love purity podcasts, do you, and that's an instant bond, that's instant shared experience that you have. And it's the same with being on a running team or going biking with the same friends every week. Oh. Um, you know, being a part of online patient activity groups or you know, things like that are all ways to build shared experience and community. And just some of us take weird routes to it, or I shouldn't say weird, I should say nontraditional routes to finding community. And I think we have to remember that those, those ideas changed throughout time, right? Back during Morris Pratt stays, they probably never would have thought of the Internet. They would never have thought that anybody would be listening to like a podcast. Um, so what seems nontraditional in society's view - and something maybe impossible in the views of people around when Morris Pratt was still alive - that's changing and that changes with every generation. And as we grow and we figure out what we like and don't like, um, we, we tend to push society the way that we're thinking depending on how many numbers we have to, to influence that push. But, um, all of that is to say which is they're not at all like the sisters from Hocus Pocus, they are not all like the wicked witch. Um, they can be everyday people that just liked to do cool things. I'm not a witch, but also like I have friends who are, and you know what, that's kind of awesome and we just have to step back and realize that being a, which isn't anything different than, you know what it's been for the last several hundred years because I, for the fact that it's a lot more different than the societal ideologies related to being witches are right, the stigma associated to being a witch. So I'll put some links in the show notes. Um, not only the links I referenced and pulled a lot of texts from, from the episode like I always do, but also some links about witchcraft and about what witches look like now and what they do now. Um, and more people becoming witches in the wake of Donald Trump's election. So that's, that's Kirsten's rant corner for this episode. Um, I'm not sure what I'm going to do next week. I'll probably try to pull another cryptid out. I think The Beast of Brey Road looks like a good possibility, although I have a busy couple of weeks, so we'll see how that goes. Maybe something slightly shorter again, but stay tuned. Make sure you checkout the true crime podcasts festival in Chicago. If you are in the Midwest. Um, I would love to see you and hang out and I'm going to try to get some goodies to have at the table. If I have a table, I don't know exactly what's happening with that yet, but you know I'll have some goodies on me with the logo on it. Um, so that you can maybe win some, maybe purchase some, however you'd like to handle that. And um, the other update I have is the thing I'm going to be doing a couple of minisodes a month, maybe if I could swing it after this month is over and call them badger bits. Um, and just do like a really quick, not like biography but kind of have some influential Wisconsin related people. I think that Kinda sounds fun and I stole it from my husband, so I tend to stay a lot of things from him, but he freely offered it, so whatever. So you know, stay tuned for that if that's something you're interested in. And for now, have a wonderful couple of weeks until I speak with you again. You just listened to the Spooky Sconnie podcast. It is produced every two weeks by me, Kirsten Schultz. The intro, outro music is from Purple Plant. You can find show notes and more over at spookysconnie.podbean.com, including a transcript in case you missed anything. Take a minute and rate and subscribe if you can. You'll help more people see the show by rating and you won't miss a single episode if you subscribe, and that's pretty dope. You can support the show over at patreon.com/spookysconniepodcast and you can email me anything you'd like me to know at spookysconniepodcast@gmail.com. Meantime, sleep tight. Don't let the badgers bite. Bye.

In a quaint neighborhood in San Diego, Pioneer Park is somewhere kids play and families picnic under the eucalyptus tress...not knowing that an estimated 4,000 bodies are buried in the ground beneath them. It's the perfect setting for another Poltergeist movie: They moved the tombstones, but not the bodies. Welcome to Muse Stories: The Unusual History of Every Thing, where today we take a look at the old Calvary Cemetery and its morbid history. Special thanks to our podcast producer, Jessica Crossman; and graphic designer, Tasha Hobbs. For More info, contact www.MuseCuratorial.com.

For this year's 10th annual Bowery Boys Halloween special, we're highlighting haunted tales from the period just after the Civil War when New York City became one of the richest cities in the world -- rich in wealth and in ghosts! We go to four boroughs in this one (sorry Brooklyn!): -- In the Bronx we highlight a bizarre house that once stood in the area of Hunts Point, a mansion of malevolent and disturbing mysteries -- Then we turn to Manhattan to a rambunctious poltergeist on fashionable East 27th Street -- Over in Queens, a lonely farmhouse in the area of today's Calvary Cemetery is witness to not one, but two unsettling and confounding deaths -- Finally, in Staten Island, we take a visit to the glorious Vanderbilt Mausoleum, a historic landmark and a location with a few strange secrets of its own PLUS: Stay tuned until the end to hear the trailer for the new Bowery Boys podcast series -- The First: Stories of Inventions and their Consequences   www.boweryboyshistory.com Support the show.

Program, From the Pages. Less than four miles from the intersection where Mike Brown was killed—a ten-minute drive down Florissant Ave—is the Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, where Dred Scott is buried. Visitors have left pennies on his grave—Lincoln faces up—for good luck. Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom in 1846. Over the course of a decade his case made its way up from local Missouri courts to the Supreme Court, which ruled that Scott, as a slave, “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” The court also moved to expand slavery throughout the nation, catalyzing the American Civil War.