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We dig up some stories of death and dying. How much did it cost to get to heaven in medieval times? What is a corpse road? And a sin eater? Hear about the "outcast dead" and find out why Victorian Londoners were literally dancing on a giant graveyard. What was the necropolis railway? Who were funeral mutes? Which graveyard hosts a tomb time machine And which internationally famous cemetery was invaded by vampire hunters in the 1970s. Another half an hour of extraordinary stories.
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We dig up some stories of death and dying. How much did it cost to get to heaven in medieval times? What is a corpse road? And a sin eater? Hear about the "outcast dead" and find out why Victorian Londoners were literally dancing on a giant graveyard. What was the necropolis railway? Who were funeral mutes? Which graveyard hosts a tomb time machine And which internationally famous cemetery was invaded by vampire hunters in the 1970s. Another half an hour of extraordinary stories.

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