Step through the veil with The Grim as host Kristin guides you through Salem's eight most historic and haunted cemeteries—your complete gothic guide to the Witch City's burial grounds.

Explore:

• Charter Street Cemetery (Old Burying Point) - Where witch trial judges Hathorne and Gedney rest uneasily
• Witch Trials Memorial - Twenty innocent names carved in stone
• Howard Street Cemetery - Where Giles Corey's spirit rises with autumn's chill
• Broad Street Cemetery - The infamous Corwins of the Witch House
• Greenlawn & Harmony Grove - Where nature softens centuries of history
• Friends Burying Ground - Salem's persecuted Quakers in humble peace
• Old Burial Hill, Marblehead - Hocus Pocus filming location, Wilmot Redd's grave, and the eerie Pierce Family Tomb

Discover Salem's stones as works of early American folk art—winged skulls, weeping willows, and urns that speak of grief, faith, and the fragile line between life and eternity.

Your essential guide for Salem visitors and witch trial history enthusiasts.

📍 Salem, Massachusetts - The Witch City
 ⚰️ 8 historic cemeteries explored
 🎃 Includes Hocus Pocus filming location

Perfect for: Salem tourists, witch trial historians, October visitors, cemetery art enthusiasts

🎧 Walk among Salem's stones with The Grim.

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Step through the gate of Old Wethersfield Village Cemetery with The Grim as host Kristin explores one of Connecticut's oldest and most haunted burial grounds.

Once home to the Wongunk people, this land became one of Connecticut's earliest settlements. Here rest Puritan founders, Revolutionary heroes, and exiled witches—Leonard Chester, Colonel John Chester, and the tragic patriot Silas Deane, whose stories whisper of a nation's uneasy birth.

Discover Katherine Harrison, accused of witchcraft decades before Salem, and explore the haunting reports from Hungry Hill—cold spots, phantom voices, and shadowy figures that still wander the grounds.

Part history, part haunting—where memory refuses to rest and the veil between past and present grows thin.

📍 Old Wethersfield Village Cemetery (Hungry Hill), Wethersfield CT
 ⚰️ One of Connecticut's earliest settlements
 👻 Witch trials before Salem, Revolutionary War spirits

Perfect for: Pre-Salem witch trial history, Connecticut historians, Revolutionary War enthusiasts, colonial America buffs

🎧 Step through the gate with The Grim—if you dare.

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Step into the forgotten cemetery of Danvers State Hospital with The Grim as host Kristin explores the "Palace on the Hill"—one of New England's most haunted asylums.

Built in 1878 on land tied to Salem Witch Trials Judge John Hathorne, Danvers became infamous for overcrowding, experimental treatments, and as the birthplace of the lobotomy. Though demolished in 2006, its ghosts linger in tunnels, ruins, and the overgrown burial ground where nearly 800 patients rest in numbered graves—their names erased by stigma.

Discover:

• Disembodied voices and phantom footsteps
• Shadow figures and chilling EVP recordings
• The curse of Judge Hathorne's land
• H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham Sanitarium inspiration
• Session 9 filming location
• The Danvers State Memorial Committee's work restoring identities

Where whispers drift among the stones and sorrow hangs heavy in the air.

📍 Danvers State Hospital Cemetery, Danvers MA
 ⚰️ Built: 1878 | Demolished: 2006
 👻 Nearly 800 unmarked graves
 🎬 Inspired Session 9 & Arkham Sanitarium

Perfect for: Asylum history enthusiasts, Session 9 fans, paranormal investigators, mental health history buffs

🎧 Descend with The Grim into the Palace on the Hill.

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Step through the moss-draped gates of All Saints' Church Cemetery with The Grim as host Kristin explores one of the South's most hauntingly beautiful graveyards on Pawleys Island, South Carolina.

Beneath weathered stones and Lowcountry oaks rest Carolina's planters, patriots, poets, and governors. But it's the ghosts that draw travelers and storytellers alike.

Discover the legends:

• The Gray Man - A cloaked figure who appears before hurricanes as omen and protector
• Alice Flagg - Whose restless spirit still searches for her lost engagement ring
• The church's fiery rebirth in 1917
• Southern Gothic beauty woven with grief and resilience

From the 18th century to today, All Saints' Cemetery is a stage where mourning, faith, and folklore converge beneath salt air and shadow.

📍 All Saints' Church Cemetery, Pawleys Island SC
 ⚰️ Founded: 18th century
 👻 Home to the Gray Man & Alice Flagg 🌊 Lowcountry's most romantic haunted cemetery

Perfect for: Southern Gothic lovers, Lowcountry tourists, hurricane folklore enthusiasts, South Carolina history buffs

🎧 Where the past lingers with The Grim—and the dead are never truly silent.

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The Grim is opening the gate to the Tophet of Carthage, an ancient Phoenician site buried beneath the soil of modern Tunis and steeped in centuries of mystery. Here, archaeologists uncovered thousands of urns filled with the ashes of infants, children, and animals, alongside dedications to the gods Baal Hammon and Tanit. Was this sacred ground a cemetery for the young taken too soon, or an altar of fire where lives were sacrificed to appease divine wrath?

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

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The Grim is opening the gate to Père Lachaise, Paris’s most legendary and haunted cemetery. Step through its rusted gates and wander the shadowed avenues of a necropolis that cradles the bones of revolutionaries, rock stars, and romantics, whispering stories richer than fiction.

Founded in 1804 as Napoleon’s answer to overflowing churchyards, Père Lachaise began as an empty hillside at the city’s edge. Only after the ceremonial reinterment of cultural giants like Molière did it transform into the most coveted final address in Paris. Today, more than 3.5 million visitors each year thread between its marble monuments, seeking ghosts both famous and forgotten.

Along moss-lined paths, we visit the graves of Jim Morrison, Héloïse and Abélard, Édith Piaf, Honoré de Balzac, and Eugène Delacroix. Yet Père Lachaise holds darker seams as well: the Paris Commune executions at the Communards’ Wall, the bloodshed of the 1814 assault, and echoes of the city’s violent past. Between chapels and catacombs, five thousand trees turn this cathedral of the dead into a living refuge for foxes and birds, where nature and mourning entwine.

Join The Grim as we descend into this cathedral of memory, where Paris wears its decay like perfume, old, intoxicating, and impossible to forget. The gates stand open. Will you step inside?

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Grim Mourning, and welcome to The Grim. In this episode, we open the gate to Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina — one of the most famous cemeteries in the world and a haunting landmark of Argentine history. Often called the city of the dead, Recoleta is a gothic labyrinth of marble mausoleums, ivy-cloaked vaults, and shadowed passageways where legends and ghost stories breathe alongside the tombs of presidents, poets, aristocrats, and revolutionaries.

To walk through Recoleta is to step into a realm where history and myth converge. Ornate French and Gothic mausoleums rise like palaces, their elegance sharpened by decay. Angels and Madonnas keep watch at iron gates, stained glass windows glimmer with shifting light, and silence hums with a restless energy. This is not merely a burial ground but a haunted cemetery in Buenos Aires where the past refuses to rest.

Here lie names etched in memory, including Eva Perón (Evita), whose tomb still draws mourners and skeptics alike. Yet beyond the famous graves linger darker tales: whispered tragedies, phantom lights behind sealed tombs, cold spots in the summer heat, and the Lady in White, drifting at dusk through narrow corridors.

Recoleta Cemetery is a paradox of beauty and ruin, a place where grief lingers and ghosts endure. For travelers, it is a must-see destination in Buenos Aires; for believers, it is one of the most haunted cemeteries in the world.

Step carefully into Recoleta Cemetery, where myth, memory, and the supernatural converge. Join us on The Grim as we descend into the hauntings of history.

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Step through the crooked gates of Boston's Granary Burying Ground with The Grim as host Kristin explores haunted ground where liberty and death rest side by side.

Founded in 1660, this Freedom Trail landmark holds over 5,000 souls, including the patriots etched into American memory: John Hancock, Paul Revere, and Samuel Adams.

But shadows dwell here too: Crispus Attucks, first to fall in the Boston Massacre; James Otis Jr., struck by lightning after his thunder against tyranny; and Samuel Sewall, the Salem Witch Trials judge who repented his verdicts.

The hauntings:

• Ghostly whispers among the stones
• Glowing orbs drifting at dusk
• Shadow figures pacing the graves
• Revolutionary spirits with unfinished stories

Where every cracked headstone hums with history and the spirits of Boston refuse to be forgotten.

📍 Granary Burying Ground, Boston MA (Freedom Trail)
 ⚰️ Founded: 1660
 👻 5,000+ souls including Revolutionary War patriots
 🔔 One if by land, two if by sea—all haunted

Perfect for: Freedom Trail tourists, Revolutionary War history buffs, Boston visitors, American history enthusiasts

🎧 Step carefully with The Grim—the spirits of Boston are waiting.

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Shhh… The Haunting Return of Season Two Begins Sept 2.

Are you ready to step beyond the veil… and into the history of hauntings once again?

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In this eerie season finale of The Grim, we're opening the gate and descending into one of the most iconic and haunted sites located in London England - the crypt beneath St. Paul’s Cathedral. Spanning 30,000 square feet, it is the largest cathedral crypt in Europe and a resting place for Britain’s greatest legends—and, some say, its most restless spirits.

We uncover the story of Admiral Lord Nelson, whose body lies in a black marble tomb originally carved for Cardinal Wolsey, the disgraced advisor to Henry VIII. Wolsey dreamed of sainthood, but died in exile. His tomb lay unused for centuries—until Nelson’s shattered body was brought home from Trafalgar and laid to rest where ambition had failed.

We revisit Winston Churchill’s state funeral, where Queen Elizabeth II broke royal tradition to attend and bowed her head—just once—as his coffin passed beneath the dome. And we walk the stone corridors where visitors report phantom footsteps, sudden chills, and an overwhelming sense of being watched.

And then… just a few steps from these centuries-old tombs… a café. Reopened in 2025, the Crypt Café serves lattes and pastries atop the bones of an empire.

This episode blends dark British history, true ghost stories, St. Paul’s Cathedral trivia, and haunted London travel all in one unforgettable journey below the city.

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