Cemetery Mixtape Podcast
1) Minnie Wallace: Murder, Money, and Mystery
Minnie Wallace was 16 when she married the 49 year old mayor of Emporia, Kansas. A month later he was dead. A similar fate befell her second husband....
2) The First Journalist Killed In War
Even when he was alive, people talked about Captain Irving Carson, Grant's favorite scout, like he was Han Solo. Few realized that he was also a journalist - the first to be killed in battle. Joined b...Show More
3) Alice Getty and the Musical Skull
The Louis Sullivan-designed Getty tomb in Chicago attracts thousands of visitors, but almost none realize that it contains the remains of a woman who could be compared to Indiana Jones.
4) Son of a Dickens
Exploring Riverside Cemetery in Moline, IL, to find the gravestone(s) of Francis Dickens, and checking out the graves of some of Dickens' other sons and brothers (all of which are more about Charles D...Show More
5) The Man Who Shot Andrew Jackson
Wrestlezone's Ross Berman and former wrestler Nick Jordan present Dickinson and Jackson's pre-duel letters as a pre-match wrestling interview, and The Limited Time records a "ring entrace" song for Di...Show More
6) Elizabeth Keckley and Jefferson Davis’s Dress
Looking into a story in Elizabeth Keckley's biography that she attended a fair in Chicago which featured a wax figure of Jefferson Davis in a dress - and recognized it as one that she had made for Mrs...Show More
7) The Bones of Button Gwinnett
The grave of Button Gwinnett, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was forgotten soon after his death and lost within a few decades - until a high school principal dug him up in the 1950s. But w...Show More
8) Bring me the Head of George Frederick Cooke
By some accounts, George Frederick Cooke was the greatest tragedian actor of the late 18th and early 19th century; his portrayal of Shakespeare’s Richard III was second to none. Whether he was Scottis...Show More
9) Frederick Douglass (and the Garfield Grave Robbers)
Accounts of Frederick Douglass' riot-inducing speech on the Cambria, his connection to James Garfield, and the solution to a Garfield grave-robbing mystery. Music by Silas Reed
10) Joseph Wicher, Killed By Jesse James
J.W. Wicher, of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, may have had more guts than sense....