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Dr. Baxter: Grave Robber
Today I’ll be running my Grave Robbing 101 tour in Lincoln Park, the old City Cemetery, as part of Obscura Day 2016. It’s sold out, so no need to promote further, but since I’ll be quoting a bit of Dr. A.J. Baxter’s memories of robbing that particular graveyard, I thought I’d post his whole bit….
Grave Robbing Week: A Barrel Labeled “Poultry”
New Episode!Grave Robbingin Lincoln Park Download mp3from archive.org More Podcasts Rotters by Daniel Kraus. Father-son grave robbing! Amazon IndieBoundDan’s page Adam and Daniel are a part of the same violence gang: The Brothers Delacorte More on City Cemetery As late as 1884, Chicago was said to be the home of a “band of grave robbers.”…
Grave Robbing Week: The Barrel of Syrup
New Episode!Grave Robbingin Lincoln Park Download mp3from archive.org More Podcasts Rotters by Daniel Kraus. Father-son grave robbing! Amazon IndieBoundDan’s page Adam and Daniel are a part of the same violence gang: The Brothers Delacorte More on City Cemetery In ROTTERS, the book pictured on the left, and in our recent podcast, author Daniel Kraus says…
The Haunted Hooters? (Grave Robbing Week)
New Episode!Grave Robbingin Lincoln Park Download mp3from archive.org More Podcasts Rotters by Daniel Kraus. Father-son grave robbing! Amazon IndieBoundDan’s page Adam and Daniel are a part of the same violence gang: The Brothers Delacorte More on City Cemetery The downtown Hooters on Wells has long been rumored to be haunted. Well, really, almost every restaurant…
Grave Robbing Week: A Wagon Full of Corpses (1867 and 1872)
New PodcastEpisode:Grave Robbingin Lincoln Park Download mp3from archive.org More Podcasts Rotters by Daniel Kraus. Father-son grave robbing! Amazon IndieBoundDan’s page Adam and Daniel are a part of the same violence gang: The Brothers Delacorte Say what you will about how disgusting and depraved people are nowadays – I don’t recall ever seeing an item in…
Grave Robbing Week: The Scandal of 1857
New Podcast Episode: Grave Robbing in Lincoln Park Download mp3from archive.org More Podcasts Rotters by Daniel Kraus. Father-son grave robbing! Amazon IndieBoundDan’s page Adam and Daniel are a part of the same violence gang: The Brothers Delacorte More on City Cemetery Q: How do you enjoy the work?A: Well, it wasn’t very pleasant at first,…
Podcast: Grave Robbing in Lincoln Park
New Episode!Grave Robbingin Lincoln Park Download mp3from archive.org More Podcasts The first week of april will be grave-robbing week here at Chicago Unbelievable – we’ll be talking about a bunch of cases of grave robbing in Chicago. As a preview, Hector and I have journeyed out to the old City Cemetery to talk about grave…