An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they’ll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Our theme and end credit music is composed by Sam Tyndall.
10,000 Dead Bodies Beneath a NYC Park
The James J Walker Park is a local New York City park in Greenwich Village. But what people might not know is that there are 10,000 dead bodies buried underground. In today’s episode, writer and tour guide Christina Ray Stanton tells us how a cemetery becomes a park, reveals some of the disturbing things that’ve happened there and gives us the story of the man who made sure we remember it all.
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