THE GHASTLY HISTORIAN

  • 9/6/2023: Hermit of the Tomb

    HERMIT OF THE TOMB Even in death, Jonathan Reed expressed his unwavering devotion to his wife, Mary Guild Reed, and vowed not to leave her side. A once successful entrepreneur of the trucking business from the New York borough of Brooklyn, he later became known as a local, much talked about eccentric, and dubbed “the…

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  • 7/10/2023: Cemetery Spotlight – Metairie Cemetery

    CEMETERY SPOTLIGHT – METAIRIE CEMETERY Metairie Cemetery, located within the city limits of New Orleans, is the final resting place of many notable residents from the city’s past. The ornate tombs within the cemetery’s gates are an exquisite example of New Orleans’ 19th and 20th-century funerary architecture. Before being incorporated as a cemetery in 1872,…

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  • 6/10/2023: Rise of the Fox Sisters

    RISE OF THE FOX SISTERS During the early 19th century, the Second Great Awakening produced many Protestant religious reform movements throughout the burned-over district of upstate New York. On March 31, 1848, Margaret and Kate Fox of Hydesville, New York, allegedly had their first supernatural experience. Through an exchange of rapping noises, they made contact…

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