Amazing Graves - The Paranormal Podcast 909

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Author Tui Snyder joins Jim to explore some of the world’s most extraordinary burial sites and the stories they tell. From marble sculptures depicting a lover’s final farewell to wooden crosses painted with cheeky epitaphs in Romania, Tui reveals how art, humor, and faith intertwine in graveyards across the globe. Together they discuss the evolution of cemetery art — from the grand monuments of the Victorian era to today’s simpler markers — and what those changes reveal about how we view life and death. Tui also shares highlights from her travels to places like Milan’s Cimitero Monumentale, where thousands of life-size sculptures turn the cemetery into an open-air museum. It’s a moving, fascinating conversation about the beauty and meaning found in the world’s “amazing graves.” You can find Around The World In 80 Graves at Amazon: https://amzn.to/4oBoZsf Thanks Tui! --- OCTOBER SPECIAL: Get a 14 DAY FREE TRIAL OF SPOOKY STUDIO PLUS ON APPLE PODCASTS ONLY! ⁠ https://apple.co/spooky This post contains Amazon affiliate links that benefit Jim Harold Media when you make a qualifying purchase. Thank you for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today, we're going around the world in 80 Graves on the Paranormal Podcast.
0:19.1	Welcome to the paranormal podcast. So glad to be with you once again. And I'm fascinated. And I think many of us who are interested in the paranormal are fascinated with graves, tombstones, graveyards. And if that's you, you're in the right place because today we're going to talk about
0:39.1	around the world and 80 graves travel tombstones and transformation with Tui Snyder.
0:45.1	You see her there on the screen.
0:47.2	Tui is an author, speaker, and globe-trotting cemetery explorer who brings historic graveyards
0:53.1	to life through books, talks, and international
0:55.5	tours. Her work has been featured on Coast to Coast A.M., CBS, and ABC, among other media outlets.
1:02.7	She writes a monthly symbolism column for American Cemetery and Cremation magazine
1:07.5	and is known for uncovering hidden histories, unusual legends, and the meanings
1:12.7	behind Tombstone Art and Iconography. With over a dozen books, Tooie blends heartfelt
1:19.1	storytelling with deep research and a touch of humor, and we're always so glad to talk with her.
1:23.8	And I should say, there's also a reading companion book with this one as well. And yeah,
1:30.9	right there. So there's actually really two books. And we're so glad to have Tui with us today.
1:35.8	Welcome back to the show. It's been a while. It has. And thank you so much for having me back on
1:41.4	your show, Jim. It's great to be here. So I guess I will ask you,
1:47.0	why are you so fascinated with graves? And an extension of that is, why are we all so fascinated
1:54.9	with graves, gravestones, and everything to do with this? Well, I think that there is a fascination because I think it's a lot of the same
2:04.4	curiosities that draws all to the paranormal.
2:07.9	We all wonder what's going to happen to us after we shuffle off this mortal coil.
2:13.4	And when we go to a cemetery, we're forced to confront this idea. I find them personally
2:20.4	super fascinating places, wonderfully enriching places to go to because I think they are one of the
2:28.4	few places in our modern time where, let's face it, you go to a cemetery, you get off your screen, right? You put your phone away.
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