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30 Morbid Minutes

Cemeteries vs. Graveyards: What's REALLY the Difference?

30 Morbid Minutes

30 Morbid Minutes

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.8731 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Cemeteries and graveyards aren’t actually the same thing. An important distinction that probably doesn’t matter much… if you’re dead. In this episode, we examine the historical and practical differences that set these two bone yards apart. Leave us a review -- it helps the show! :) Follow Us ⁠⁠⁠⁠30MorbidMinutes⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.4

Cemetery and graveyards aren't actually the same thing.

0:39.9

An important distinction that probably doesn't matter much if you're dead. Welcome to 30 Morbid

0:45.7

Minutes.

1:02.0

This is the podcast where we cover topics, people, places, history, and headlines of a morbid macab, dark, and downright grisly nature.

1:04.1

I'm Elise Willems.

1:05.0

And I'm Jessica Wasami.

1:06.3

And today we are digging into everything about burial grounds, pun intended.

1:12.7

By asking a big question that perhaps you were too afraid to ask, what's the real difference between a cemetery and a graveyard?

1:18.7

This is a great question that I think about often. You've probably heard both of these terms

1:23.1

use interchangeably or have used them interchangeably yourself. In everyday speech, the two are virtually

1:28.7

synonymous. Sometimes I forget which is which and then I have to try to pause and remind myself.

1:35.1

Yeah. So you might never think of it at all unless you're hanging out with your morbid friends,

1:40.4

us. Us. But you probably won't get called out for using one term over the other. Yeah, probably not. I guess not. No one, well, I think I said this in the last episode, or I don't know when I've said this, but like graveyard to me sounds scary. Grave. Yeah, and I don't know if that's just because of like movies and TV shows. But like when I think of a cemetery, I think of like driving down the highway,

2:01.8

looking at the cemeteries on the side of the road that are either their headstones are like

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