Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to this 604th episode of the History Ghostbump

podcast. Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind. I'm your host, Diane. And this is Kelly.

Kelly, on this episode, we are bringing a location that was suggested by our listener, Jared Spangler,

and this is the Elms Hotel. It's an old hotel. It's actually the third version of this hotel, because two of them burned down.

There's some spooks here, so it'll be interesting to share this with everybody.

History tells the story of the world and of our lives. Sometimes that history goes bump in the night. Broadcasting from the center of

oddity and the supernatural in central Florida. It's the history goes bump podcast. Kelly, you want to

welcome into the spooktacular Crew, Patrick and Julia.

Thank you so much for joining the Spuctorcular Crew.

And now, this moment, Nodity.

Here at History Goes Bump, we often talk about how much we love cemeteries and old unique homes and architecture.

In Petersburg, Virginia, there is a unique blending of all of the above.

It is known as the Tombstone House.

From the street, it looks like any ordinary block home. The two-story structure was built in

1934 at a cost of only $45 for the 2,200 marble blocks that were used for constructing the home.

We are sure that by now you have guessed where the marble blocks were sourced from.

These were the bottom half of marble headstones.

In the siege of Petersburg during the last nine months of the Civil War,

many of the Union soldiers who died in the battle were buried at Poplar Lawn Cemetery.

After the original wooden markers were beginning to rot away,

the government replaced them with upright marble headstones.

As we know, maintenance of old cemeteries can fall by the wayside. It was during the Great Depression that the Poplar Lawn Cemetery decided to cut the existing tombstones in half, laying the inscripted parts flat on each individual grave versus having them stand

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