HOUR SPECIAL: Stories from the Unmarked Graveyard

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Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hart Island is America’s largest public cemetery—sometimes known as a “potter’s field.” The island has no headstones or plaques, just numbered markers. More than a million people are buried on Hart Island in mass graves, there are no headstones or plaques, just numbered markers. In this special, hour-long episode we're untangling mysteries about how people ended up on Hart Island, the lives they lived and the people they left behind.

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0:31.9	Radio Tokyo. on a rainy Saturday morning. On a rainy Saturday morning last fall I visited Hart Island for the first time.
0:48.0	It's New York City's Potter's Field where the city has buried more than a million unidentified or unclaimed bodies.
0:56.2	It's not an easy place to visit.
0:58.2	First we had to get permission from the city.
1:00.3	Once we have that, we drove to an industrial dock in the Bronx and rode a small ferry to the island.
1:05.0	Everybody has a designated area where they're visiting their loved one.
1:09.0	We will take you to that area.
1:11.0	Then we got on a bus. A guard escorted us to the specific grave we had
1:15.4	signed up to visit, in this case plot 414. We weren't allowed to just wander
1:20.4	around.
1:27.0	Everywhere you look you can see simple white posts with numbers on them. No names.
1:28.0	Just 414 383 201.
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