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In Memoriam

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Death: It comes for all of us, eventually. This week we bring you two tales from Reddit about the Grim Reaper himself. One involves gravestones; the other, a "natural" way to think about burial.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Produced by the island at WBUR Boston.

0:07.0

Armory Silvertson. John Benson. I think the name that people call you when they get your

0:15.4

name wrong is probably cooler than the name people call me when they really want to get

0:19.3

my name wrong. I completely agree, John. Stop. You brought that one on yourself Ben, but fine.

0:26.0

Okay, I've got a quick story for you about names and unsolved mysteries. Did you ever watch

0:30.8

that TV show Unsolved Mysteries, Amory? I didn't, but I bet I can guess what it's about.

0:36.6

It was a classic show for me, a kid who is trying to watch lots of TV in the 80s and 90s.

0:42.4

Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries, ordinary people who claim they've seen extra-ordinary things.

0:51.4

That is the host Robert Stack and this is Amy. I do blame Robert Stack for most of this.

0:57.2

Amy is a big fan of Unsolved Mysteries. She had an Unsolved Mysteries that eventually got

1:02.6

her into a pastime that is kind of weird. We know this because she answered a question posted

1:08.8

in the Ask Reddit community. The question was, what's a thing you do for fun that 99% of people

1:15.4

would consider boring? Are we really going to kick this off with Amy's hobby that 99% of people

1:21.3

think is boring? Wait, wait for it. It's not boring. It's weird. You know, I might be driving and

1:27.6

see a cemetery and think, oh, I can stop and, you know, take a photo quick of all the graves in

1:33.3

there. It's not that large. So, problem is I think it's not that large, but it's actually about

1:37.6

250 graves. So it takes about an hour and a half to do. She stops at graveyards and takes photos

1:43.5

of every single grave in the graveyard. That is a little weird. Yeah, but she's got a good reason

1:50.8

for doing this. It started when she was a teenager. I'm originally from a little town in Wisconsin.

1:58.0

It's in between Dodgeville and Plattville. It's called Miner Point. One day Amy's dad sat her down

2:03.6

and told her he was adopted, which meant that she had this whole part of her family that she

2:09.2

didn't really know about. Were you immediately interested in sort of finding out more about the

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