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🗓️ 27 November 2023
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Legends 15: Bonaventure Cemetery
Like all cemeteries, Savannah’s Bonaventure is the resting place to many people. But as time has proven, it’s also home to some dark legends.
Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Harry Marks and research by Cassandra de Alba.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Lore Legends, a subset of lore episodes that explore the strange tales we whisper in the dark, |
0:07.5 | even if they can't always be proven by the history books. |
0:12.0 | So if you're ready, let's begin. It seems that there's a name for everything. A group of flamingos, for example, is known as a flamboyance. |
0:34.1 | The fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth is called arachabutyrophobia, |
0:39.7 | and people who are passionate about cemeteries are said to be taffophiles. |
0:44.8 | Taffophilia is defined as a love for death rituals, funerals, and cemeteries. |
0:50.3 | Someone with this special fondness might linger in cemeteries and draw the graves they see, |
0:54.8 | or do rubings of the headstones. They also take plenty of photographs and are sometimes called |
0:59.9 | grave hunters or even gravers. But there is one cemetery that echoes in the minds of |
1:05.5 | Taffophiles everywhere and Georgia in specific. In fact it's one of the most beautiful burial |
1:11.2 | sites in America, but its long and |
1:13.3 | sorted history has endowed it with a dark reputation. The souls interred there are |
1:18.7 | said to churn and wail for a peace that never comes. It turns out a number of those who have been laid to rest in its soil were just as troubled |
1:26.8 | in life as they are in death. |
1:29.6 | Some ended things on their own, while others had their lives taken from them without warning. |
1:35.1 | It's such a turbulent place that even the gravestones have been known to act out toward visitors, |
1:40.8 | which is why this place is often spoken of in whispers so as not to disturb the restless |
1:45.8 | spirits still searching for their salvation. |
1:49.8 | So come along with me on a journey to the south as we walk among the ill-fated brides and haunted statues |
1:56.0 | that occupy the grounds of one of the most haunted spots in Savannah, Bonaventure Cemetery. |
2:03.0 | I'm Aaron Mankey and this is Lord Legends Savannah, Georgia is considered by many to be the most haunted city in America, no doubt in large part to the notable and notorious cemetery that sits just three miles from downtown. |
2:32.0 | Bonaventure Cemetery is located on the banks of the |
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