Welcome to Lore Legends, a subset of lore episodes that explore the strange tales we whisper in the dark,

even if they can't always be proven by the history books.

So if you're ready, let's begin. Death comes for all of us. It's inevitable, but that doesn't make it any

easier to swallow. Not only are we afraid of dying, of missing out on so much that life has to offer,

but we also worry about losing the people closest to us. As C.S. Lewis once wrote,

no one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Grief is at the end of the day an expression of loss.

It's an emotion that none of us should ever have to experience, and yet most of us will, probably multiple times during our lives.

Grief is a reminder that we loved that the people in our lives made an impression and left a mark.

Grief is healthy and normal and so deeply painful it can

bring our lives to a stop. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that we humans have become very good

at making tools to help us manage that grief.

Maybe it's a photo on the wall or a holiday tradition that keeps a lost loved one's

memory alive or something special at their actual grave site.

And because cemeteries tend to have an eerie connotation, those little details, once

designed to be handholds on the mountain of grief, slowly transform

into something different, something darker.

So let's explore a bit of that graveyard folklore together here today.

Because even though something started out life as an outlet for grief,

all it takes is a legend to transform them into a nightmare.

Just be careful where you rest your bones though, because not all

seats are actually vacant. I'm Aaron Manky and this is Lore legends. As they say, there are two things that are certain in life, death and taxes.

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