Stones and Bones Ep. 8 - Graveyard Humor

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

George Bernard Shaw wrote in The Doctor’s Dilemma, "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." Death shows up in gallows humor often. There is indeed, humor in death. Many times it can found in cemeteries. On this Stones and Bones, we're talking graveyard humor.

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0:00.0	There are places for our dead.
0:05.0	Places of peace and not dread.
0:11.0	Sites of simple or elaborate stones that memorialize our lost one's bones.
0:23.9	Welcome to stones and bones.
0:30.5	Whoa.
0:32.4	Oh.
0:34.2	Welcome to stones and Bones.
0:40.3	Hello, you sputacular people.
0:46.5	Welcome to Stones and Bones.
0:48.5	I'm your host, Diane.
0:49.6	And this is Kelly.
0:51.1	Kelly, we love cemeteries, right?
0:53.5	Absolutely.
0:58.1	We also like humor, comedy, that kind of thing.
1:04.1	We do have the sense of humor as a 13-year-old boys. We certainly do, which is going to go very well with this episode, because we're going to feature graveyard humor. Awesome. If you guys are having a bad day, this is the episode for you.
1:13.8	We promise we're going to bring a smile to your face.
1:39.9	Music George Bernard Shaw wrote in the book The Doctor's Dilemma,
1:45.8	Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
1:53.5	Death shows up in gallows humor often. There is indeed humor in death. Many times it can be found in cemeteries. On this stones and bones, we're talking graveyard humor. Many people use humor as a coping mechanism. Whether it's the anxiety around
2:04.0	dying or the sadness of losing a loved one, humor seems to dull the sting. Imagine, Kelly,
2:10.1	if you will, a funeral with Blue Oyster Colts, don't Fear the Reaper, or ACDC's Highway to Hell,
2:16.4	blaring in the background.
	...

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