This is one old bone yard here Jeff.

Yeah it is, Ray.

And the sign in front of us right here, it reads,

The Old Burying Ground, 1634 Ipswich Historical Commission.

There's so many great old burial grounds in the greater Boston area.

Plymouth, of course, has some graves that go back even further, but not much.

Right, right.

But up here in the North Shore, I mean this is old and it's pretty large too. There

were over 2,000 graves in a cemetery that kind of stair steps up the hill away from High Street

and the back of Old North buryingying Ground touches the more modern Highland Cemetery.

So there's a lot of dead people around us right now.

A lot of dead people.

And some go back to the very earliest days of Essex. Back to

when this town was called Chabaco Parish. So I'm guessing we're here looking for

an historic grave. We are indeed but we're looking for several historic graves to be

exact and I'm afraid all we're going to be able to see today though are the

headstones because the bodies have been snatched but who done it and why? We've come to Essex, Massachusetts

to search for the ghoul of tobacco parish. Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger.

And I'm Ray O's your welcome to episode 353 of the New England Legends podcast.

Thanks for joining us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England one story at a time.

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