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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Past Beneath Our Feet with the Places Team

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Carey and Michelle Cassidy of the Atlas Places Team catch listeners up on the new and surprising additions to Atlas Obscura that capture their attention. This includes a heiress’s pet cemetery and ruins visible beneath a grocery store floor. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/doris-dukes-pet-cemetery https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/aungier-street-lidl-archaelogy

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, as you may already be familiar with, if you're a listener to this show, a regular

0:11.6

listener, occasionally, we take time to talk to Michelle Cassidy and Jonathan Carey who

0:17.8

are our places editors.

0:19.4

They see all of the stuff that everyone enters into Alice.

0:22.4

Scarra, and tell me about things that have caught their eye or interesting thematic stuff

0:27.8

that they're noticing, and so welcome to the show, Michelle and Jonathan, it's great

0:33.2

to talk to you guys again.

0:34.2

Great to talk to you, Dylan.

0:35.6

Okay, Dylan, always great to be here.

0:44.0

So yeah, I would love to hear about what you want to tell me about something that someone

0:49.3

entered that you thought was super cool.

0:50.9

One that grabbed my attention recently was Doris Duke's pet cemetery.

0:56.0

Are you guys familiar with Doris Duke?

0:58.6

The name sounds familiar, but I don't really like I, she's like some kind of aress or something,

1:05.1

she was like a wealthy person, I don't know.

1:07.6

So, she was a socialite and aress, she's the only child of tobacco and hydroelectric power

1:15.0

baron, James Buchanan Duke, and she was born in 1912 in New York City.

1:25.1

One of sort of the most defining things that came to be known about Doris Duke is that

1:29.8

she was a huge animal lover, and she had this massive estate in New Jersey that's still

1:36.1

there, it's called Duke Farms, and on the grounds of Duke Farms, there is a pet cemetery

1:40.8

with graves and many of her pets are buried there.

1:46.4

You hear all these stories about eccentric billionaires that are totally overblown, so

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