10,000 Dead Bodies Beneath a NYC Park
Episode Ep 1445 22 min 41s

10,000 Dead Bodies Beneath a NYC Park

The James J Walker Park is a local New York City park in Greenwich Village. But what people might not know is that there are 10,000 dead bodies buried underground. In today’s episode, writer and tour guide Christina Ray Stanton tells us how a cemetery becomes a park, reveals some of the disturbing things that’ve happened there and gives us the story of the man who made sure we remember it all.

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