Hidden Chicago - "Cemetery Lady"

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  • čas přidán 24. 03. 2010
  • Chicago's "cemetery lady" died two weeks ago. We revisit a segment in which she shared her vast knowledge of Chicago's hidden cemetery history with Geoffrey Baer.

Komentáře • 84

  • @martinconnors5195
    @martinconnors5195 Před rokem +9

    Rest In Peace Helen. Such a smart and knowledgeable lady

  • @mytwocents848
    @mytwocents848 Před 2 lety +7

    I love people who have such knowledgeable history such as this lady It is always a good idea to listen to old timers. They have great stories and great memories. Says a lot for cremation as a preference!

  • @svarner8206
    @svarner8206 Před 3 lety +13

    Bless this lady for treasuring Chicago's history!

  • @mpenny226
    @mpenny226 Před 9 lety +93

    she would have made a great history teacher

    • @LostCause-69
      @LostCause-69 Před 6 lety +8

      She was a teacher for 30 years mostly at Gladstone Elementary in Chicago.

  • @celiagorleski2716
    @celiagorleski2716 Před 5 lety +43

    Too bad they didn't let her do more talking. I'm sure she would have had stories that were quite interesting. It would have been great if she had been able to write a book of all the information she had learned over her life. When someone with this much knowledge dies the history dies with it. She was definitely one of a kind.

    • @mygrammieis
      @mygrammieis Před 2 lety +1

      I second that emotion and Miss The history and such🕊💐✌🏻🪶🧐

  • @magdalenojuan
    @magdalenojuan Před 4 lety +8

    This lady is so relaxing to hear.

  • @tippersmami
    @tippersmami Před 5 lety +25

    cremation is the best way of taking care of the dead. the spirit is put to rest and no one comes and digs them up later. i have already talked to my family about it. ashes to ashes , dust to dust. i have no secrets but if you were a famous person, i would imagine you wouldnt want your body to be exhumed. and those poor soldiers. just lay them to rest. fought for others then cant rest in death.

    • @alecfoster4413
      @alecfoster4413 Před 4 lety +2

      Well put. Totally agree!

    • @juliaheger8127
      @juliaheger8127 Před rokem

      neece losey Agreed 100%. Cremation is best and think of all the valuable real estate that could be put to better use for the living.

  • @WhispersFromTheDark
    @WhispersFromTheDark Před 3 lety +5

    RIP Helen. I'm sure the thousands of souls you never forgot lined up to shake your hand and welcome you. Bless your heart!

  • @ohmeowzer1
    @ohmeowzer1 Před 6 lety +28

    Rip dear lady

  • @angelharris623
    @angelharris623 Před 6 lety +17

    Rip cemetery lady

  • @mygrammieis
    @mygrammieis Před 2 lety +1

    Thank You For Sharing this beautiful Lady and her history sharing

  • @communistjesus
    @communistjesus Před 7 lety +19

    May Miss Helen Rest In peace eternally..

  • @aprilwest9852
    @aprilwest9852 Před 6 lety +8

    She is fascinating. Smart gal !

  • @onacorona2323
    @onacorona2323 Před 6 lety +17

    I sure would have liked to have taken a tour with her she's very knowledgeable, and I have a great love for cemeteries in myself it would have been a treat

  • @mygrammieis
    @mygrammieis Před 2 lety +1

    Still Miss Her and Her Stories🕊🪶💐✌🏻

  • @elainem7300
    @elainem7300 Před 6 lety +37

    What an interesting lady. I love cemeteries and find them dead interesting, excuse the pun there! But I don't find them creepy and love visiting them. I could probably tell you so much about Dublin cemeteries!

    • @galemartin6781
      @galemartin6781 Před 6 lety +6

      Elaine M, I love visiting cemeteries! My Mother is buried in a Historical Cemetery, I can walk for hours among the beautiful trees!"

    • @englishbull1949
      @englishbull1949 Před 3 lety

      Been over from liverpool to roselawn cemetery Belfast. to visit gorge best grave. That's a nice cemetery also.

    • @juliaheger8127
      @juliaheger8127 Před rokem

      Cemeterues are GROUND ZERO for creepiness. I avoid them like the plague.

  • @lostvlog6857
    @lostvlog6857 Před 8 lety +17

    A lot of history in this city...RIP

  • @charliejeans2413
    @charliejeans2413 Před 5 lety +5

    Oh that magic date, 1860. 3 cemetaries from 1860 were moved in my home town, back in the 70s. But they didn't move bodies, There still in the now parks. !

  • @karenhargis3682
    @karenhargis3682 Před 4 lety +5

    Architecture in the early 17th and early 19th centuries are beautiful and cannot be replicated by modern man.... it’s too bad that where you’re laid to rest may not be your final resting place.

  • @lindamccoy4871
    @lindamccoy4871 Před 5 lety +15

    She was fascinating. I wish someone would finish the book she had started.

    • @trinaandrews6096
      @trinaandrews6096 Před 3 lety +1

      What do you think people.about him doing this in the dark with a night vision camera. spooky for sure

    • @sky.the.infinite
      @sky.the.infinite Před rokem

      How do you know she started a book?

    • @lindamccoy4871
      @lindamccoy4871 Před rokem +1

      I heard it at a meeting.

    • @robertpilar
      @robertpilar Před 5 měsíci

      ACTUALLY she had 32 books in the works when she died , alll of which were taken by NEWBERRY library & theyre supposed to be in their vaults , i was her caretaker when she left us thats how i know @@lindamccoy4871

    • @robertpilar
      @robertpilar Před 5 měsíci

      SORRY THREE BOOKS

  • @hh7407
    @hh7407 Před 2 lety +1

    This was posted 11 years ago? How old is this video?
    CZcams just brought it to my feed in 2022.

  • @johnnyraymond2532
    @johnnyraymond2532 Před rokem

    That's what kills me about CZcams you know I got this video on my recommendations is 12 years ago

  • @PARALEECulbert-kz6qv
    @PARALEECulbert-kz6qv Před 7 měsíci

    Hi, from what I've learned from her and back when the constructions workers were working on Michigan Ave and start finding old graves bones and more ,really there are graves all over chicago so far Nth,sth Est,wst.oh yes there are graves still in linclon,Park..I could listen to her all day really interesting lady andca great history teacher of People. Your senior listener.

  • @snarky.conservative9182
    @snarky.conservative9182 Před 4 lety +5

    Chicago cemeteries are indeed creepy as hell!

  • @glendahawkins3227
    @glendahawkins3227 Před 5 lety +4

    Very interesting.

  • @trinaandrews6096
    @trinaandrews6096 Před 3 lety +1

    Beautiful statues at this cemetery

  • @shondasmith5470
    @shondasmith5470 Před 11 měsíci +1

    "She knows where the bodies are buried".

  • @marclaw4511
    @marclaw4511 Před 3 lety +6

    She got about 30 seconds of time in this video.

    • @juliaheger8127
      @juliaheger8127 Před rokem

      Marc Law Too bad -- she had so much more to say.

  • @kathybrisky
    @kathybrisky Před 9 lety +9

    Very cool, any more on this lady?

    • @historyman1616
      @historyman1616 Před 3 lety +1

      kate weiss their is nothing google on her sadly

  • @jackpalance7674
    @jackpalance7674 Před rokem

    My friend Helen was as she called herself, "A friend to the dead."

    • @robertpilar
      @robertpilar Před 5 měsíci

      the actual Monicker is "An Advocate for the DEAD "

  • @dariojovicic9346
    @dariojovicic9346 Před 3 lety

    that must be one hell off a haunted place ever

  • @theresaohman7187
    @theresaohman7187 Před rokem

    She is so interesting. I wish I would have known her.

  • @melissalove2463
    @melissalove2463 Před 6 lety +12

    Wonder if any of those stores & homes that were built on the sites where the bodies weren't moved are haunted?

    • @paulcarolan8646
      @paulcarolan8646 Před 6 lety +4

      Lissa Milesy hello from Royal hill Tara county Meath Ireland I say yes to places haunted

    • @ghostcityshelton9378
      @ghostcityshelton9378 Před 5 lety +3

      I would say a big "yes". In Tom's River, New Jersey across the street from the 1860's (which is haunted) there used to be a big church now long gone. Most of the cematary is also gone but a few remain.
      In the day time I got an EVP of a Scottish or Enlish lady very clearly saying,;"I can't find me headstone ...Where's me headstone?" She seemed afraid & abit angry. I wondered about that till I'd found out that there used to be headstones where the road now is. They were 'soposed to' move the bodies AND the headstones so the road could be built. The fence & headstones were removed & to save money I bet they never moved the bodies. I think the woman looking for her headstone, that her body is one of many still left behind under that road.
      In New York where that big white archway is outside used to be a HUGE cematary. I bet they only moved the headstones once again.

    • @margotworsley8565
      @margotworsley8565 Před 4 lety +1

      GhostCity Shelton is

    • @koalabrat
      @koalabrat Před 4 lety +1

      Absolutely would be

    • @erickrohn2970
      @erickrohn2970 Před rokem

      Probably not since there are no ghosts

  • @darkwaters1010
    @darkwaters1010 Před 5 lety +2

    "Thousands" of bodies still left?

  • @arbrimmer3813
    @arbrimmer3813 Před 2 lety

    Wondeful woman!!

  • @ROGERWDARCY
    @ROGERWDARCY Před 4 lety

    Cessation of the self is an important problem!

  • @katybrennan8222
    @katybrennan8222 Před 3 lety

    Marshall Field is buried in Rosehill cemetery, in the mosoleum.

    • @itsthe773guero5
      @itsthe773guero5 Před 2 lety

      nope him and his family are at graceland ,the gravesite statue known as 'memory" is shown here at 5:49...richard sears and montgomery ward are in rosehills mausoleum i always thought marshall field was too

  • @karenvecchio7772
    @karenvecchio7772 Před 2 lety

    RIP.

  • @labrat748
    @labrat748 Před 4 lety +1

    A cemetery is a great place for a nice long dirt nap..provided you have good neighbors.

  • @wickedsarasota
    @wickedsarasota Před 2 lety

    Thought this was about the lady

  • @ZestyLemonBoi
    @ZestyLemonBoi Před 5 lety +1

    Блестящий!

  • @tania_summer_5032
    @tania_summer_5032 Před rokem

    Lamont brought me here

  • @PercyKlvana
    @PercyKlvana Před 14 lety +2

    8:44 grave of Frantisek Matyas Klacel

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet359 Před 4 lety

    The real Lady Death.

  • @MissTrinidad
    @MissTrinidad Před 5 lety

    Hmmmm. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

  • @trinaandrews6096
    @trinaandrews6096 Před 3 lety +1

    You should go to a old cemetery way out in the middle of nowhere and do a night time investigation show .and bring your EMF device . never know what mighthappen

    • @juliaheger8127
      @juliaheger8127 Před rokem

      No one could pay me a zillion dollars to enter any cemetery at night.

  • @natashazent919
    @natashazent919 Před 5 lety

    Z

  • @stevenwendellnelson5228

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    Please forgive me and my friends and my family for our immoral acts, please help guide us in a positive direction and please help us against evil. Please save us from Hell and have mercy on our souls. Thank you CREATOR, LORD GOD. Amen. ''
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  • @communistjesus
    @communistjesus Před 7 lety +5

    When I die, I
    I want for all my organs be DONATED FOR TRANSPLANT.
    Two caveats:
    1. My organs will be FREE OF CHARGE..

    • @communistjesus
      @communistjesus Před 7 lety +2

      2. The recipients of my organs MUST AGREE to become Organ donors upon their deaths.
      Lastly, I want to be CREMATED in the most ENVIRONMENTALLY WAY POSSIBLE. Last, but not least I WOULD LIKE MY ASHES TO BE SCATTERED AROUND A BEAUTIFUL FIELD OF FLOWERS, or on a wheat field..In this way, I will be 100% sure that NO IDIOTS will come by, in the future, to disturb my eternal peaceful slumber..

    • @robertpilar
      @robertpilar Před 5 měsíci

      if you worked in the funeral industry you WOULD NOT DONATE ANY of your organs EVER , there are funeral homes that will sell to chemical corporations for "HUMAN" testing ,donations are not regulated by the gov on a reg basis & there have been quite a few who got busted in the past ..

  • @paulgrimm7842
    @paulgrimm7842 Před 3 lety +3

    They are all registered to vote