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Back to EpisodesThe Cemetery Where Nobody Stays Buried: Nashville City Cemetery (Tennessee)
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Nashville City Cemetery holds roughly 22,000 people—and apparently Nashville has never been particularly good at leaving them where they were buried. Civil War soldiers were dug up and moved. President James K. Polk passed through on his way to multiple graves. An epidemic vault filled with bodies was deliberately burned. And in 2010, construction workers accidentally uncovered the remains of the man Andrew Jackson shot in a duel and sent him there too.
But the cemetery's most famous legend centered on a massive river boulder said to mark the grave of a heartbroken woman who killed herself. For more than a century, people reported ghostly lights and a woman in white around "Suicide Rock." Then preservationists cut away the ivy...and discovered the ghost story belonged to the wrong woman.
Tonight, we enter Nashville's oldest cemetery, where even the dead have a difficult time keeping their identities straight.
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