Invitation to an Exhumation
From All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories by Joe Lex
June 2, 2026 · 19 min · Episode 489
About this episode
The episode discusses the concept of using celebrity corpses to attract customers to cemeteries and the historical context of exhumation for various reasons.
ABC:LHS #087-1 The concept of "celebrity corpses" to attract customers to a cemetery was nothing new. People had been digging up other people for years for legal, political, religious, scientific, and other reasons, so why not for commerce? Many transportable cadavers have made interesting journeys to their final resting places.
People in this episode
Host: Joe Lex
Topics covered
- celebrity corpses
- cemetery commerce
- exhumation
- transportable cadavers
- historical practices
Keywords
- celebrity corpses
- cemetery
- exhumation
- cadavers
- historical practices
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Laurel Hill Stories
Places: cemetery
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