History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind · Diane Student

Stones and Bones Ep. 14 - Oak Grove Cemetery

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The steamship United States collided with the America, causing a fiery disaster on the Ohio River.
This episode explores Oak Grove Cemetery in Nacogdoches, Texas, one of the state's oldest cemeteries, featuring burials from the Texas Revolution, pioneers, and victims of historical tragedies like a steamship collision. Hosts Diane and Kelly discuss notable figures, cemetery artifacts like false crypts, and share eerie stories tied to the location.

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A cemetery walk through Texas history that treats every grave as part of the story.

Oak Grove Cemetery in Nacogdoches comes across as a quiet way into Texas history, with Diane and Kelly moving past early settlers, pioneers, men who fought in the Texas Revolution, a San Jacinto veteran, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, a poet and author, and a…

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Take a cemetery walk through old Texas, with ghosts lingering just off the path.

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