Hidden Chicago - "Cemetery Lady"

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.

[@martinconnors5195]

Rest In Peace Helen. Such a smart and knowledgeable lady

[@mytwocents848]

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]

Bless this lady for treasuring Chicago's history!

[@mpenny226]

she would have made a great history teacher

[@LostCause-69]

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

[@tippersmami]

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]

Well put. Totally agree!

[@juliaheger8127]

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.

[@celiagorleski2716]

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]

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

[@magdalenojuan]

This lady is so relaxing to hear.

[@mygrammieis]

Thank You For Sharing this beautiful Lady and her history sharing

[@angelharris623]

Rip cemetery lady

[@ohmeowzer1]

Rip dear lady

[@WhispersFromTheDark]

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

[@elainem7300]

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]

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

[@englishbull1949]

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

[@juliaheger8127]

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

[@communistjesus]

May Miss Helen Rest In peace eternally..

[@lindamccoy4871]

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

[@trinaandrews6096]

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

[@sky.the.infinite]

How do you know she started a book?

[@lindamccoy4871]

I heard it at a meeting.

[@robertpilar]

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]

SORRY THREE BOOKS

[@aprilwest9852]

She is fascinating. Smart gal !

[@mygrammieis]

Still Miss Her and Her Stories🕊🪶💐✌🏻

[@hh7407]

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

[@onacorona2323]

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

[@juliaheger8127]

I have a great hate for cemeteries.

[@karenhargis3682]

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.

[@charliejeans2413]

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. !

[@lostvlog6857]

A lot of history in this city...RIP

[@kathybrisky]

Very cool, any more on this lady?

[@historyman1616]

kate weiss their is nothing google on her sadly

[@johnnyraymond2532]

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

[@glendahawkins3227]

Very interesting.

[@PARALEECulbert-kz6qv]

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]

Chicago cemeteries are indeed creepy as hell!

[@juliaheger8127]

ALL cemeteries are as creepy as hell!!

[@trinaandrews6096]

Beautiful statues at this cemetery

[@marclaw4511]

She got about 30 seconds of time in this video.

[@juliaheger8127]

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

[@jackpalance7674]

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

[@robertpilar]

the actual Monicker is "An Advocate for the DEAD "

[@shondasmith5470]

"She knows where the bodies are buried".

[@melissalove2463]

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

[@paulcarolan8646]

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

[@ghostcityshelton9378]

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]

GhostCity Shelton is

[@koalabrat]

Absolutely would be

[@erickrohn2970]

Probably not since there are no ghosts

[@KWIOL]

Please rip in haven now Cemetery Lady

[@dariojovicic9346]

that must be one hell off a haunted place ever

[@theresaohman7187]

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

[@darkwaters1010]

"Thousands" of bodies still left?

[@arbrimmer3813]

Wondeful woman!!

[@katybrennan8222]

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

[@itsthe773guero5]

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

[@ROGERWDARCY]

Cessation of the self is an important problem!

[@karenvecchio7772]

RIP.

[@patstranc5250]

Check Arlington cemetery in Elmhurst Ill. for more civil war graves

[@wickedsarasota]

Thought this was about the lady

[@ZestyLemonBoi]

Блестящий!

[@labrat748]

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

[@tania_summer_5032]

Lamont brought me here

[@heru-deshet359]

The real Lady Death.

[@PercyKlvana]

8:44 grave of Frantisek Matyas Klacel

[@MissTrinidad]

Hmmmm. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@trinaandrews6096]

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]

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

[@communistjesus]

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]

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]

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 ..

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