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Out, About: (Early) Halloween celebrations this weekend

By Rachel Iacovone

October 25, 2024

Halloween is on a Thursday this year — boo (and not the fun kind)! But that means many of us are planning to get all dressed up this weekend. Here in Nashville, the ways to celebrate pretty much fall into three buckets.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, NashVillager, Out About, WPLN News Tagged With: halloween, horror, What Where Whens-day

The horror, the horror!

By Elizabeth Burton

October 31, 2023

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What, to the Black Nashvillian, is the scariest place in Nashville?

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Cashville, halloween, jerome moore, Josh Black, Megan Barry, Sheila Calloway, WNXP

Out, About: This is Halloween

By Rachel Iacovone

October 27, 2023

There is a lot happening around town. So what I really want to spotlight — or rather, lantern light — is one of the lesser-known events this Saturday.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager, Out About Tagged With: halloween, Nashville City Cemetery

Be ghoul to each other!

By Elizabeth Burton

October 10, 2023

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We’re 10 days into spooky season, and it’s time to listen to some of the creepiest, scariest stories of Middle Tennessee. We’ll hear the familiar tale of the Bell Witch, hear howls echo through the halls of the Ryman Auditorium, and more. Tune in at noon for this re-air episode produced by Rose Gilbert.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: bell witch, halloween

Nashville ghost stories to send shivers down your spine

By Rose Gilbert

October 31, 2022

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Do you believe in ghost stories?

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: halloween

Land of the dead? This map shows how Tennessee has the most cemeteries respective to the living

By Caroline Eggers

October 30, 2022

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Tennessee is the land of the dead, or, at least, the state with the most graveyards respective to the living. 

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: burial, cemeteries, death, environment, graveyards, green burials, halloween

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