S04E18 - Grave Rubbers from CyberSpace!

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Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Cemeteries Cleaning and Grave Rubbing - Karen and Blake are joined by Matt Baxter to discuss the ethics and best practices around maintaining and preserving graveyards.

Links for Grave Rubbers from CyberSpace:
The article that inspired this conversation (via The Conversation)

Ken Feder (friend of the show and emeritus professor of archaeology) sent along this helpful article about grave preservation.

The woman with the pink foam (Kaeli Mae McEwen - aka "Clean Girl") has a site where she sells the stuff.

In Atlanta - at historic Oakland Cemetery - they have community cleaning projects. They list this under an article titled "Pro Team Field Notes on Scrubbing the Surface"

Thoughts on Grave Rubbing from a blogger.

Additional Links:

Since we mentioned The Conversation, by coincidence Jeb Card got interviewed about his paranormal course at University of Ohio - check it!

Karen's book Bitch: The Journey of a Word is out now - grab a copy! (affiliate link)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Monster House Presents
0:09.0	Let's clean a random grave
0:11.5	Who do you think is buried here?
0:16.0	Let's clean it and find out.
0:17.0	I have so many questions.
0:19.0	How old is this grave?
0:20.0	It looks like it's been here for 500 years.
0:22.6	How did this grave get so dirty?
0:24.6	Look, there's a tree growing out of it.
0:29.6	I love plants.
0:30.6	This transformation is extremely hard for me, but I believe everyone deserves a beautiful grave.
0:36.6	It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.
0:40.3	A giant hairy creature, part 8, part mad.
0:45.3	In Larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.
0:50.3	It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. Monster Talk.
1:17.6	Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.
1:21.3	I'm Blake Smith.
1:22.7	And I'm Karen Stolznor.
1:24.3	This episode deals with death and cemeteries.
1:27.4	The audio at the top of this episode was
1:29.4	from a YouTube video, one in a series and of an entire class of cleaning videos that we'll be
1:34.0	discussing in today's chat. The title of the episodes are play on the original title of
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