Richmond Haunts Short

Savannah’s Lost Burial Grounds and Colonial Park Cemetery

March 28, 2026 02:25 South, United States

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About this episode

Savannah’s reputation as a city built over its dead reflects a real pattern of growth around older burial grounds. As streets and buildings expanded, some graves remained while cemetery boundaries shifted or disappeared from the visible landscape.

This Short visits Colonial Park Cemetery and the stories that developed around its altered gravestones, changing footprint and neighboring ground. It also touches on the local legend of Rene Rondolier, a figure whose tale has become part of the cemetery’s eerie identity. The episode distinguishes documented burial history from later folklore while showing why Savannah’s historic district can feel like a city living directly beside, and sometimes above, its past.