Morbid History

Join us for a spooky evening of Morbid History! Presented by award-winning filmmaker Lorrisa Julianus.

“Because you’re just more interesting when you’re dead!” From grand corpse larceny in medieval Venice to the iron coffins popping up in Lincoln Park, this light-hearted presentation takes you around the world with spine-tingling true tales you never learned in history class. Ideal for ages 10+, teens, adults, and seniors.

In this presentation, Lorrisa covers, among other topics:
-The bizarre burials of the Habsburg royal family
-The terror of Resurrectionists digging up your bones
-American cemetery history and lore
-The morbid truth of the Smithsonian collections
-Chicago’s largest cemetery, which never really got moved