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Resurrected From The Dead

16 Wednesday Sep 2026

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When I left off in 2018, it was my first vacation from my then-new job at a big-box grocer in the Midwest. Almost ten years later and I’m still there. At that time, I was prepping to jet off to Los Angeles for the fourth time. Let me just summarize: I had a nice time in Hollywood. I didn’t find as many graves as I planned, but I did do some touristy stuff, like checking out some museums and Warner Brothers Studios.

Where have I been since 2018? For the most part, work and more work, making it happen so I can finance gravecations when I get my vacation time from work. To briefly summarize, here are some of the states I’ve visited since 2018 to check out the cemeteries. Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Arizona, Illinois, Wisconsin, and other cities in Michigan. Going forward, since I’m not gonna do a play-by-play of those past road trips, I’ll more than likely write an article about each trip or the personalities from those trips. I found a lot of cool graves of historical figures. I also need to refresh my WordPress skills. I have broken links to fix across different parts of the website. I also plan to fix the links to the podcast I hosted, with Steve Goldstein Gravecast. As for the video content on YouTube, I have more of that in the works as well. I’ve upgraded a lot of my gear and hardware, so I can now shoot and edit HD and 4K videos.

One last thing I’d like to bring up before I wrap up. To make my website and brand stand out from others, I’ve renamed the website Tomb Bug. My podcast Gravecast will keep the same name.

Stay Elevated,

Josh

The Resurrection of Gravecast

03 Friday Jun 2016

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Two years ago I decided to take a much-needed break from producing content for this blog. I’ll be honest I was burned out to the point where I lost total interest. As those two years progressed I kept the blog live for people to read because despite the insane life I lead people do read about my adventures. Plus I always knew in the back of my skull I’d want to pick-up writing for the site again.

Let me bring you up to speed with where I’ve been during my two-year furlough. I’ve had some health issues off and on over the last several years which led me to be hospitalized a few times to eventually having surgery. To make a long story short I’m feeling 100% better. Those Henry Ford Health Sytems surgeons ROCK.

Which brings me to today. Being that I have no cross-country trips planned in the foreseeable future. This doesn’t include a possible weekend road trip to who knows where just as long as I drive. I do have a few day trips to Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, and a few other places in Michigan planned to check out the cemeteries. Meanwhile, to help things get rolling again I’m going to do a “Tombstone Tuesday” theme where every Tuesday I’ll post a gravesite photo from my collection. I’ll include some history to who’s buried six-feet under. I have some other things planned as well so please stay tuned.

 

 

Goin On Hiatus For Awhile!

28 Friday Nov 2014

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I’ve given some thought on the longevity of The Gravecast Blog. This blog has been around for six years. Through those years which started out as a small project to appease my interest in finding the graves of anyone who was infamous, famous, & notable in someway.

This hobby known as grave hunting would eventually explode into a cross-country roller coaster of vacations. Which included documenting the graves of people like Cecil B. DeMille, Bugsy Siegel, and many other Hollywood luminaries. Not to mention rubbing elbows with people who share the same morbid interests as me. Those likeminded morbid friends have since come to be some of my closest friends I’ve had the delightful honor of knowing.

I’ve come to hold the hobby of Grave Hunting very near to my spiritual mind, & soul. Which brings me the topic of this article. It’s with a heavy heart that I announce I’ve decided to take an extended break from working on this blog. Now keep in mind I’m not leaving the hobby, or abandoning the blog. I just need some time to workout some ideas related to another direction I want this blog to go into.

This much-needed break from The Gravecast Blog. Will give me a chance to focus my energy on other grave hunting related side projects. Most notably the “Gangsters In Granite” website, book, and video series I’m currently developing, and trying to get off the ground.

If you’re interested in learning more about my “Gangsters In Granite” project. Feel free to visit Gangsters In Granite.net. To summarize “Gangsters In Granite: A Graveside Guide To Organized Crime” chronicles the graves of “reputed” mobsters in the United States over the last 100 years.

Included in the book will be graveside photos to go with the concise biographies of the “reputed” mobsters. On the website there will be documents like death certificates, autopsy reports, postmortem photos, and morbid things of that sort. To act as a supplement to the biographies in the book, and on the website. I’m hoping that this project will be another method for people to interpret the history of organized crime in the United States.

Keep in mind The Gangsters In Granite book, & website will make no attempt to shed “new light” into the history of organized crime. But will make every attempt that the biographical info I offer based upon my research is truthful, factual, and verifiable. This project is my way of interpreting the history of organized crime. By locating, documenting, & photographing the graves of “reputed” mobsters. I’m just choosing to share my findings with the world.

If you’d like to connect with Gangsters In Granite. Feel free to visit Facebook, or bookmark the official website Gangsters In Granite.

Reinvention Phase – Things To Come

26 Wednesday Feb 2014

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It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything for the blog. So I wanted to keep you all in the loop on a few things. First things first. I’m still in the process of writing the final installment to last October’s third L.A. gravecation. In the last article which I have yet to finish. I chronicle my trek to Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Glendale. The article will be a doozy so it’s taking me awhile to write.

The next thing I wanted to bring to light. Is that around the first week in March. I’m going to take the plunge, and transfer this site to a self hosted domain, and then utilize the wordpress.org software. Instead of using the wordpress.com site to host, and keep up this blog. With that being said I’m also going to change the web address of the blog to thegravecastblog.com. This is due in part because I’m trying to rebrand the blog so its more recognizable.

One thing I wanted to mention on the rebranding of The Gravecast Blog. Is that when I get things up and running on the self hosted side of things. I’ll be including ads on the blog. I’ve been approached by several people who cater in various forms to the death care industry, when people pass away. They asked me if I’d be interested in putting an ad on the blog for their business. I thought it over and decided I could earn some sort of revenue for the blog. The revenue from ads on the blog. Could go towards the funding of future gravecations around the country, upgraded field equipment, and the general upkeep of this blog.    

The last thing I wanted to bring up. Is that I’m bringing The Gravecast Podcast back from the dead. Complete with a new musical intro,  on top of more fascinating topics, and interviewed guests.

It’s all good stuff I’ve got planned. So please stay tuned for the new and exciting things.

It's Been Awhile! – A Rebirth

02 Thursday May 2013

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For those of you reading this. I want to let you know, that everything is still a go on The Gravecast Blog. I’ve just been taking a much-needed break from blogging, along with doin some much-needed soul-searching. But enough about my personal life. On the positive side of things, I do realize that I haven’t published any new content in about three or four months. But rest assured, I’ll be publishing new content in the very near future.

I wont blow the lid, on ALL of the things I’ve got planned. But lets just say it involves a lot of morbidly death stuff. Topics, and ideas I thought of during my soul-searching phases. Trust me it’ll benefit you all in one way or another. There will still be plenty of grave hunting involved. But just a bunch of new articles, on a wide range of death topics. The last two articles I published a few months ago are a sampling of what I’ve got in mind, plus much more.

At the moment I’m also contemplating taking an extended weekend trip to Cleveland, or a 7-day trip to L.A. I just gotta see how the $$$ holds out. If I go out to L.A. for the third time, I might bring a friend, with me, plus I’ll have to get a hotel, rental car, spending cash, etc. The same dimensions of extra spending go for Cleveland as well. So we shall see.

The long end short of it, is I just wanted to let you all know this blog isn’t dead, it’s just had a rebirth. Before I go, if ANYONE has ANY topic ideas, for the blog, and podcast, please don’t hesitate to let me know. There’s gonna be more to come you can count on it.

Sincerely,

The Motor City Morbid One!