Tuesday, October 21, 2025
6:30pm–7:30pm
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 year’s 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.