The dead house was a common occurrence in the days before refrigerated mortuaries.
People stored bodies at the graveyard in the dead house prior to a regular burial, and the authorities kept the dead in them until the bodies could be claimed.
But are these spaces likely to be haunted - or just eerie?
Find out in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore!
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