Graceland Cemetery

This guide to Graceland Cemetery in Chicago centers on a ten-foot bronze figure known as Eternal Silence, cast in 1909 by sculptor Lorado Taft for the family of settler Dexter Graves. It follows the century-old legend that meeting the statue's hidden gaze shows you the manner of your own death, and the parallel superstition that cameras can't capture its face cleanly. Listen for how the story has been passed down, whispered rather than posted, through generations of cemetery visitors.