TalkDeath's Cemetery Scavenger Hunt

TalkDeath is hosting a cemetery scavenger hunt at Mount Moriah Cemetery & Arboretum on Sunday, October 25, from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM. It's a guided outdoor search through the grounds, and it's free to join.

Here's how it works: you'll follow clues that point you toward specific headstone symbolism, phrases, and dates. As you find them, you take photos and upload them to TalkDeath online before the hour is up. It's a race against the clock, but the real point is to slow down and actually look at the stones instead of just walking past them. Along the way, you'll pick up a bit about memorial iconography—the symbols carved into the markers that tell you something about the person buried there—and the history of the cemetery itself.

TalkDeath frames the hunt as a way to get people to appreciate local cemeteries and their histories, to learn about that iconography, and to connect with neighbors while reflecting on mortality. It's pitched as a free outdoor activity for cemetery lovers, historians, spooky appreciators, and anyone getting into the Halloween mood. If you've ever spent an afternoon wandering through a graveyard just reading the names and dates, this is basically that, but with a game attached.

It all happens at Mount Moriah Cemetery & Arboretum, 6201 Kingsessing Ave. in Philadelphia. The hunt runs from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM on Sunday, October 25, and it's free.