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Hollywood Underground: Stalking Celebrity Graves

By Tom Goldman

Published August 9, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Sure, who wouldn't want to hang out in a cemetery, looking for the grave of someone rich, famous, and dead? A group devotes lots of free time to doing just that.

Tom Goldman's report continues our series on Americans with unusual hobbies, some bordering on the obsessive.

Tom Goldman

Tom Goldman is NPR's sports correspondent. His reports can be heard throughout NPR's news programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and on NPR.org.

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