City of the Dead
OCTOBER 28, 2006 Listen to this Story
- Colma, California
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Every year in San Francisco, there is a huge Day of the Dead celebration in the Mission. However, just a few miles away, there is literally a city of the dead. At last count, Colma, California had more than 2 million residents, but only 1,280 of them were living. Almost 75 percent of the town's land is used for cemeteries. With Halloween just around the corner, reporter Julie Small takes a tour of a town whose claim to fame is its population of almost 2 million dead people.
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