Caitlin Abrams, known as Manic Pixie Mom on TikTok, began sharing her hobby of cleaning gravestones while telling the stories of the dead back in May. She’s already gained over 1.6M followers.
“Today I’m cleaning the grave of Merit Aldrich, who died in 1875 at nine months old,” one of her most watched videos begins. “Merit was the third child to be born to his parents and the third child to die before reaching the age of one. He is buried here along with his sister Lizzie and his brother George …”