AUDIO: Growing Up in a Town With 1.5 Million Dead Neighbors

In the San Francisco Bay Area, there’s a tiny town where the dead outnumber the living by nearly 1000 to 1. While that might sound like the setting of a horror film, it was simply home for those who grew up there.

Colma’s 17 cemeteries became an extension of their childhood playground. They rode bikes through the Italian Cemetery, and had picnics by the …