What is the most interesting, eerie or frightening cemetery you have ever been to?
Gravestones reflect different eras and display the way people viewed death at the time. I ESPECIALLY dig reading what people put on the graves. What is MOST fascinating is reading the inscriptions from the 1700s and 1800s....just getting an idea of the language used at the time. I am also an 'amateur' genealogist, so I really enjoy seeing patterns reflecting the diseases at the time. And hey, I enjoy a good mystery every now and then, and cemeteries seem to be filled with them.
So, in the spirit of Halloween, I thought I'd go to the Mahalo community and find out what your favorite cemeteries are. I live in California, but I enjoy traveling, and always file cemeteries I want to visit away in my mind. That way, if I happen to be driving through Wyoming in a few years and I have a cemetery on my list, I can make a detour.
Criteria:
Just share a cemetery that has stayed with you -- whether you felt it was haunted, thought the landscape was 'agreeable,' found the tombstones or crypts to be architecturally pleasing, thought the tombstone inscriptions were original, etc.
Some of my favorites:
1)Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, Texas. This is the final resting place of Howard Hughes, and has some beautiful 'weeping angel' monuments throughout the grounds. Many of Houston's famous citizens and founders are buried here, including Howard Hughes and his family. His grave is inside a little wrought iron fence. There is another cemetery attached to Glenwood that only has a few graves (and I sorta view it as an extension to Glenwood). What is cool about this other cemetery is that it is pressed up against these luxury apartments. My friend's father lives in the complex, so has told us how all the residents speak about strange occurrences and hauntings. This is how most people are with cemeteries I suppose, but I just imagine all these luxury apartment owners with all the conveniences and electronic gadgets JUMPING at the slightest sound and mistaking sounds from their speakers for ghosts!
2)Arabia Cemetery in Parke county, Indiana. This cemetery is really small, but people in the area seem to enjoy coming here and doing strange things to the graves. It just feels eerie, like a bird is watching all the theatrics and whispering to all the 'spirits.'
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Since your in California, a trip up to the cemetery in Virginia City, Nevada shouldn't be too far.
(unless you're near the border of Mexico!)
I have visited this cemetery on quite a few trips, and always find something new. The history that was made and is woven into the head stones offers a very unique view of life during the the gold and silver rush.
One time when I visited the site with my school group, we did a creative writing project where we picked a head stone and sat near it and wrote a short story about that person. I still remember how much fun that was.
The entire city of Virginia is a great place to spend the day exploring, with a drink at the Bucket of Blood salon and maybe a tour of the silver mine.
This is the only cemetery that I have visited that gives me chills and shivers down by back... it's probably from all that history and lore oozing from everywhere!
Happy Haunting!
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I also like Japanese cemeteries. Here is one from Hiroshima:
Some very spooky items of interest have gone on thier over the years and almost every teenager or young adult has a story about themselves or someone they know involving the paranormal while visiting the Gilson Road Cemetery.
As a teen my friends and I would hide and wait in the woods behind the cemetery disregarding the spookyness and toss pine cones into the cemetery while other fans of the paranormal were visiting. This was always successful and several times we had to control our laughter as they ran screaming away.
To read the various stories about the cemetery Click Here
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The scariest cemetery I ever visited is near Myrtle Beach, SC. A woman who is buried there was the subject of a legend about two lovers. I believe it was that her family would not permit them to marry, so they secretly became engaged. She hung her engagement ring on a chain around her neck. She subsequently became very ill. Her father tore the chain from her neck and threw the ring out the window. She never recovered. The story is that, at night, if you walk around her grave marker three times (some say 13 times backwards) and then stand in front of it, you will feel some unknown force tugging on your wedding ring. There is almost a trench around the marker where so many people have walked around. I didn't have a wedding ring at the time I circled her grave, but I thought for sure that I felt a slight pull on my college ring.
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Concord is a great place to visit. Lots of history, the Old North Bridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson's house and Walden Pond.
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It's a custom to go to the cemetery and pay your repects to dead relatives if you are visiting. As we walked to the cemetery it started to become all dark and woodsy (in contrast to the bright little town). We came to an overgrowth that was covering a staircase leading underground. As if that wasn't bad enough, when we got downstairs it was dark, moldy and the coffins were set into the walls and they had the person's picture on the front. It was SO CREEPY!! I vamoosed up the stairs and back to town.
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Another scary story is that the screaming skull of Cambridge is buried there. He had been a minister and was murdered and the skull screamed and actually drove people mad or went crazy. Rumor has it that the skull had to be buried in a block of cement to stop it from screaming.
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Savannah Chamber of Commerce
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So he knew something we did not and was not willing to share the deep dark secret!
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M$Internationally, Eva Perón (Evita) is the best known person buried in this cemetery
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with the Changing of the Guard ceremony is one of the most eerie and fascinating experiences I have ever witnessed. When I watched it, tears stung my eyes.
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I've been to this cemetery many a time. I discovered it while driving around in the country on a fall afternoon about 17 years ago. I was driving down this narrow dirt road in farm country and came across a small family grave yard that I had never heard of.
I got out to look at the head stones, and to my surprise I recognized the names of several prominent early African American settlers that I had read about. In addition, there were several African American civil War veterans in the family, which made it even more interesting.
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This photo is not of her grave (I didn't take pictures), but it does give you an idea of the condition of Lake Cemetery.
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Other remains buried there are of U.S. Veterans from the USA, USN, USMC, USCG, USAF, Philippine Scouts (PS) and some of their dependents. Some were veterans from WWI, WWII who died after the war as well as during Korean and Vietnam wars. Some also were Filipino and American civilians who worked for the US government. Other nationals from France, Spain, Canada, Japan, China, Vietnam and India are buried there as well.
That cemetery has been the final resting place of those who are part of the history that's why for me, that's the most interesting cemetery. I wasn't at all scared there. I used to pass by the highway where the cemetery is situated. It's such a quiet and peaceful place.
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Oh yes, this one will go on my list. The gold rush era intrigues me, and I dig the way the landscape looks. Also, a drink at the bucket of blood salon? I am SO in!
The saloon still has the original counter woodwork.
Better keep it traditional by having a shot of whiskey!