Cemeteries, Haunted Houses, and Other Creepy Places and Things

[CoriSCapnSkip]

Since age 9 I have been an incurable cemetery hag. To kick off this topic, here are pictures from my 2012 California trip at the graves of Ray Bradbury, Buster Keaton, and Stan Laurel.

Spoiler: Multiple images

 

[Spideyman]

Very interesting thread.

 

[Grandpa]

Oh, please. I can't be the only one here who's interested in cemeteries?

This is one of my favorite cemetery shots I've taken. It's outside of Wellingon, Colorado (whose claim to fame is producing Justice Byron White)(not pictured here).

 

[Moderator]

This is one of my favorite cemetery shots I've taken. It's outside of Wellingon, Colorado (whose claim to fame is producing Justice Byron White)(not pictured here).

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In case you're confused about how this ended up here, I moved this over to this thread and had to change the date so that it wouldn't be the first post. Now that Cori started this topic, I thought it fit better here.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I don’t visit cemeteries except for at funerals, but often look up graves of people from history I find of interest at the website Find A Grave.
Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records

A relative of mine on my mother’s side... John “Old Smoke” Morrissey. He was the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the world in 1858. Leader of the Dead Rabbits gang of New York, and later in life became a NY Congressman and Senator (We don’t talk much about him in the family because he was a democrat ). His family was the Tipperary Morrisseys and my mother's were the Galway Morrisseys. The counties laid north and south of each other. Although the two Morrissey clans were related there was never any love lost between them.

John Morrissey was one-half of one of America’s legendary blood feuds. His arch enemy was William “Bill The Butcher” Poole, founder of the street gang the Bowery Boys, and also a butcher and boxer. (Poole was the inspiration for the character Bill The Butcher in Martin Scorsese's 2002 film Gangs of New York)

Two of Morrissey's gang members, Lew Baker and Jim Turner, shot and fatally wounded Bill the Butcher at a saloon on Broadway in 1855, following Morrisey's loss to Poole in a boxing match eight months earlier. Morrissey and Baker were indicted for the murder, but the charges were dropped after three trials resulting in hung juries.

Saint Peters Cemetery, Troy, New York

Spoiler

Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

LOL. Poole was anything but a 'true American.'


And I recently found out Jane Mansfield is buried just a few miles north of me.

 

[Kurben]

My favourite cemetary is Skogskyrkogården (The Forest Cemetary) in Stockholm. It is huge. You can get lost in there. Also my mothers ash is spread in one of its remembrance meadows.

An area where the graves are rather close.
Here is a night picture

Spoiler

It is taken at our Halloween but our tradition is a bit more solemn than yours. You go out and put down a light or candle at your relatives grave.

 

[GNTLGNT]

My favourite cemetary is Skogskyrkogården (The Forest Cemetary) in Stockholm. It is huge. You can get lost in there. Also my mothers ash is spread in one of its remembrance meadows.

An area where the graves are rather close.
Here is a night picture

It is taken at our Halloween but our tradition is a bit more solemn than yours. You go out and put down a light or candle at your relatives grave.

...that is a beautifully peaceful tradition....

 

[GNTLGNT]

...I have posted these a good while back in my "Scott's Photo Shop Thread"....but now seems a good time to unbury them...........need to go pic taking again.....these are all from local cemeteries....

 

[Grandpa]

Some other shots I've taken, and when I've travel-recovered, I can look to see if I can find them:

A blazing sun over a cemetery arch on the parched Eastern Plains of Colorado;
A photo of my dad's headstone in Fort Logan Military Cemetery;
A photo of a simple headstone in an unmarked cemetery in an out-of-the-way place in the woods in Central Florida. I mean, there are just some headstones in a grove. I took the picture to see if it could be enhanced to make out the names;
A picture of a headstone with almost my last name with the first name (Tom) that I went by in my youth. It's notable not just for that simple coincidence but that I took it at the battle scene of the Little Big Horn, which is unusual as military cemeteries go because the soldiers were buried and marked where they had found to be fallen. This one was separate from the other main bodies of troops.

 

[Maddie]

Love all the beautiful photos and stories everyone! I have photos of one of my favorite creepy places, a prelude to most cemeteries. I have posted about it before once upon another board so some people may have already seen some of these but I'm delighted to share them! If anyone 'sees anything' strange in any of these I would love to know your thoughts.

this is the old funeral home abandoned for many years ... It was originally an old Civil War hospital and later became a Funeral Home.





I have to put the following pictures into spoilers .... they were taken during an outdoor poltergeist on a summer evening . My sister and I had dropped by there, it was daylight , but skies got really dark and suddenly hell broke loose!

winds began blowing furiously and hundreds of bats were swarming, I'm not a believer in the orb theory but that's not the moon in this first one ....

Spoiler: dark skies and bats over funeral home

film couldn't even capture the massive amount of bats

Spoiler: more bats swarming

this one, ok there was no power in this building for yearsss, this is a still from video footage, and what is so uncanny, is knowing what was happening at the moment this occurred on the film ...

Spoiler: lit window abandoned funeral home

this one was captured a few seconds later....

Spoiler: looking out the window

the next two photos are of the same shot, taken in the downstairs of the old funeral home by a real estate agent a few years before the ones above were taken, the first one is the original and on the 2nd one , I applied a light equalization effect.


this is the photo, that when I posted it a few years ago, someone pm'ed to tell me, how it disturbed them to the degree that they actually got up and away from their computer when they saw it. It goes either way, some people see nothing, and other people see something.

Spoiler: downstairs old funeral home original

and this one has a simple light equalization effect ....

Spoiler: downstairs old funeral home 2

 

[Tery]

That last one gave me butterflies. Hmm....

 

[nalaa]

hell i fear ghosts..... dont talk lol

 

[Mel217]

Spoiler

Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague....

Highgate Cemetery, London (I would travel over the pond to see this one in person...)

Capuchin Catacombs, Sicily (I don't know if I'd have the nerve to go into this one or not...google image this one for yourself and see if you'd be brave enough or not!)

Chase Vault, Barbados, and one of my favorites to read about. Here's the story...The Moving Coffins of Barbados

It doesn't look like much but this one is very near my house and very well hidden. You have to know where you're going and what you're looking for in order to find it; many stones are 1800's. Very cool and peaceful place.

 

[Mel217]

Love all the beautiful photos and stories everyone! I have photos of one of my favorite creepy places, a prelude to most cemeteries. I have posted about it before once upon another board so some people may have already seen some of these but I'm delighted to share them! If anyone 'sees anything' strange in any of these I would love to know your thoughts.

this is the old funeral home abandoned for many years ... It was originally an old Civil War hospital and later became a Funeral Home.

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I have to put the following pictures into spoilers .... they were taken during an outdoor poltergeist on a summer evening . My sister and I had dropped by there, it was daylight , but skies got really dark and suddenly hell broke loose!

winds began blowing furiously and hundreds of bats were swarming, I'm not a believer in the orb theory but that's not the moon in this first one ....

Spoiler: dark skies and bats over funeral home

film couldn't even capture the massive amount of bats

Spoiler: more bats swarming

this one, ok there was no power in this building for yearsss, this is a still from video footage, and what is so uncanny, is knowing what was happening at the moment this occurred on the film ...

Spoiler: lit window abandoned funeral home

this one was captured a few seconds later....

Spoiler: looking out the window

the next two photos are of the same shot, taken in the downstairs of the old funeral home by a real estate agent a few years before the ones above were taken, the first one is the original and on the 2nd one , I applied a light equalization effect.


this is the photo, that when I posted it a few years ago, someone pm'ed to tell me, how it disturbed them to the degree that they actually got up and away from their computer when they saw it. It goes either way, some people see nothing, and other people see something.

Spoiler: downstairs old funeral home original

and this one has a simple light equalization effect ....

Spoiler: downstairs old funeral home 2

SO cool!!!!!!

 

[Sundrop]

I'm loving all the cool pics! I especially love and remember Maddie's pics from days gone by.....they're still amazing!
Maddie also has some really cool ones from old cemeteries, if I remember correctly.
I have some that I want to share, but I'm having trouble getting them sized to fit here.....trying out new photo editing software kinda sucks.....but I'm hoping to share some photos soon!

 

[nalaa]

best pictures. but are these all yours ?

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I remember scenes like these from cemeteries after Hurricane Agnes (1972) in Wilkes Barre.

I was a volunteer in Wilkes Barre after the flood (back in my hippie days). I remember seeing scenes like these of cemeteries with coffins sticking out of the ground and laying in the streets. Luckily they had already removed the corpses that had come out of the coffins before the volunteers came in. For several days they put me and my buddy on “dead body patrol,” as they called it. We were given addresses of people that family members had called in because they couldn't reach their relatives. We weren’t allowed to go into the houses, but were supposed to peer through as many windows as we could and note in a book what we observed. We were 15 years old and probably checked out about 30 houses. Only once did we see what appeared to be legs underneath some debris. Never did find out what became of it.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...for a truly odd bit of paranormal lore from nearby my hometown-Google "Egypt Valley-Ohio"......oh yes, there IS a boneyard involved.....

 

[Maddie]

I'm loving all the cool pics! I especially love and remember Maddie's pics from days gone by.....they're still amazing!
Maddie also has some really cool ones from old cemeteries, if I remember correctly.
I have some that I want to share, but I'm having trouble getting them sized to fit here.....trying out new photo editing software kinda sucks.....but I'm hoping to share some photos soon!

Thank you so much Sunny! I'm looking forward to all yours too, all that you love, and the older the better! Do you mean the ones at the cemetery where I took the Gingerbread Girl ? Those might be extremely frightful and hilarious! so many Fun times!

 

[Maddie]

That last one gave me butterflies. Hmm....

If youre seeing an apparition, it has an abnormally large head and face, look more closely, at the marking on the head, like a hairband, and follow it down, you might see there are two sort of 'skin tones' marked by that mark, and that there are two faces silhouetted, one beside the other like walking together.


this first one I placed it beside a civil war era nurse uniform (the house was originally a hospital)....



and on this one, I did an invert, of blacks to white and whites to black ...