Cemeteries, Haunted Houses, and Other Creepy Places and Things
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...took this at our main cemetery-Northwood-just liked the weathering effect...
....some of the leaded glass work is exquisite.....
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
about that nurse ...
I still have a screenshot we pulled from a video like 10 years ago, when my friend Tony was there at Waverly. Hes a different kind of paranormal investigator, he thinks most ghost hunters are full of sh!t. He goes to all these deemed haunted locations all alone and spends nights when possible and gets 'nothing' on film or audio and yet everyone else catches 'something' 'everywhere'. Hes a photographer and he takes you with him, step by step and talks while he documents the locations history and in real time as he goes, and of course looks over all film, audio and photos later.
When he went to Waverly Hills and had put the recorded visit up at youtube, it had been up for a while, when someone posted that they saw something at a certain time mark. We all watched it again, and there was the appearance of something there , it appeared to be an apparition and looks somewhat like a nurse, and one had committed suicide in room 502 there as the legend goes.
Tony said there was no one around him at all on the entire floor, when the photo was taken, though there was a glass wall that he was filming through, but heres the screenshot of the photo, I will also post the video if anyone would like to check it out, its probably some of the best footage you can see of Waverly Hills, of the location itself , and the history .
it appears to be an apparition of a nurse in uniform, to the left of the screen walking in at exactly 5 mins and 50 secs into it and she walks through 5 mins and 53 secs , with a flash of light, she remains.
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FTR I don't find this place scary or creepy at all. I like cemeteries like this, they feel cheerful and feel like a constant celebration of the lives of those who are buried there.
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
One of the creepiest, and by far the most fascinating grave I ever visited, for many different reasons now, was that of a fortune teller. It was back in the days before the internet and I only wish we had cameras, at least some of those times, just as many times, glad we didn't! 
this is Amanda Mayhayley Lancaster .... Fortune teller, Seer, Teacher, Lawyer, Farmer
We used to go out every weekend jeep riding into unseen territories just looking for forgotten cemeteries. One day upon arrival to the small town I would visit, which was near East Point Georgia, they were all excited that lightning had struck this local fortune tellers grave for the 3rd time just like she predicted it would and we were going to go see it. At that time, her grave was not yet known 'haunted' , I had only heard of her from a movie recently filmed, parts of it in my hometown, that had featured her, assisting some cops in finding a body during a murder case in the 40s.
Johnny Cash had portrayed the sheriff in that movie and his wife June Carter Cash played the role of Mayhayley...
When we got there , it was laying there on the ground in several pieces. The symbol on the broken stone seemed out of place there, I had not seen that symbol on a grave before! An upside down star in a circle! There was a more recent stone placed beside it with her name also, with a bibilical scripture on it with a reference to someone not believing in God. The guy who was driving grabbed a piece of the stone and quickly slipped into his jacket and said, 'come on yall lets go' , jokingly headed back for the jeep til he got the immediate reaction he suspected, and put it back. The rumors were that bad things had happened to people who visit there.
10 years or so passed and the internet had been introduced and well under way, it was late 90s. I was on Halloween forum and thought I would share the story of her grave, surely it would be there, somewhere online. I found tons of history about her, and her actual grave had officially become one of 'Georgias Haunted Places' , but there were no pictures of the stone I saw, only pictures of the replacement grave and stories of how people frequently toss money on her grave to have their fortune told. I have to mention how I suddenly realized that night when researching her and looking at her birth/death certificates, it was 'her birthday' in that moment. The reason I say that is because, one of the tales I read online was that an outsider breezing through the town once walked into a convenience store and asked the clerk 'who is Mayhayley Lancaster'? The reason, was that he was driving along, saw a cemetery, spontaneously decided to pull in, and saw her grave, realizing, that it was 'her birthday' on that very day and it was strange.
I became obsessed with finding a photo of the original stone, or at least some 'mention' that there was another one before the one that people visit for the last 20 something years, besides that one online.
this is the most well known Mayhayley Lancaster grave that people visit with the Bible verse ....
I even engaged in a back and forth with a historian who wrote a book about her, and she admitted to me that the original, and what I thought, haunting stone, had existed and been moved to a 'museum' due to vandalism' but that she was 'aware' of the 'lightning' 'stories' and had included those in her book. In my research I had discovered something that she never even had, that the date of death on the 'replacement stone' was 6 months 'off' and where she had passed away in May, it indicated, and still does, that she passed away in November. 'Good eye Miss Amanda good eye!' and that was all she had to say about that.
Many more years passed and I never stopped looking for it, less than a year ago, I finally found it, put back together and it had been housed in a local jail there all this time. I know that still so many people who visit don't even know about it but I always believe that it added an extra creepy element, to whatever the legends are about her, and things that happen , around her grave, to this day.
the Original grave of Mayhayley Lancaster
this is Amanda Mayhayley Lancaster .... Fortune teller, Seer, Teacher, Lawyer, Farmer
We used to go out every weekend jeep riding into unseen territories just looking for forgotten cemeteries. One day upon arrival to the small town I would visit, which was near East Point Georgia, they were all excited that lightning had struck this local fortune tellers grave for the 3rd time just like she predicted it would and we were going to go see it. At that time, her grave was not yet known 'haunted' , I had only heard of her from a movie recently filmed, parts of it in my hometown, that had featured her, assisting some cops in finding a body during a murder case in the 40s.
Johnny Cash had portrayed the sheriff in that movie and his wife June Carter Cash played the role of Mayhayley...
When we got there , it was laying there on the ground in several pieces. The symbol on the broken stone seemed out of place there, I had not seen that symbol on a grave before! An upside down star in a circle! There was a more recent stone placed beside it with her name also, with a bibilical scripture on it with a reference to someone not believing in God. The guy who was driving grabbed a piece of the stone and quickly slipped into his jacket and said, 'come on yall lets go' , jokingly headed back for the jeep til he got the immediate reaction he suspected, and put it back. The rumors were that bad things had happened to people who visit there.
10 years or so passed and the internet had been introduced and well under way, it was late 90s. I was on Halloween forum and thought I would share the story of her grave, surely it would be there, somewhere online. I found tons of history about her, and her actual grave had officially become one of 'Georgias Haunted Places' , but there were no pictures of the stone I saw, only pictures of the replacement grave and stories of how people frequently toss money on her grave to have their fortune told. I have to mention how I suddenly realized that night when researching her and looking at her birth/death certificates, it was 'her birthday' in that moment. The reason I say that is because, one of the tales I read online was that an outsider breezing through the town once walked into a convenience store and asked the clerk 'who is Mayhayley Lancaster'? The reason, was that he was driving along, saw a cemetery, spontaneously decided to pull in, and saw her grave, realizing, that it was 'her birthday' on that very day and it was strange.
I became obsessed with finding a photo of the original stone, or at least some 'mention' that there was another one before the one that people visit for the last 20 something years, besides that one online.
this is the most well known Mayhayley Lancaster grave that people visit with the Bible verse ....
I even engaged in a back and forth with a historian who wrote a book about her, and she admitted to me that the original, and what I thought, haunting stone, had existed and been moved to a 'museum' due to vandalism' but that she was 'aware' of the 'lightning' 'stories' and had included those in her book. In my research I had discovered something that she never even had, that the date of death on the 'replacement stone' was 6 months 'off' and where she had passed away in May, it indicated, and still does, that she passed away in November. 'Good eye Miss Amanda good eye!' and that was all she had to say about that.
Many more years passed and I never stopped looking for it, less than a year ago, I finally found it, put back together and it had been housed in a local jail there all this time. I know that still so many people who visit don't even know about it but I always believe that it added an extra creepy element, to whatever the legends are about her, and things that happen , around her grave, to this day.
the Original grave of Mayhayley Lancaster
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
I was going through some of the old funeral home photos earlier and something caught my eye in one that hadn't before.
here it is Larger ...
here it is Larger ...
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This is the old Owen House in Jarratt, Virginia. It used to be used as a funeral home. Supposedly, sometimes the neighborhood kids will venture inside the yard or onto the porch and speak to someone they call “Nanny”.
....I like it!....especially the old TV antenna......
Jeez, I wouldn't go there for all the chocolate powder in the Nestle Quik factory.
Lawd Jeebus I picked the wrong thread to browse before getting ready for bed. I'll watch this...during the day.
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Lawd Jeebus I picked the wrong thread to browse before getting ready for bed. I'll watch this...during the day.
You may not see her but if you do, its over in a flash!
Is interesting because people often apply the trick of light theories to film and pictures, but isn't that what ghostly manifestations would be as well as light, Energy!
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
You may not see her but if you do, its over in a flash!
That reassures me not a single iota.
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
That reassures me not a single iota.
What was interesting mostly about that film, is that, she actually appears like 30 seconds or so after he JUST mentioned her supposedly haunting the place!!!
Hes not near the room where she committed suicide when it happens, though he had shown it earlier in the film, its surrounded by lots of graffitti.
...not that dismal....I did a little photo editing to make it appear more macabre....it's actually a well kept and interesting cemetery...