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I love em! The older the better! There's a lot of really cool and unique old stones, and I like looking for pre-civil war veterans too, today I found a cemetery with 8 Revolutionary War soldiers, which is the most I've ever seen in one place. There's some really cool ones in my hometown, but I've been working 45 minutes out of town lately in the small town of Sidney NY and I got out early today so I decided to explore. I found a really old cemetery and the town historian just so happened to be there! He told me a couple neat things about this cemetery. He said that the 3 people in this first picture didn't want to be buried in Sidney soil for some reason so they had tombs built above ground. Some of the bricks were obviously replaced and he said that even the capstones had to be replaced at some point too, that that would have been a very interesting job for a mason!
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I found a rev war solider with the best name, Gold Bacon! and he died on April Fool's day!
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these bushes are very common in cemeteries in upstate NY, I feel like there has to be some sort of spiritual meaning to them being there but so far I haven't found any
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the sign out front said this cemetery was founded in 1787, so I think this is the oldest grave in it!
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anyone else into this kind of thing? Feel free to post pics!

Quote from: Maddie86 on January 29, 2018, 05:57:38 PM
I love em! The older the better! There's a lot of really cool and unique old stones, and I like looking for pre-civil war veterans too, today I found a cemetery with 8 Revolutionary War soldiers, which is the most I've ever seen in one place. There's some really cool ones in my hometown, but I've been working 45 minutes out of town lately in the small town of Sidney NY and I got out early today so I decided to explore. I found a really old cemetery and the town historian just so happened to be there! He told me a couple neat things about this cemetery. He said that the 3 people in this first picture didn't want to be buried in Sidney soil for some reason so they had tombs built above ground. Some of the bricks were obviously replaced and he said that even the capstones had to be replaced at some point too, that that would have been a very interesting job for a mason!
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I found a rev war solider with the best name, Gold Bacon! and he died on April Fool's day!
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these bushes are very common in cemeteries in upstate NY, I feel like there has to be some sort of spiritual meaning to them being there but so far I haven't found any
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the sign out front said this cemetery was founded in 1787, so I think this is the oldest grave in it!
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anyone else into this kind of thing? Feel free to post pics!

There are dozens of them in Los Angeles. 

What is great is if you can connect the tombstone to a specific time and event.  When I first visited relatives in Illinois we went to a really old and small cemetery.  My great great grandmother was buried there as well as GGrandfather, grandfather and other family members.  There was a tombstone of a young woman who had died in 1919 I think that had the same name as my cousin who had taken me to the cemetery.  The relative who was buried had died from the spanish flu as did a lot of people so it was historically significant.

Lots of old cemeteries here near Boston. Watson, Bell's assistant is buried right up the street. There are a lot of Civil war dead, and you see whole families buried together in the same year when there were flu outbreaks. Mom, Dad, six kids. Usually the kids got a small in-ground marker with their first initial only.

I do. Thanks for reminding me. I needed to rekindle a hobby and why not this?

Growing up I had to walk by a historic cemetery every day going to school. It creeped me out for a long time. My mom always told me there was no one in the cemetery to be worried about, but watch out for the folks who aren't in there yet!

Look up the Great Peshtigo Fire some time, my home town.

I just did. I had never heard of it before.

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on January 29, 2018, 07:15:08 PM
I just did. I had never heard of it before.

Pretty interesting huh?

Mrs O'Leary gets around - just kidding :)

I went on the Dracula tour in Romania for Halloween one year and toured lots of ancient cemeteries there.  It was awesome.  There were candles everywhere and was so much like the old gypsy movies.  I handily re ommend that tour for anybody liking the dark side a bit.

Bari Jo

Not something I typically do but it sounds like something I would do.

A few months ago I went location scouting through a few graveyards for a music video I had to shoot.
Got to film inside one after getting permission. I don't know if that really counts as looking through graveyards in the way you probably meant though :p

I'm part of a paranormal investigation team and we love going to any cemetery. There are some old ones here where I live but the best one we visited was in St Francisville, LA.  It has old the old tombstones with trees that have the moss hanging down from the limbs.  Beautiful place.

Me and my wife both love exploring graveyards and I do lots of black and white night photography at grave yards I'll post some photos latter on wen I get to a PC

Thanks for all the replies! I didn't expect this many lol!

Quote from: Bari Jo on January 29, 2018, 11:30:43 PM
I went on the Dracula tour in Romania for Halloween one year and toured lots of ancient cemeteries there.  It was awesome.  There were candles everywhere and was so much like the old gypsy movies.  I handily re ommend that tour for anybody liking the dark side a bit.

Bari Jo

that sounds really cool! I'd love to explore some cemeteries overseas sometime! I have a couple friends who have been to some really cool ones in Italy and Scotland

Quote from: Sam314 on January 30, 2018, 12:02:43 AM
Not something I typically do but it sounds like something I would do.

A few months ago I went location scouting through a few graveyards for a music video I had to shoot.
Got to film inside one after getting permission. I don't know if that really counts as looking through graveyards in the way you probably meant though :p

it counts! This reminds me of how the Ramones shot their music video for "Pet Sematary" at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Marky Ramone wrote about it in his book and it sounded like a very interesting experience! I've been wanting to go there, it's only a couple hours from me but I'd have to make a trip dedicated to just that because I'm never in that part of the state for anything else

Quote from: RobynTx on January 30, 2018, 06:00:21 AM
I'm part of a paranormal investigation team and we love going to any cemetery. There are some old ones here where I live but the best one we visited was in St Francisville, LA.  It has old the old tombstones with trees that have the moss hanging down from the limbs.  Beautiful place.

neat! That one in LA sounds amazing! Have you ever found any paranormal activity? I've never had any paranormal experiences but I really want to. I'm part of a group that explores cemeteries together but so far we haven't done any ghost hunting, but it's something I would like to get into

Quote from: Mountain Warfare Girl on January 30, 2018, 06:12:21 AM
Me and my wife both love exploring graveyards and I do lots of black and white night photography at grave yards I'll post some photos latter on wen I get to a PC

yes, please post them, I'd love to see em!

Ok I'm gunna post some pictures from my favorite local cemetery, Spring Forest in Binghamton NY. There's some good ones here, I've found the city founders here and Daniel Dickinson, who was a prominent congressman during the civil war era, I've heard that he was close with Lincoln and people wanted him to run for president but he didn't want to, I actually have a biography about him. Another grave here is Issac Perry, he was an architect and he helped design the NY Capitol building in Albany. He also designed the inebriate asylum in Binghamton and it's beautiful, it's referred to as "The castle on the hill". He actually designed the cemetery gates at Spring Forest, it was the last project he worked on before he died, and his funeral procession was the first to pass through the gates! There was also a mass grave where 13 people were buried after a clothing factory fire that happened in 1913, here's a pic:
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and here's a photo of the burial:
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and here's some more pics I took there:
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I love exploring old graveyards!  I think older ones are better, too.  I wish there were older graveyards in Michigan, where I live.  There are supposed to be French and Indian War graves in Detroit, but they're unmarked.  Someday I'd love to explore some graveyards in Europe, where they have older ones than we have here. 

Not so much now but I did when I was little. Whenever we visited my great grandpa's grave I would run all over the place looking at stuff. I loved the mausoleums that weren't locked and would go in them. My dad would get so annoyed having to chase me all over the cemetery.

Old cemeteries make me depressed.  I look at the tombstones and start thinking about the people underneath them.  Then I start thinking that they and everyone they ever knew are dead.  In my mind I see them alive and now completely forgotten as if they never existed at all.


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Quote from: Julia1996 on January 30, 2018, 10:29:30 AM
Not so much now but I did when I was little. Whenever we visited my great grandpa's grave I would run all over the place looking at stuff. I loved the mausoleums that weren't locked and would go in them. My dad would get so annoyed having to chase me all over the cemetery.

You are not allowed at cemetarys my sweet porcelain doll, people will get scare when they see such a sweet doll walking around!!!!!!

When I was like 3 or 4, my family lived in a housing project in Lomita, CA.  the project was on a hill and called Harbor Hills and our apartment was in the building that was the upmost on the hill.  I remember a small fence being behind us and a walk way.

Anyway, one day my mom couldn't find me and tells me she went nuts.  Her and everyone else that was looking for me found me playing in the cemetery where we lived.   I had my little toy beach sand bucket and shovel.

When I was a young kid we had no garden in the inner city, so we used to go to St. James' cemetery and I would play there. It's Victorian, very gothic, very spooky. I'm kinda spiritually attached to the place because of all the time I spent there. It's supposed to be haunted, there's a lot of old quarry tunnels tucked away in it, etc. For a kid, it was full of things to inspire the imagination and fantasy. The cathedral itself that looks over it is huge and looks like some dark fantasy castle. Probably my favorite building on this planet, lol.

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These days I don't know what it's like, I heard a lot of homeless people and junkies hang out there, but I have fond memories.

Now I live hundreds of miles away from it, and there's a graveyard here too I like to hang out in:

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I love cemeteries and old churches.

Quote from: Kylo on January 30, 2018, 10:44:27 AM
When I was a young kid we had no garden in the inner city, so we used to go to St. James' cemetery and I would play there. It's Victorian, very gothic, very spooky. I'm kinda spiritually attached to the place because of all the time I spent there. It's supposed to be haunted, there's a lot of old quarry tunnels tucked away in it, etc.

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These days I don't know what it's like, I heard a lot of homeless people and junkies hang out there, but I have fond memories.

Now I live hundreds of miles away from it, and there's a graveyard here too I like to hang out in:

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Totally Kewl.  I even think I saw the TARDIS there for a minute.

Quote from: Deborah on January 30, 2018, 10:36:30 AM
Old cemeteries make me depressed.  I look at the tombstones and start thinking about the people underneath them.  Then I start thinking that they and everyone they ever knew are dead.  In my mind I see them alive and now completely forgotten as if they never existed at all.


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I can see why, but whenever I hang out in cemeteries I always feel kind of comforted. The dead are not threatening, they don't mind what I'm doing or why I'm there. They've gone back to wherever we came from, and everything about the whole thing and the whole place suggests it's far more peaceful than this life. Being forgotten used to be something that terrified my brother, but it never seemed to bother me. Everything is eventually going to end and be forgotten so it just makes me think it's all the more important to live life in the now for its own sake, for the simple experience of it. A spark from a fire doesn't live long but the fact it exists at all is amazing, and that it doesn't last doesn't change the fact that it can and does burn bright for a few moments in the universe.

Cemeteries do make me think about death... but I can never feel too sad about it when viewing it as a big picture.

Quote from: Cassi on January 30, 2018, 10:37:23 AM
You are not allowed at cemetarys my sweet porcelain doll, people will get scare when they see such a sweet doll walking around!!!!!!

You mean they might get scared because I look like a ghost or vampire. Lol.😂

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 30, 2018, 11:05:43 AM
You mean they might get scared because I look like a ghost or vampire. Lol.😂

I was thinking more of a beautiful white statue but if you think ghost, or vampire, okay :)

Quote from: Kylo on January 30, 2018, 11:03:38 AM
I can see why, but whenever I hang out in cemeteries I always feel kind of comforted. The dead are not threatening, they don't mind what I'm doing or why I'm there. They've gone back to wherever we came from, and everything about the whole thing and the whole place suggests it's far more peaceful than this life. Being forgotten used to be something that terrified my brother, but it never seemed to bother me. Everything is eventually going to end and be forgotten so it just makes me think it's all the more important to live life in the now for its own sake, for the simple experience of it. A spark from a fire doesn't live long but the fact it exists at all is amazing, and that it doesn't last doesn't change the fact that it can and does burn bright for a few moments in the universe.

Cemeteries do make me think about death... but I can never feel too sad about it when viewing it as a big picture.

both of those places you posted look really cool! and yes, I agree with your views, I feel like cemeteries are peaceful  but also a reminder that anyone can go at anytime, so live life to the fullest! I don't think these people are forgotten, far from it actually, I've learned about a lot of cool people just by seeing interesting stones and then googling them! They make me feel more connected to an area after seeing where the founders of any given city are buried, it's cool to see the work they put into it. The historian that I met yesterday said that the first settler of the town was actually a teenager! I study local history a lot so I always really like seeing names that I've seen on old businesses and it's cool to find people that have streets named after them

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beautiful!

And the lovely sounds of the children of the night as I drink your blood..................................

My Mom and Mother in law took a trip up to Boston to do research for their genealogy hobbies. They did some tombstone tracings. They found some dead relatives and some live ones. They realized that there were three brothers in Marblehead who turned out to be cousins of my mother in law. They went and had dinner with them at their house. The funniest thing about it was that they lived right next to my best friend from high school who I knew from Long Island 40 years ago. Moral of the story is you never know who you are going to dig up in a cemetery.
Moni

I've always thought cemetaries were cool. But my brother has always found them creepy. Whenever my dad took us to the cemetery when we were little he never wandered off like I did. He stayed close to my dad. I loved sneaking up on him and scaring the crap out of him. Lol, fun memories.

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 30, 2018, 11:05:43 AM
You mean they might get scared because I look like a ghost or vampire. Lol.😂

Just be sure to wear a flowing white dress while roaming cemeteries. See if they run away, or just start taking pictures.

We like the old, pioneer cemeteries. The markers often have interesting bits of history about how they lived/died.
It is the history aspect, and the discovery of the source of local place names that attract us.

Quote from: Maddie86 on January 30, 2018, 08:39:29 AM
Thanks for all the replies! I didn't expect this many lol!
That one in LA sounds amazing! Have you ever found any paranormal activity? I've never had any paranormal experiences but I really want to. I'm part of a group that explores cemeteries together but so far we haven't done any ghost hunting, but it's something I would like to get into

yes, please post them, I'd love to see em!

We've found a few things.  In cemeteries it's mainly been audio stuff that we discovered after we had already left.  I did have one good experience in this old cemetery in town.  Saw something and heard something at the same time.  Most of the stuff we find is audio in buildings and such.  We have a few pictures of what we think might be a ghost.  Only video we have is from one of our devices going off on demand.

I use to be fascinated with cemeteries and maybe still am a bit but I haven't been to one in quite a few years

Quote from: V M on January 31, 2018, 02:10:51 PM
I use to be fascinated with cemeteries and maybe still am a bit but I haven't been to one in quite a few years

The word on the street is, and don't quote me, People are just dying to get into them!

LOL, I heard that they are always excepting new residents

Quote from: V M on January 31, 2018, 03:02:35 PM
LOL, I heard that they are always excepting new residents

I have a reservation in Riverside CA where my wife is buried.  Not sure how it will look with us both there and how the tombstone will read:


Debbie (blank) wife of SSgt Cassi (blank) USMC VIETNAM

:)

Not sure what I'll have on my headstone or where, maybe Arlington but I'm not real big on that idea really

I luckily was too young for Nam but we sure had some fun playing in the sandboxes and a few other places LOL

Quote from: V M on January 31, 2018, 03:34:41 PM
Not sure what I'll have on my headstone or where, maybe Arlington but I'm not real big on that idea really

I luckily was too young for Nam but we sure had some fun playing in the sandboxes and a few other places LOL

"The Pit" you mean!

Quote from: RobynTx on January 31, 2018, 01:28:02 PM
We've found a few things.  In cemeteries it's mainly been audio stuff that we discovered after we had already left.  I did have one good experience in this old cemetery in town.  Saw something and heard something at the same time.  Most of the stuff we find is audio in buildings and such.  We have a few pictures of what we think might be a ghost.  Only video we have is from one of our devices going off on demand.

If I was a ghost I wouldn't hang out in the cemetery.  That would be boring. I would want to be around people so I could mess with them. What's the fun of being a ghost if you can't mess with people and scare the crap out of them? Lol

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 31, 2018, 04:46:54 PM
If I was a ghost I wouldn't hang out in the cemetery.  That would be boring. I would want to be around people so I could mess with them. What's the fun of being a ghost if you can't mess with people and scare the crap out of them? Lol

Julia, sweetie, ghosts operate on a different time spectrum than us morals so they never get bored :) 

Sounds like we need a susan's cemetery meetup!

also, I'm getting a kick out of reading this: http://superstitiondictionary.com/superstitions-dead-dying-graves-cemeteries/

Quote from: Maddie86 on January 31, 2018, 05:43:00 PM
Sounds like we need a susan's cemetery meetup!

also, I'm getting a kick out of reading this: http://superstitiondictionary.com/superstitions-dead-dying-graves-cemeteries/

I could dig it :)

here's a neat find I had in my last visit to Spring Forest Cemetery:

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I don't want to be buried. The idea of becoming worm food doesn't appeal to me. I would rather be cremated. My ashes could be scattered or blasted into space or whatever. I'm not crazy about being put in a jar and kept in the house. Besides that, with my clumsy brother around there's a pretty good chance I would end up in the vacuum cleaner or the barbecue grill.

Yes!  Especially at night

Quote from: Julia1996 on February 04, 2018, 05:44:58 PM
I don't want to be buried. The idea of becoming worm food doesn't appeal to me. I would rather be cremated. My ashes could be scattered or blasted into space or whatever. I'm not crazy about being put in a jar and kept in the house. Besides that, with my clumsy brother around there's a pretty good chance I would end up in the vacuum cleaner or the barbecue grill.

Is this the part where the song "Dust in the Wind" queues up to start playing?

Quote from: Julia1996 on February 04, 2018, 05:44:58 PM
I don't want to be buried. The idea of becoming worm food doesn't appeal to me. I would rather be cremated. My ashes could be scattered or blasted into space or whatever. I'm not crazy about being put in a jar and kept in the house. Besides that, with my clumsy brother around there's a pretty good chance I would end up in the vacuum cleaner or the barbecue grill.

Same. My family had a fight over someone's ashes in a box once. First over who got to own them, then over what to do with them. Then someone secretly stole them to do what they wanted with them and replaced them with some fake ashes. It was epic and pathetic.

I'd rather die up on Everest or at sea than have these people handling my gibs.

Every March I have to watch Night of the Living Dead on the day we set the clocks forward, the first line of the movie is about the time change lol. I went up to Syracuse today and on the way back I stopped in Cortland and I saw a cemetery and knew I had to stop in... "They're coming to get you, Barbara!"... one of my favorite movies! I didn't spend a lot of time there but I did snap a couple pics
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Quote from: Maddie86 on March 11, 2018, 03:12:05 PM
Every March I have to watch Night of the Living Dead on the day we set the clocks forward, the first line of the movie is about the time change lol. I went up to Syracuse today and on the way back I stopped in Cortland and I saw a cemetery and knew I had to stop in... "They're coming to get you, Barbara!"... one of my favorite movies! I didn't spend a lot of time there but I did snap a couple pics
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYR3dorshwA

Quote from: Cassi on January 30, 2018, 10:37:23 AM
You are not allowed at cemetarys my sweet porcelain doll, people will get scare when they see such a sweet doll walking around!!!!!!

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 30, 2018, 11:05:43 AM
You mean they might get scared because I look like a ghost or vampire. Lol.😂

Quote from: Cassi on January 30, 2018, 11:12:01 AM
I was thinking more of a beautiful white statue but if you think ghost, or vampire, okay :)

People get scared of beautiful white statues?

Exploring cemeteries is not a hobby of mine although I do like to visit reputedly haunted places.

There are some beautiful cemeteries.  Undercliffe Cemetery in Bradford, Yorkshire has a lot of Egyptian style obelisks and a tomb guarded by sphinxes.  The cemetery gets vandalised but volunteers are fighting to preserve it.

I enjoyed walking around an attractively overgrown and disused Parsee cemetery in Macau, many years ago.  In Mozambique, when it, too was under Portuguese rule, I walked around a cemetery in which some of the tombs had glass windows and doors.  There were tables and chairs in some tombs and in at least one, there was a dressing table with a mirror next to the coffin!  There were framed photos on the tables and dressing table, and many gravestones were decorated with photos of the deceased.  What a nice idea, I think.  BTW, while I was in Macau, a Portuguese woman explained that things like chairs and dressing tables in tombs were for the benefit of visitors, not the deceased.  I think that I was a little bit disappointed.

The only time I've thought that a cemetery looked spooky was when I was a child in Aden.  We were inspecting a ground floor flat near the Crater Pass.  Opposite the flat was a large, old Arab cemetery, barren except for some thorn bushes.  It was early evening and in Aden the air was full of audibly beeping bats (you got used to them even in the roofless cinemas).  Even then I liked spooky things but I was not sure that I wanted to sit on the verandah every evening looking out on that barren cemetery.  Later, there was a local scare when a driver picked up a silent Arab woman on the Crater Pass, one night.  While she was getting into the car, the driver noticed that the woman had cloven hooves.  I don't know why he still gave her a lift into town instead of running away screaming.  By the time they had reached Crater town centre, though, the mysterious woman had disappeared.  Woo-oo! 

There was an active Parsee cemetery in Aden, complete with vultures (deceased Parsees are traditionally left on open platforms for carrion birds).  I never got to visit it, though.  Probably for the best.

Quote from: Maddie86 on January 31, 2018, 05:43:00 PM
Sounds like we need a susan's cemetery meetup!
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That's a good idea!  Susan's Cemetery,  where members could all finally meet in death.  Members could be interred in coffins or just have their ashes scattered, depending on the size of their donations.  Sadly, some of the most valued members have already been lost and interred elsewhere.

Quote from: Cassi on January 31, 2018, 04:48:50 PM

Quote from: Julia1996 on January 31, 2018, 04:46:54 PM
If I was a ghost I wouldn't hang out in the cemetery.  That would be boring. I would want to be around people so I could mess with them. What's the fun of being a ghost if you can't mess with people and scare the crap out of them? Lol

Julia, sweetie, ghosts operate on a different time spectrum than us morals so they never get bored :)

Sadly, I'll never be interred in Susan's Cemetery, nor will I get to hang out there as a ghost.  I can't die.  I'm immoral.