As teenager 's we all more than likely have done it. A friend of mine in high school and her boyfriend were in a remote grave yard at night . When the car just started to bouncing around . Thinking it was couple of us, who might have followed them ,they get out of the car to look. There was know one there. They get in the car to leave, but the car would not start. When the guy got of the car there sat on the back of the was a old woman with long white and red eyes hair laughing. The boy got so scared he peed on himself and got in the car and locked the door. MY friend asked him what was matter he told her. She looked back and nothing was there . When they tried to crank the car it turned over and they left. the boy had wreck that night going home.

another couple parked out there one night and heard something like running fingers down a chalkbroad. When they came back to the gameroom (small town )the top of the car had big and deep scratches in it.

After hearing this I talked a few friends to go out there to see what we could find at night. we parked the car on the outside of the fence and walked in the grave yard. Robert and I could see a old black man sitting on a old gravestone. We started to walk to where he was but when we reached there he was gone. then we all heard this evil sounding breathing and when we all ran back to the car we could hear something chasing us.

Wow, interesting stories. Creepy too.

Personally, I've never gone out of my way to go to a graveyard. Especially at night. I've only been to a few graveyards and it was during the day.
One I went to in Michigan to visit my grandfather's grave, another also in Mich. to visit my great granfather's grave, one here in California at Sutter's Mill, and another I can't remember if it was here or in Mich. It was an old though.

I don't remember ever seeing anything on my visits mostly because they were so long ago. But I do remember it was always very quite and still and I didn't like it that much.

that story was so cool. i wish my graveyard acted up like that. all i get is voices and see some things. pictures turn out kinda cool though, and electrical things drain in no time, and every now and then something might follow you home. but no rocking cars or evil laughter. the breath thing though, that's happened, and it's damn unsettling.

I totally agree about it being unsettling, tried being chased by thin air lol

It is not wise to try mock with ghosts. You taunt ghosts to come to you, like parking in a cemetary, you will not come home happy .

I expect cemetaries to be the most frequent of ghost sightings cause there are a lot of passed loved ones there.

Oh per-leeese!



I dont mean any offense but really - haunted graveyards?
If ghosts do exist, why on earth would they be hanging around the local bone-orchard?
If they are lost souls, why are they not searching for home?
They didn't die in the graveyard so why haunt it??
Jocee ~ you're right - it's usually daft teenagers who do it - and yes, I did it too many years ago.
All I got was a cold
It's purely over-active imaginations at work!

I accept that they are creepy places in the dark, and nerves will get the better of you. There have also been rare reports of activity in graveyards but surely this is down to the decomposition of corpses causing 'spirit' lights, and the over-whelming greif of families and friends who morn their loved ones?
I also accept that some buildings built over former burial grounds can have some kind of activity.
There is also the idea of 'The Watcher'. This is the lovely idea that the last person buried watches over the graveyard until the next burial, and in many anchient cultures, someone was sacrificed to act as a custodian of the burial plot.

But haunted cemetaries?

dacin go to 1 at night im sure a ghost wont mind showing you that they are real

Pfffftttttttt.........!

Hammy x x x

Very well said Hammy

If you consider that a lot of ghosts are linked to places of intense experience of one sort or another, could be pleasure, suffering, death... then you have to ask yourself why a graveyard? There has to be some sort of connection between the ghost and place, if it was a church graveyard the maybe it could be a priest wanting to tend to his flock. If it's a person who died in the graveyard then once again that also seems possible. Otherwise its as hammy said why??

As to what people actually see, well most of the time it's probably just tricks of the light or people playing a prank. If you think that the human brain is tuned into picking up familiar shapes - ever noticed how even in poor light you can often spot someone you know on the other side of the street even though you can't really make out their features - like other people or animals, basically anything that could be friend or foe. So I'd say it's reasonable that your mind will tune-into familar shapes automatically whilst nervous (fight or flight instinct), so what you think is a person might only be a shadow from a tree.

"Aah,,,Ye Ol' Cemetary. Ha,,,Ha,,,Ha,,,Ha,,,Haaaaaa!!!!"

Oh Sorry!!! I must just be getting into "The Halloween Spirit" a little early this year...

In my MUCH YOUNGER days, (like about a hundred years ago, give or take a decade or two,) I took girls "parking" in cemetaries. I never saw nor heard anything spooky, eerie or creepy while "parking" there.

(NOTE: I have terrifying cemetary stories, but thats for an upcoming Thread that I'm planning.)

In any case, this really doesn't have alot to do with the story shared here,,,but I have always had a fascination with cemetaries. I enjoy walking around them, reading The Grave Markers, checking out the awesome craftsmanship that has gone into many of these Polished Marble and Granite Stones.

These are truly modern works of art. I always wonder what the decedants in the graves looked like, what they did, what they liked and didn't like, where they were from, why they died and how their after-life is going...

I KNOW what you guys are thinking, and all I have to say is, "So What if I'm Ghoulish???"

I agree that there is a "watcher " or something . The grave yard was behind a church the whole area is known for activety(not just the church, and grave yard.) Another group where chased by a pack of coyotoes until they crossed the bridge where a spring ran. It seemed as long as you crossed the bridge you were okay.

also it could been something or one that was teaching a lesson in repect of the dead.

Hmm... Why would ghost haunt a cemetary? Perhaps some can't find their way back to where they had lived previously and the only close thing they have is their composing body? I'm not sure.
A friend of mine once said that ghost aren't actually the spirit of someone who died, but a demon taking on the form of a person who had already passed on.

The thing that I don't like about cemetaries is the feeling you get that something's watching you. I like the stillness and peacefullness of them but then there's that feeling...
I guess it was something making sure I wouldn't go knocking over their headstone or something. A watcher perhaps?

Spooky



and hello every 1 i am back

wow those are pretty creepy. cemetaries always scare the crap outta me, but i still love to go in them. i have yet to be in one at night time, but i will go some day, probably with a camera to get some footage

One night a group of friends and I visited Gettysburg, armed with our digital cameras and an EMF detector. That evening, the ghosts must have been sleeping, cause we didn't get anything besides a couple orbs that may have been distant street lights or something. Before coming back to my apartment, we decided to check out a graveyard about a mile down the road from where I live... I got one very interesting picture that I wanted to share with the forum. It has some ecto, a bright pink orb and a bright white dash in it. Now before anyone goes on a photo shop rant, keep in mind that I feel hoaxers deserve to be bludgeoned The cemetary is surrounded by trees, and there are no street lights nearby.

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I wish I had a cemetary nearby that I could go to at night. I love cemetaries. I'm almost obsessed with them. I'm not scared of them at all, and I don't understand the fear. . . . . but that's another rant.

I have a quick question: How do we all suddenly know what dictates the locations where ghosts can appear? Aren't there "alternate dimention" theories saying that the afterlife sometimes overlaps with this existence, creating a sort of time/space anomoly? Couldn't that place the spooks just about anywhere? And what if that theory is wrong?

My point: we don't know all the answers. There have been cases of hauntings in cemetaries in the past. There have been ghosts spotted everywhere, whether the spirit had a deep traumatic connection to the place or not. And, besides, what dictates the location of ghosts is all speculation anyway. It could be completely random for all we know!

On that note, Serenity, I watched a show once where this family just all of a sudden began hearing things in the middle of the night, realized they had a ghost, called a medium, and the medium said that it seems the ghost liked the guy and followed them home. I have no idea what show it was, i think one of those Discovery Channel goodies.

If we can roam free in human form, why wouldn't be able to as a spirit? It would make sense that we would be able to go anywhere we wanted in ghost form.