Does anyone know why ghosts mostly haunt graveyards??

Take a wild guess.

um because they were buried there is that it

I wasn't aware that there were all that many haunted graveyards at all. To the best of my knowledge, the only ghost in a graveyard should be the first person buried there, as legend holds the first buried protects the graveyard.

personally i dont belive many graveyrds are actually haunted. I think ghost or spirits have better things to do than set over a their grave for ever. Unless a ghost has attachment to the place or cant accept that they are dead.

I don't know if ghosts do mostly haunt graveyards . . not sure if there is any statistic out there that confirms or contradicts that either.

First you would have to figure out why a ghost hangs around any given location, and work from there.

Personally I don't think graveyards are more haunted that other places, however, graveyards can be very creepy places, so it just adds to the aura of it being haunted.

That's interesting, I've never heard of that legend

Yeah, that's something I read about years ago, the first person interred there is supposedly the 'graveyard guardian'. As a rule, I think it's a myth about graveyards being the most haunted. I think the fact that you are standing in an area of dead people intensifies the creepiness of it, but that's as far as it goes. I am always a little wary of alleged EVP recordings and 'orb' photos that are taken in graveyards. I think things may happen if the place of rest is disturbed in some way, i.e.vandalism. Spirits seem to be tied either to a place of death, or to where they suffered most in life, so exhaust those possibilities before moving onto the final resting place.

Hoagy

Cemeteries are the stage for some very emotional goodbyes. Maybe some of that intense energy remains.......

this is true, but probably a different kind of energy, almost an emotional energy. Different than say a place where somebody was murder, as that would be a very aggressive, angry sort of energy.

Does that make any sense?

like sad energy...?

Perhaps that why they put fences and gates around grave yards, to keep them there
Or because people are dieing to get in

Yeah, because of a sudden burst of energy, the incident gets imprinted on the surroundings almost. Kinda like an image being burned onto camera film.

Having said that, if someone is emotionally tied to something in life, or to something they loved doing, that positive energy created could also act as a catalyst as well. Don't take this as read, this is just my thoughts on how things may work

Cool avatar, BTW

Hoagy

*groooaaaan!*

Depends on the cemetary really. Some are quite active but the majority are very quiet. You do find some ghosts usually its spirits of people who had a strong bond to there body in life or who seek to try to reenter that body after death. Non human spirits are also some what more common as well. Earth elementals for example are found in many drawn by the digging. Darker spirits also show up in some either drawn by the intense suffering that is so common to cemeteries or sadly because so many idiots think a cemetary is the perfect place to meedle with an ouija board or black magic rituals.

Because people are burried there.............retard!

Did you read any of the previous replies?

What Hoagy said but also......did you bother to read the forum rules? specifically the ones relating to posting personal attacks on other members. I suggest you DO read them and adhere to them or your time here will be very short indeed.

The pointy stick strikes again

I grew up in a house right next to a grave yard. We played in the graveyard, sometimes even after dark. I never once felt or saw anything unusual in that graveyard. IMO, those remains are just the empty shell of the person they once were. Hauntings would be more likely to happen where the person spent the most time during life, or in the location where the spirit left the body at point of death. I don't think many people actually died at a graveyard. Just my opinion of course.

Could be because the idea of being surrounded by the dead causes the imagination to run wild. Graveyards are creepy places, after all. Remember, a good chunk of "hauntings" can be attributed to the power of human imagination, combined with the right circumstances.

Not that there haven't been genuine cases, but for the most part I don't think that graveyards are all that haunted -- just really, really spooky.

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Look who is talking you need to learn some manners first then come back here posting that.

Have to say, I've never really notice a heck of a lot of activity going on in graveyards. Personally, Iam fascinated with them though. So much history. In fact I use to play in them often when I was a kid (still do ) Okay, maybe not 'play'. The only bad experience I had was playing after dark with a few friends and accidently falling into a hole near one of the stones, had me screaming for a whole minute. Okay, maybe it wasn't for a full minute and I was only temporarily traumatized I really DON'T believe they're that haunted. Though I'm sure that there have been accounts.

Juanita

I've heard of a few haunted graveyards, and I've been to one that I think may be haunted, but I don't think there are as many ghosts in graveyards as other places. This is mostly because not many people die in graveyards. Not many people are strongly tied to graveyards...

In my personal opinion, I think that either Morgues or Hospitals are the most haunted. Probably Hospitals.

Yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong, there ARE graveyards and cemeteries out there that do have their spectres, Batchelors Grove in Illinois is a good example of that, but to say that they are more haunted than say, a civil war battlefield, or a really old house or something is probably stretching it a little.

Back home in the UK I would always visit graveyards, at day or night. There are some super-old graveyards too, it's pretty easy to spook yourself out. Chances are if you go in with a heightened sense of anticipation you will 'make' things happen or interpret things way too much.

Yep. I agree. There are a few haunted graveyards out there, but they probably aren't the most haunted. People just think they are because, hey, there are a bunch of dead people buried there. Why wouldn't it have ghosts?

Ah, I forgot all about the Civil War battlefields! These, and other battlefields, are probably really haunted as well.
Good point, Hoagy.