GraveYards

[Fairyelf]

Has anyone tried going to a graveyard and taking pictures or anything of that sort?


I once went to an old graveyard in my lil town and took some pictures...nothing interesting came out. It was fun though!!

[mara]

It is on my to do list..as soon as I gather the supplies and courage.

[Mau]

I love graveyards...but had an odd experience at one once. Walking to my mom's to help her out, she was sick..it was like 5 am. There was an old graveyard between our houses. I'm truckin..walkin pretty fast, it was cold out. Almost past the graveyard, My peripherial vision picks up what I thought was a thorn branch sticking out of the high fence..I dodged it..and got a really weird look from a guy coming down the other side of the street. So I look back, nothing there. I think about it for a moment...what I saw was a distortion of the space in front of me. A Transparent object that was moving past me into the cemetery through the fence pretty quickly.
I went to mom's...and after I was home later she called to yell at me "WHAT did you bring here??!!!" . Seems I disturbed whatever it was in some way, and it followed me to her house and hung around and caused some ruckus lol

I'll be taking pics in the next week or two at a local graveyard...if I get anything interesting, I'll post here :D

[WickedBttrfly]

I've taken pictures of a graveyard before, but it was during daylight and for a photography class. No way you'll catch me in a graveyard at night by myself. Now if some people went with me, I'd definitely wanna do it.

[semi]

OOH OOH, WB, pick me, I'll go!

I love my local cemetary. It's the oldest Victorian cemetary in the country full of hills and winding roads. Beautiful. I often go there to play guitar or write or just to go there. I've never had a bad experience there but a friend of mine once had to leave because something wouldn't leave her alone, kept trying to touch her sort of. She got a headache from all the activity there. But I will go in there sometime soon and take pictures. If anything interesting pops up, I'll post it.

WB, you should drive up to NY and go with me. It's a hell of a spooky place at night.

[catphrodite]

I love going to graveyards and taking photos of the headstones, the older the better! :)

[morrigen]

I love taking photos in cemetaries...though, it's usually just for the beauty of the place rather than looking for anything supernatural...though I'd be pretty impressed (and freaked out) if I got anything of the sort.

[wounded_crow]

I've gone. I love the old tombstones, they where are decorative.
There is a local cemetary I've been to a few times that has some interesting carvings. Infact I've met the stone carver and has become friends with him. Anyways one is about 4ft tall with a blasted image of a Fender electric guitar on the back, the front has a jeep coming over the hill. On top people have left toy jeeps and pennies. I found out a few years ago it was a co-worker's son's stone. He was killed in a roll-over accident. One other looked really cool....untill I got close to it. From the road the stone had two swords crossed, but i could barely make out a figure between them. I got out of the car and walked over to the stone. It was the Tazmanian Devil with devil horns and angel wings. I thought it was pretty tacky, even though the person who it belonged to liked him or not.

[Lady Ravenna]

I have what some people believe are ghost pictures.

My family heard a story about these 2 very old headstones that are out in the middle of nowhere so we got our camera and went to take some pictures. We took a picture of the first headstone then went to take a picture of the other headstone but my little cousin decided to get into the picture. So we took a picture of him with the headstone, then quickly took another picture of the headstone without my cousin in it .

When we got the pictures back the first one we took had nothing interesting, the second on which was taken with my cousin in it has a white streak coming out of the ground, and the third picture has the same white streak but higher up as if something had risen out of the ground.

My dad was all excited and took them to a photo expert to get his take on the pictures. He said it wasn't caused by anything hanging infront of the camera.

If I get my scanner working I will find a way to post the pics for all to see.

[Fairyelf]

whoohoo!!
and my family thought i was all weird for having a graveyard obsession and taking pics there..huh :achug:

[-Ember]

I love graveyards. So far my best pics are of the Greyfriar's one in Edinburgh... one has almost a hundred orbs.

[MerrisHawk]

My cemetary photos are up in the photo album. I live a few minutes away from several cemetaries and there are rumors of hauntings at most of them.
The pictures I have are from Greenwood cemetery in Spokane, WA.

The thousand steps is said to be the most haunted place in the cmetery. Originally part of the grounds, it has become overgrown and hazardous. The steps begin at the street level and travel up to the top terrace where an empty mausolem sits. The steps are cement, very heavy and somehow out of place. Huge sections have been rolled over, supposedly by the angry former owner of the mausoleum at the top. the tale says that he built the steps so his family would have a private access to the mausoleum. He died without paying off the contract and now the mausoleum is a tool shed and the steps have become an overgrown mess.
I didn't notice anything really bad there. Just a little creepy at dusk is all.

[Lady Avalon]

I have never had an experience in a graveyard. I live in one of the country's most haunted city for five years now and I'm still waiting to see a "ghost".

One thing you might try in loading infrared film into a really good camara. Many of the professional parapsychologist use this kind of film.

On the other hand, I've seen some really good spirit photos done with a polaroid.

[Kaija]

I've done it many times.. (there's very little I haven't tried.. next on my list is recordings).. I spend alot of time in cemetaries day and night.. so the best experiences have come from two of the older ones around here.. Mouth cemetary is REALLY strong.. the other one has some connection to me, and is where I perform rituals now.. I always have something show up there.. the wierdest though was one roll of film that we developed.. there was a picture of a stone (the stone was for a spirit i've worked with there).. All of the pictures on the roll were shown on the negative, but the pictures with just her stone were missing. We had it done again with the negatives but when we got them back it was the same thing.. The rest of the roll showed lots of...things.. all different.. Very interesting, and I never figured out why it happened.

[wounded_crow]

the last time i took photos in a grave yard, i got a couple of lizards in the frame doing "the nasty".

[Noctis]

i just started doing grave rubbings and taking photos of old cemeteries. ^_^

[Tarbh Nathroch]

I grew up in grave yards they were the safest place to play. My friends as well, we would hang out in the grave yards because the police didn’t bug us for loitering, plenty of room for Frisbee and catch. Also a safe place for drugs. I did a lot of LSD and mushrooms in grave yards. It was always fun trying to find the oldest ones and or the oldest person. Never had a super natural experience in one though.

[~Anamorata~]

I think graveyards are quite peaceful...I've often gone to one of the local ones, and meditated...

[number_the_dead]

Not yet but as soon as I get a good camera I will! Also I have been reading up on recordings. I love cemeteries but have gotten in trouble for being there too late at night a few times. There are 2 cemeteries within 5 min of my home. One of wich is an old pioneer cemetery that is really creepy. When I get a camera and recorder it will defiantly be my first stop!

[Fairyelf]

i just started doing grave rubbings and taking photos of old cemeteries. ^_^
oh really? how neat!

[grassquit]

I used to love cemetaries- a big one near me is the most peaceful place in the city. I used to leave cat food and treats for a familly of foxes there (in japanese mythology, foxes are guardians of cemetaries so I made point to take care of them). Then ... ah... a couple of things happen. One day a crap load of gun-toating police came running up out of no where and proceeded to shoot up the place. A guy decided to committ suicide by police- he shot once up in the air and then stood in an open place and let them blow him away. That was within a 150 ft of where I was standing. On another day- and the last time I ever visited a cemetary- something shoved me to the ground- hard- three times. I was all goose -flesh and squawking when I ran out of the cemetary. I'm not an easily spook-able sort - I've done my share of ghost busting in my day- but that was a bit much... I figure that I would think it was disrespectful if the state tourist board invited everybody to wander around in my bedroom. It seems that somebody felt the same that day about me wandering on top of them...

[Stormcall]

My friends and I live fairly close to a graveyard, we went there after the hurricanes hit to clean up the mess... The only paranormal I've experienced was a kind of breathless feeling, like I was choking on the darkness, and it only happens in one corner of the cemetary, and only at night. It's the area for people too poor to buy grayestones... I always feel so sad that there's nothing there for them... But is IS a very unnerving feeling, not being able to breathe...

[HorseCrow]

I love graveyards and I pass through one (on foot) on a daily basis when I walk into town. I love the calm and intensity of all those lives represented there. All that experience, all those thoughts, feelings and ambitions. Hopes and stories. I can spend hours there, reading the tombstones and trying to imagine who they were and what their lives were like.

[KimberSly]

Oh goodness... something about them really freaks me out...

Maybe because when me and my friend were like, 8 years old we went to one alone in the daytime, (my dad waited in the car) and we saw a body wrapped in white cloth on top of a stone table with flies just swarming around it. :shaker: It scares me to this day.

[Fairyelf]

Oh goodness... something about them really freaks me out...

Maybe because when me and my friend were like, 8 years old we went to one alone in the daytime, (my dad waited in the car) and we saw a body wrapped in white cloth on top of a stone table with flies just swarming around it. :shaker: It scares me to this day.
are you serious....a real body? :holycow:

[Erites]

I've spent many a peacful hour in our towns cemetary, but only during the day. Would love to go out at night to take photos there but I've no camera and no one interested in coming with me. One of my many regrets about my past relationship is that we never got round to doing that. Current SO is not at all interested. Course, it doesn't help that the council lock our cemetary at night.

[mucgwyrt]

Where do you like, erites? I'll go with you, if it's not too far :toofless:

[HolographicJoe]

OOH OOH, WB, pick me, I'll go!

I love my local cemetary. It's the oldest Victorian cemetary in the country full of hills and winding roads. Beautiful. I often go there to play guitar or write or just to go there. I've never had a bad experience there but a friend of mine once had to leave because something wouldn't leave her alone, kept trying to touch her sort of. She got a headache from all the activity there. But I will go in there sometime soon and take pictures. If anything interesting pops up, I'll post it.

WB, you should drive up to NY and go with me. It's a hell of a spooky place at night.


NY where? Where's the oldest cemetary in the country (that's what you said, right?)?

[sincerebliss]

I like cemetaries but it's too far and no one will go with me! :(

[faerieridingdragons]

I've never had or seen anything unusal in our cemetary,but there is quite a few nights my dog can be heard barking towards it.Of course it only has 7 bodies so how much ruskus could they make.

[Black RiverWolf]

where i live we have a really old one. i wander there sometimes my dogs always want to go visit but i can't let them.

[faerieridingdragons]

where i live we have a really old one. i wander there sometimes my dogs always want to go visit but i can't let them.
Ours is 200 years old,and Sage{our dog}can visit anytime he wants because it's in our backyard,he's just doesn't,but our cat on the other hand can be seen there sometimes.

[AbyssRose]

I would go to a cemetary and take pictures.. but I dont know the whole issue with me is A. I am a chicken and wouldnt go by myself and B. I would be afraid of disturbing something and it following me home or being angry with me even if I asked permission kinda hehe I dont know maybe im crazy but I would have to be in a very positive mood that nothing would be angry with me before I stepped foot in one..and also have someone with me :) scaredy cat here.. my imagination gets away from me and i can think up the craziest stuff

[diamondtiger]

We were talking about this just last night. I haven't gone to any cemeteries since we moved to this area. We used to live across the street from one. It was interesting to say the least. I want to visit an old one that's out by my aunts house this weekend, maybe take some pictures. If we go, I'll post any '"good stuff" we get here.

[Ravyn Sylverwyng]

I have taken pictures at a lot of cemeteries. I was trying to document headstones during my genealogy days. I never had anything strange come out of them. My grandmother has done this also and never gotten anything strange in her pictures either. At times I wish that I could.

I hear that you get better results with digital cameras, so I would suggest using those. I have taken pictures with mine and caught orbs around my youngest son in them. So, I think that the next time I go, I will take the digital with me and see if I get anything that way.