Trail · 136 records

Hallowed ground

Cemeteries accumulate legend faster than any other ground. These dossiers separate the stone record — names, dates, mass graves, relocated plots — from the folklore that grew over it. Visit respectfully; the gates close at dusk in most of these places.

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Chestnut Hill Cemetery

Exeter, Rhode Island

Cemetery associated with the documented1892vampire panic surrounding Mercy Brown.

5 claims · 3 legends→

Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery

Midlothian, Illinois

Cemetery associated with documented cultural history.

4 claims · 4 legends→

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Union Cemetery

Easton, Connecticut

Cemetery research record.

4 claims · 4 legends→

Cemetery Monument

Black Angel Monument at Oakland Cemetery

Iowa City, Iowa

Cemetery monument associated with documented cultural history.

4 claims · 3 legends→

Stull Cemetery

Tiny churchyard branded a "gateway to hell" by internet folklore.

4 claims · 1 legend→

Tolomato Cemetery

St. Augustine, Florida

18th-century Minorcan cemetery—site of the 1877 death of a young boy playing in a vault.

3 claims · 2 legends→

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Hollywood Cemetery

Richmond, Virginia

Cemetery associated with published local folklore.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Stepney Cemetery

Monroe, Connecticut

Cemetery research record.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Resurrection Cemetery

Justice, Illinois

Justice cemetery famous for "Resurrection Mary," Chicago’s vanishing hitchhiker.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Blandford Cemetery

Petersburg, Virginia

Thirty thousand Confederates—the Memorial Day that started here.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Bellefontaine Cemetery

St. Louis, Missouri

The 1849 rural cemetery where St. Louis’s history is buried.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Crown Hill Cemetery

Indianapolis, Indiana

The 1863 cemetery where presidents and Dillinger lie.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Oakland Cemetery

Atlanta, Georgia

The 1850 garden cemetery where Atlanta is buried.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Circular Congregational Churchyard

Charleston, South Carolina

The 1695 graveyard—Charleston’s oldest English burying ground.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Key West Cemetery

Key West, Florida

"I told you I was sick"—the 1847 cemetery at the island’s heart.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Trinity Churchyard

New York, New York

Hamilton’s grave at the Wall Street end—the 1697 churchyard.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Oakwood Cemetery

The 1856 cemetery where Austin is buried—and reportedly not alone.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Woodmere Cemetery

Detroit, Michigan

The 1868 cemetery—where the auto barons sleep.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Erie Street Cemetery

Cleveland, Ohio

The 1826 cemetery—where Chief Joc-O-Sot waits to go home.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Mount Moriah Cemetery

Deadwood, South Dakota

Cemetery documented in historical or public cultural sources.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Southwest City Cemetery

Southwest City, Missouri

Cemetery associated with documented cultural history.

Gunntown Cemetery

Naugatuck, Connecticut

Cemetery research record.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Keller’s Chapel Cemetery

Jonesboro, Arkansas

Cemetery in Jonesboro; research record.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Elmwood Cemetery

Detroit, Michigan

The 1846 cemetery—where the city’s founders rest.

2 claims · 1 legend→

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Factory Point Cemetery

Manchester Center, Vermont

Rachel Harris Burton burial site and marker interpreting New England vampire fears.

2 claims · 1 legend→

St. Philip’s Churchyard

Charleston, South Carolina

The churchyard where the gate is locked against the dead—DuBose Heyward’s ghost.

2 claims · 1 legend→

St. Louis Cemetery No. 2

New Orleans, Louisiana

The second cemetery—where the jazz men rest.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Westminster Hall and Burying Ground

Baltimore, Maryland

Poe’s graveyard, catacombs and famous birthday-toast tradition.

Cemetery And Chapel

Odell Pioneer Cemetery and Ebenezer Chapel

Pioneer cemetery with explicitly disputed urban legends.

Cushing Cemetery

Woodstock, Vermont

Cemetery associated with a nineteenth-century vampire story whose central identity remains unverified.

Memory Hill Cemetery

Milledgeville, Georgia

Historic cemetery with folklore about performer Dixie Haygood.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Stepp Cemetery

Bloomington, Indiana

Morgan-Monroe forest cemetery with a revenant mother legend.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Seaside cemetery whose setting is linked in tourism writing to afterlife beliefs.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Lakeview Cemetery

Buhl, Minnesota

Cemetery associated with documented cultural history.

1 claim · 1 legend→

100 Steps Cemetery

Cloverland, Indiana

Cemetery associated with documented cultural history.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Long Hill Burial Ground

Shelton, Connecticut

Cemetery research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Natchez City Cemetery

Natchez, Mississippi

Cemetery in Natchez; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Glenwood Cemetery — Witch’s Grave

Yazoo City, Mississippi

Cemetery in Yazoo City; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Cemetery Monument

Wooldridge Monuments

Mayfield, Kentucky

Cemetery monument in Mayfield; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Maple Hill Cemetery

Helena, Arkansas

Cemetery in Helena; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

William Gibson Gravesite

Springville, Alabama

Roadside grave in Springville; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Former Cemetery

College Burial Ground site

Washington, Washington, D.C.

Former Georgetown cemetery associated with a 1939 light-story reference.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Howard Street Cemetery

Salem, Massachusetts

Burial ground near where Giles Corey was pressed to death in 1692.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Bonaventure Cemetery

Savannah, Georgia

Midnight in the Garden cemetery of Gracie Watson and river ghosts.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Unitarian Churchyard

Charleston, South Carolina

Overgrown "secret garden" churchyard linked to Poe’s Annabel Lee.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Aurora Cemetery

Cemetery where legend says an 1897 airship pilot lies buried.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Huguenot Cemetery

St. Augustine, Florida

1821 yellow-fever cemetery at the city gate.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Laurel Hill Cemetery

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1836 rural cemetery on the Schuylkill—sculpture, war dead and folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→