Mount Hope Cemetery
A cemetery in Bangor, Maine, Mount Hope Cemetery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Cemetery research record. It sits in the archive under horror-media locations. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip. Names, dates and reports are filed together here, so the record stays honest about which is which.
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Is Mount Hope Cemetery haunted?
No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.
The record — long form
Mount Hope is America's second garden cemetery — the Bangor Horticultural Society's 1834 purchase of Joseph Treat's hundred acres, designed by Charles Bryant with half the land for burials and half for horticulture, consecrated in 1836 three years after Mount Auburn started the movement. Mayor Kent's dedication said what the rural cemetery was for: 'a chastened and holy calm to the mind' — the counterbalance to the crowded city burying grounds.
Thirty thousand people are under the two hundred sixty-four acres now — Vice President Hannibal Hamlin and Public Enemy Number One Al Brady in the same ground, the Civil War generals and the lumber barons of the city that floated timber down the Penobscot. The cemetery the horticultural society couldn't sustain became the corporation that ran it for a hundred eighty-five years — the second-oldest garden cemetery in the country still taking Bangor's dead.
The file keeps Mount Hope: the 1834 founding, the Bryant design, the Hamlin and Brady graves, and the garden cemetery that came second.
Mount Hope is the archive's garden-cemetery file — the second oldest in America and the one holding Bangor's whole city.
Why this file matters
Mount Hope is the archive's garden-cemetery file — the 1834 design and the second-oldest in the country.
A cemetery half for horticulture keeps its trees — the file's suggestion being that Mount Hope's hold is the design: the burial ground that was also a garden, and the hundred eighty-five years of Bangor's dead under the landscape Bryant laid out for both.
Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine, is the second oldest garden cemetery in the United States. It was designed by architect Charles G. Bryant in 1834 and built by the Bangor Horticultural Society soon after, the same year that Bangor was incorporated as a city. The cemetery was modeled after Mount Auburn Cemetery (1831) in Boston, Massachusetts. Bangor was at that time a frontier boom-town, and much of its architecture and landscaping was modeled after that of Boston. The site has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine)Documented history
Cemetery used as a filming location for Pet Sematary. Mount Hope Cemetery's history is documented — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the ghost stories. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Halloween Haunts & Creepy Things to Do in Maine' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.
Verified historyMaine Office of Tourism
Sources on file
- 01Halloween Haunts & Creepy Things to Do in MaineMaine Office of Tourism · tourism · A3
Field notes & open questions
Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.