Where Do Tombstones Come From, and What Makes a Good One?
Who on earth is scared of some rocks? Well, what if they are haunted rocks. What if they are the remains of a rock quarry ...
Category: Celebrating Cemeteries
The Best Cemetery Road Trip List Ever – Fifty Cemeteries Fifty States, Maine to Illinois
As summer peaks and prepares to slide into fall, people tend to get that itch for one last carefree adventure, and there is a new ...
Drama in the Tombs: Cemetery Theater Takes Center Stage
America is divided. Cremations are up, burials are down, and one group of people appears to be running from cemeteries as fast as they can, moving ...
Life in America’s Only Airbnb Cemetery House is Awesome
On Airbnb you can stay in a Mongolian yurt, on the side of a volcano, or in any number of houseboats, but there appears to ...
The Looming Death Of The Small Town American Cemetery
On a back road in the rolling farm country a few hours north of New York City is a picturesque old white church and behind ...
Louisiana Flooding Is So Bad The Dead Are Coming Out Of The Ground, Again!
The dead are literally crawling out of the ground and sailing away on their coffin ships.
Colma, California: City of Souls
Colma, California is a quiet town at the northern end of the San Francisco peninsula. If you know about the town then you are hardly ...
Visiting Congressional Cemetery is a walk through history.
In an essay that was recently published on Narratively (The Silence that Whistles Through the Tombstones), author Christopher Haugh describes his personal exploration of Washington, DC's ...
Eloise Woods: A truly natural alternative to traditional burial.
Not far from bustling Austin, Texas in quiet Cedar Creek, is a very special place where loved ones can be buried among the wildflowers that Texas ...
The Hill of Crosses: A beautiful mystery.
For hundreds of years Catholic pilgrims have made their way to Northern Lithuania’s sacred Hill of Crosses to honor a loved one, hope for a ...
“Exquisite Corpse” celebrates Woodlawn Cemetery’s jazz legacy.
There are a lot of notable people buried in New York City's Woodlawn Cemetery. The 400-acre cemetery is the final resting place to some 300,000 ...
Earth’s Ten Most Haunted Pet Cemeteries
Recently, I found myself wondering if there were any haunted pet cemeteries in New Orleans. The good lady Miss Karret then showed me a story ...
Enter the Land of Floating Tombs
The hurricane was not a major one but the sea still punched through a levee in tiny Braithwaite, 15 miles south of New Orleans and ...
6 Spooky Cemeteries
With Halloween just around the corner, it’s a great time to pass along a story about 6 of the spookiest cemeteries in the world.
