Boothill Graveyard

Boothill served as Tombstone's cemetery from 1878 to 1884, taking in cowboys, miners, gamblers, shopkeepers and sex workers alike, before a new burial ground opened and this one was left to the weather. It was cleared, restored and renamed Boothill in the 1940s, so most of the wooden markers you see today are recreations; the graves of Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers, killed in the 1881 gunfight, are among the real ones. Visitors report lights, voices, misty figures among the headstones, and photographs that come back with shapes nobody saw at the time. The figure most often described is China Mary, a leading figure in Tombstone's Chinese community who died in 1906, and some also report Billy Clanton, apparently walking back toward town.