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Adelaida, California
Adelaida was settled in 1859 and grew up around mercury mines, farms and sheep ranches; the cemetery was started by Wesley Burnett in the…
Pawleys Island, South Carolina
All Saints Waccamaw Church on Pawleys Island has the grave of Alice Flagg, a flat stone marked only "ALICE" under a large oak. The…
Idaho Falls, Idaho
Established in 1912 for the Ammon homestead area, Ammon Cemetery sits about 2.5 miles east of town on Sunnyside Road and remains an…
Palmer, Illinois
One of two Christian County cemeteries nicknamed "Cemetery X" — the more famous version is Thomas Anderson Cemetery near Clarksdale,…
Andersonville, Georgia
Andersonville National Cemetery was established on July 26, 1865, to receive the dead of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prison where more…
Dugger, Indiana
Established in 1829 and formally incorporated in 1873, Antioch Cemetery sits about two miles north of Dugger; many of those buried here…
Chiefland, Florida
This Levy County cemetery, just southwest of Chiefland, holds more than 400 recorded graves. Visitors describe a small boy's spirit,…
Justice, Illinois
Archer Woods Cemetery, along Chicago's famously haunted Archer Avenue corridor, served for years as a potter's field for the area's unknown…
Midlothian, Illinois
Established no later than 1844, Bachelor's Grove Cemetery takes its name from corruptions of Batchelder, a prominent local family when…
Bagdad, Florida
Established in 1840 in the historic mill town of Bagdad, this Santa Rosa County cemetery holds roughly 1,000 gravestones beneath old-growth…
Fremont, Nebraska
Barnard Park in Fremont was once a cemetery and an overland camp on the Mormon Trail route. The city later turned the burial ground into a…
Minonk, Illinois
Baughman Cemetery, donated by John Baughman in 1840 and maintained today by an association founded in 1926, is a small but still-active…
Hymera, Indiana
At Nathan Hinkle's grave, local legend holds that visitors who walk around the monument and say his name three times will hear him answer.…
Mattoon, Illinois
Bethel Cemetery, between Mattoon and Neoga in Coles County, is better known locally as the Ragdoll Cemetery. The legend, told in several…
Freeport, Florida
Local legend holds that in the early 1900s, a young girl and her little brother cut through the graveyard next to Black Creek's old 1800s…
Antioch, California
Five coal-mining towns stood on this ground from the 1860s, and Sarah Norton was midwife to them. A Canadian immigrant, widowed and then…
Belvedere, Illinois
Blood's Point Cemetery takes its name from Arthur Blood, the first white settler in Flora Township, who purchased the land for his farm in…
Savannah, Georgia
Gracie Watson died of pneumonia in 1889 at age six; her grief-stricken father commissioned sculptor John Walz to carve a life-sized statue…
Paoli, Indiana
The gravestone of Floyd E. Pruett (1894-1920) at this Orange County cemetery bears a real, documented curiosity that's drawn folklorists'…
Greencastle, Indiana
A ghostly police officer from the 1950's sits inside the graveyard along with a blue light. There is also a cave under the cemetery with a…
Idaho City, Idaho
At Boot Hill Cemetery, visitors say some of those who died violently still walk the grounds. Established in 1863 during the Boise Basin…
Tombstone, Arizona
Boothill served as Tombstone's cemetery from 1878 to 1884, taking in cowboys, miners, gamblers, shopkeepers and sex workers alike, before a…
Glendale, California
Leslie C. Brand — the man usually called the father of modern Glendale — built El Miradero between 1903 and 1904 at the foot of the Verdugo…
Scottsburg, Indiana
At Bridgewater Cemetery, visitors describe a glowing tombstone near the front gate, said locally to be a man who still stands watch after…