Unusual tombstones. The most terrible cemeteries and graves - photos, real stories, legends, beliefs
None of the people living on earth knows what awaits us after death. In the earthly life of a person, the grave puts an end, however, in some cases, even in it the deceased cannot find peace. Next, you will find the most mysterious burial places in the world, around which there are many mystical legends.
Rosalia Lombardo (1918 - 1920, Capuchin catacombs in Italy)
At the age of 2, this girl died of pneumonia. The inconsolable father could not part with the body of his daughter and turned to Alfredo Salafia to embalm the body of the child. Salafiya did a tremendous job (drying his skin with a mixture of alcohol and glycerin, replacing the blood with formaldehyde, and using salicylic acid to prevent the fungus from spreading throughout the body). As a result, the girl's body, which is in a sealed coffin with nitrogen, looks as if she had fallen asleep.
Cells for the dead (Victorian era)
During the Victorian era, metal cages were built over the graves. Their purpose is not exactly known. Some believe that this is how the graves were protected from the destroyers, others think that this was done so that the dead did not come out of the graves.
Taira no Masakado (940, Japan)
This man was a samurai and during the Heian period he became the leader of one of the largest uprisings against Kyoto rule. The uprising was crushed and in 940 Masakado was beheaded. According to historical chronicles, the samurai's head did not rot for three months, and all this time it quickly rolled its eyes. Then the head was buried, and later the city of Tokyo was built on the burial site. Tair's grave is still being cherished, as the Japanese believe that if it is disturbed, then trouble can be brought to Tokyo and the whole country. Now this grave is the oldest burial in the world, which is kept in perfect cleanliness.
Lilly Gray (1881-1958, Salt Lake City Cemetery, USA)
The inscription on the headstone reads "Sacrifice of the Beast 666". Lilly's husband Elmer Gray called this the US government, which he blamed for the death of his wife.
Chase Family Crypt (Barbados)
The family crypt of this couple is one of the most mysterious places in the Caribbean. At the beginning of the 19th century, it was discovered here several times that the coffins were moved after they were placed in the crypt, while it was established that no one had entered the crypt. Some coffins stood upright, others were on the steps at the very entrance. In 1820, by order of the governor, the coffins were moved to another place, and the entrance to the crypt was closed forever.
Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851, St. Peter's Chapel, Dorset, England)
In 1822, Mary Shelley cremated the body of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who died in an accident in Italy. After cremation, an intact heart of a man was found among the ashes, his woman took him home to England and kept until her death. Mary died in 1851 and was buried with her husband's heart, which she kept in the manuscript of Adonai: An Elegy of Death.
Russian mafia (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Full-length monuments erected on the graves of representatives of the criminal world have been seen by many of us. On some monuments, you can even find video cameras that protect them from vandals.
Ines Clark (1873 - 1880, Chicago, USA)
In 1880, 7-year-old Ines died from a lightning strike. By order of her parents, a sculpture-monument in a Plexiglas cube was installed on her grave. The sculpture is made in the growth of a girl, depicting her sitting on a bench with a flower and an umbrella in her hands.
Kitty Jay (Devon, England)
A nondescript hill covered with grass is called Jay's grave by the locals. At the end of the 18th century, Kitty Jay committed suicide, and her grave became a cult site for ghost hunters. Since suicides could not be buried in a cemetery, Kitty was buried at a crossroads so that her soul could not find a way to the afterlife. Until now, fresh flowers constantly appear on her grave.
Elizaveta Demidova (1779 - 1818, Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris, France)
At the age of 14, Elizaveta Demidov was married to the first prince of San Donato, whom she did not love. The unfortunate woman was one of the richest women of her time, and she bequeathed her entire fortune to the man who could spend a week in her crypt without food. So far, no one has done this, and therefore her condition remains unclaimed.
In fact, people are scared in most cemeteries, because this is the place where they remember death, including their own death. But these cemeteries are teeming with ghost stories and odd facts! Want to tickle your nerves? That way.
You might be surprised that the first cemetery photo on this list is of an airport. However, this is really a cemetery! Beneath runway number 10 are the graves of the Dotson couple, a married couple who used to live in a house on the site of the airport and were buried in the area next to it. The airport repeatedly negotiated with Dotson's relatives about the transfer of the remains, but they did not agree, and without the consent of relatives in the United States, this is not allowed.
The architectural splendor of the Recoleta cemetery is amazing, but it was not included in this list because of it, but because of a number of terrible and unusual stories about those who are buried there: next to the grave of Evita Peron, on which there are always fresh flowers, Rufina Cambáceres is buried , a girl who was buried alive and came out of a coma right in the coffin, and David Alleno, a poor gravedigger who saved money for a burial site for thirty years, and having saved up, committed suicide.
We are used to the fact that cemeteries are underground, but the Filipino Igorot tribe buries their dead ... in the air. Cemeteries always hang over the heads of people from this tribe. For example, this rock covered with coffins looks creepy!
This cemetery is a popular tourist attraction in the Romanian village of Sapinta. The monuments of the cemetery, painted in bright colors, take us away from the mourning atmosphere of the place, and the epitaphs on them can be both funny and even satirical.
This is perhaps one of the most famous cemeteries in England. Every crypt and every statue here is an architectural masterpiece. But, beyond that, the graveyard is known for its abundance of ghosts - for example, a tall Highgate vampire with a hypnotic gaze. Another famous ghost is a crazy woman running around the cemetery looking for the children she killed.
Greyfriars Cemetery is an old cemetery with a rich history. It was founded in the 1560s. at the local prison. Of the 1200 prisoners, only 257 left it alive - the rest remained here forever. Now a rare brave man will dare to enter the gates of Greyfriars at night - the souls of the innocently killed will not give him rest.
People are afraid to visit even ordinary cemeteries. What would you say about the whole island of the dead? He is in Venice! When it was found that burials in the main territory of Venice lead to unsanitary conditions, the dead began to be taken out to San Michele. This is still done in a gondola specially designated for this.
The mining towns of La Noria and Humberstone are located in the middle of the desert in Chile. The history of these towns is a terrible story about the violence of the masters over their slave miners. Sometimes they were simply brutally killed, not sparing even the children. They were buried in the cemetery of La Noria; now, when you are in this cemetery, the feeling of the otherworldly environment around does not leave. There are many open and dug graves in the cemetery, from which skeletons even show up!
4. Chiesa dei Morti (Church of the Dead), Urbino, Italy
The Church of the Dead is famous not only for its big name, but also for the exposition of mummies. Behind the classic baroque arch, you have a great view of most of them. Each of the 18 preserved mummies is in its own alcove. The church was built, which is characteristic, the Brotherhood of the Good Death.
3. Bachelors Grove Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
This place is legendary as one of the most haunted cemeteries in America. Eyewitnesses confirm the appearance of strange figures in the cemetery. One of the famous ghosts is a white lady with a child in her arms. Also in the 1950s so many visitors to the cemetery have reported a ghostly house. In addition, a farmer with a horse appeared in the cemetery, killed nearby, and a black dog.
The number of "inhabitants" of the catacombs of Paris is almost three times the number of Parisians living above - almost 6 million corpses are buried here. The ebullient life of the chic "upper Paris" is terribly different from the gloomy city of the dead underground. Here you can find whole corridors of skulls and bones. The Parisian catacombs are huge, and no one knows how confusing their labyrinth is: it is quite possible to get lost here forever.
The Crypt of the Capuchins are 6 rooms located under the church of Santa Maria della Concezione in Italy. It contains 3,700 skeletons of monks of the Capuchin brotherhood. When their remains were brought here in 1631, they took 300 wagons and were buried in earth specially brought from Jerusalem. After 30 years, the remains were exhumed and displayed in the hall. But the worst thing is not the mummies themselves, but the “message of the brotherhood”, translated into 5 languages: “We were what you are. You will be what we are."
I propose to take a walk around the Novodevichy cemetery, which is located on the territory of the current Resurrection Novodevichy Convent. Many do not even suspect the existence of the Novodevichy cemetery in St. Petersburg, believing that a cemetery and a monastery under this name exist only in Moscow. Nevertheless, today the St. Petersburg Novodevichy Cemetery is beginning to revive, tombstones are being restored here, interesting excursions are being conducted (both ordinary tourist and special pilgrimage ones), and more and more people are learning about this place.
Before the revolution, the Novodevichy Cemetery was one of the most expensive and prestigious in St. Petersburg, and although it suffered greatly during the Soviet period, it remains a valuable historical necropolis to this day. A walk around the Novodevichy cemetery will be of interest both to those who like to study the biographies of prominent people, and to connoisseurs of artistic tombstones. There are also shrines here, where people come to pray or just make a wish. You can read about famous people buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in a separate note. In the meantime, we will talk about the most beautiful and unusual tombstones of the Novodevichy cemetery, and also get acquainted with its history (and the history of the monastery itself).
The most beautiful and unusual tombstones of the Novodevichy cemetery in St. Petersburg
Among the tombstones at the Novodevichy Cemetery there are sarcophagi, obelisks, slabs, steles with crosses, pedestals, hills with large chips, monuments in the form of an oncoming wave, chapels, miniature churches ... busts, bas-reliefs and other similar details suffered during the destruction of the cemetery in the first place.
Although a significant part of the pre-revolutionary burials has not survived to this day, we can still admire the surviving monuments of the 19th - early 20th centuries, which are of undoubted historical and artistic value.
Many headstones are made from valuable materials, including rare marbles and granites. On some, you can still read the names of the owners of the workshops where they were made.
From the point of view of artistic merit, family chapels-tombs stand out especially.
Unfortunately, all of them are ruined and are unlikely to be restored to their former splendor, however, even today they amaze with the quality and variety of design.
Perhaps the most beautiful is the Art Nouveau tomb of Lucia Gilse Van der Pals, née Johansen.
The massive chapel with a decorative frieze is a stylization of an ancient Egyptian tomb.
The tomb was built in 1904 according to the design of the architect V. Yu. Johansen in the workshop of Yu. P. Korsak. Its walls are made of Radom sandstone, the plinth is made of granite, and the floor is marble.
Inside the tomb, a marble bas-relief by the Piedmontese sculptor Pietro Canonica (1869-1959) (sometimes spelled "Canonicus" or "Canonico") has survived. During his long life, the master managed to work fruitfully in Russia, Italy, England, Turkey ... Not everyone knows that once on Manezhnaya Square in St. Petersburg there was an equestrian monument to Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich by Pietro Canonica (1914). In 1918, the “ugly idol” was demolished, however, in the House-Museum of Canonica, in the Villa Borghese park in Rome, to this day you can see the models created for the monument. From other works of Canonica, we know the sculpture of the nun "After taking the vow" (currently one of the options is on display at the St. Petersburg Museum of the History of Religion).
Buried in such an exquisite chapel, Lucia (Lucy) was the daughter of a Danish professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Julius Johansen, and the wife of a Dutch consul, co-director of the Russian-American Manufactory of Rubber Products (the future Red Triangle), philanthropist and philanthropist Heinrich van Gilse van der Pals. Many people are familiar with the luxurious mansion of G. G. Gilze van der Pals on English Avenue (the current military enlistment office). The mansion was built by Lucia's brother, the architect William Yulievich Johansen (who, as was said, designed this magnificent tombstone). From old photographs it can be seen that the rooms of the mansion were decorated with marble statues by Pietro Canonica, including the mentioned figure of a nun. Apparently, Gilse van der Pals was a connoisseur of the work of Canonica, so it is not surprising that he entrusted him with the sculptural decoration of the grave of his beloved wife.
Another interesting burial place from the point of view of artistic merit is the grave of the artillery general Dmitry Sergeevich Mordvinov (1820-1894). This is undoubtedly one of the most famous and beautiful tombstones of the St. Petersburg Novodevichy cemetery. Unfortunately, the side plates with the name of the buried person have been lost, but the artistic metal fence has survived.
The most remarkable detail of the gravestone is the bronze figure of a seated angel over a marble sarcophagus. A live flower is often placed in the hand of an angel.
The sculpture of an angel was created in the workshop of the French sculptor and artist Charles Berto (Karl Avgustovich Berto) (Charles Bertault). Petersburg bronze foundry Berto (former F. Chopin) specialized in the production of small bronze plastics. For participation in the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, where the products of the factory were awarded a gold medal, Berto received the title of "Supplier of the Court of His Imperial Majesty." Despite this, due to financial difficulties, after two years he had to close the case and return to France.
Sculptural monuments with marble or bronze figures of angels standing or sitting at the tombstone were very common at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, but few such examples have survived to this day. Therefore, despite the fact that we have before us just a “typical” sample, not related to the individuality of the customer, the tombstone is perceived as a great value.
As for the identity of D.S. Mordvinov buried here, it is known that he served in the artillery from a young age. In 1856 he was appointed head of a separate office of the War Office, and ten years later he became director of the office of the War Office, to which he devoted almost half of his many years of service. In 1872, Mordvinov was granted the adjutant general to His Imperial Majesty; in 1881 he was appointed a member of the Military Council and awarded with diamond badges of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky. In 1883, Mordvinov was promoted to artillery general, and in 1889 he celebrated his 50th anniversary of service in the officer ranks and received the Order of St. Vladimir, 1st degree.
It is also worth paying attention to the tombstone of the St. Petersburg architect, who, however, is not very well known to the public. This is Ivan Denisovich Chernik (1811-1874), who worked in the military department and built, in particular, the new building of the General Staff and the Kryukov (Naval) barracks.
The burial of I. D. Chernik is one of the most beautiful surviving monuments at the Novodevichy cemetery. It is a magnificent white marble sarcophagus on a high pedestal. The board with the epitaph and the name of the deceased has not been preserved, but the bas-relief portraits of I. D. Chernik himself and his wife have survived (the latter, unfortunately, was damaged by vandals and cannot be restored due to the specifics of Carrara marble.
The monument was made in the workshop of the Italian sculptor Domenico Carli in Genoa (1878).
One of the most unusual burials at the Novodevichy Cemetery is the grave of a mathematician, professor Vladimir Pavlovich Maksimovich (1850-1889).
Maksimovich was born in St. Petersburg into a noble family and from an early age had outstanding mathematical abilities. Studied in St. Petersburg and Paris, worked at Kazan and Kiev universities. At the beginning of 1889, the mathematician was diagnosed with a severe mental illness, and in the same year he died at the age of 39.
The tombstone of Vladimir Maksimovich is a stone sphere in an artistic metal fence. On the sphere are images of the signs of the zodiac and a quote from Byron's poem "Ephthanasia" (Euthanasia) in English (" Count o "er the joys thine hours have seen...»).
This poem is known in the translations of I. Goltz-Miller and V. Levik (in the arrangement of the latter, this quatrain sounds like this: “He is close, the day calling for the feast, || Count the blessings of past days, || And you will understand: whoever you were in life, || Not to be, not to live - much more truly").
To be continued...
January 27, 2015 No one is surprised that visits to cemeteries are included in excursion programs in many cities of the world. At the same time, the cemeteries themselves are sometimes able to surprise - tourists who appreciate architecture and unusual works of art, as well as a quiet, contemplative rest, find a lot of interesting things for themselves in local cemeteries. We publish here a list of the most amazing and beautiful, in our opinion, cemeteries in different parts of the world.
1. Père Lachaise Cemetery, France, Paris
Today, this cemetery in the eastern part of Paris is perhaps the most famous in the world. Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit it throughout the year. However, this was not always the case: in 1804, when the authorities allocated a place for him, the Parisians did not want to bury their relatives there just because of his low fame. The city hall of Paris took an unprecedented step: the ashes of the writer Molière and two legendary lovers: Abelard and Eloise were transported to Pere Lachaise. After that, many world-famous people found their last refuge here - Honore de Balzac, Frederic Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, Marcel Marceau and many other figures of literature and art, as well as famous politicians.
2. Arlington National Cemetery, USA
The world's largest military cemetery is located in Arlington, a suburb of the US capital Washington. In addition to participants in wars and various military conflicts that the United States has waged around the world since 1865, presidents, chairmen of the Supreme Court, and American astronauts are buried at Arlington Cemetery. The cemetery covers an area of almost three square kilometers, currently there are about 300,000 graves.
Chinese Christian cemetery on the western side of Hong Kong Island in the form of an amphitheatre. The overpopulated territory of Hong Kong, a rocky island, did not allow the expansion of the Pok Fu Lam cemetery, created in 1882, so Hong Kong Christians were forced to build terraces for burials on the mountainside, connecting them with streets and alleys. Over time, the cemetery began to resemble a giant open amphitheater. Some burials are made with great artistic sophistication.
The only underwater cemetery-crematorium in the world is an artificial reef off the east coast of the United States. Here, those who during their lifetime were somehow connected with the sea find their last shelter - divers, sailors. The underwater territory of the reef covers an area of 65,000 m2. The most famous burial is the 86-year-old Edith Hink, a resident of Naples. Her relatives decided that Edith loved the sea so much that she deserved to be buried in it.
An ancient necropolis near the highland Ossetian village of Dargavs. 97 stone crypts have been preserved here, most often in the form of pointed towers. According to legend, during the plague in the 14th century, people themselves came here, built crypts and waited for death. The necropolis is located on Mount Rabinyrang, from where a picturesque panorama of the Caucasus Mountains opens.
One of the most visited places in the capital of Argentina, and rightfully one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world. Here are the burial places of many Argentine presidents and other celebrities, the most famous of them is the grave of Eva Peron, a legendary woman, especially revered in Latin America. Eva Peron was an actress, the wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron, and she herself was involved in politics a lot. The cemetery is part of the National History Museum. Among the sculptures in the cemetery, there are many genuine works of art that have been declared national cultural and historical treasures.
This strange "joyful" cemetery was created in the 1930s by original local artist Stan John Patra. Crosses and wooden tombstones are decorated with playful inscriptions and drawings in the primitivism genre, depicting episodes of the life (and sometimes death) of the buried, telling about their virtues and small weaknesses. According to the artist, a joyful attitude towards death is a legacy of the Dacians, the ancestors of modern Romanians, who believed that death was only a transition to a better life.
The cemetery was created in 1786, in accordance with the decree of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary Joseph II, who forbade the burial of people in the city. The further fate of the city cemetery is unusual - in the 19th century it became a favorite place for walks and romantic dates for Lviv residents, and in the 20th century it became a place of pilgrimage for tourists. People are attracted by a huge (about 400,000) number of sculptures, crypts and tombstones, with inscriptions in Polish, German, Ukrainian, Russian, Hebrew, Latin, Armenian and some other languages of the inhabitants of international Lviv. Many of the monuments are monuments of art, the Lychakiv Cemetery is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The world's largest Islamic cemetery and one of the largest cemeteries in the world. There are about five million graves on an area of 6 km2. Many Muslim prophets are buried here, nearby is the grave of Hazrat Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib, the “Fourth Imam”, a shrine revered by Muslims around the world.
10. The hanging coffins of Sagada, Philippines
According to scientists, the mountain cemetery of "hanging coffins" has existed on the Philippine island of Luzon for more than two thousand years. Representatives of the Sogadi people bury their dead here. Now the Sogadians are Christians converted to the Catholic faith by the Spanish colonialists, but they refuse to bury the dead. Coffins hollowed out from solid logs are prepared during a person’s lifetime, most often he does it himself, and if for some reason he cannot finish this work, his relatives and friends hollow out the coffin. The burial ritual includes a complex procedure for delivering the coffin with the body of the deceased to a cemetery located high in the mountains, on sheer cliffs, and fixing it on a rock. Perhaps this is the most unusual cemetery from our entire list.
11. Sucre's General Cemetery, Bolivia 
The main cemetery of the city of Sucre is the most prestigious in Bolivia, the family of the deceased has to pay $10,000 for the burial. True, with this money the deceased stays for seven years in a special vault, a kind of pantheon, and only after that is moved to the ground, to an ordinary grave. True, not forever, but for the next twenty years, after which the grave is completely removed, there are many who want to be buried in the cemetery in Sucre. Many Bolivian presidents are buried here, including Hilarion Daza, the infamous initiator of the war with Chile, after which Bolivia lost access to the Pacific coast.
scary cemeteries- the largest concentrations of people who have nothing to do with life. What could be more terrifying? And I know what: photographs of these places and real scary stories about cemeteries that diverge as legends around the world.
1. Parisian catacombs, France
On the one hand, it is a tourist attraction, which you can easily get to by visiting the capital of France. On the other hand, there is an open cemetery. Open, I chose this word not by chance, because the skeletons and skulls of the dead are stacked one on top of the other, forming a wall.
In the overall standings, a person can see the remains of more than 6 million people underground. Not at all surprising are the numerous stories of those who saw moving clots of light, heard groans, human voices that spoke in an unfamiliar language. Esotericists claim that this is the most powerful place for the accumulation of otherworldly forces in Europe. I will write a separate, more detailed post about the catacombs, therefore, fix the address of my blog in the memory of your browser.
2. Prague Jewish Cemetery, Czech Republic
One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the world. From the outside, it looks more like a tombstone dump. The burial place of the Jews is located in the Josef quarter in Prague. It is officially recorded that the last burial was carried out here in 1787, but not because then someone forbade burial, but because there was simply nowhere to put the corpses.
The fact is that according to documents, there are 12 thousand graves here, and more than 100 thousand people rest underground. This became possible due to the multi-storey burial, which indicates the location of several deceased at once in one small grave.
The overseers of the cemetery claim that a healthy person cannot be here at night. The plates begin to glow. Scientists claim that it's just the glow of phosphorus, which is released from the remains of the skeletons of people. Ordinary people are sure that these are ghosts. How to explain the groans and cries of pain, which are also heard at night, scientists do not yet know.
3. Recoleta, Argentina
Scary cemeteries are those that inspire horror. But in Buenos Aires, a real scary story about a cemetery rather inspires darkness. The thing is that this place is considered almost the main tourist attraction here. Previously, only rich people of Argentina were buried here, which is noticeable from the monuments, which are valuable pieces of art of their time.
But here also rests the body of the Lady in White, or, according to reports, Rufina Cambacérès. The girl was of extraordinary beauty during her lifetime, but the case shackled her body into a medical coma. Given the little medical knowledge at the time about such a physical condition, Rufina was buried alive. She came to her senses when she was already walled up with a concrete slab, started screaming and calling for help. By the time the coffin with her body was opened, she had already suffocated from lack of air and was buried again.
The cemetery guard, who dreamed of receiving the honor of being buried next to Rufina, walled himself up in the grave next to the girl, and thus was martyred. Many saw the image of Rufina between the monuments of the cemetery, she walks between the graves and suffocates, begging to get her out of the ground. And behind her is the same guard who makes sure that the ghosts also keep order.
4. Bachelor's Grove, USA
Chicago is famous not only for its musicals, but also for the legendary "Bachelor's Cemetery". If you are looking for scary cemeteries, then you should try this place. The guards, who are replaced here almost every month, tell real scary stories about the cemetery.
One day, the Chicago authorities decided to conduct an experiment here. From different sides of the cemetery, they put a new employee and gave him a voice recorder, into which he was ordered to dictate everything he saw, even if it went beyond common sense. How surprised everyone involved in such an experiment was when 4 law enforcement officers who did not know each other told in their notes about what they saw at the same time of the night: about a woman with a child in her arms, about the sound of a passing harnessed carriage, and also about monks who walked around the cemetery three times with candles in their hands, constantly whispering words in an unfamiliar language.
5. Ganges, India
“What does the river have to do with it?”, you rightly notice. But this is the largest cemetery in India, because until today the Hindus have a tradition of burying the bodies of the dead in the water. Varanasi is famous for the most ardent adherence to this ancient tradition.
The corpses of dead people are placed on the shore and set on fire, and everything that has not burned out is pushed to swim along the Ganges. Surprisingly, the river is not closed for swimming of the living. Very often, tourists capture terrible things in the photo: children swim in the river, and unburned parts of the body of the deceased swim past them.
6. Stull Cemetery, Kansas
If you create a top based on the ratings of real scary stories about the cemetery, then the most reliable leader will definitely be the Stull cemetery, which is located in Kansas City. Firstly, the very place chosen for burials causes frost on the skin. Secondly, esotericists claim that this is the most powerful place for the accumulation of the paranormal in the world.
Scientists made special measurements in this area and are sure that Stull is located at the break of energy areas, which is why the clock stops here, no equipment works and a person can get lost between three crosses.
According to the stories, it is here that witchers and sorceresses receive their blessing from the devil, and if you make a conventional sign (which only the elite know), then you can safely go to another world and return from there already “reflashed” person. Inside the cemetery there is a collapsed church, in which a burning light was repeatedly seen, and even the ringing of bells was heard, which, in principle, never existed here.
7. Cemetery for the feebleminded, USA
This strange burial is located in Ohio. It is distinguished by the fact that a clearing with even rows of small tombstones of the same size opens up to the eye. It would seem that there is nothing surprising, because in America it is customary to organize burial places in this way. But if you look at the plates, you can only see the inscription “Sample” and the serial number.
It was the “samples” that were the patients of the State Institute for the Demented in Ohio. Simply put, this is a typical mental hospital in which medical experiments were performed on people. All documents that had data about a person were destroyed when they entered this institution, the patient was given a number and periodically tested new medications on him. With a clear frequency, strange fires occurred at the institute, in which all the results of one or another test disappeared.
But the essence of my story is in the cemetery, which is considered the most terrible in the region of Colombia (and, for sure, in the world). Esotericists claim that the buried people did not die a natural death, and their souls cannot understand what kind of world they are in. Thus, they try to explain the phenomenon that graves migrate. The overseers of the cemetery claim that the buried places are moving: from the moment of burial, they move at a speed that allows them to distinguish the space they have traveled even in a day. Maybe you want to visit this place and witness this unnatural fact?
8. Cemetery behind glass, Italy
Chiesa del Morti, or in our opinion - the Church of the Dead, is the name of the burial place of the monks, which differs significantly from all other classical burials. Its whole essence lies in the fact that the remains of the members of the “Good Death” brotherhood, which still exists at this church in the town of Urbino, in Italy, are located in glass niches.
All that remains of a member of the brotherhood is revealed to the gaze of a person, and at the head is the dressed skeleton of the founder. To say it's creepy is an understatement. 18 mummies, as it were, guard the ideology of the brotherhood, which you can learn more about by visiting this strange institution. They will immediately tell you why these 18 people were honored to be buried in such an unusual way.
9. Hanging Cemetery, Philippines
The Igorot tribe, which is of great importance for the history of the Philippines, believed that it was easier for the soul to reach the sky when the body was above the earth. It was they who invented the coffins with the bodies of the dead to tie rocks to the wall, and leave them like that forever. Over time, the sheer cliffs turned into a whole memorial, on which the remains of the dead Filipinos were located in rows.
It is difficult for a sane person to look at this accumulation of darkness, just as it is difficult to physically be in this place, since the corpses decompose, which entails all the ensuing consequences.
10. Highgate Cemetery, London
But Highgate Cemetery, which is located in the outskirts of London, is perhaps the most legendary and most visited in the world. The thing is that there are a huge number of legends about ghouls, who allegedly previously found refuge here. A huge number of tombstones are marked with the letter V, which, according to legend, means "the resting place of the vampire." People are sure that if you knock on the slab three times and read the inscription from the monument loudly, you will be able to see the ghost of the deceased nearby.
But all this seems like childish horror stories against the backdrop of statistics. It is Highgate London Cemetery that is the most opened in the world. This means that despite the fact that the cemetery is open only for tourist routes and has not been used for its intended purpose for a long time, open fresh graves and skeletal remains dug to the surface of the earth are still found here to this day.
In addition, in the English archives one can find documentary evidence of numerous exhumations, which indicate the presence of skulls with "atypical sizes of fangs in the jaw." This ancient cemetery has a huge number of crypts, because at the time when this place was used for burials, nobles and wealthy people were buried in family crypts. Due to the fact that they are often quite roomy and have a decent area, these tombs have excellent acoustics inside. The cemetery security assures that if you stay overnight and watch what is happening, then no one else will have the desire to walk around this place even during the day ...
Scary cemeteries or just real scary stories about cemeteries - this is a huge layer of facts to study. It is a fact that these are special places that, by their very nature, cannot radiate positivity and positive energy. But how to relate to certain stories is up to you.
Some ancient cemeteries and tombstones can be safely included in the list of the cultural heritage of mankind, because they are unique works of art. On one of the monuments, which testified to the place of burial of monks at a Buddhist monastery, there is an inscription: “We were like you. You will become like us.” Interesting? Then remember the address of my blog, because I try to collect in it all the most mystical and unusual things that we should remember. I will be glad to receive feedback.
