BB 10/28/15

Good morning Phoenix family and friends! It’s time for another edition of Wacky Wednesday – this is going to be a Wacky Haunted Hump Day Wednesday, as it’s the last Wednesday before Halloween.

Ask yourself this question: Are the walls around a haunted cemetery to keep the living out or the dead in? Presenting for your scary enjoyment, a list of the top 10 most haunted cemeteries in the US. Have you visited any of them? If so, let us hear about it. This is a long read, but if you like spooky stories and Halloween, bear with me – it’s worth it.

1. St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans LA: Considered by locals, visitors and paranormal investigators worldwide as actually the most haunted cemetery in the world and the No. # 1 haunted Cemetery in all the United States. Multiple ghosts are said to haunt this famous New Orleans cemetery. You can also visit the haunted tomb of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau. Some visitors have heard weeping and groaning from inside the crypts, while many have seen a range of spectral phenomena, ranging from unusual mists to fully fledged transparent figures. An old male face is reputed to manifest on the walls of one particular tomb, but one ghost dominates all others: The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

2. Stull Cemetery, Kansas: It's infamous nicknames are The Seven Lost Gates of Hell, The Cemetery of the Damned, Satan's Burial Ground and most notably The Seventh Gate to Hell. Stull cemetery is often said to be where Satan the Devil himself holds court with his lost worshippers. The devil's only half human haunted child is reported to be buried here. The town of Stull is located about ten miles west of Lawrence, Kansas in the northeast part of the state. It can be found by traveling west on Route 40 and then traveling straight west to Stull. The town can be found on the northwestern edge of Clinton Lake and close to the Clinton State Park. Visitors to the cemetery are advised to go there at their own risk. One of the strangest stories about Stull supposedly appeared in Time magazine in either 1993 or 1995 (depending on the version you hear). This story claims that Pope John Paul II allegedly ordered his private plane to fly around eastern Kansas while on his way to a public appearance in Colorado. The reason for this, the story claims, was that the Pope did not want to fly over “unholy ground”.

3. Western Burial Ground, Westminster Presbyterian Churchyard, Baltimore Maryland: It is called the Old Western Burial Ground and it holds the remains of people like Edgar Allan Poe, the son of Francis Scott Key, the grandfather of President James Buchanan, five former mayors of Baltimore and fifteen generals from the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. A very old ghost story about the cemetery tells that this is where a skull known as the screaming skull of Cambridge, Maryland is buried. The haunted skull is said to be of a murdered minister. The Skull screams all night and day. That's why they hey buried the skull bound and gagged in a block of cement. To hear it scream they say will drive you mad! Visitors to the cemetery are advised to go there at their own risk.

4. Garden of Hope Cemetery, Gautier, Mississippi: A lone tomb dating back to the late 1970's. Along the far side of the cemetery, there is one Haunted New Orleans style tomb, buried in it or mother, father and five children all of whom were murdered one rainy night. It has been reported that these murdered children have been seen playing among the tombstones. A few ghost Photos of this haunted Mississippi Cemetery from Ghost investigators have shown many orbs. and a few have captured what they call the red Cemetery ghost light. This light is said to hover over the tombs then fly high into the sky then dive down fast and chase you from the graveyard if you dare enter it at night.

5. Resurrection Cemetery, Chicago: The ghost of the girl who has come to be known as "Resurrection Mary" or Bloody Mary Smith is one of the most famous ghost stories and urban legends of Haunted Chicagoland. She is believed to have been killed along Archer Avenue (near the cemetery) after leaving a funeral wake of her lover, Mother brother, or father, no one’s quite sure, one cold rainy night. She was buried with no funeral mass or last words in Resurrection Cemetery. Bloody Mary tours the highway always hitchhiking, dressed in black and has spent the last 90 years traveling the Haunted Chicago roadways and asking haunted truck drivers and lone people to drop her off at the cemetery gates, only to disappear before their eyes. A un dead vampire is said to be buried here with all his vast treasure. Locals say he was just too old; this vampire gave up on being undead. One tale tells he still can be heard scratching from deep in the earth or his mumbled cries heard as the Sun sets. His Vampire Bride is said to be buried here to but she is now just a ghost and her body searches for her lost head. An old story tells that she was destroyed and beheaded and her head was buried in another spot far from her body. the body can be seen roaming the cemetery and her head can be heard screaming" Please, Please, help me, help me!"

6. Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Exeter, Rhode Island: A young girl, Mercy Brown, died on January 18, 1892. Her father, said she visited him each night after that saying she was hungry. A month later he dug up her body after many strange hauntings and occurrences happened to him, and in his madness thinking that she had become a living vampire or a hungry ghost. With local officials and friends and family at his side to help, they removed her body from its haunted grave and the local medical doctor drained her organs of the remaining blood at her father’s insistence. Many people over the years have said that this violation of her body and grave has caused Mercy to appear, and haunt in the graveyard at all hours of the day and night. Many witnesses report seeing strange blue lights moving in the graveyard near her grave. And that Mercy appears dressed in a torn black dress disheveled and dirty. Recent EVP of a woman's voice has been heard to say clearly, “Please Leave me to now, rest in peace!"

7. Bachelors Grove Cemetery, Chicago IL: There are many haunted ghost Bachelors Grove Cemetery stories and eerie tales and legends told about this abandoned cemetery than any other place in the Chicago. It is located on the edge of the Rubio Woods Forest Preserve, near the suburb of Midlothian, Illinois. This haunted cemetery is said to be filled with ghosts. Many tales of paranormal reports of strange phenomena have been collected about the place. but now it is abandoned and in ruin, but still very haunted by the living and the dead.

8. Greenwood Cemetery, Decatur, IL: Long believed to be one of the most haunted spots in downstate Illinois (if not the Haunted Midwest), Greenwood Cemetery is filled with legends and stories of ghosts and haunted paranormal experiences that they say defy explanation. Among them are the ghost of a young small boy who has been seen walking among the graves. Many investigators say he limps and is wearing torn, too big for him, overalls. At times he is very angry and he will throw things at you. Some say he will run up to you and try to knock you down. One well known writer, Paranormal Investigator states, he and his wife were both punched very hard by him twice, and has the photo of a ghost fist mark on his face. Michael is what he is called. Many a person tells of the times they say Michael has appeared near the cemetery gates and flung rocks at passing cars. And many drivers they have the shattered windshields to prove it.

9. Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Ft. Lauderdale FL: The grave of the "Greatest Boxing Champion" to ever live, Rocky Marciano and his wife Barbara are here, and many orbs and ghost photos of him and his lovely wife's ghost have often been seen here, by visitors and ghost hunters alike. Many ghost are seen daily haunting the tall mausoleum. EVP's have recorded voices saying, “leave me alone." to " Please, come back."

10. Salem Cemetery, Hendrysburg, OH: Salem Cemetery is also known as Salem Church and Salem Methodist Episcopal Cemetery. The Salem Methodist Episcopal Church was located across the road from the cemetery until it burned down in the 1960s. There are lots of old gravestones, and it is growing since it is still an active cemetery. It is extremely well taken care of by the Kirkwood Township Trustees. Salem Cemetery is supposedly haunted by the ghost of Louiza Catharine Fox, the first person murdered in Kirkwood Township. She is buried at Salem Cemetery; her gravestone is located at the bottom of the hill in the older section of the cemetery near a creepy old tree. Visitors to the cemetery are advised to go there at their own risk.

If you read all the way to the end, I bow to your awesomeness! Have a fangtastic day my friends!

<3 Brock V"""V