History gets things wrong all the time. Sometimes it’s an honest mistake, a name misspelled in a record, a place misidentified in a report. Other times, those small errors snowball …
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Cemeteries
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In the picturesque town of Hendersonville, North Carolina, the historic Oakdale Cemetery holds a tomb unlike any other. And while from a distance this cemetery looks like your typical small …
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Alone in the Crypt While photographing the mausoleums in Mount Olivet Cemetery, I stopped at the Clement mausoleum. Something felt off. There was space for six, yet only one name …
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What do World War I, anti-immigrant hysteria, and a vampire have in common? As strange as it sounds, they all converge in a forgotten cemetery in Park Hills, Missouri. This …
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If you’ve ever felt drawn to the quiet beauty of a cemetery, you’re not alone. There’s even a term for people like us—taphophiles—those fascinated by cemeteries, funerals, and gravestones. In …
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I received a request to research Mouth Cemetery, and I’m not going to lie, I got a little excited because what a name for a cemetery! Turns out the name …
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While researching local haunted places to write about, I kept finding references to people being buried in the Poor Farm Cemetery in Roy, Utah. The strange part was that I’m …
Tucked away inside a neighborhood in Avondale, Arizona, Goodyear Farms Cemetery holds the graves of countless workers who helped build this community. The small wooden crosses that once marked them …
Just a few feet from the Utah-Wyoming border, on the North Slope of the Uinta Mountains, lies Suicide Park. Within it sits a small, eerie burial ground — Suicide Park …
I’ve always been drawn to the cemeteries of New England. Maybe it’s because they’re some of the oldest in the country, or maybe it’s the headstone designs—skulls, cherubs, and hourglasses—that …
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