Killed by a Circus Clown
Sounds like everyone’s worst nightmare, right? Unfortunately for a 13-year-old boy living in San Francisco in 1854, it was reality. On the evening of January 10, 1854, there was a…
Sounds like everyone’s worst nightmare, right? Unfortunately for a 13-year-old boy living in San Francisco in 1854, it was reality. On the evening of January 10, 1854, there was a…
While photographing the mausoleums in Mount Olivet Cemetery, I noticed that the Clement mausoleum only seems to have one inhabitant. While there is room six, only a single person appears…
Situated southeast of downtown Denver sits a large park that on any given summer day is full of people basking in the sun, jogging, or playing with their dogs. It…
Tucked away inside a neighborhood in Avondale, Arizona lies a cemetery, full of mostly anonymous graves. The small wooden crosses long since disintegrated in the desert heat. Rows and rows…
What does the beginning of WWI, anti-immigrant sentiment, and a vampire have in common? Oddly enough, a small dilapidated cemetery located in Park Hills, Missouri. Due to decades of neglect…
taphophile (plural taphophiles) A person who is interested in cemeteries, funerals and gravestones If you haven’t noticed by now, I LOVE CEMETERIES! I think they are some of the most…
Located on the North Slope of the Uinta Mountains just a few feet from the Utah – Wyoming border in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest is an area called Suicide Park. And…
Mouth Cemetery – The Dead History 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…
While researching local haunted places to write about I kept finding references to people being buried in the Poor Farm Cemetery. The strange part was that I’m very familiar with…
I’ve always been drawn to the cemeteries of New England. Mostly because they’re among some of the oldest in the United States, and also I love the style of headstones…