Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer: D-Day’s First American Cemetery
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…