People in rural areas, small towns in the middle of nowhere often get a false sense of security from outside horrors like the Coronavirus. I spend a … [Read more...] about Small towns and the Coronavirus: Before we become ghosts … lessons on dying learned from a country graveyard
Death
My Death
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning that the lesson today is how to die. Bob Geldof Dying is something we all face, whether we think … [Read more...] about My Death
A return to Bardstown, Kentucky: Spending the night in a cell at the Jailer’s Inn, a haunted jail in a town known around the world for its ghosts
The only troubling sound I heard the night I spent in the Jailer’s Inn in Bardstown, Kentucky was the sound of a cell door closing. There are two … [Read more...] about A return to Bardstown, Kentucky: Spending the night in a cell at the Jailer’s Inn, a haunted jail in a town known around the world for its ghosts
Cemetery Symbolism: The Meaning of Memento Mori and a Puritan reminder of your mortality
Memento Mori, headstone in the Old Burial Ground, Concord, MA, c. 1759. Click here for more tombstone images "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a … [Read more...] about Cemetery Symbolism: The Meaning of Memento Mori and a Puritan reminder of your mortality
A Traditional Halloween: If it’s Samhain you’re looking for, ditch October 31
Pagans and Christians don't agree on a lot. Pagans complain that Christianity is all show and no substance. One point of contention often leveled at … [Read more...] about A Traditional Halloween: If it’s Samhain you’re looking for, ditch October 31
Haunted Graveyards: The ghosts of Williamsburg, Illinois and Ridge Cemetery
Ridge Cemetery on Williamsburg Hill, Shelby county, Illinois. To view more images, click here "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till … [Read more...] about Haunted Graveyards: The ghosts of Williamsburg, Illinois and Ridge Cemetery
Hoppy Rebstock, the heartbeat in the tombstone and the joys of school picnics
"I foamed -- I raved -- I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and … [Read more...] about Hoppy Rebstock, the heartbeat in the tombstone and the joys of school picnics
A warlock’s curse? The ghosts of Salem’s Howard Street Burying Ground
Salem's Howard Street Burying Ground with the Old Jail in the Background Giles Corey married three times, the last time when he was pushing eighty … [Read more...] about A warlock’s curse? The ghosts of Salem’s Howard Street Burying Ground
Buried Alive! A Southern Gothic Ghost Story from Edisto Island, South Carolina’s Low Country
Top: Legare Mausoleum, Graveyard of the Edisto Presbyterian Church, c. 1831. Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina Diphtheria, now almost … [Read more...] about Buried Alive! A Southern Gothic Ghost Story from Edisto Island, South Carolina’s Low Country
Newbury Massachusetts and the Pierce Tomb: Dancing with the dead on Old Burial Hill
The Pierce Tomb, Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts. I love the dead before they're cold, Their blueing flesh for me to hold. Cadaver eyes … [Read more...] about Newbury Massachusetts and the Pierce Tomb: Dancing with the dead on Old Burial Hill
Tales of Old Stony Brook II: Of William Sidney Mount, spirits and Spiritualism
The Hawkins Mount House. In Richard Matheson's classic novel from the 1970s, Hell House, a team of investigators are sent to spend a week in a … [Read more...] about Tales of Old Stony Brook II: Of William Sidney Mount, spirits and Spiritualism
The Memorial Cemetery of St. John’s Church, Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Another Kind of Planting Fields
The Chapel at the Memorial Cemetery of St. Johns Church "You can spare me the gory details," Miss Bronwen said, pulling her hat down over her ears as … [Read more...] about The Memorial Cemetery of St. John’s Church, Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Another Kind of Planting Fields
