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Happy Halloween! To creep out our readers a little, I’ve assembled a collection of creepy headstone photos. For more, check out this Flickr search.
“Headstones” by Flickr user notratched
“bonaventure cemetery savannah - scary scary grave” by Flickr user ann gav
“Gargoyle in the Field of Corpses” by Flickr user OneofThem (Note “Buried Alive at Boot” on background headstone)
“Zagreb creepy headstone” by Flickr user h-angele
“More Graveyard photos for Lorena Casserola” (1) by Flickr user robstephaustralia
“More Graveyard photos for Lorena Casserola” (2) by Flickr user robstephaustralia
“so remember” by Flickr user tiny_white_lights
“Creepy” by Flickr user NatalieMaynor
“Grave” (Georges Rodenbach) by Flickr user AZAdam
“Weird Grave” by Flickr user JeffersonDavis
“St. Louis Cemetery Grave” by Flickr user Marcy Reiford
“Overgrown graves” by Flickr user markhillary
“Graves” by Flickr user ClownBog
“Ghostly Image” by Flickr user robstephaustralia
“Cemetery Angel” by Flickr user Tracy O
Old graves are always kinda creepy. I’ve never really understood taking pictures of them.
posted by Sara on 10-31-2008 at 1:04 pm
Ugh, the cracked open ones are the worst. It makes you imagine rotting corpses spilling out.
posted by gibson8or on 10-31-2008 at 1:14 pm
Meh…nothing more than the remains of others. Most of those sites just need some funding.
posted by Max on 10-31-2008 at 2:59 pm
creepy as they seem, it’s gorgeous.. at least in that haunting creepy sorta way.
The ’so remember’ headstone is my fave, even though it scares me to shit!
posted by missy on 10-31-2008 at 9:54 pm
I don’t have a picture, but the town inwhich I was stationed in Germany had a WWII memorial at the graveyard. I was a cast of a soldier’s head mounted on a wall. He appeared to be emerging from the wall.
posted by gus on 11-1-2008 at 9:33 am
How about the not so creepy? I was in a local cemetery where the headstones were decorated to reflect the present season. I took a couple of pics too. Where can I post those pics?
posted by peter on 11-1-2008 at 12:06 pm
Find the part of your local graveyard that was used in 1918 - 1919. It will probably cover a lot of real estate, and the markers will be pretty shabby. The Spanish flu killed one million people per month for 25 months. Stone cutters, grave diggers, and the like went on overtime. (At least the ones who didn’t die.)
One more weird factoid: Back then the idea of city parks hadn’t caught on. Graveyards were close enough, and people used to go there for Sunday picnics.
Old Tom
(Or maybe Weird Tom :)
posted by Old Tom on 11-1-2008 at 2:25 pm
@peter - perhaps Flickr would be a good place to post cheery graves?
posted by Chris Higgins on 11-2-2008 at 11:12 pm
I don’t find those creepy at all - mostly sad. Especially the ones that haven’t been cared for, or worse, vandalized. (I mean, building a little fort out of busted-off headstones?)
posted by Mel on 11-3-2008 at 9:54 pm
Ever been to the “FindAGrave” site? (Just add “dot com”)
You can search for photos of the graves (& memorials) of famous & non-famous persons. There is even a place for leaving “virtual flowers” and a “note”.
A little creepy, but kinda cool.
posted by Nerak on 11-4-2008 at 2:50 pm
It is sad to see some of those works of art not being cared for.
Great post!!
posted by headstones on 11-22-2008 at 10:43 am
It is sad to see some of those works of art have not been cared for.
posted by headstones on 11-22-2008 at 10:44 am