Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries

Hancock Pond, Maine, US

Pet Sematary Filming Sites

The house and graveyard used in the horror movie "Pet Sematary"

One of the many film adaptations of Stephen King’s work, the 1989 film "Pet Sematary" focuses on a father who loses his two-year-old child, and then attempts to bring him back to life by burying... »

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Town of Bucksport, Maine, US

Cursed Memorial of Colonel Buck

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it

During the early years of Bucksport, ME, its founder, Colonel Jonathan Buck, had a witch executed, as they did in that time. Before she died at the bad end of a hangman’s noose, she cursed Buck to... »

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Madise, Estonia

Madise's Lost Cemetary

Tombstones buried in overgrown grass mark the deceased of this abandoned graveyard.

If you ever find yourself driving from Paldiski to Madise in Estonia’s Harju County, consider scoping out the abandoned graveyard found on the right side of the road just before entering the... »

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Samarqand, Uzbekistan

Shah-i-Zinda Necropolis

The Avenue of Mausolea, a series of grand palatial tombs

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Town of Kingston, New Hampshire, US

Betty and Barney Hill Graves

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction

On the night of September 19th and on into the early morning in 1961, husband and wife Barney and Betty Hill were traveling South on Route 3 to their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after... »

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Town of Milford, New Hampshire, US

Caroline Cutter Headstone

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge

In Milford, New Hampshire is a gravestone that just won’t shut up. It belongs to one Caroline Cutter, who died in the mid-1800s. It’s simple, white, and rectangular, and is crammed with about 150... »

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Eyam, United Kingdom

Eyam

Known as "The Plague Village" Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the Black Death from spreading

A small Anglo-Saxon village nestled in the hills of Derbyshire, Eyam has become known as the 'plague village' due to a decision made by the whole village during an outbreak of the Black Death in... »

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Town of Manchester, Maine, US

Devil’s Footprint

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself

In this little myth, a crew of construction workers from some vague time period were engaged in building a road when they came upon a boulder that proved to be immovable by natural means. One of... »

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Town of Leicester, Massachusetts, US

Spider Gates Cemetery

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends

Friends Cemetery is a small private Quaker cemetery in an idyllic, secluded woodland at the south end of the Kettle Brook Reservoir area of Worcester/Leicester. Dubbed Spider Gates Cemetery due to... »

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New Haven, Connecticut, US

Grave of Midnight Mary

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend

In life, she was known by the name Mary E. Hart, but today most people in New Haven, CT, know her as Midnight Mary. The story goes that Mary was accidentally buried alive after a swoon. One of her... »

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