22 Haunting Cemeteries That Will Scare You to Death

Savannah’s Bonaventure Cemetery is known for its striking monuments to the dead. Yet there is one haunting headstone that stops visitors in their tracks. Don’t take a gift from Little Gracie’s grave … or her life-like statue might cry tears of blood. READ MORE 

These awe-inspiring burial grounds belong on your bucket list. From witches and vampires to voodoo priestesses and phantom lights, step inside the world’s most haunted cemeteries. READ MORE 

They say her spirit dances past the cemetery at night, dressed entirely in white. For over 80 years, Chicago has been haunted by Resurrection Mary, a troubled spirit in a flowing white dress who wanders the grounds of Resurrection Cemetery. READ MORE

They say her spirit dances past the cemetery at night, dressed entirely in white. For over 80 years, Chicago has been haunted by Resurrection Mary, a troubled spirit in a flowing white dress who wanders the grounds of Resurrection Cemetery. READ MORE

Though the cemetery is open daily to the public from 7:00 A.M. to sunset, Halloween is Lone Fir’s busiest time of year, when the cemetery hosts the popular “Tour of Untimely Departures”, featuring the graveyard’s most famous residents, including James and Elizabeth Stephens. Nearly 1,000 people queue up outside for a chance to meet them, and to see their undying love, carved into stone, for themselves each year. READ MORE

Along the edge of this abandoned Missouri graveyard roams the restless soul of Billy Cook, an executed spree killer from 1950 buried just outside the cemetery grounds. READ MORE

At the appointed hour, a hidden, secret staircase somewhere in the cemetery becomes unsealed; the stairs appear to lead down into a grave, but they’re actually a direct passage to the underworld. And once you go down them … you’ll never come back. READ MORE 

Outside Chicago lies an abandoned graveyard believed to be the most haunted place in the region. Step inside Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery, a desolate burial ground that’s home to floating orbs of light, phantom farmhouses, and a two-headed apparition. READ MORE

Haunting this grand cemetery in Buenos Aires are reports of a spectral watchman and the ghastly legend of a poor soul being buried alive. READ MORE

Don’t go near the Black Angel statue of Iowa City’s Oakland Cemetery, a mournful bronze monument to tragedy that’s said to bring death to anyone who touches it. READ MORE

Haunting Richmond’s historic Hollywood Cemetery are eerie tales of anguished soldiers, an eternal watch dog, and one hideous vampire with jagged teeth and hanging skin. READ MORE

They say she drifts among the tombstones in her diaphanous gown, searching for her dead son. Connecticut’s Union Cemetery has been called one of the most haunted burial grounds in the United States, and is the alleged home of a bevy of spirits—including the famed White Lady. READ MORE

This modest chapel from the Middle Ages holds a dark secret – the skeletal remains of 40,000 souls arranged in ghoulish sculpture. Welcome to Sedlec Ossuary, Kutná Hora’s Church of Bones.

Every headstone tells a tale – and these little-known sites of eternal slumber embody the weirdest and most wonderful. From Père Lachaise in Paris to Brooklyn’s Evergreens Cemetery, join us as we unearth the stories behind the stones. READ MORE

Boston’s long and troubled history is memorialized in the acres of burial grounds along its streets, which inter some of the most important figures of American history. Tour the headstones in these archival photos just released from the Boston Public Library.

Unearth the eerie history of Hart Island, a massive island cemetery off the coast of New York City where over one million souls are entombed in unmarked graves. READ MORE 

These writers, artists, musicians–and even a princess–were famous in life, but they still draw crowds even after their deaths. Take a tour of the resting places of Jules Verne, Princess Diana, and more without disturbing their peace. READ MORE

Behind a rusted gate in south London lie the remains of some 15,000 lost souls. Step inside the Cross Bones Graveyard, a mass burial ground for prostitutes, beggars, and thieves. READ MORE

From a playground in Philadelphia to a bustling square in Paris, pedestrians stroll over these long-lost burial grounds daily … unaware of what lies beneath. READ MORE

In 1918, over 50 performers died in an Illinois train wreck while en route to their next performance. Today, they’re buried in Showmen’s Rest, a quiet cemetery outside Chicago that contains the remains of clowns, trapeze artists, strongmen, and acrobats. READ MORE

Ornate domes and stone minarets rise out of the rocky landscape. Wooden yurt skeletons intermingle with overgrown brush. Journey to the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, where eerie monuments to the deceased line the hills. READ MORE

From headless legends and Southern Gothic splendor to the ghosts of Old Hollywood, these guided cemetery tours are sure to send shivers down your spine. READ MORE