Graveyards at night.

smashey

Recently, I paid the local graveyard a visit. It was 10.30pm at night and very peaceful. (The reasons why don't matter). The reaction to this has been great. A lot of people have said that they would never visit such places after dark. Where do you all stand on this? Personally, I can't see what the big fuss is.

Because graveyards are damned spooky places.

Bottle_of_Smoke

They are lovely places, watch out for junkies though.

6th

Was it open or did you have to jump a wall or gate. What do you mean by "the reaction was great"? Is it that you like people thinking you are a 'crazy guy' or 'hardcore'?

Btw, of course people are gonna ask what the reason is so it does matter - steeling flowers to wooh a girl in work?!

Graveyards at night ... pah .... have you not heard of the paranormal forum?!

6th

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote:

They are lovely places, watch out for junkies though.

And badgers! .... or worse junky badgers!

smashey

6th wrote:

Was it open or did you have to jump a wall or gate. What do you mean by "the reaction was great"? Is it that you like people thinking you are a 'crazy guy' or 'hardcore'?

Btw, of course people are gonna ask what the reason is so it does matter - steeling flowers to wooh a girl in work?!

Graveyards at night ... pah .... have you not heard of the paranormal forum?!

I just wanted to visit a grave.

KdjaCL

Cant see how a load of dead people could be spooky or anything really. Just a field with nice rocks and dead people.

have you not heard of the paranormal forum?!

heheheh the Most Haunted of the internet, always good for a chuckle.


kdjac

6th

We aim to please

I'd rather spend a night in a graveyard than on the streets of dublin.

Ruu_Old

I blame the boogie man..that or the undertaker and watching WWE too much.

Nature Boy

I wonder what it would be like to have sex in a graveyard at night...

6th

Nature Boy .... you just wonder what it would be like to have sex, full stop.



Sorry dude, couldnt help it.

Alter-Ego

6th wrote:

And badgers! .... or worse junky badgers!

Or My Chemical Romance.


Meant to go camping in a really old graveyard near me in the middle of nowhere with the ruins of a church and stuff last summer.

Nobody bothered buying a tent tho

christophicus

6th wrote:

Nature Boy .... you just wonder what it would be like to have sex, full stop.



Sorry dude, couldnt help it.

OOOooo Burn!!!

Terry

Nature Boy wrote:

I wonder what it would be like to have sex in a graveyard at night...

pretty much the same as having sex anywhere outside at night (if my memories from 15 or so years ago are anything to go by).

Nature Boy

6th wrote:

Nature Boy .... you just wonder what it would be like to have sex, full stop.


Sorry dude, couldnt help it.

I'll have you know that I'm having sex right now.
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christophicus

Lol You guys are Crazzzzzzzyyyyyy

Ruu_Old

Crazy? Don't mind if I do!
http://www.geocities.com/invictusdomini/crazy_lookingthroughdoor.gif

Nature Boy

That link doesn't work! How crazy is that??

6th

Nature Boy wrote:

I'll have you know that I'm having sex right now.
ffmm sld s '\;w sorrty i can;t raelly typpe rightnow i hav;e to goooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh [pl2[23,lo

Actually, how is yore ma these days?

iguana

Are graveyards at night not just home to bush-drinking teenagers?

smashey

Not the one I was in. Maybe it is a bit rural.

muffler

smashey wrote:

I just wanted to visit a grave.

This grave wouldnt be in that graveyard near the border by any chance? You know the one with the cache?

smashey

muffler wrote:

This grave wouldnt be in that graveyard near the border by any chance? You know the one with the cache?

The Donegal Gardai got it and planted it somewhere near Ardara.

Dave!

creepy as f*ck.

Terry

iguana wrote:

Are graveyards at night not just home to bush-drinking teenagers?

holy crap. someone who doesn't refer to it as "knacker drinking".
We used to call it "ditch drinking".
Anyway, to answer your question, yes they are. which can lead to drunken teenage fumbling.

Black Swan

smashey wrote:

Recently, I paid the local graveyard a visit. It was 10.30pm at night and very peaceful. (The reasons why don't matter).

Sounds like you had a real RIP!

DarkJager

You've just gotta love a bit of graveyard sex.....all bumpin n grindin.....never knowing if that hand that has just grabbed your arse is your girlfriends or a zombie..... Of course there are the other "graveyard sex types". Yes indeed people they are called Necrophiliacs and like nothing better than to crack open a cold one.........:eek:

Giblet

I played hide and seek in a grave yard when I was younger. I stepped in a large hole and tripped, I nearly shat myself.

InFront

I don't really mind graveyards, they're good for reminding you of your mortality. I really can't understand why someone would get up to anything in there though.

Terry

You've never been drunk/ stoned.

simu

They're well gothic, graveyards. But now that I'm an old fogey myself (turned 53 last week) I stay in by the fire.

monkeyfudge

Graveyards are probably the least haunted places on Earth.

If you were a ghost would you hang around your own rotting corpse for all eternity or would you do something fun like go to the zoo and look at the monkeys when they think no one is watching them?

Terry

Do you often see dead people?

monkeyfudge

Terry wrote:

Do you often see dead people?

Only if I bring a shovel with me on a trip to the graveyard.

Terry

I was referring to your frequent overnight stays in the zoo.

monkeyfudge

I'm usually too busy masturbating to notice.

I'm scared of the dark, I don't think I'd like to be *anywhere* isolated on my own in the dark nevermind a graveyard

Degsy

Isnt there a necrophilia forum you could go to?

Sleepy

I had a friend who used to get quite emotional about another friend of hers who'd passed away very young when she'd a few and ended up on midnight visits to his grave a number of times. I'd agree with the OP, it's actually incredibly peaceful in a graveyard at night.

Going Demented

Always took the short cut through the graveyard home after nightclubs. Wouldn't go through there on my own though, had to be someone with me. (But i would be more afraid of any scumbags in there drinking, not the dead) And then i felt awful if i was a little bit wobbly and accidently stepped on someones grave (narrow part where you have to walk the kerb, no path). My brother used to go in and sleep on the mams grave, usually he was drunk and stated he was off to visit his mother. There was no stopping him. Different strokes for different folks. Wouldn't think it was a big deal visiting a grave at whatever time.

Tar.Aldarion

I'm well gothic and only 52 yet, so I do visit graveyards at night.

gandalf

Nature Boy wrote:

I'll have you know that I'm having sex right now.
ffmm sld s '\;w sorrty i can;t raelly typpe rightnow i hav;e to goooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh [pl2[23,lo

Don't forget the wipe the keyboard afterwards....

Terry

Going Demented wrote:

Always took the short cut through the graveyard home after nightclubs. Wouldn't go through there on my own though, had to be someone with me. (But i would be more afraid of any scumbags in there drinking, not the dead) And then i felt awful if i was a little bit wobbly and accidently stepped on someones grave (narrow part where you have to walk the kerb, no path). My brother used to go in and sleep on the mams grave, usually he was drunk and stated he was off to visit his mother. There was no stopping him. Different strokes for different folks. Wouldn't think it was a big deal visiting a grave at whatever time.

In regards to your comment about walking over peoples graves; this is something that has puzzled me for a while.
Perhaps aome of our american friends here can help me out with this.
As a child, I was always told to respect the dead and not to walk on graves. I think this is something all Irish people are taught and it has certainly stuck with me. I would never walk on someones grave out of respect for that person. I have seen some American tv shows (including documentaries) where graves are not fully surrounded and people just walk up to the headstone and place flowers on it. Is this a common thing in the u.s.? Does it happen elsewhere in the world, or do the majority of other nations also do as we do?

Nature Boy

gandalf wrote:

Don't forget the wipe the keyboard afterwards....

Ah, yes, I was wondering why it is so sticky today!

Steyr

DarkJager wrote:

Of course there are the other "graveyard sex types". Yes indeed people they are called Necrophiliacs and like nothing better than to crack open a cold one.........:eek:

Dead people never say No!:eek:

Red Hand

Terry wrote:

In regards to your comment about walking over peoples graves; this is something that has puzzled me for a while.
Perhaps aome of our american friends here can help me out with this.
As a child, I was always told to respect the dead and not to walk on graves. I think this is something all Irish people are taught and it has certainly stuck with me. I would never walk on someones grave out of respect for that person. I have seen some American tv shows (including documentaries) where graves are not fully surrounded and people just walk up to the headstone and place flowers on it. Is this a common thing in the u.s.? Does it happen elsewhere in the world, or do the majority of other nations also do as we do?

I hear they bury them standing up over there.:eek:

I've wondered that, too. I don't know what the story is. I guess that a sort of plaque on the ground is what you get if a person is cremated?

If you think about it, people have died literally everywhere for last couple of thousand years. Might be time for us all to walk on stilts so that we don't inadvertently walk on someone's grave.:)

Nevyn

It is an offense to be in a graveyard after sundown and if you are in there na the the gates are locked it is tresspassing.

Oh and sex on a grave of a fallen warrior used to be a tradition, as ig you got pregant apprently the soul of the warrior would be reborn in that child.

tbh

When I was about 18, me and my girlfriend hid out in those little houses (not sure what they are called) in Pere Lachesse, where Jim Morrison is buried so we could spend the night at his grave (we were MAD weren't we :rolleyes: ) and lots of other people had the same idea. Everyone just made their way silently through the graves to one spot, eerie I tells ya.

Terry

Ahh, the old Jim morrison grave pilgrimage.
Did you write your name on his grave?

Wasn't that moved to america a few years back? I remember something about a 30 year lease on the plot.

Exit

Terry wrote:

In regards to your comment about walking over peoples graves; this is something that has puzzled me for a while.
Perhaps aome of our american friends here can help me out with this.
As a child, I was always told to respect the dead and not to walk on graves. I think this is something all Irish people are taught and it has certainly stuck with me. I would never walk on someones grave out of respect for that person. I have seen some American tv shows (including documentaries) where graves are not fully surrounded and people just walk up to the headstone and place flowers on it. Is this a common thing in the u.s.? Does it happen elsewhere in the world, or do the majority of other nations also do as we do?

I was reading through this thread and was thinking of starting a new one about walking on graves, but then I see you've already posted this.

I've always grown up believing it's wrong to walk on a grave, so I've found it a little unsettling to be walking through a couple of Canadian graveyards, and not knowing exactly where the graves are. As you said, the graves aren't marked out in a rectangle, just a headstone. It was particularly weird in a 100+ year old graveyard as the bodies were buried all over the place rather than in a row like other graveyards.

As a child, I always got weirded out when going with my ma to visit her parents' graves. She wouldn't walk on them per se, but she'd have no problem stepping on them to place flowers and whatnot.

Is it a common thing for people to follow this 'rule' or is it not a big deal?

Faith

I've been in a graveyard after dark a few times, in fact I was standing in the most haunted place in the UK in the dark several times. But I was on a ghost tour and with a bunch of people.

If I was going through a graveyard at night, I'd be scared of the alive people, not the dead ones.