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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.

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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.

[Deleted User]

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:

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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.

fastrac

a guy near me lost his brother suddenly and was distraught. he took his brothers new expensive car to the graveyard aweek later and spent some time alone at the grave. on returning to the car he sat wondering why this had happened to his brother . when he turned on the key he heard YOULL NEVER KNOW in a strange voice. totally freaked out he returned home and told the story to the brothers son who went to the car and turned the key and heard the onboard computer inform him FUEL LEVEL LOW. Drink was involved

lemon_of_old

Grew up in the sticks across the road from a graveyard. Every Hallowe'en night at midnight my dad used to take it upon himself to bring us kids down and walk us around it. He'd bring a glass of whiskey to put on the headstone of the fathers grave out of "respect", we'd wander around the place for a while trying to frighten one another, he'd down the whiskey on the sly, and then when we came back to the grave, he'd freak us out, tell us that our grandfathers ghost was up and running around the place drinking whiskey. Happened every year without fail, and we still didn't cop on. I like graveyards. They're very peaceful and a visit always makes me aware that my own petty troubles aren't that important in the long run.

Gone West

Has anyone ever been in the graveyard in NUIM after dark?
Its on the south campus, and it has a long tunnel-like entrance, with trees on either side joining to make an arc.

There is a crypt, etc. Fairly creepy.

Mr. Presentable

Going Demented wrote:

My brother used to go in and sleep on the mams grave,

I wish I could visit my mam's grave

OfflerCrocGod

Thaedydal wrote:

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.

Have you experimented?

Wertz

Nature Boy wrote:

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

I'm pretty sure there is legislation against necrophilia in this country but sure once you don't get caught, then whatever floats yer boat I suppose...

Terry

nipplenuts wrote:

I wish I could visit my mam's grave

It's a peaceful experience and, even for the non-religious, can be quite spiritual.
I go once every couple of weeks and find it theraputic.

Backtoblack

A few of us slept at a grave yard once, years ago in Donegal..
Was a really beautiful graveyard, old & unkempt, not the most comfortable though I will add.
It was a good ten years ago so I don't think there were any junkies/grave robbers/drunks there.

Femelade

When i was in college...the short cut to the shop/college/pub/niteclub from our house was through a graveyard, so i spent many a drunken night trying to find my way out the other side of it to my house.

admiralofthefleet

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote:

They are lovely places, watch out for junkies though.

exactly, they are grand any time of the day, but you need to look out for the junkies and teenagers after dark, i used to visit my fathers grave at after hours times and would see lots of junkies being junkies and teenage gangs drinking.