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Home > Top 10 Haunted Cemetaries in the USA

Top 10 Haunted Cemetaries in the USA


 

1. St. Louis Cemetery - New Orleans, Louisiana
Embark on a journey through the "City of the Dead" with a cemetery tour. Walk amongst the dead as you tour the St. Louis Cemetery home to voodoo queens and other societies that lay in this above ground burial system.  

2.
Stull Cemetery - Kansas
Stull Cemetery, and the abandoned church that rests next to it, is located in the tiny, nearly forgotten Kansas town of Stull.For years, stories of witchcraft, ghosts and supernatural happenings have surrounded the old graveyard. It is a place that some claim is one of the "seven gateways to hell."

3.
Resurrection Cemetery - Chicago, IL
Resurrection Cemetery is a large Catholic cemetery in the southwest suburbs, adjacent to Bethania on Archer Avenue. The older sections have stones dating back to the 1890s. The ghost of the girl who has come to be known as "Resurrection Mary" or Bloody Mary Smith is one of the most famous ghost stories and urban legends of Haunted Chicagoland.   
 

4.  Westminster Presbyterian Churchyard - Baltimore, MD
Old Western Burial Ground holds the remains of people like Edgar Allan Poe, the son of Francis Scott Key, the grandfather of President James Buchanan, five former mayors of Baltimore and fifteen generals from the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.Guided tours of the subterranean cemetery are available on Sunday afternoons.
 
5. Garden of Hope Cemetery - Gautier, MS
Along the far side of the cemetery, a family is buried. This family was murdered one stormy night. It has been reported that these murdered children have been seen playing among the tombstones. There is another story of a man who climbs out of his grave, only to steal the flowers from other graves to grace his own. 
  

 
6. Salem Cemetery - Hendrysberg, OH.
The ghost of Kirkwood Township's first murdered citizen haunts this cemetery, Louiza Fox. She has been seen crying at her grave and has been seen at the site of her murder. Hounds from Hell, or ghost dogs are believed to roam and growl their way through this cemetery. Some believe they exist to keep the ghosts from escaping.
 
7. Chestnut Hill Cemetery - Exeter, RI
The ghost of a 19 year old girl whose grave was violated haunts the old family graveyard, the Chestnut Hill Cemetery. Mercy Brown died on January 18, 1892. Two months after her death, her father dug up her grave because he thought she might be a vampire, responsible for the deaths of his wife and oldest daughter as well as the strange weakness suffered by his son and him.

8. Huguenot Cemetery - St. Augustine, FL
Huguenot Cemetery was built in the year of 1821 to provide additional space for individuals that passed away due to yellow fever, and also to have an area to bury the dead that were not considered to be Catholic in life.  Several spectral manifestations including the phantom body of a headless spirit, found by a caretaker in the early 1800's. The head of the body was never found. 
 
9.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery - Los Angeles, CA
is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. It is adjacent to the north wall, or back, of Paramount Studios, who, with RKO Studios, bought 40 acres by 1920. This cemetery is reportedly haunted by Virginia Rappe, Clifton Webb, and the "Lady in Black" is oftentimes seen nearby Rudolph Valentino's crypt.
 

10. Batchelors Grove Cemetery - Chicago, IL
This area is supposed to have been the site where the original "Hooked Maniac" of urban legend preyed on lovelorn victims after escaping from a mental institution. In addition, numerous other phantoms have joined the magic house in haunting the grove, including a two-headed man, a woman in white called "The Madonna of Bachelors Grove," ominous, darkly-hooded figures, and a man in a yellow suit who is reputed to appear and disappear in a shower of sparks.
 
10. Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery Central - Fort Lauderdale, FL
The grave of the "Greatest Boxing Champion", ROCKY MARCIANO is located here. Many orbs and ghost photos of him have been seen here  by visitors and ghost hunters alike. Many ghost are seen daily haunting the tall mausoleum.
 

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