spooky stuff just in time for the holidays

[cornerofmadness]

remember that dream I had where lyrangalia was driving badly and wouldn't stop for the really creepy cool cemetery which looked a lot like a cemetery I've had many dreams about?

Well I was leafing through the sunday Columbus Dispatch while talking to mom and they had a creepy travels cemetery walk article and I started yelling into the phone, it's it! I found it! and I did. It's the cemtery
from my dreams. No lie the middle and right hand picture have been in my dreams for years.


It's crown hill cemetery and it's in Indianapolis so I'm thinking screw going to IN to see evil_little_dog for thanksgiving. Let's go for spring break and go up to Indy. I think I HAVE to go. I might just be buried in there and I need to find myself

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[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Okay. I'll see if New Boss will let me go Cemetery hopping. *grins*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

how far is INdy? 3 hours?

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Dunno. Never drove there.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you are NO help

mapquest confirms my suspicions, it's just a little over 3 hours

[nowhere-winry.livejournal.com]

When have I ever been help when it comes to directions?

New Boss is threatening to get me a GPS for XMas.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well n o

i'll tell him you'll STILL get lost

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to a cool cemetery since we went to Santa Fe...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Columbus has a cool one that I visit occasionally

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Back east and the Midwest, there you probably have the best cemeteries... There are some really cool ones out this way, but they're all really young by comparison (except the pioneer and Indian ones, I suppose). There's a pioneer cemetery in North Phoenix I keep meaning to visit, but haven't gotten to yet. (It's not impressive, just very old.)

When I was young, I used to like to go to a very, very old church cemetery where only a few small graves were left because the church was long gone and the grounds were deserted -- those lonely graves always fascinated me. When we went through Zuni when I was adult, alas, they'd been moved. I wish I'd gotten pictures when they were still there.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh we really do. NY had so many wonderful ones, Cleveland, Maryland. I've been to so many truly neat ones.

Also have plenty of those abandoned ones all over the eastern seaboard and here in OH too.

I've been to Boot HIll but that's the only one in AZ

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

There are some really awesome ones here, but you have to FIND them - Boot Hill is so touristy it doesn't retain its beauty, not like it used to be; but there's a lovely one in Mesa and one down in Tucson, and those are just the ones I've SEEN.

That one we went to in Santa Fe, that was stunning -- there was a tombstone that had been displaced by the giant tree that we guessed had been a sapling planted by the family when the little girl who died was buried (I need to find all the pictures I took there).

The only ones I've been to back east have been Arlington and Gettysburg.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

haven't been to gettysburg since i was a kid. I should go

Boot HIll is all replaced headstones (well wood) anyhow and not tremendously interesting outside of its history

I would like to go to Santa Fe. It's one of the few SW cities I have always wanted to see. I'd like to see the pictures if you find them

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

The first time I went to Boot Hill (when I was a little girl), the cemetery hadn't been "restored" and most of the original markers were still in place. It's a shame they couldn't have done more toward keeping the original look and feel, but it is a very old cemetery, and wasn't much more than a place outside of town to plant bodies; although the Jewish section does have some nice permanent stones.

I'll see about digging them out and scanning them. No digital "back then" (about nine years ago, now -- yi!).

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the new Boot Hill markers DO manage to look old but just knowing people stole the others sort of ruins it.

yeah I know what you mean about the pictures...

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Well, the famous ones, anyway; most common markers were replaced with simple metal crosses bearing a name and date.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

really? Maybe they redid them since I was there in '92

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Yeah, definitely. We were there in I think '02 or '03. I have to find those pictures now, too...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

now i'm just sitting here mystified that it could have been THAT long ago I was stationed in Tucson.

and oddly it's the same year of the Star Trek TNG that's currently on CW

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Amazing how it flew by, eh?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i swear it was just last year I was in Tucson

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I know. I'm sometimes surprised to realize that I've lived in Phoenix longer than I ever lived in Tucson...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

this is thelongest i've lived anywhere since i was a young adult. It amazes and saddens me since well this area sucks

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's impressive. Definitely take your camera.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

when i go i sure will