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What makes a grave creepy? It is not the fact that there is a dead person in it, if so, nobody would like to go to the cemeteries, and the truth is that they are even places of tourist interest in many parts of the world, and can function as recreational areas and for carrying out activities that may not be so innocent.
Perhaps what generates fear has more to do with the history of the deceased , before, and sometimes after, death, as it could be the case of the 10 spooky tombs that we are going to present below.
10 SCALOFRIANT tombs of the world
1.The crypt of the Chase family
When Thomas Chase died on the Caribbean island of Barbados in 1813, his remains were taken to the family crypt, which had not been opened since 1808, when the body of Mary Ann Chase .When they opened it, they found that the pens had been moved from their sites , although they had not taken nothing.
The ballot boxes were placed in their place and the crypt sealed again, so it was a surprise, to open it three years later for another burial, to find the displaced cards from their sites again.This time the authorities of the island decided put sand on the floor before sealing the crypt again, but the mystery continued, because when it was opened three years later, in 1819, they found the badges out of place, and no trace in the sand.I take their dead from there, and the crypt remains abandoned.
2.Uralmash Cemetery
It is one of two cemeteries in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg (the most important of the Urals) and in which numerous dead gangsters are buried in the fighting between gangs for control of the city.
The tombstones of the members of the bands can be up to 3 meters high, with a full-length image and natural size of the lying.These tombs are guarded by cameras to prevent the graves from being desecrated by rivals.
3.Georges Rodenbach (1855-1898)
He was a Belgian poet, part of the symbolist movement whose tomb is in the famous Pere Lachaise, the Parisian cemetery where figures such as Moliere, Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde and Edith Piaf, among many others.
Rodenbach's tombs are included among the creepy tombs, because in it there is a sculpture that represents the poet coming out of the grave, which makes us think more about zombies than about the literary transcendence of death.rte.
4.Tomb of Princess Demidoff
She is also in Pere Lachaise.Baroness Elisabeth Alexandrovna Strogonoff married in 1796 with the count Demidoff and took the name of Elisabeth Demidoff, name with which she was buried in 1818 in the Parisian cemetery.
There is a legend around his grave: it is said that the princess offered all her fortune to anyone who could resist a certain number of days in his mausoleum (some speak of 365 and others of 7).Apparently no one succeeded.
5.The kiss of death
This is a sculpture from a 1930 tomb which is located in the cemetery of Poblenou , in Barcelona.In it rest the remains of Josep Llaudet Soler and is considered among the creepy tombs because it shows a sculpture that represents a winged skeleton, death, kissing a man mortally.
6.Inez Clarke's grave
Another somewhat less macabre sculpture but equally considered among the creepy tombs is the one that accompanies the tomb of Inez Clarke , in the Graceland Cemetery, in Chicago.
Inez had 6 years in 1880, when he died from the impact of lightning during a storm (he participated in a picnic with his family), and sent to make a sculpture of the girl of natural size, placed in a glass box to protect it from the elements.
Cemetery visitors claim to have heard a crying child in the vicinity of the statue, and there are stories of children who were playing with a girl «dressed strangely».
7.Mary's Tomb “Ki tty ”Jay, in Devon, England
It would not seem apt to be considered among the creepy tombs because it seems just a mound with a simple tombstone, quite lonely at a crossroads.Apparently Kitty Jay was a girl who committed suicide in 1700, so she denied her the right to be buried on consecrated ground.
However, someone in the Beyond takes pity on her and says that fresh flowers are usually found in the grave, without their origin being known.
8.Mount Auburn Cemetery
There are spooky graves because they remind us that death can come too early, like that of one in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, which reproduces a child's crib bed .It is a tomb of the nineteenth century, when infant mortality in the United States was quite high.
9.Tomb of Harry Thornton
There are other chilling graves that can also generate melancholy, such as that of Harry Thornton, a victim of the Spanish flu in 1918.
Thornton was a 35-year-old pianist and as a tribute they played his instrument in the grave, which today looks deteriorated by time.Also the graves die.
10.Rosalia Lombardo (1918.1920)
She was nicknamed post mortem the “sleeping beauty” because her parents mummified her and it has been preserved in an extraordinary way.
The embalmer was the chemist Alfredo Salafia and a recent study with x-rays showed that even internal organs were It has been preserved quite well.It was for a while in the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo .
The abundance of creepy tombs is another manifestation that death remains a scandal for human beings, and provokes the most varied reactions.Have you visited the old cemeteries of your city? You will surely find more creepy tombs.
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