(SERIOUS)or’s who work at cemeteries and grave yards, what strange and scary stuff have you witnessed?

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Anni-Helena · Accepted Answer

Former Funeral director here. My partner and I had just gotten back to the funeral home from a house call for a 31 year old woman who died of cancer. As we were moving her body from the cot to embalming table we heard an audible click and the radio across the room turned on full volume of static. It's one of those old radios you turn the volume dial until it clicks to turn it on. We both looked at each other. He was an extremely religious man and this event visibly shook him and he left not long after the incident. I shut the radio off as I typically used my phone to listen to music while embalming. When I'd finished the procedure and was attempting to move her from the embalming table to a dressing table I heard that click from that old radio and it turned on full volume yet again. At that point I was fairly freaked out and made my exit not long after. My partner and I never spoke of it again and nothing like that ever occurred to my knowledge before or after.

LAWANA · Answer

In a cemetery, passing by a mound of freshly dug up earth taken out of a newly dug grave I saw a sizeable, curved piece of beige 'pottery' and picked out up to show to my mum, who instantly slapped it out of my hand. I wasn't grossed out or creeped out like she was, because a thing like that made me realise that at the end of the day (or life) bone is just a very natural organic material and ends up being part of our Earth again

Taija · Answer

My Grandad used to work at a cemetery in New Zealand, where I live. He enjoyed his job and him, my grandma and their three sons (my dad being the youngest) all lived on a small house up the back. The cemetery is big and goes over like a hill so the house wasn't out in the open or anything. One day my uncle (the oldest brother, he was a teen at the time) drove home and noticed a little girl in a white dress playing on the tire swing hanging off the big oak tree. He didn't really care as the cemetery was right next to a neighbourhood and children often wandered down to play. At dinner he made an offhand comment about it to my grandad, who asked him to describe her. He did and apparently my grandad went very quiet, and said her service had been held that same morning. That uncle now lives in Australia so I don't see him often. He told me this story a few years ago and I get chills thinking about it.

Mari-Kristin · Answer

Never works there but one day I went back there and I swear to God I heard whistling

Kristin Hofmann · Answer

I don't work at a grave yard but I do have some scary experiences with them. I was at the grave yard putting some flowers at my grandpas grave and I swear that I saw a ghost that looked like him floating above his grave. Let's just say that I was pretty fucked up for a while after that.

Janella · Answer

My grandfather is buried in rural Nova Scotia, in an ancient cemetery just off the coast of the ocean. All the graves face towards the ocean. There isn't any signs indicating where the cemetery is, so it's difficult to find. You have to turn onto a dirt road, pass five houses hidden in the woods, and the cemetery is at the end of the road. If you didn't know it was there, I'm sure it would spook you.  However, last time I was in Nova Scotia and visited his grave, all five houses were for sale. My sister and I determined that they are definitely haunted, for all five to be for sale.

PEARLY · Answer

Standing in the exact lot I know I will someday be buried in. It's next to my family and right next to dad so I know I'll be in the right place when that time comes.

Iffet · Answer

Every summer I would work at the cemetery and it was fine most nights untill a year ago, summer of 2018.  I was working a night shift and started to feel weak or dizzy if you must and I fell due to it, turns out I was sick and didn't wanna stay the night but previously I have been late, so if I left now.... I'd be fired, so I stuck it out for a few minutes when my phone went off and a text said  I see you.. At that point I was scared because this never happened to me before and nobody was around that I could see, so I called out for immediate family like, Mom, Dad and my 4 Younger brothers. Nothing So I left after no response and moved out a month later, and never went back...

Marjoriitta · Answer

in the past 10 years in algeria , we used to have those kabylian ppl who are in the east , they used to dig in ppl graves to take the Gold and diamond burried with died ppl, all that happend becuz they didnt have ppl work in the grave yard , and now After the majority of em start to Get religious ( chris / mulims) They stopped doing that  - i Used to hear it from old ppl and see digged graves when i was kid it was so freaky tbh

siham · Answer

I used to, back in my 20's, live and work in a cemetery. Had a house on the grounds. The only thing I ever saw weird there was if you dig a grave during a full moon, you won't have enough dirt to fill it in. Conversely if you open under a new moon, you will have too much dirt. An old gravedigger told me that and he was right.

Adyam · Answer

i never worked at a cemetary but i was visiting a grave about 10 years ago and i heard a scream, than a muffled scream and looked around a saw a young black guy running away with his penis flopping around outside of his pants, and a young woman came running towards me and she was screaming that the guy forced anal sex on her. he was caught by cemetary maintenance workers

LILIANA · Answer

One of my friend's has an aunt who owns a few morgues with grave yards. She said one of the worst things that happened was the yard flooded really bad which made body parts and bones come up to the surface. The staff had to gather the parts and bury them again.

Eldbjorg · Answer

Digging graves by hand (shovel) in the old parts of the cemetery. Never knew what you would find, old wood caskets fell apart, body parts fell out. I once had to dig a grave for a woman who had recently passed. She had a leg amputated years earlier  yep, buried in the plot she was going into. Had to dig up the leg (in a black bag), put her casket in, then put the leg back in. Some of my fiends used the cemetery as a place to hookup. Nope for me.

Rivalee · Answer

Buddy of mine works at grave yards and funerals. We were at an extremely old one. A while back probably in the fifths a boys died around age ten. The mother had a really tough time grieving. T She had here son put in a clear tomb so she could read to him every night. Eventually it was vandalized so they moved him to a stone tomb. This summer were at the grave yard and decided to check it out. We go over there to find the door rusted and opened with the stone inner tombs lid slid over. We don't know who or what did it but it's still creepy. I'll see if I can find a Wikipedia article of something about it.

TISH · Answer

we talkin one massive circlejerk or what?

Molly · Answer

As a Summer Student, I was tasked with repairing damaged, forgotten tombstones. People are actually buried in 2 boxes - 1) their coffin, 2) an outer box. As such, there are two levels of decomposition which 'tilts' the tombstones towards the sunken graves as the boxes decay at different rates. One day, as I was propping up some leaning/tilted stones, I found a locket on a highly corroded chain (it appeared fairly eloquent, but dated). mixed in with the dirt underneath the stone. Curious, I opened it after prying it open with my pocket knife and found human hair. Still blonde from whoever put it there.

Amandy · Answer

Had a shortcut to my home right next to the cemetery. One night I was going back around midnight and saw 2 very old men were sitting there in silence, watching me. Kinda weird, just guessing there were there hanging out or something idk

Henrieta · Answer

I work at a cemetery, and while I've never experienced anything, my coworkers have heard and seen things in our office (which is an 1870 house which used to be the caretaker's cottage). They'll hear footsteps, people talking, banging, etc. when there's no one else in the building. My boss has seen shadow figures a couple times.

Ailee · Answer

"I volunteer, together with a school friend, at a local church to clean and restore the gravestones in the grave yard around it. One day we decided to walk around, to see on which gravestone we were gonna work next, when we noticed a white, rusty one with four equal sides, of which two were blank.  On the other sides was text: one side said the buried man had only one friend, and he put the gravestone there. The other side read, and I kid you not, "He Lives". We were freaked out, but mostly confused why someone would put that on a gravestone. "

Haliz · Answer

"I used to work as a receptionist in a funeral home. One busy Saturday everyone left to go to the cemetery with a family for the graveside service, except for the one embalmer who was downstairs working. I was doing paperwork when my phone rang and it was someone calling the internal line from the prep room, where the embalmer was. I answered and I could hear the radio clearly playing in the background but nobody was on the line. I walked ten feet into the office beside mine and the embalmer was sitting at the computer working on something. I asked her who was downstairs in the prep room and she looked at me funny and said "there's nobody down there. They all went to the cemetery."  She was right. There was no one else in the building. I don't believe in spirits or anything of the sort but that certainly creeped me out. "

Uhra · Answer

Museum here. I've 100% seen someone during my rounds, no cameras or motion detectors went off besides the ones I trigger.

janni · Answer

Had two homeless men fight one night. One stabbed the other with a broken bottle. Was a great night.

Mia-Mari · Answer

I'm an archaeologist and I've worked on about 3 different cemetery sites, nothing spooky's ever happened and I've dug up countless bodies. Shame really, I'd like to have a good story to tell

YADIRA · Answer

I don't work at one but when me and my mom didn't have a car and we had to walk everywhere, we walked passed a grave a lot ad it was on my way to school. It used to scare me a lot because one day, I swore I saw one of the flags one the graves start moving like it would one a windy day........ There was barley any wind that day and any other flag we walked passed that wasn't in or near the grave yard wasn't moving, not even the really tall one at my school that normally always moves

Celesta · Answer

Never worked at one but my high school was next door to a giant cemetery. All the kids told different story's of statues crying, a devil tree that if you touched it the devil would come for you... years of walking through there, at night time aswel never saw a thing...

AMADA · Answer

I worked at a cemetery for a few days and the children's section was really heartbreaking. There was also a plot for 3 children ages 6-13 that died in a fire.

OZELL · Answer

Found anal beads and some lube by a tree in back. Also some dude shot himself there a few years back.

Erika · Answer

My mom and I would walk through our local cemetery sometimes and look at the headstones. It's an old cemetery with graves dating back to the 1800's. Nothing especially creepy happened except for the day we came across a freshly dug grave with a pink casket exposed. No one was around it and it appeared to have been interred that day with the casket looking brand new. It was quite the shock. We tried to contact the cemetery to no avail. I'm sure there was some technical issue with the burial and the crew needed something to complete the job but we were always puzzled by it.

Danica · Answer

I once saw someone destroy a tombstone after putting a bunch of flower wreaths on the grave. Not that scary, but pretty weird.

Darien · Answer

Up north a bit, on the coast. Nearest real city is Bodo, this church is a bit off the beaten path as it was built at a time when people used boats to get anywhere so it made sense to build churches in the geographic middle of the parish rather than where people actually lived, that way noone had to row unacceptably far to get there.

Karee · Answer

I'm surprised at how little paranormal stuff I'm reading. There a cemetery in small town my husband is from and we used to go hang out there at night because the energy was so chaotic. It is seriously one of the only places I've been where I can feel hatred and anger towards me. I went a few times during the day by myself and you can feel so many eyes on you.

Loni · Answer

Not really strange but funny, my uncle and I told people stories of the lady who used to live on the cemetery land. My younger brother (8) believed all of them, he was playing in the cemetery and kicked a flower vase over by accident, My uncle told him that he needed to go and dig up the body and give it an apology note or else ms. Matthew's (the dead lady) would get him He was so scared and he ran out in the pouring rain and started digging with his fingers and after about 4 inches he shoved the note in and buried it He cried for a while thinking he would die, still one of the funniest explain of my life

SHELBA · Answer

"I worked at a graveyard for a few years in high school and university. In the beginning you'd think you were seeing things out of the corner of your eye or feel like you were being watched but that seemed to stop after a while. Scariest thing that happened to me was when I was taking a wheelbarrow load of grass clippings down a path into the trees at one end of the graveyard and had headphones on listening to music. I thought I heard leaves crunching and looked up and a deer was 10 feet in front of me. We noticed eachother at the same time and he let out a loud "heuhhhh" kind of sound and ran away. "

Ainslee · Answer

Ive found countless teeth and a few jaw bones. Best one tho is a thigh bone my boss found. His name is George (the bone) The weirdest thing that happened was when me and my boss were shoveling the dirt back into the grave after the funeral and the coffin broke. Now that in itself isnt uncommon and they do break after some time but this happened when we only had like 3 shovels worth of dirt in there.  I looked at the face of the old man as i sealed his grave, eerie

Laura Bosch · Answer

I dont work at one but i go to them at night sometimes and i swear there was something in the woods surrounding the graveyard starring right back at me + i saw something run bye me and no one else was there

Sesen · Answer

I get to work in a lot of crematorium. It's not bad. The staff are happy go lucky people. If anything I've learnt not to take anything seriously life is to short.

Derin · Answer

Thank you all for the awards. This is my first popular post.

Caiza · Answer

"Serious tag deserves a serious response. I used to mow/weed eat a huge cemetery in Kansas City. Nothing spooky happened, just mowed it. Took care to not hit the stones with the mower deck. Typical teenage job.  Anyway, one of the gravestones stuck with me forever. Poor fellow died something like 100 years ago but he was blessed with the unfortunate name: "Peter N. Dickhout" "

Hennie · Answer

A friend who works at a couple city owned cemeteries in a Texas city found a mass grave while rebuilding a chapel on the property.

Sophy · Answer

One of the maintenance guys at the hospital I worked at said that the air conditioning had gone out at the Mortuary & it was very hot & smelly & the bodies got so full of gas they say up & belched & farted. He swore it to be true & said that he never tried to get out of a place so fast in his life.

Mayla · Answer

I did administrative work for a cemetary so most of the day I was on the edge of the cemetery. But oh em gee, my first day I didnt know where the office was so I walked through the cemetery because I wasnt sure where the office was, I'm coming around a bend and see a bunch of these and others varying in style that were huge. I was awestruck and got chills. I considered walking the other way but kept going. Some had alters, fires burning, etc. I never walked back through there again. Dont know I would say it was haunted but it definitely had some energy to it

Anna Konig · Answer

Why the heck am I reading this at 3am?

Vanamo · Answer

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Raia · Answer

My mom used to work at a cemetery and she talks about how at some point when they started to put cameras in cemeteries they saw wolves going out of tombs buy there was no way wolves could exist in that area and there was no way to enter those tombs. Also if a person who rode on horseback would pass the cemetery they would get asked by a girl if they can get a ride but then the girl was always gone when they turned back around.

Ulfet · Answer

I know it may not count but my dad is a archaeologist who specialises in churches and I frequently tail my dad on jobs. I can honestly say the creepiest thing I've witnessed, through all the tombs and tunnels, is the people you find looking after them. I've met priests who I swear have no eyelids. I've met that one creepy guy who has been the village undertaker for the past 200 years.

Miisa · Answer

Whatta dope post, OP

TENESHA · Answer

Ever see a Mafia two story coffin. Second body hidden in a lower compartment.

Iggie · Answer

My dad use to work at a cemetery. One day he was putting a body in the oven to be cremated and it sat up and screamed in his face due to all the gas built up inside.

INOCENCIA · Answer

As a kid in '82, and Michael Jackson's Thriller was on everyone's minds.  One night it was getting late when we got caught in a big rainstorm, so we called it quits on our basketball game and went our separate ways.  The big cemetery I cut through must've closed up for the night and I found the gates locked. Going around would take forever so I decided to climb over the fence, only to land hard on the other side. It was muddy, so I not only wrenched my ankle pretty bad but took a giant mud bath.  I was covered in mud, limping, and groaning from pain when I reached the other side. As I emerged from the darkness, a couple saw me limping and groaning, while trying to squeeze through the cemetery's wrought iron fence.  I remember their screams to this day.

MOZELLA · Answer

I used to work as a 'park ranger' in a cemetary in London which has been converted into a nature reserve. its in a very ghetto area the local kids nicknamed it 'the forest' regularly we'd find ammunition, knives and occasionally pistols hidden in the memorials/gravestones and the police would be called to collect them. a friend once found a backpack full of molotov cocktails prepared. I never saw a pistol myself. only once I had the honor of finding something. I found a plastic bag stuffed behind a collapsed monument and inside it had a load of shotgun shells. it was terrifying for me because you have no idea if someone is watching you or aware that you've just found their stash. the police come, you have to have to show them where it is and that further highlights your involvement to any of the local kids watching you. that particular park people avoid as soon as the sun goes down.

Alina · Answer

Worked in a cementary over the summer during college. One morning I was mowing the grounds and discovered the body of a cat which had been bound and set on fire.

Staffard · Answer

"I once worked for a graveyard in florida for a couple months. One day they were digging a grave and went home early. They left the excavator there and on my lunch break i was sitting near it when i heard someone banging on the machine. Now this aint "its settling" no this was someone taking a hammer and hitting it on the machine. I figured someone was working on it but it just kept hitting. After 7 min or so i walk over to see whats going on and.... Nothing. No one is there and it stopped when i approached the machine. I also live down the street from this graveyard and i go by it constantly. One time i saw a lady roaming around the graveyard at night. Idk if it was an actual person or not but it creeped me out a fair bit. "

Betteann · Answer

Grave digger here. Nothing scary or weird ever but about once a week I chase people off that were either shooting up or having sex. Had a couple ODs because about 60 of the cemeteries I do are in very drug heavy neighborhoods.  One time we had a woman shoot herself at the top of the cemetery while we were down below. Other than that the ghosts and ghouls leave us alone even on late nights.

Katrin Werfel · Answer

There was an old cemetery next to my cousin's house. Next to one if the head stones there was a hole from a groundhog or something. There were scraps of old fabric coming or of the hole.

Venla-Maria · Answer

Don't work in a graveyard, but... Was staying with friends who live at the top of a hill, with a graveyard being the main route (not for cars) down. I ride a bike and passed one night cycling down the hill thru the graveyard that it was easier to cycle with my lights off, as the difference between the light and pitch black was so extreme that I couldn't see anything around the lit area at all (my lights aren't great). Do there I am cycling along in the pitch black thru a graveyard on a fairly steep hill. I kinda get a bit freaked or every so often and so would stop and turn the light on, have a look around, check I was on the path still and then carry on. One time I did this, discovered that I was less than a foot away from falling into an open grave!

Jeannie · Answer

I did some restoration work with a group of miners / prospectors at the Granite City grave yard in the Kooteny's of British Columbia. Someone went through the cemetery and desecrated every grave they could locate. Wooden head plates graffiti-ed, any visible burial dug up. There were bones sticking up everywhere and it was infuriating, who ever did it wasn't just looking for treasure, they wanted to destroy the place.  I also once discovered a bunch of chinese burials near Summit Creek by Barkerville. I was digging on bedrock, and these piles of hand stacked rocks on either side of the creek had little mounds on them, turns out I accidentally dug into one of them and had quite a shock. That spot in particular is really creepy, it feels like your being watched / judged by people all around you. In the morning the area is usually filled with mist or fog and you can almost pick out shapes moving around in it..... i am sure it was my imagination.

Erja-Leena · Answer

I worked security for a nursery(for trees and plants) And when they changed owners (before my time) the new owners found that the old owners had dug up part of a grave yard. broken headstones were just piled up next to still standing ones. And so the company puzzled the headstones back together and set them in concrete. All that setup is to tell you that I would be patrolling in a vehicle and I would go past the cemetery and there would be this coyote and a owl just hanging out in the middle of the graveyard looking at me. This happened pretty regularly. Tldr: an owl and coyote would stare at me from a graveyard

Orly · Answer

A lady in my hometown would walk her 2 Irish Wolfhounds through one of my local cemeteries. It sure was freaky to see as a kid, before I knew that dogs as large as wolfhounds could exist. Other kids aso saw them from time to time, and there was a local legend about these 2 massive wolf-like spectres wandering through. The rumors were sometimes out of control and people said the demon dogs could appear and vanish at will, had red eyes, etc.

jensine · Answer

When I lived in Guam I was impressed by their huge cemeteries with their gigantic white monuments and was wandering through at dusk one day and saw a mist rising from one particular monument and being a little freaked, left quickly. It happened a few times and I was seriously starting to question my sanity so the next time I saw it I decided to approach to see detail only to find that it was a very sad brother having a cigarette with his deceased brother. I told him he had scared the crap out of me and he said that he'd seen plenty of things there to make him question his sanity.

Elvor · Answer

Back in the day, graveyards were used as parks. People would picnic, kids would play, then they started building city parks, so the practice subsided.  That whole concept reminds me of Dia de los Muertos. I personally have had bag lunches in one of my local cemeteries especially in an old section overlooking a lake. I did it for the peace and quiet and view.

Kanako · Answer

In the cemetery mausoleum-chapel where I occasionally play the organ for funerals, vandals had broken in the night before a service. They smashed several crypt covers (probably with sledge hammers), exposing the remains of those that had been entombed therein. It was an eerie atmosphere to hold a funeral service that morning with such desecration in plain sight.

Sara Vogel · Answer

"I used to do some odd jobs at the 12th century graveyard in my hometown.  12th century, as in the church and its surrounding graveyard had been in continuous use for at least that long. When you keep burying bodies in the same small patch of ground for that many centuries, eventually the soil has been turned over dozens of times and consists mainly of bone fragments.  You can't even plant flowers there without accidentally uncovering some teeth or finger bones or something, it's nothing but fragmented skeletons all the way down under the thin turf. The "soil" sort of resembles seaside shellsand, except on closer examination all the light-colored bits are bone fragments rather than crushed seashells. Not really scary or unexpected, just a bit eerie until you get used to it. You learn to treat anything recognizable as human remains with respect, and just tuck it away out of sight under the plant or whatever else you were putting there. "

Anitra · Answer

Former funeral director here. One of our workers cleaned up after everyone had left from a visitation/viewing/wake. It was about 9pm or later and he saw one last guest walking around in the visitation room. He went to help escort the gentleman out when he discover no one was in there. When he came back in and told us the story and described the visitor. He identified the man in a photo we had at the funeral home, it was my grandfather (family business) who had recently passed.

Astou · Answer

Strange people visiting. I worked at the cemetery Jimmi Hendrix is buried at, so lots of weed and people hanging around. We found a dead homeless man behind a mausoleum, smelled him first. One time, getting ready to bury a person, we dug a grave. It was in a section of the graveyard that had very old burials (100+ years), so wooden caskets. My foreman at the time was squaring off the hole with a shovel, then he saw a skull looking right at him. He quickly and quietly pushed it farther into the dirt and told us not to say anything. If the office people had found out, it would have been a whole thing. Digging it up, trying to figure out who it was, etc. Never saw a ghost, but some of the old timers say they did. Not sure if I believe them. Lots of other stories, but that stands out.

George · Answer

I used to mow the lawn at a cemetery as part of my summer job. I always volunteered because it was the only place I could work with my shirt off and try to fight my farmer's tan. Anyway the only creepy thing is that coffins must break and fill with dirt over time because once and awhile you'll be walking and sink up to your knee in a small sink hole on top of a grave. Didn't really bother me unless I was walking at a good pace but some of the other people would get freaked out by that.

Chriss · Answer

I dug graves for six months. One afternoon we had to hand dig a hole in a older cemetery b/c we couldn't run any heavy equipment over any of the older plots. It was super tough and took us a lot longer than usual. When we were finally close to be done, it was dark and hard to see. I remember my shovel hitting a brick of the neighboring plot (before cement casks), and a it coming loose. I swear to god I saw something move inside the small hole and practically jumped out of the grave. I got back in to finish the job, but was definitely spooked.

Staford · Answer

"i don't work in a cemetery, but i did go clean one up with my family. We cut down weeds planted flowers ect  so anyways i was wiping off graves when i seen three graves side by side and they didn't have the same last name so i asked my mom if they were related and she said "no, but a women was married to them and they had all gotten into accidents within two years of being married to her. She buried them side by side and when she passed away she requested to be buried in a cemetery two counties away. Its strange because the first grave the man died in 1984 the second died in 1986 and the third died in 1988. They were all very wealthy and owned their own businesses and when they died she closed the businesses. "

caya · Answer

We had a late afternoon service once that ran into the evening, it was October so the sun went down early while I was filling in the grave afterwards. Conveniently none of the lights on the loader tractor worked for some reason. No blown fuses or looses wires or anything the lights just didn't work. Next day when I reported the issue we went over to the same tractor and the lights worked perfectly fine and they worked fine the rest of the time I worked there.

Erhard · Answer

I used to work for a small company that would help set up monuments in cemeteries all over the states of VA and WV.  The only strange thing I can really remember ever happening was when I went to this one small, unsettling town that had a real twilight zone feel to it. The guy who's brother we just set up a footstone for handed me a little brown cross on a string necklace. Later that night that thing turned blood red. I think I still have that cursed item somewhere. As for scary stuff I ran into some skinheads while lost in West Virginia. As a brown dude it was quite the scare.I just noped out before the three did anything other than size me up.

LASONYA · Answer

My family owned and operated a funeral home and cemetery until my late teenage years. In the summers, I would work the cemetery cutting grass, weed eating, preparing graves for caskets, covering the caskets, assembling and placing granite markers, etc. People would often come to visit the graves of deceased friends and family, so I thought nothing of it when they would come and go. On this particular day, I was weed eating with headphones all morning for maybe 4 hours. A truck came in pretty early and parked on the other side of the large cemetery. I never even really looked over to see the guy get out or get back in his truck. Didnt pay any attention at all to him. Around lunch time my grandfather came out to the cemetery, and being the socialite business owner that he was at that time, went over to speak. Apparently the older guy had visited the grave of his wife, got back into his car and shot himself right there in the cemetery while I was none the wiser.

jette · Answer

I was doing sales at a cemetery, and had lock up the mausoleum at night and make sure no families were in there.  One night I was walking through and heard something. It was gone in an instant but it was a scratching kind of sound.  It sounded exactly like you expect sometime clawing their way out of a mausoleum would sound.  I almost jumped out of my skin and ran out of there like a little baby, but I didn't want to turn around (the sound was behind me).  After about 3 days, and no further sounds I turned around and realized it was the automatic air freshener spritzing the place to not smell like dead.

Kari · Answer

My great grandfather worked at a graveyard some time after world war 1. They still had those bells that where set in place in case someone was buried alive. My grandfather would talk about how his father would come home shaken up about how he swears someone is playing tricks on him cause a few of the bells would ring almost every now and then. After he dug them up a few times he mostly ignored them unless the sound came from a body buried that day.

Johanna Unger · Answer

it was midnight, me and my best friend (we were about 13 at the time) were walking around the forest near our town, we didn't even know there was a cemetery but somehow we walked right into it. now literally 1 minute before this i had a mini heart attack because i saw a tree that looked like the grim reaper. anyway. we walked into the cemetery and instantly saw a white woman that glowed i turned, my friend was GONE he had already began running, i turned to look at her and she looked at me at that moment i knew that she didn't want to hurt me but something around there did. i ran, i ran for about a hour. eventually i made it back with my friends house and we just went to bed

Dulciana · Answer

I don't work in the industry but I was visiting my late sister-in-laws grave with my mum and we came across a gravestone for a local prominent citizen, beautifully carved inscription for herself and her husband, complete with one of their wedding photos. We started chatting about how we hadn't heard that either of them had passed and how sad it was that we hadn't managed to pay our respects to the family. On our way out we literally bumped into the husband, on his way in to tidy up the grave. We completely freaked out lol. Turned out they wanted a specific stone etc when they died so they decided to get it all set up before they passed to save their family any more stress

TENNIE · Answer

Hey my time to shine! Worked in one for 3+ years cleaning repairing and restoring historic grave stones (late 1600s on) Scariest thing you can see? A multi-ton obelisk being suspended in air/moving it so you can repair the base it was on.  But really they're generally peaceful and enjoyable to be in, there's nothing about the actual graveyard that is scary, except for the ghosts....I have pictures of repairing the stones if anyone's interested Here's an album I made 6 years I have more too

Gigi · Answer

This is finally my time to shine. I used to make headstones, so I only barely qualify to answer this question, however: All those dips you see by graves? Means the casket caved in. Those old bones is toast now. I've had my foot fall into a hole while installing small cremation plaques in old plots, for younger family members. It's a very unsettling feeling.  I've seen old, old men sobbing their hearts out for their deceased wives. You know that section in the cemetery with tons of smaller than average grave markers? That's all kids. This is more of an observation than anything. More and more people are getting cremated. The proof is in the pudding  by the time I left, we simply had slightly more orders for columbarium doors than grave markers. I have never seen any really creepy or disrespectful shit, honestly.  I LOVED working in the actual graveyards. They were so peaceful.

Douggie · Answer

My dad was a cemetery superintendent, so we were in residence there from the time I started High School. I lived there with my parents for about five years. My dad worked in the same cemetery, and lived there for 35 years. There's nothing strange or scary in a cemetery, they can actually be very peaceful, idyllic places. Anything that would be strange or scary is brought there by your own preconceptions and expectations. You can stretch the symbols of old worn tombstones, the shapes of trees in the seasons, the mists and fogs of weather, to scare yourself.  It was human, very much alive, agency that was scary. It was 160 acres in the middle of the city. Tons of kids roamed that place at night. They drank and fucked all over the place. They also committed acts of vandalism. One night, a group went through and knocked over 160+ tombstones.

Maria-Teresa · Answer

I don't work there, but I have some stories. My grandma nearly got robbed and even assaulted while cleaning my grandpa's grave, and the guard was there seeing the whole thing and didn't do shit. Every Saturday there's also an old lady with a crowbar and a knife who breaks and searches the graves for valuable things while the fucking shit guard just stares at her doing nothing, even though he has a radio and a pistol. I can consider these scary.

Pirta · Answer

My dad was a minister, one day during a funeral, rigormortis caused the deceased's arm to bend at a weird angle. Which pushed the lid of the casket up. Caused quite the stir...

Kissee · Answer

What's your job? Why couldn't they come in? What did they hear? How'd he die? You left out way too much information.

SHERY · Answer

Wow, finally one I have first hand experience in! Not too much scary stuff went on when I worked there except for the time we found a decapitated rabbit head on one of the graves. Now, more than likely it was a hawk that happened to drop it, but seeing a clean, untouched rabbit head with no body or entrails in sight was fun to speculate on. It was just so clean and perfect you'd swear it was done with a knife and placed there by someone with purpose, but who knows -()/- Only other thing worth mention was from before I was there, but some of the guys told me about a voodoo looking thing on a grave. They said there was a bag or jar of some kind, and inside it was a lot of things, like a dollar and a doll with needles through it. All of it was soaked through, maybe because it was put like that or because of the environment, I'm not sure, but they said they got the heebie jeebies from having to throw that one out.

Moshe · Answer

Didn't work near one, but lived near one. Usually pretty quiet, but they filmed a movie there. Didn't know about it and was wondering why there were bright lights and voices coming from there at 3 am. Until my brain sufficiently woke up to realize it was a camera crew, freaked me the hell out. Saddest thing was seeing stuffed animals or balloons for people who died young.

Choi · Answer

Once I was taking my daily check I saw some young boys (3-4 of them) at a gravestone just standing there, but when I got closer one of the boy's heads was the other way(idk how to explain it) that scared the shit out of me.

Anabell · Answer

There is always a Red Hawk keeping watch. He soars over the cemetery all day. He and his family live in a cemetery tree. Quite beautiful, yet strange.

Harrison · Answer

My grandfather told me his story of why he stopped digging graves as well as maintaining the area. He swears he heard talking one day at the grave of his old primary school teacher. He goes to take a look to see what's going on and there is no one there. He turns his back and swears on his life he heard his old teacher's voice calling out to him about his poor life choices. My granddad went and started a florists afterwards. Business is booming but he still fears that place.

Hana · Answer

My dad cut the grass in the church cemetery just down the road from our old home. It had graves dating back to the 1850's, and a creek rock wall surrounding it and the church.  One day while he was cutting grass he turned around and a little girl in a dress was sitting on one of the headstones. He promptly decided to leave and didn't return for several hours. This was in a fairly rural area where everyone knew each other, and no one had a girl that age within walking distance.

TENISHA · Answer

Once I was cleaning in one with my aunts and mom as part of church lady work or something. They used to clean the church and the cemetery like once a month or so. We're picking up dead flowers and raking leaves in it when a truck drives by going like 85mph on a 45mph country backroad. About a half hour later, a deputy cruiser comes through with its lights on followed by an ambulance. Turns out the guy was a member of our congregation and crashed about a mile past us, was killed instantly. He was later buried roughly ten feet from where I was standing when he passed.

Mercedes · Answer

My first job as a teenager was at a cemetery. It was a large cemetery with a full time, unionized work force. 2-3 funerals a day, and because of the Jewish section, 7 days a week. Never saw or experienced anything strange or scary. In the shoulder seasons I used to go in after school and push a mower for a couple of hours. Apparently, it was a popular place for people cheating on their spouses to meet up.  I did see some people in their grief jumping on coffins as they were lowering into the ground.

Cy · Answer

This is not something scary but rather interesting but i will say it anyways. In the graveyard near where I live, there is this tilted road that leads further into the cemetery, the strange thing is that, apparently gravity does not affect this road, for example, if you put something like a bottle or something and push it downwards, you would expect it to go down the road except that it DOES NOT, it goes up the road like if some unseen force is pulling it, and I really can't explain why or how is this happening.

Nihayat · Answer

A man would come and sit in a folding chair at the burial plot of his wife. Brought the paper and books to read, his lunch and a small portable radio with him. He would lay a large towel down and take a nap on her grave. About a month of doing this every day, and laying on her plot, he ended his life by shooting himself in his heart. I thought it a really beautiful final act of devotion he gave, and was in complete respect for this man.

Waldo · Answer

"I used to work at a cemetery with a crematory and for me the strangest thing was working in the crematory. Not that burning human bodies was particularly unsettling, but after they are burned. When you remove the remains from an oven after incineration, there are bits and pieces of the human body that don't get entirely consumed by the flames. It's very common to have chunks or charred pieces of bone left over. Those pieces then have to be put through a "grinder" to turn them into a powder before they can be returned to the rest of the ashes for placement in an urn or box. At the place where I worked, the grinder was still a manual piece of equipment which meant you were grinding up granny's bones by hand. Eventually, you get used to these things, but it sure took me a while. "

hansine · Answer

I'm answering for a relative here: He has encountered rattlesnakes. He has also warned people about going to the cemetery while it's dark because one can get robbed by people/thieves who apparently like to hang out at the cemetery at night.

SUSANN · Answer

You broke the oath. Only those anointed may enter the place of rest unscathed. Consider this a powerful lesson.  In all seriousness though, there is no way you could know that anything would happen, if it even was related to that night. You cannot blame yourself.

(SERIOUS)or’s who work at cemeteries and grave yards, what strange and scary stuff have you witnessed?

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