Current Events > Have you ever lived next to a cemetery?

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I have, and Id do it again!

Nope.

Shadowblade posted...

Would you if you haven't?

I guess? Its not a deal breaker at least.

No, but my younger brother does, and my uncle's first wife's father's grave was behind their house.

Nope and never!!! I don't want any stray spirits to enter the home

Yes there is one right up the street from me

No, but I'd love to. You'd never have quieter neighbors and cemeteries can be good for seeing wildlife.

There's one nearby, but up the road a ways.

no, but i did live in an apartment complex across from a mortuary.

Nope, but I wouldn't mind. It would at least be quiet at night.

I grew up across the street from a small one. When I played catch with my Dad and Brother, one of us was usually across the street in the open cemetery to make a three way.

The Graves were far from the road.

When I first started house shopping I looked at a house right next door to a cemetery on a dead end street. I actually viewed it as a positive. The realtor admitted it was harder to sell a house in that location and I said it was great.

You would always have quiet neighbors who would never complain and cemeteries are always kept beautifully landscaped. The fact it made the house cheaper was a bonus. I just didnt like the house but I actually liked it being next to a cemetery.

Ratchetrockon posted...

I don't want any stray spirits to enter the home

every time i read "cemetery" it reminds me of the motorcycle accident that happened to a classmate in my graduating class.

kingdrake2 posted...

every time i read "cemetery" it reminds me of the motorcycle accident that happened to a classmate in my graduating class.

did your classmate drive into a home? :(

The home we lived in when I was born was just downhill from one. But I wouldn't say we were next to it though. I barely remember that place anyway. We moved across town when I was like 4.

Ratchetrockon posted...

did your classmate drive into a home? :(

motorcycle accident on the highway.
learned what happened from newspaper.

Now I want to rewatch Pet Cemetery. That movie scared the hell out of us as kids.

kingdrake2 posted...

motorcycle accident on the highway.
learned what happened from newspaper.

Reminds me of my niece's husband's brother. Was driving his car at about 5am back in October 2017, and went flying over a blind hill, and right into the side of an 18-wheeler that was turning into a gas station. Pronounced dead at the scene.

I mean technically, there's a (family) graveyard on the property but it's small and not visible from a roadway or anything so you'd never know it was there if you didn't know

I havent lived next door to one, but I have lived pretty close to one. It never bothered me.

If I felt my spot right now I could be aty Mother's grave with in three minutes.

It is a Catholic Cemetery but she want not raised Catholic.

On the other side of the family there are many many names going back over 100 years.

Yes, I live near a Cemetery.

archizzy posted...

When I first started house shopping I looked at a house right next door to a cemetery on a dead end street. I actually viewed it as a positive. The realtor admitted it was harder to sell a house in that location and I said it was great.

You would always have quiet neighbors who would never complain and cemeteries are always kept beautifully landscaped. The fact it made the house cheaper was a bonus. I just didnt like the house but I actually liked it being next to a cemetery.

Totally agree....except the Highschool in town put their Track and Field right next to it which I find highly disrespectful. ...In terms of quietness.

I live less than a mile from multiple cemeteries. It's not a big deal.

I grew up 500 feet from a cemetery. Never really thought about it much. My best friend's dad was a mortician and they lived in a house attached to the mortuary too.

Next to? No, but there is one that's a very short walk behind my house. I can get to it in less than five minutes.

mercurydude posted...

Next to? No, but there is one that's a very short walk behind my house. I can get to it in less than five minutes.

Go to it right now. And take pics.

Kind of. There was a cemetery quite close to the house I grew up in. It was slightly down the road from our property and then across the street, plus on the other side of a small strip of trees and a river. Kind of like this.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/dff8d724.jpg

No, but there's one within walking distance of my house.

I dont mess with the dead. Thats territory Im never even going to curiously explore. I keep my distance, and if Im visiting stay respectful.

wackyteen posted...

I mean technically, there's a (family) graveyard on the property but it's small and not visible from a roadway or anything so you'd never know it was there if you didn't know

That's very cool.

No but I don't have a problem with it, quite the contrary, the dead make quiet neighbours.

I would never. Apart from it being a constant depressing reminder, Im not interested in looking out the window at night and seeing some of those creeps that hangout at such places staring back at me.

Pretty sure my house was built on an ancient Native American burial ground, it would explain the poltergeists

R1masher posted...

Pretty sure my house was built on an ancient Native American burial ground, it would explain the poltergeists

If you live in the southeast US, the entirety of those states is Native American burial grounds

My neighborhood is next to a church with a cemetery, does that count?

I'm fine with it, though ideally its a freestanding cemetery and not a cemetery attached to a church. My experience with churches is that they often do not have enough of a parking lot to accommodate their attendees and so spill over all of the street parking in a block radius every week.

I live across the street from one and they are basically our only neighbors (I live in a nature preserve). It's pretty amazing, actually. Very quiet all the time and they keep it beautifully landscaped. It's also technically a memorial garden so it looks much nicer with the headstones hidden behind plants and bushes.

Ratchetrockon posted...

Nope and never!!! I don't want any stray spirits to enter the home

Why would there be spirits in a cemetery? People don't usually die there.

Not next to one but I did used to frequently ride my bike through a huge one that had a resident turkey, on my way to work. All the friends and family Ive lost have been cremated but I always thought about them when Id roll through (there was a road that went through the middle of the graveyard, I wasnt doing some weird, disrespectful thing). I kinda meditated when I was there, I miss it. The turkey was badass too, itd strut around slowing down traffic and everyone respected it.

Zanzenburger posted...

I live across the street from one and they are basically our only neighbors (I live in a nature preserve). It's pretty amazing, actually. Very quiet all the time and they keep it beautifully landscaped. It's also technically a memorial garden so it looks much nicer with the headstones hidden behind plants and bushes.

The one I mentioned is very well-kept, too. Its probably not classified as a public park but if it were itd be one of the nicer ones in the city. With my family members, it was elders in the family that decreed they be cremated; I dont care enough one way or the other but sometimes seeing how nice the place is I kinda wish wed buried them there.

Yeah I did. It was like 6 months before I even knew it was there.

Not directly next to but where I used to live, there was one under a half mile down the road.

I lived in an apartment next to one in college and my place on the first floor was halfway dug into the ground so when I went to sleep my body was lying at the same level as the skeletons next door.

Nope. Had sex in one once, though.

A huge one in grad school. It was a great place to go jogging.

That sounds spooky as heck.

Villain_S_Fiend posted...

Why would there be spirits in a cemetery? People don't usually die there.

the spirits don't mind visit. as long as one isn't desecrating it.

TyVulpine posted...

Reminds me of my niece's husband's brother. Was driving his car at about 5am back in October 2017, and went flying over a blind hill, and right into the side of an 18-wheeler that was turning into a gas station. Pronounced dead at the scene.

A similar thing happened to a classmate of mine in high school. There's a hill in town nicknamed "bird hill" because if you have any speed at all going over it you'll jump. It's steep on the other side so you'll go pretty far before "landing".

She had just gotten her license and was one of the first times she was allowed to drive unsupervised. She gathered her friends to watch her jump bird hill and totally wiped out. She died right there with her friends watching after crashing.

There's so many people that get hurt there, not just by jumping it, but also because you can't see over it from either side. As far as I know, now only the people that live on that street use that road, despite it cutting right through the edge of town.

kingdrake2 posted...

the spirits don't mind visit. as long as one isn't desecrating it.

Where do you get this information?

Villain_S_Fiend posted...

Where do you get this information?

gozer the destructor.

no horny. not horny enough to look at anyway.

No, but I used to deliver pizzas to this house by one.
If I turned my headlights off, there was no light at all.