Comments on: My Macabre Hobby

By: Lyra

Lyra — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:21:24 +0000

I love visiting old churches and cemeteries, there’s just something…calming about them.
There’s one place in England a short walk from where I live which I frequent. A lot of my ancestors have been buried there and I didn’t realise it until I told my father about my visiting there often.
I have to admit, I am one to take photos at cemeteries, too. I’ve never been to one in the night with a camera…one of my old (typically male) friends dragged me through a cemetery at midnight on All Hallow’s Eve last year…being Pagan, I wasn’t too happy about him trying to raise spirits and insisted we leave before we anger anyone.
Luckily, nothing has happened ^^;
It’s a shame you couldn’t find anything on the little girl, though.
Thanks for posting, and Bless’d Be!

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By: Jenn

Jenn — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:49:21 +0000

Hey Amanda,
If you are refering to the yellow thing in front of the mausoleum, it is a grouping of flowers that was placed there.

I don’t remember the exact directions to the graveyard, but if you go to Poughkeepsie, NY, you shouldn’t have any trouble finding it. It is a huge cemetary almost in the middle of town.

As for the name on the gravesite, yes, I did notice it. I tried looking her up to find out a little about her; however, I think my research skills could be better. In the pictures I have, I can actually see the date of birth and death, but it didnt help me find out anything.

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By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:22:24 +0000

What”s that yellow creepy thingie that’s crawling.
Maybe it was the macrbe!
Whooa!
Give the dircetions and I will go there!
Whee!
Looking lonely picture of the small angel is sadest picture that I’ll ever know.
And I notice Hines on with cross on it too.
Did you?
I guess that it was a child’s gravestone.
I had in my eyes too.

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By: Jenn

Jenn — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:24:41 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, everyone.
I have another story regarding graveyard visitors, but my search for the pictures has left me empty-handed. Really weird…but, I am still searching.

newyorkshedoc, I will have to head up there the next time I am in NY. I head that way a couple of times a year. I have been to a graveyard in Long Island, but never in Queens. Thanks for the info!

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By: newyorkshedoc

newyorkshedoc — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:45:19 +0000

Hi Jennifer. Nah, I don’t think its macabre at all. I also think there is some beauty in cemetaries. There are some rather extraordinary ones here in new york along LIE in Queens headed towards Manhattan. Very cool story.

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By: SassySouljah (for Jesus Christ)

SassySouljah (for Jesus Christ) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:37:00 +0000

Thank you, Jennifer. That was a truly touching story. As I read it, I also felt a strong feeling from the pictures you included. I lost my mother a few years ago and it reminds me that I must “visit” her soon. Thank you, and keep up your hobby of visiting others’ forgotten loved ones. Your appreciation of the lives lost is sometimes the only mark of history they have left.

Thanks again!

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By: trolldoll1681

trolldoll1681 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:32:08 +0000

i too love to walk around in old cemetaries. all the lives and history, and i wonder what they were like a hundred years or more ago. there’s a couple of graveyards around here but the best ones are out in the middle of nowhere on old dirt roads. if i can i’ll take a few pics and see what i come up with since you’ve inspired me ! thanks for the great story and neat pics!!!!!

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By: KNOWTOMUCH

KNOWTOMUCH — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:49:35 +0000

i also love walking around graveyards and have taken dozens of pics over the years… it is very peaceful to me…….what a wonderful story!!!!!! ktm

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By: blondie

blondie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:16:18 +0000

The photos are lovely, thanks for sharing them

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By: DarStarr

DarStarr — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:44:03 +0000

I agree with Karen M and Scarygirl!!
There are some cemeteries that are absolutely beautiful! I have one by where I work that some of the graves date back to the early 1800′s and the cemetery itself is so well-kept so the stones are readable and just lovely!
I go there at lunch sometime and just sit.

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By: scarygirl67

scarygirl67 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:27:36 +0000

This story had me in tears….thinking of that little angel, sitting all alone. I know what you mean about that sensation of being watched…there is no other feeling like that.

I think you have a very cool hobby! Some cemetery art is breathtakingly gorgeous, others are elegant in their simplicity. It all seems to tell a story…and this little angel seems to me that a child was taken from its family far too soon…..the bench being there for those close to that child to sit and be close by. I have also marveled at how a person’s life can be summed up in a short phrase or thought.

I really appreciated this story….and I’m sure the little angel did too.

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By: Cesr

Cesr — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:01:17 +0000

Wow this is touching, the little angel part. And wow that last pic is amazing! A bright shining white angel infront of a very dark background !

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By: Karen M.

Karen M. — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:15 +0000

I don’t think that’s a macabre hobby, me too I love walking around cemetaries, strange about the angel, wonder why that was??

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By: meli§a

meli§a — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:41:44 +0000

jennifer – thanks for including pictures! the first one looks a little creepy to me b/c you said no one was there but you… kind of sad. that was nice of you to stop by. someone’s company is better than no one visiting at all…

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By: Camille

Camille — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:26:43 +0000

Dear Jennifer,
I, too, enjoy trolling about cemetarys, reading markers, appreciating the sculpture of
the monuments, celebrating the essence of the person remembered.
I always love when there is a photograph on the headstone.
I also just enjoy reading about the person if the stone is old enough to be a mini-biography.
I don’t think of your hobby as macabre, but more of an appreciation of remembraces
from the past, those rememberances are executed in a much more mundane way today.
Thank you for sharing your story.

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