Haunted Cemeteries

34 haunted cemeteries mapped across 28 cities, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Bonaventure CemeteryCemetery · Savannah, GABonaventure is Savannah's most beautiful burial ground, a bluff above the river draped in live oaks and Spanish moss.
• Boothill GraveyardCemetery · Tombstone, AZBoothill served as Tombstone's main burial ground from about 1879 to 1884 and is likely the most famous Wild West cemetery in the world, holding the graves of lawmen, outlaws, gamblers, women, and children, including Billy Clanton and Tom and Frank McLaury, killed in the O.K.
• Broadway Cemetery Historic District (Old City Cemetery)Cemetery · Galveston, TXThis six-block district holds seven burial grounds platted from 1839 to 1939, including the Old City Cemetery, Potter's Field, the Old Catholic Cemetery, and a Yellow Fever yard.
• Chinese Graveyard (Loma China Cemetery)Cemetery · San Antonio, TXTucked off South Zarzamora Street on the city's far south side near Texas A&M University-San Antonio, this small overgrown family cemetery, also called the Loma China Cemetery and the Guzman Burial Ground, is the subject of one of San Antonio's most enduring ghost legends.
• Christ Church Frederica CemeteryCemetery · St. Simons Island, GASurrounding one of America's oldest churches, founded in 1736 near Oglethorpe's Fort Frederica, the cemetery at Christ Church holds graves reaching back to the early 1800s beneath a canopy of live oaks draped in Spanish moss.
• Circular Congregational Church GraveyardCemetery · Charleston, SCFounded around 1681 by Charleston's original English Congregationalists, Scots Presbyterians, and French Huguenots, the Circular Congregational Church surrounds the city's oldest burial ground, with surviving markers dating to 1695 and weathered slates tracing colonial death art from winged skulls to portrait busts.
• Colonial Park CemeteryCemetery · Savannah, GASavannah's oldest surviving cemetery holds more than ten thousand souls, many of them lost to the yellow-fever epidemics that swept the city.
• Eureka Springs Cemetery (Silent City)Cemetery · Eureka Springs, ARFounded in 1889 by the local Independent Order of Odd Fellows, this 46.5-acre hillside cemetery, nicknamed the 'Silent City,' became the resting place for many of the health seekers who flooded Victorian Eureka Springs hoping the mineral waters would cure them.
• Hollywood CemeteryCemetery · Richmond, VAOpened in 1847 on a hilly tract above the James River, Hollywood holds the most layered ghost lore in Richmond.
• Howard Street CemeteryCemetery · Salem, MAEstablished in 1801 as the Branch Street Cemetery and renamed in 1828 for sailmaker John Howard, this 2.5-acre burying ground holds roughly 1,100 graves of ship captains, Revolutionary War soldiers, and early members of Salem's African American community.
• Huguenot CemeteryCemetery · St. Augustine, FLEstablished in 1821 just as a yellow fever epidemic swept St.
• Jerome (Hogback) CemeteryCemetery · Jerome, AZEstablished in the late 1800s soon after Jerome's founding, this windswept burial ground sits on Hogback Ridge at the edge of town, reached via North Avenue off Highway 89A.
• Key West CemeteryCemetery · Key West, FLFounded in 1847 on high ground after an 1846 hurricane washed bodies out of the previous seaside burial ground, this 19-acre cemetery holds an estimated 100,000 interments and is famous for its wry epitaphs, including one reading 'I told you I was sick.' Locals say souls disturbed by the hurricane never found peace, and visitors report floating lights, shadowy figures moving between tombstones, and cold gusts on still nights.
• Laurel Grove CemeteryCemetery · Savannah, GALaid out on a former Springfield Plantation rice field and opened for burials in 1853, Laurel Grove was Savannah's grand Victorian answer to the overflowing Colonial Park Cemetery, its lush plantings and carved stones echoing Green-Wood and Père Lachaise.
• Laurel Hill CemeteryCemetery · Philadelphia, PAFounded in 1836 above the Schuylkill River, Laurel Hill is a National Historic Landmark and one of America's first architecturally designed 'rural' cemeteries, holding tens of thousands of burials beneath thousands of monuments.
• Lawrenceville Historic CemeteryCemetery · Lawrenceville, GAEstablished in Lawrenceville's earliest days, the historic cemetery holds Gwinnett County's founders, including William Maltbie and Elisha Winn, the town's first mayor John Clay Smith, Revolutionary War veteran Nathan Spence, and eight Confederate soldiers among rows of unmarked graves.
• Magnolia CemeteryCemetery · Augusta, GAOfficially founded in 1818 on the grounds of a former plantation, Magnolia Cemetery is Augusta's oldest public burial ground, sixty acres holding seven Confederate generals, three Southern poets, and reputedly Georgia's oldest tree.
• Marietta Confederate CemeteryCemetery · Marietta, GAFounded in 1863 when Jane Glover donated a corner of her plantation to bury about twenty Confederate soldiers killed in a train wreck north of town, the cemetery swelled during the Atlanta Campaign into one of the largest Confederate burial grounds in the South, holding more than 3,000 dead from thirteen states.
• Memory Hill CemeteryCemetery · Milledgeville, GALaid out as Cemetery Square in Milledgeville's 1803 plan for Georgia's frontier capital, Memory Hill grew into a burial ground for governors, legislators, an Old West train robber, and patients of the old state asylum, with the writer Flannery O'Connor resting beneath a flat stone in Section A.
• Mount Hope CemeteryCemetery · Dahlonega, GAMount Hope Cemetery is the oldest public burial ground inside Dahlonega's city limits, its first known interment dating to 1833 — the same year the gold-rush town was founded — and it earned its official name in 1884 after years of being called simply the Gold City Cemetery.
• Oak Grove CemeteryCemetery · Brunswick, GALaid out by the City of Brunswick in 1838 as its first public burial ground, Oak Grove holds more than 1,200 graves beneath ancient live oaks dripping with Spanish moss, including some 115 Union and Confederate soldiers and hundreds of unmarked and unknown dead.
• Oak Grove CemeteryCemetery · Fall River, MAEstablished in 1855, Oak Grove Cemetery is the final resting place of the entire Borden family — murdered father Andrew, stepmother Abby, sister Emma, and Lizzie herself, whose ground-level marker is simply engraved 'Lizbeth.' The Borden plot is so visited that black directional arrows are painted on the cemetery roads leading to it from the Prospect Street granite arch.
• Oakland CemeteryCemetery · Atlanta, GAFounded in 1850 as Atlanta Cemetery on six acres southeast of the young city, Oakland grew to 48 acres and now holds an estimated 70,000 burials beneath its oaks and magnolias.
• Oconee Hill CemeteryCemetery · Athens, GAEstablished in the 1850s on the banks of the North Oconee River beside what is now the University of Georgia's Sanford Stadium, Oconee Hill is regarded as one of the finest Victorian-era cemeteries in the South and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
• Old Burying Point (Charter Street Cemetery)Cemetery · Salem, MALaid out by 1637, the Old Burying Point is Salem's oldest graveyard, its leaning slate stones crowded onto less than an acre beside the Charter Street Historic District.
• Riverside CemeteryCemetery · Asheville, NCFounded in 1885 as a garden-style cemetery in the Montford neighborhood, Riverside is the resting place of roughly 13,000 people, including authors Thomas Wolfe and O.
• Rose Hill CemeteryCemetery · Macon, GANewspaper publisher and civic promoter Simri Rose laid out Rose Hill Cemetery in 1840 along the bluffs of the Ocmulgee River, designing it as both a public park and a burial ground in the new garden-cemetery style.
• Soldiers' National CemeteryCemetery · Gettysburg, PAEstablished just four months after the three-day battle of July 1863, the Soldiers' National Cemetery was laid out by landscape designer William Saunders in a sweeping semicircle of graves grouped by state and radiating from a central monument, the resting place of more than 3,500 Union dead.
• St. Helena Parish Chapel of Ease RuinsCemetery · Beaufort, SCBuilt around 1740 of tabby by enslaved laborers as a chapel of ease for planters who struggled to reach the parish church in Beaufort, this Anglican chapel was abandoned after Union troops invaded in 1861 and was gutted by a forest fire in 1886.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1Cemetery · New Orleans, LAEstablished in 1789 just beyond the old city limits, St.
• Statue of Mary MeinertCemetery · Marietta, GAIn St.
• Sugar Hill Historic CemeteryCemetery · Sugar Hill, GAEstablished in 1886, Sugar Hill Historic Cemetery anchors the city's downtown with more than 1,500 marked burials, and in recent years ground-penetrating radar revealed 130 additional unmarked graves — among them fourteen infants clustered near the community center and twenty paupers laid to rest, unmarked, during the lean Depression years.
• Tolomato CemeteryCemetery · St. Augustine, FLBuilt on the site of a former Guale Indian village and Franciscan mission, Tolomato Cemetery served as St.
• Unitarian Church GraveyardCemetery · Charleston, SCBegun in 1772 and finally completed in 1787 after British troops quartered in it during the Revolution, the Unitarian Church in Charleston is the oldest Unitarian church in the South and a National Historic Landmark, its graveyard left deliberately wild because the congregation believes the dead should not be disturbed.