Hollywood Cemetery
Opened in 1847 on a hilly tract above the James River, Hollywood holds Richmond's most layered ghost lore. Its most infamous tale is the Richmond Vampire: after the Church Hill Tunnel collapsed on October 2, 1925, legend says a bloody, jagged-toothed creature fled the wreckage into the granite mausoleum of W.W.
Pool, an Englishman locals already whispered was a vampire. The likelier truth is fireman Benjamin Mosby, scalded when the locomotive's boiler burst, staggering out to die that night.
Near a child's grave, a life-sized iron Newfoundland marks Florence Rees, dead of scarlet fever in 1862; visitors report phantom barking and say the dog shifts position. At the 90-foot Confederate pyramid, where roughly 11,000 unidentified soldiers lie, people describe sudden cold drafts along the rear wall.
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