Four year old Utah boy killed by tombstone in freak accident (lights, ghost)
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And the flip side of your thinking is, that spirits go where ever, and when ever there is a need.
Perhaps if this "accident" were planed by some evil spirit, it knew exactly where, and when these people would be in that cemetery.
We obviously will never know, and perhaps that is the way it is meant to be.
Bob.
Actually, my thinking is the cast majority of hauntings are residual -- like a recording of some event that plays over and over. Intelligent hauntings are very rare.
Demons or evil spirits I'm not sure about...
In this case -- my opinion is that it is an accident.
IDK, I'm from; 'there are no coincidences or accidents' school of thought, but I'm not always certain about that belief. Chain of events are all part of an intricate web. Many for which there are no explanations.
If spirit related activity, my quess would be its something sinister and evil.
- The picture that all the news stations are using creeps me out. Not the best choice of photos to use, it looks like he is getting ready to shield himself from something.
- The whole thing is just so eerie. Crushed by a tombstone, damn, really makes you think about all sorts of things. I'm having a hard time picturing the accident in my head.
- Call me a weirdo, but I really want to know about the person to whom the gravestone belonged.
My opinion of this incident is...sometimes life is just cruel.
Not having anything to go on other than what's been said in this thread, that's how I feel with this one as well. As Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" -- and sometimes an accident is just an accident.
Many if not most ghost researchers will tell you that cemetaries are among the least haunted places. I've taken walks at dusk or just past it in a nearby cemetary and never thought twice about it, same in the early mornings. I look at it this way, If there was one spirit that might want to cause you grief or harm( virtually impossible) there'd be at least 20 that would try to protect you.
Some cemetaries are kind of creepy. Not by being cemetaries, but by where they're located, the topography and the state of the grounds. One I've been to is on the edge of the city high on a hil visible from certain streets. I wouldn't fear ghosts there, I'd fear the living that hang around there. Another is just kind of brooding. It sits below a mountain along a river and is surrounded on two sides by dark woods. I've walked the valley and trail to the river behind it and its got a feel to it. The land does. It rubs off somewhat on the cemetary although when you get away from the woods its very park like and sunny and not bad. Another two are next to churches in the northern part of the county. One has a cemetary halfway up a rounded wooded hill. It just looks like its from an old gothic ghost story. Another is similar only smaller and more remote.
Although once when walking my dog she stopped and looked at a freshly dug grave from a distance and didn't want to go past it. I mentioned this to my brother and he said when he took her for a walk the day before she did the same thing at the same spot. And we've had some pretty well documented reports of three young boys seen playing at dusk in a cemetary on summer evenings. There are three boys from a family buried there who died in a fire about 50 years ago. I spent some time looking there for ancestors graves and , yes, I did keep looking over my shoulder.
I've heard stories that spirits may linger at their grave sites before moving on.
And that is the way it is.
Some spirits linger at graves sites for a specific purpose, and what that usually involves is, the death of the human body was quick, and unexpected.
The spirit was not ready to leave the body so, in returning to the grave site , in essence , it is trying to return to that body, which it can never do.
We have all heard the expression "lost souls", and this would be a prime example of that.
The spirit is in limbo.
It can't move forward until it sheds the memory of the existence it just gave up, and it can't go back to that existence.
Bob.
I like to photograph old cemeteries and always hope something will pop up in my pictures. Never really happens, except for at Tolomato Cemetery in St. Augustine. That one just felt different too, like the air was heavier around it. I had no such impressions at another old cemetery down the street.
I didn't find it creepy, just a little otherworldly. It's said to be haunted by the ghost of a young boy, among others. One awful thing that actually did happen is that poor Bishop Verot, buried there, kind of exploded out of his coffin during his own funeral because of the heat at that time.
I'll find my pics, I have some interesting ones - will make a new thread. I love old cemetaries, but do not want a tombstone falling on me (how awful about that boy)
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