Four year old Utah boy killed by tombstone in freak accident (ancient, ghost)
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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)
Your mentioning pictures caused me to think of one that was taken at my partner's funeral in 1992.
I am standing at the end of the casket.
You can make out his body lying in the casket in the lower right, behind those two smaller bright lights.
Those bright light were (I was later told by an expert in the field) the spirit of my deceased partner.
The light travels from his face toward me.
Now for a little background concerning this picture.
It was taken in the funeral home, in a private room.
There were no windows in that room, and because it was a private service, the one door was closed.
The only light came from the ceiling light, and there was nothing in the room for the ceiling light to reflect off of.
The picture as you can see, was taken without a flash.
Note how the light fades when it touches me.
Bob.
I like to visit them too, and sometimes photograph them. It connects my interest in history, genealogy, names ...and well spooky things.
I visited one as a teenager with my friends -once we actually found one in the woods and a baby burred there was named "Freelove." Our imaginations ran wild as you might expect.
But still, even as a teenager, we were reverential. There was a small church yard next to the church I attended as a child and I never played in it. When I was about seven I had an interest in looking at the graves and my dad took me in, instructing me not to step on them.
They are not playgrounds.
I'm not a big coincidence person. More of a synchronicity type.
HAHA...yeah I got the joke. Someone actually fell for it. It's actually like that Kennedy-Lincoln comparison thing that was making the rounds years ago - "look, there name both have 7 letters". You can make a list of comparisons with any unrelated events, but then you disregard the much more numerious list of things that dont' compare.
Looks, guys, like someone posted, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". If you attribute a tragic death in a cemetary to a ghost then you can attribute any accidental death to a ghost...maybe a traffic accident on the roads around the cemetary, maybe someone falling off a roof a mile from the cemetary.
Another thing - if a supernatural evil entity wanted someone dead, why make it look like an accident? Is he afraid of the ghost police coming after him? He could have picking up some tombstone and hurled it on the child with his supernatural powers, or formulated some other method of death, rather than simply manipulating that unstable stone that was already above the child.
There is a lesson here, for parents that have children, and it doesn't involve ghosts: Children, heavy stone held together by 150 year old hardware, and playing and climbing - do not mix.
Crushed by a Cross before a Bible study, damn, seems likes something straight out of The Omen.
All creepy thoughts and eerie similarities between the boy's death aside. DAMN. I mean, as the parents, or family, or friends of the girl...how do you spin that? How do you make it sound better?
A sweet little girl taken before her time. How'd she die? Oh, you know, just flattened by a 1,200 pound cross in a cemetery while waiting for a vacation Bible study class.
Like I said though, eerie.... very eerie.
My thoughts and prayers are certainly with the those affected. Goodness...
Crushed by a Cross before a Bible study, damn, seems likes something straight out of The Omen.
All creepy thoughts and eerie similarities between the boy's death aside. DAMN. I mean, as the parents, or family, or friends of the girl...how do you spin that? How do you make it sound better?
A sweet little girl taken before her time. How'd she die? Oh, you know, just flattened by a 1,200 pound cross in a cemetery while waiting for a vacation Bible study class.
Like I said though, eerie.... very eerie.
My thoughts and prayers are certainly with the those affected. Goodness...
I certainly don't want to be flippant about the death of a child, but the most rational explanation is that she was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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