Gravemarkers that make you look twice
Cemeteries are often a place of sadness. You go to a cemetery for a funeral or to visit a loved one. But, have you ever gone to a cemetery just to walk around, on a bright sunny day, when you are happy? You will see graves that peek your interest, and grave that get you scratching your head. You will see witty epitaphs, and very sad memorials. You will see lighthearted artwork, scary creepy sculptures, and things that appear to make no sense at all. You'll see the modest and conservative, and the colorful and outlandish. This lens is devoted to the weird graves. Well they are weird to me, with my implanted concept of what is normal.
Odd Grave Markers
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Santa Claus
Lilly E. Gray, Victim of the Beast 666
What is that?
He Had It All
Creepy
Mary Magdalen
I'm not FROM here!
Fox?
eeehh
Strange
Bizarre Hands
I've never seen this done, but I think it is beautiful.
Bottle Tree
Looks like a Shel Silverstein drawing I once saw
Different Strokes for Different Folks
Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650-1815
Amazon Price: $26.56 (as of 07/26/2008)
Scoring in Heaven: Gravestones and Cemetery Art of the American Sunbelt States
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Eternal Prairie: Exploring Rural Cemeteries of the West
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/26/2008)
Epitaphs and Images from Scottish Graveyards
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Rest Lightly: An Anthology of Latin and Greek Tomb Inscriptions
Amazon Price: $16.20 (as of 07/26/2008)
Pirates?
I guess everyone that lives must die, and everone that dies must have remains somewhere. I guess I just never thought about stumbling upon pirate graves in a cemetary. Some of these may be that of pirates, while others may have just used pirate motifs in grave design. Who knows?
Weird Grave Links
- Weird NJ Graves
- Graves that have appeared in the magazine Weird.
- Weird Michigan cemetery strangeness, odd graves, cemetery legends
- Cemetery strangeness, odd graves, cemetery legends...
- The Weirdest Grave in the West.
- The story behind one of the most peculiar (and most popular) grave sites in the entire United States. More than 60 years after it was completed, it still attracts tens of thousands of visitors a year.
- Weird Places And Things To Visit In North Carolina (Raleigh: house, community) - North Carolina (NC) - Page 2 - City-Data Forum
- Then there are the bizarre graves in The Old Burying Ground...here are a few of them...
- Bizarre Gravestone Epitaphs Part 1
- A list of bizarre gravestone epitaphs, quotes and quotations of people's last words on their tombstones.
Bizarre Graves
I kinda like the scrabble grave.
Bullwinkle
Mistress of Goat Castle
Artsy
Scrabble
You got to be kidding me
Ole
It just looks like Pez to me
And it looks like an evil Minnie at that
Power Rangers? Why?
Bart?
Well 6 Apostles are enough
I guess she like the gown
Epitaphs
COLOR
These graves are in a cemetary in Mexico. While bright colors are not often found in American cemetaries, that is not the case worldwide.
Preserving the Memory
The Old Stone Rubbing Kit: Preserving Epitaphs and Artwork from Historical Gravestones & Monuments
Amazon Price: $18.21 (as of 07/26/2008)
A Graveyard Preservation Primer (American Association for State and Local History Book Series)
Amazon Price: $26.95 (as of 07/26/2008)
Graveside Guestbook
What's the weirdest grave you've seen? What kind of grave do you want?
I'm leaning toward a grave that looks like rock-candy myself.
Excellent site. Check out www.gravestoneart.com for more wierd grave pics.
Posted July 18, 2008
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debnet
Great lens. I love Grave hunting for ancestors & come across all sorts of weird, wonderful & heartbreaking epitaphs & graves. Love it! Posted July 15, 2008 |
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Joan4
Weird, strange and interesting. What ever made you think of this? lol Great lens! 5* Posted July 14, 2008 |
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The_Homeopath
No better place for this than lensrolled in to my Poe Toaster lens. They can walk hand and hand. Posted June 13, 2008 |
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LindaJM
Morbid, but interesting lens. You got my attention! Posted May 29, 2008 |
