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Bizarre Graves

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Rated G. (Control what you see)

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 

Dada Gravestone by Voxphoto

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santa_claus_is_dead by thecheshirepat

Santa Claus

Lilly E. Gray, Victim of the Beast 666 by bigbrownhouse

Lilly E. Gray, Victim of the Beast 666

weird gravestones by flynnpants

What is that?

Robert George  1930--1998 by johnmartine63

He Had It All

Creepy Grave by Denis Gobo

Creepy

Mary Magdalen by starfish235

Mary Magdalen

I'm not FROM here!! by Shani's Stuff

I'm not FROM here!

strange grave monument by lucathegalga

Fox?

A strange grave by Celia Richards

eeehh

Strange Graves by NatalieMaynor

Strange

Interesting Grave by NatalieMaynor

Bizarre Hands

Interesting Grave by NatalieMaynor

I've never seen this done, but I think it is beautiful.

Bottle Tree in Cemetery by NatalieMaynor

Bottle Tree

Sicilian Triskelion by NatalieMaynor

Looks like a Shel Silverstein drawing I once saw

Different Strokes for Different Folks 

Traditions for grave markers differ dramatically around the world. What may seem odd, outrageous, or even inappropriate in one place is perfectly normal (and common) in another. Try not to be judgmental.

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

Amazon Price: (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.

Living among the dead 

How close could you live to the cemetary?

Bizarre Graves 

I kinda like the scrabble grave.

He was a good moose. by Doctor Beef

Bullwinkle

18 Grave of Octavia Dockery (1865 - April 22, 1949) "Mistress of Goat Castle" - Eccentric recluse and suspect in a brutal murder that made international headlines. by sunnybrook100

Mistress of Goat Castle

lone fir cemetery - portland, or by DeadManTalking

Artsy

lone fir cemetery - portland, or by DeadManTalking

Scrabble

lone oak cemetery - stayton, or by DeadManTalking

You got to be kidding me

lone oak cemetery - stayton, or by DeadManTalking

Ole

Bishops stone Killadeas (pagan with Christian on one side) by horslips5

It just looks like Pez to me

greencrest memorial park- sheridan, or by DeadManTalking

And it looks like an evil Minnie at that

fir crest cemetery - monmouth, or by DeadManTalking

Power Rangers? Why?

Deloney R Watt and Bart Simpson by johnmartine63

Bart?

¿No eran doce? by Marblau

Well 6 Apostles are enough

Gravestone, Woodmere Cemetery--Detroit MI by pinehurst19475

I guess she like the gown

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)

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.

kmadison

Excellent site. Check out www.gravestoneart.com for more wierd grave pics.

Posted July 18, 2008

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

Joan4

Weird, strange and interesting. What ever made you think of this? lol Great lens! 5*

Posted July 14, 2008

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

LindaJM

Morbid, but interesting lens. You got my attention!

Posted May 29, 2008

 
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