A cemetery is not the most pleasant place that most of us have visited in our lives. In the literal sense, the deathly silence that envelops this place inspires fear, and the crows sitting on rickety crosses, whose cawing breaks the silence with a piercing sound, inspires real horror. Although the tombstones that can be seen in the cemetery can be much more creepy than the cemetery itself. Here are 25 of the strangest, heartbreaking and sometimes funny tombstones from around the world.
Woman at the piano. I wonder if she played in her lifetime?
This woman really loved Mickey Mouse
We hope that the death of this man and smoking are not connected.
Tomb of the creator of the labyrinth
Now they will sleep forever
The tree mercilessly swallowed the old grave
This tomb is located in Paris, France and is the resting place of the inventor of the gas lamp, Charles Pigeon.
In this grave rests a 10-year-old girl who died in 1871, who during her lifetime was very afraid of thunderstorms. After the death of her daughter, her heartbroken mother ordered to build a basement next to the girl's grave, where she could go down during a thunderstorm and calm her daughter.
This life-size monument in a glass box was commissioned by the mother of the deceased.
This is the grave of a 16-year-old girl whose sister commissioned this life-size headstone.
Lovers from Thailand
One of the most heartbreaking monuments we have ever seen and reminds us that we are all in the hands of God.
A tombstone in the form of a mobile phone in one of the Israeli cemeteries
Happy forever
A terrifying tomb located in Genoa, Italy
In this grave with an eerie headstone lies the writer Georges Rodenbach who got out of it.
Mortsafe: This appearance of the grave was common in 18th century Scotland and was done in order to protect the graves from looting, which was a frequent occurrence among medical students who were so lacking in practical material
Nature is relentless
The frightening gravestone of Fernand Arbelote, who was a musician and actor
Tomb of an 18th century French journalist
Whoever lies here really enjoyed playing scrabble.
These are the graves of a husband and wife connected to each other. The wife was a Protestant and the husband was a Catholic. They died at a time when Catholics and Protestants were buried in different cemeteries.
This is the last remaining grave in an old cemetery in rural Indiana. Much of the cemetery was moved to make way for the state highway. The grandson of the woman buried there refused to move his grandmother. The county eventually gave in and built a road around the grave
Often, people who have lost loved ones come up with the idea to perpetuate their memory in some non-trivial way. The unusual shape of the tombstone will make it possible to distinguish the grave from the mass of the same type of cemetery structures. By ordering a monument of a non-standard form, you can emphasize the uniqueness of the deceased person, show how much he did for you during his lifetime, how talented and wonderful he was. Although the death of loved ones always causes excruciating and sharp pain, regardless of his achievements in worldly life.
Non-standard monuments
Strange tombstones in the cemetery and simply unusual graves in Russia are becoming increasingly popular, because it seems to many that a standard tombstone will not be able to express all their pain and bitterness from the loss that has occurred. The specialists of our company understand this desire and help to decorate the grave in a manner corresponding to the dignity of a person in his lifetime. In these cases, we offer the relatives of the deceased a catalog with photos of amazing tombstones, which presents a wide range of complex, unusual and. We always keep in stock ready-made designs of special architectural forms, and we also have all the possibilities for making tombstones according to individual sketches. In you can order a monument to the cemetery from any materials, as well as their combinations: granite, marble, metal.
The main feature of non-standard tombstones is the material, because, as a rule, rather expensive types of stone with an unusual color and pattern are used in the manufacturing process. The processing of such products is carried out by the most experienced craftsmen who are able to invest in the creation of a masterpiece not only their knowledge and experience, but also their soul. The most unusual monument in the cemetery can be made of several types of stone and complemented with handmade decorations. Also, the specialists of our workshop apply
In fact, people are scared in most cemeteries, because this is the place where they remember death, including their own death. But these cemeteries are teeming with ghost stories and odd facts! Want to tickle your nerves? That way.
You might be surprised that the first cemetery photo on this list is of an airport. However, this is really a cemetery! Beneath runway number 10 are the graves of the Dotson couple, a married couple who used to live in a house on the site of the airport and were buried in the area next to it. The airport repeatedly negotiated with Dotson's relatives about the transfer of the remains, but they did not agree, and without the consent of relatives in the United States, this is not allowed.
The architectural splendor of the Recoleta cemetery is amazing, but it was not included in this list because of it, but because of a number of terrible and unusual stories about those who are buried there: next to the grave of Evita Peron, on which there are always fresh flowers, Rufina Cambaceres is buried , a girl who was buried alive and came out of a coma right in the coffin, and David Alleno, a poor gravedigger who saved up money for a burial site for thirty years, and having saved up, committed suicide.
We are used to the fact that the cemeteries are underground, but the Filipino Igorot tribe buries their dead ... in the air. Cemeteries always hang over the heads of people from this tribe. For example, this rock covered with coffins looks creepy!
This cemetery is a popular tourist attraction in the Romanian village of Sapinta. The monuments of the cemetery, painted in bright colors, take us away from the mourning atmosphere of the place, and the epitaphs on them can be both funny and even satirical.
This is perhaps one of the most famous cemeteries in England. Every crypt and every statue here is an architectural masterpiece. But, beyond that, the graveyard is known for its abundance of ghosts - for example, a tall Highgate vampire with a hypnotic gaze. Another famous ghost is a crazy woman running around the cemetery looking for the children she killed.
Greyfriars Cemetery is an old cemetery with a rich history. It was founded in the 1560s. at the local prison. Of the 1200 prisoners, only 257 left it alive - the rest remained here forever. Now a rare brave man will dare to enter the gates of Greyfriars at night - the souls of the innocently killed will not give him rest.
People are afraid to visit even ordinary cemeteries. What would you say about the whole island of the dead? He is in Venice! When it was found that burials in the main territory of Venice lead to unsanitary conditions, the dead began to be taken out to San Michele. This is still done in a gondola specially designated for this.
The mining towns of La Noria and Humberstone are located in the middle of the desert in Chile. The history of these towns is a terrible story about the violence of the masters over their slave miners. Sometimes they were simply brutally killed, not sparing even the children. They were buried in the cemetery of La Noria; now, when you are in this cemetery, the feeling of the otherworldly environment around does not leave. There are many open and dug graves in the cemetery, from which skeletons even show up!
4. Chiesa dei Morti (Church of the Dead), Urbino, Italy
The Church of the Dead is famous not only for its big name, but also for the exposition of mummies. Behind the classic baroque arch, you have a great view of most of them. Each of the 18 preserved mummies is in its own alcove. The church was built, which is characteristic, the Brotherhood of the Good Death.
3. Bachelors Grove Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
This place is legendary as one of the most haunted cemeteries in America. Eyewitnesses confirm the appearance of strange figures in the cemetery. One of the famous ghosts is a white lady with a child in her arms. Also in the 1950s so many visitors to the cemetery have reported a ghostly house. In addition, a farmer with a horse appeared in the cemetery, killed nearby, and a black dog.
The number of "inhabitants" of the catacombs of Paris is almost three times the number of Parisians living above - almost 6 million corpses are buried here. The ebullient life of the chic "upper Paris" is terribly different from the gloomy city of the dead underground. Here you can find whole corridors of skulls and bones. The Parisian catacombs are huge, and no one knows how confusing their labyrinth is: it is quite possible to get lost here forever.
The Crypt of the Capuchins are 6 rooms located under the church of Santa Maria della Concezione in Italy. It contains 3,700 skeletons of monks of the Capuchin brotherhood. When their remains were brought here in 1631, they took 300 wagons and were buried in earth specially brought from Jerusalem. After 30 years, the remains were exhumed and displayed in the hall. But the worst thing is not the mummies themselves, but the “message of the brotherhood”, translated into 5 languages: “We were what you are. You will be what we are."
Grieving relatives do everything to perpetuate the memory of the deceased loved ones, turning ordinary gravestones either into something very allegorical or into sculptures that are real works of art:
1. Woman at the piano. She may have been a musician during her lifetime
2. This woman was very fond of Mickey Mouse
3. Maybe this guy died because he smoked too much?
4. The grave of the creator of the labyrinth
5. "Eternal sleep"
6. A tree swallowed up an old grave
7. Tombstone over the grave of the inventor of the gas lamp Charles Pigeon, Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France
8. Such a grave was made at the behest of a heartbroken mother for her late 10-year-old daughter in 1871.
When the girl was alive, she was terrified of thunderstorms. Next to her grave is a special basement, which was dug to the level of the coffin. During a thunderstorm, the girl's mother went down to the basement to "calm down" her child.
Source 9The life-size statue of a girl under a glass jar was custom-made at the request of her mother.
10. This is the grave of a 16-year-old girl. The headstone was commissioned by her sister.
11. "Love to the grave", Thailand
12. This monument depicts the Savior, who holds in his hands two ropes from a simple children's swing with a crossbar.
A little girl sits on a swing below. The sculptural composition reminds that the life of everyone on earth is in the hands of God.
13. A tombstone in the form of a mobile phone was found in one of the Israeli cemeteries.
Various inscriptions are engraved on the tombstone, for example: "Please leave a message - I will reply as soon as I can"
14. "Together Forever"
15. This terrifying grave is located in a cemetery in Genoa, Italy
16. The grave of the Belgian writer Georges Rodenbach. The headstone represents the writer himself, rising from the grave with a rose in his hand.
17. The design of this Victorian-era grave serves to ensure that the dead do not leave their final resting place.
Many in those days firmly believed in the existence of vampires and thus prevented the release of the reincarnated dead. In fact, medical students needed corpses to study anatomy, and for the sake of gaining knowledge, they did not disdain excavating fresh graves. To protect the assassination attempt on the deceased, relatives ordered forged gratings for the graves of loved ones.
18. Nature is relentless...
19. Fernand Arbelote was a musician and actor who died in 1990.
He was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. During his lifetime, Fernand wished to forever look at the face of his wife.
20. Tombstone of the 18th century, under which rests a French journalist
21. Gravestone in the form of a board for playing scrabble
22. The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together
In the 1800s, it was forbidden to bury Catholics and Protestants in the same cemetery.
23. This grave is all that remains of an old rural cemetery in India.
A state highway was built on the site of the cemetery. The grandson, whose grandmother was buried there, refused to move the grave. In the end, the authorities went to meet him and built a road around the grave.
Colonel J.W.C van Gorcum, who died in 1880, is buried in the Protestant section. And his wife, Lady van Efferden (J.C.P.H van Aefferden) - in Catholic. They married in 1842 when she was 22 and he was 33.
His wife, who belonged to a noble family, did not want to lie in the family tomb, instead she wanted to be closer to her husband and asked to be buried as close to him as possible.
Her wish was granted, and the lovers are still holding hands.
The Recoleta Argentine Cemetery - a famous cemetery located in the eponymous district of Buenos Aires - was the last refuge of Eva Duarte de Peron (Evita Peron) and not only. Many military leaders, presidents, scientists and poets are buried here.
David Alleno was an Italian immigrant and worked as a cemetery caretaker for 29 years. David also dreamed that his body lay in this cemetery. He saved up money to buy himself a place and built his own headstone. He even returned to his homeland to find a stone-cutting artist there who would bring his idea to life. The caretaker wanted the carver to depict him with keys, a broom and a bucket of water. Rumor has it that David put his own life into this work, and as soon as the tombstone was completed, he died.
Others object to this that David did not die until many years later.
The bust of this strict woman is also located in the Recoleta cemetery. The stone statue of a man sitting back to back with a lady is none other than her husband. Unlike the charming Catholic and Protestant couple, these spouses do not hold hands or even look at each other.
The husband died first, and his wife died a few years later. They lived together for 30 years. Without saying a word to each other.
Fernand Arbelot was a musician and actor. He died in 1990 and is buried in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, and before his death, he wanted only one thing - to forever look into the face of his wife.
The boy, who spent most of his young life in a wheelchair, after death was able to break these boundaries and fly - now he is free.
The Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris can rightly be considered one of the most visited cemeteries in the world, where many of the monuments are real works of art. But perhaps the most dramatic of all comes from a writer that most people have never even heard of.
Georges Rodenbach (Georges Rodenbach) - Belgian writer of the XIX century, the author of the symbolic story "Dead Bruges" (Bruges-la-Morte). The protagonist of the work is Yug Vian, a widower who inconsolably mourns his early wife.
The cemetery in the village of Sapinta, Maramures County, Romania, is known for its cheerful atmosphere. Surely those who asked to be buried in this cemetery had a strong sense of humor.
Graves reflect people's hobbies in life. Some were shepherds, others were soldiers, and still others loved parties and poetry. Some tombstones tell the story of the death of the buried: some were killed by thieves, others were killed in a car accident ...
Perfect sense of humor
Jack Crowell is the owner of the last wooden clothespin factory in the USA. He always wanted children to play on his grave.
When Ray Tse Jr. died at the age of 15, his older brother, a successful businessman, decided to give his brother, who always dreamed of driving a car, a posthumous gift. The stone car cost $250,000, but maybe now Ray is good at driving his own Mercedes Benz. The grave is located at Linden Cemetery in New Jersey.
Perhaps the second most popular French cemetery, Montparnasse, has become the home of the inventor Charles Pigeon, who rises on the bed where he lay with his wife and looks around in search of an angel.
