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.
Recoleta Argentinean 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 a haven for the inventor Charles Pigeon, who rises on the bed where he lay with his wife and looks around for an angel.
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 secure the attempt on the deceased, relatives ordered forged gratings on 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.
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
We offer a look at some unusual graves that can be seen in cemeteries around the world:
The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together. Buried in the Protestant section of this cemetery is J.W.C van Gorcum, colonel of the Dutch cavalry and police commissioner in Limburg. His wife, Lady J.C.P.H van Aefferden, is buried in the Catholic section. They married in 1842 when she was 22 and the colonel 33, but he was a Protestant and not of the nobility.
Their marriage caused a lot of gossip in Roermond (Roermond). Having lived for 38 years in marriage, the colonel died in 1880 and was buried in the Protestant part of the cemetery near the wall. His wife died in 1888 and wished to be buried not in the family tomb, but on the other side of the wall, which was the closest place to her husband's grave. Two hands in a handshake connect the graves through the wall.
The Recoleta Cemetery is best known for being the burial place of Maria Eva Duarte de Peron or Evita, but in fact, many famous military leaders, presidents, scientists, poets and other important or wealthy Argentines.
David Alleno was an Italian immigrant who dreamed of being buried in this prestigious cemetery, where he worked as a caretaker from 1881 to 1910. He saved enough money to buy himself a place and built his own tomb. He even traveled back to his homeland to find an artist who could carve his figure out of marble, with keys, a broom and a watering can. Legend has it that after the grave was completed, David committed suicide on his grave, but many authorities say he died a few years after the grave was built.
This headstone is also located in the Recoleta Cemetery in Argentina. But what is so unusual about it? Well, let's start with the man sitting on the couch seriously looking at the horizon, and the bust of the woman standing behind him, but they are looking in opposite directions. They are placed that way because he died first, so the family made a mausoleum for him. A few years later, when his wife died, she asked in her will that her image be placed in such a way that it reflected their marriage: they spent the last 30 years of marriage without saying a word to each other.
Fernand Arbelot was a musician and actor who died in 1990 and was buried in the Pere Lachaise cemetery. He wished to look at his wife's face forever.
This unique monument represents a little boy jumping out of his wheelchair. Chained to a wheelchair for most of his short life, he was finally freed from earthly burdens.
The gravestones are arranged around a tree that has grown noticeably since part of St Pancras was cleared in 1860 to make way for the London to Midland railway. The young architect supervising the work was Thomas Hardy, a well-known author.
The Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is probably the most visited cemetery in the world and is known not only for the beauty of its monuments, but also for the celebrities buried there. However, one of the most dramatic graves belongs to an author most people have never heard of.
Georges Rodenbach was a Belgian writer who lived in the 19th century, best known for a book that, for the most part, was intended as serious literature for students. Dead Bruges (Bruges-la-Morte), a symbolic novel published in 1892, was about a man grieving for his dead wife. Therefore, it is excruciatingly painful to look at the grave of Rodenbach, the tombstone of which represents himself, rising from the grave with a rose in his hand.
When Jonathan Reed's wife, Mary, died in 1893, the widower was inconsolable and did not want to leave the grave. Moreover, he was so devoted to her that he moved to live on her grave, where he lived (with a parrot) for 10 years. Reed died in 1905 and was buried with Mary.
The most famous landmark in Hiawatha, Kansas, is the 1930s tomb located in Mount Hope Cemetery, near the southeast edge of town. John Milburn Davis arrived in Hiawatha in 1879 at the age of 24. Some time later he married Sarah Hart, the daughter of his employer. The Davises opened their own farm, which prospered, and were married for 50 years. When Sarah died in 1930, the Davises were already wealthy. Over the next seven years, John Davis used most of the family fortune to build a monument on Sarah's grave.
The amount spent on the Davis Memorial is estimated to be around $100,000, but the total is actually several times greater. In any case, it was a huge amount, for the collection of which it was necessary to mortgage the entire household and the mansion. This was during the Great Depression, when people couldn't make ends meet.
Among the reasons that could explain the extravagance of such an act are great love, guilt, anger at Sarah's family, and the desire that the Davis fortune be exhausted before John's death.
The Davis Memorial has grown piecemeal, which is pretty sad. If it had been built according to a pre-made plan, then perhaps it would have been larger and more beautiful. The original site of the memorial was a simple headstone, but John worked with Horace England, a monument dealer in Hiawatha, to make the monument more and more complex. The memorial includes 11 life-size statues of John and Sarah Davis made from Italian marble, stone urns and a marble dome rumored to weigh over 50 tons.
Jack Crowell owned the last wooden clothespin factory in the United States. Initially, he wanted a real spring to be installed in the clothespin so that children could play with it. He is buried in Middlesex, Vermont.
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 plot 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 jail. 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."
