Cemeteries

On one of our walks, we had the chance to visit an Italian cemetery. Now of course it is something I don't make a habit of doing and we certainly aren't Ghost Hunter types, but we just had to see it. "Wow", was the first word that came to mind. Where we bury our dead in a beautifully manicured graveyard, with mowed grass and flowers, the Italians use tombs along the wall. Some of the walls held family plots, others were individual burials. Each tomb had the family member's picture on it and were adorned with flowers, rosaries and such. There were some tombs in the ground, and the ground was gravel rock. Some of the grave sites on the ground had wooden boxes on top of them and flowers, herbs, or little trees growing from them. Most of the tombs were made of marble or granite and some even held two people. In the back of the cemetery was a large family tomb with a wrought iron door attached. We had the chance to walk in and it housed about 8 family members, including the patriarch of the family. I truly enjoyed visiting but after a while, we had to leave. There was one crypt that seriously looked like a vampire crypt and I am pretty sure the engraving on the headstone read "Forever in our hearts and minds". It was all black marble and the tombstone was a large black marble pointed piece of art, sort of shaped like a book standing up. That particular plot, or maybe it was the large family one in the back, gave me creeps and I had chills going up and down my spine. I got the distinct feeling that someone was telling us to "Leave Now." So we did, and when walking up towards the front of the cemetery, i felt ten times better. Now on to my next ghost adventure, a boat ride out to a haunted island!