Cemetery Hauntings

There are numerous paranormal investigation teams and organizations, that investigate random cemeteries all the time. A lot of time these groups are merely a group of kids out looking for a thrill, or their a new team lacking experience, and private cases, so they hone their skills in the cemeteries. I don't fault the later. However, the thrill seekers do create problems. As these kinds are more likely to come to the cemetery drunk or on drugs, if not doing both of those things there at the cemetery. This in return creates vandalism, and in some cases the arrival of the police. What is it these thrill seekers tell the police their doing? Ghost Hunting! This in turn makes it extremely hard for any group or team that is wanting to investigate this cemetery, due to the false allegations of these thrill seekers.

Now, here in lies a problem for me. Why would a cemetery be haunted in the first place? If it is due to this being the location of their body, then I see flaw in that reasoning. Especially if your a ghost or spirit with free will still. Sure I can possibly see some vain person not wanting to let go and perhaps spending a bit of time with their body, but for the most part, wouldn't an intelligent being want to be with loved ones at best? The free will thing is where i have issues with the above reasoning.

But then there is also the portal hypothesis. That some how, some way, every cemetery is a gateway to and from the other side. Now, the lack of depth to this hypothesis alone gives me grief. The portal is just magically there, no way of explaining it. As you can see I have a problem buying the portal hauntings.

I personally don't think many cemeteries are haunted at all. That is unless some event took place on the grounds, that would imprint a haunting, or leave something behind. Such as a murder or a death of some sort. This would be the only reasoning I could think of for a cemetery to be haunted. Although it could be argued that cemeteries are more apt to have residual hauntings. But, these residual hauntings, would be most likely those of still living people. And this would only be possible if say at a funeral the grieving was so strong that there was such a release of emotions that this event leaves behind the residual haunting or imprint. So what you would be possibly encountering isn't the ghost of a dead person, but more likely if anything, the emotional release of a funeral.

The only other reasonable/interesting reason would be something I read one time, on a study of pheromones, and their possible reason for residual hauntings. Was an interesting hypothesis, i don't know how far the researchers for the project got into experiments and testing the hypothesis. But it was an interesting read. The jest of it goes like this.

That since it has been scientifically proven that pheromones do have an effect on us. Then a cemetery could very well be full of them. And through time these pheromones that are underground and buried are then released with decomposing gases and what not. Where we then interact with them, and are then effected by what chemical memory is stored in the pheromone. This could also explain why haunting activity increases a lot of the time when home owners are renovating their home or remodeling. The pheromones left behind in all the nooks and crannies with in the walls and every crack are getting kicked up, and being interacted with. Granted more research in this hypothesis is needed, but its interesting none the less.

As oddly as it sounds to some. I can easily enjoy myself at a cemetery. Yes, I still go to them. But not to ghost hunt or investigate, unless a haunting or activity has been reported. But for the peaceful atmosphere and depending on where you go, their beauty. I enjoy photography, and probably my favorite subject to shoot is cemeteries. To be more specific, Victorian era garden cemeteries. In the old days, Victorian era and what not. Cemeteries were almost like parks. People would go for the day and picnic and lounge around all day in them. Nowadays their just a place to discard dead bodies. Their beauty from the past have gone, and we're left with bland identical rows of faceless headstones for our loved ones. You rarely find one anymore of recent times that would allow a person to raise a 30 foot obelisk as their mark on this world. Let alone plant hundreds of different plants and flowers through out the cemetery.

So anyway, I rant enough.

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