[Urban Sky]

I Took these in Key West, Fl.

Not really "statues" per se, so I didn't post these during the last photo comp, but thought it would be interesting to post here instead.

This is part of a grave in Key West, Florida which probably dates back almost 100 years or more. It's pretty creepy because the woman is bound with her hands behind her back. This grave used to be polished stone, but over the years, hurricanes have worn down the stone with flying sand an debris.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/urban_sky/Miami/MIA%20Final/ce4d0cbc.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/urban_sky/Miami/MIA%20Final/a0c0788b.jpg

Sorry the photos aren't better quality, but:
a) It was 2am
b) I was drunk
c) It was raining and being in graveyard under such conditions is creepy.
d) I had just had the shit scared out of me by some dude hiding in a Crypt. Exibit A:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/urban_sky/Miami/MIA%20Final/13f7f8d5.jpg
Let's zoom in on that...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/urban_sky/Miami/MIA%20Final/1e88b2ea.jpg
It was pitch black and I hear this groan...so I snapped a picture and got the fuck outta there...


Some more statues/graves:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/urban_sky/Miami/MIA%20Final/6e1c4a3e.jpg
This person was born in Key West in 1845...can you imagine what it was like down there?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/urban_sky/Miami/MIA%20Final/c980cb8d.jpg
This one was about 15 feet tall...no kidding.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/urban_sky/Miami/MIA%20Final/IMG_6382.jpg
A Child's Grave:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/urban_sky/Miami/MIA%20Final/IMG_6383.jpg

[mttop]

Interesting pictures!

[feepa]

Holy, that guy in the crypt would scare the living daylights out of me. Something you would expect in a scary movie or something

[Sacto]

Creepy but not so creepy.

[Urban Sky]

Creepy but not so creepy.

Dude, if that fucker in the crypt interrupted silence in a graveyard at 2am you'd be fuckin creeped out too...

and it was like a movie!!!

[TheMeltyMan]

ahhaha

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/urban_sky/Miami/MIA%20Final/1e88b2ea.jpg

thats so frightening yet hilarious at the same time.

[rockyi]

Morbid or not, I find cemeteries facinating.
Cool pics.

[KevinFromTexas]

Holy crap.

I remember being about 11 years old walking in one of the alleys in downtown with my dad and his friend around 10 at night and we pass by this dumpster. My dad's friend was in the process of moving and was looking for boxes to use as we walked along. So he peers into this one dumpster behind an office building and there's a homeless guy sleeping in it. It scared the crap out of all three of us. We walked off quietly trying not to wake him.

[Derek]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/urban_sky/Miami/MIA%20Final/1e88b2ea.jpg


wtf is he doing!?

[Urban Sky]

Holy crap.

I remember being about 11 years old walking in one of the alleys in downtown with my dad and his friend around 10 at night and we pass by this dumpster. My dad's friend was in the process of moving and was looking for boxes to use as we walked along. So he peers into this one dumpster behind an office building and there's a homeless guy sleeping in it. It scared the crap out of all three of us. We walked off quietly trying not to wake him.

Just imagine if he was awake and made some sudden sound....hahah.

Good times.

[Urban Sky]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/urban_sky/Miami/MIA%20Final/1e88b2ea.jpg


wtf is he doing!?

getting out of the rain? hangin out with the dead?? who knows!


ANYONE ELSE HAVE AND GRAVEYARD PICS??

[Derek]

haha its creepy

[rockyi]

ANYONE ELSE HAVE AND GRAVEYARD PICS??

Funny you should ask....:D
These are from Chippiannock Cemetery just a few blocks from my home.
I don't have any creepy nighttime shots though. They lock this one up pretty tight at night.

A Newfoundland dog waiting at the grave of the children who once owned him.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/017_13a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/013_9a.jpg

This thing really does rock.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/015_11a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/875247-R1-052-24A.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/019_15a.jpg

Riverboat Captain #1
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/022_18a.jpg

Riverboat Captain #2
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/023_19a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/027_23a.jpg

Pyramid power!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/024_20a.jpg

A real big ball
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/021_17a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/025_21a.jpg

I'm done hijacking your thread now. :)

[Urban Sky]

Fuckin great! those are fantastic. I love the symbology of the ones with the statues.

The only reason I got the night time photos is because we jumped the fence. They locked that one up too...

[rockyi]

Thanks, it is a pretty incredible cemetery. It's the only one in Northern Illinois in which the whole cemetery is listed on the National Historical Register.
I was just walking my dog there earlier this evening.

[Urban Sky]

Thanks, it is a pretty incredible cemetery. It's the only one in Northern Illinois in which the whole cemetery is listed on the National Historical Register.
I was just walking my dog there earlier this evening.

wow, thats really something. i wish i lived closer to a cemetary!

[KevinFromTexas]

I live in a fairly old part of South Austin where we didn't really have any housing developments until the 1950s. But the area had several family homesteads going back to the 1870s. Scattered around the area are a few family and local cemeteries dating back to the 1870s and 1880s. One of these is a quarter mile from my house where two people are buried. That land is now actually a city park. A woman who is buried there is somehow related to Abraham Lincoln. There's also another old cemetery about a half mile from my house that was preserved with a retail project that was constructed nearby. They restored the grave yard and cleaned up the property. Until the retail development had broken ground no one knew the cemetery was even there, even though the headstones are still in place. I believe that one dates back to around the 1890s to 1900.

[HomeInMyShoes]

That guy in the mausoleum would have made me pee my pants.

Adding to the creepiness (except it was too sunny), here's a few I took of Recoleta Cemetary in Buenos Aires in 2005:

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h217/HomeInMyShoes/General/recoleta1.jpg

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h217/HomeInMyShoes/General/recoleta2.jpg

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h217/HomeInMyShoes/General/recoleta3.jpg

[-GR2NY-]

Some more....

http://landofthedevil.com/Photos/GrandRapidsGhostHunters/hunt14_0001.jpg http://landofthedevil.com/Photos/GrandRapidsGhostHunters/hunt14_0004.jpg

http://landofthedevil.com/Photos/GrandRapidsGhostHunters/hunt16_0001.jpg http://landofthedevil.com/Photos/GrandRapidsGhostHunters/hunt16_0004.jpg

[Derek]

the cemetery in Buenos Aires is dense!

[rockyi]

Adding to the creepiness (except it was too sunny), here's a few I took of Recoleta Cemetary in Buenos Aires in 2005:

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h217/HomeInMyShoes/General/recoleta1.jpg


Wow, check out those spinning attic vent thingy's. That's really strange.

[Urban Sky]

i cant believe how packed those crypts are. its like a city of crypts.

as far as the one in texas, its good to hear that people are trying to preserve whats left of a 130 year old grave yard, no matter how small.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Recoleta was very cool to see. The reason most people go there is because Eva Peron is buried there (you know, Madonna's character in Evita.) Well worth an hour or two of your schedule if you're in Buenos Aires and even if you don't care about history the architecture of the crypts is pretty stunning.

I've been tempted to head over to one of the cemetaries here in STL because Dred Scott is buried there.

[Urban Sky]

id like to take a tour of some of the most impressive graveyards in (at least) the US, (at most) the World. There's something about spending the day in a place like this...you remember how alive you are.

[city dweller]

LMAO!!!

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

You have got to be kidding me. I am crying and my gut hurts from laughing. What in the hell was that guy doing in a crypt at 2 a.m. in like a Tarzan outfit.

:banana: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/urban_sky/Miami/MIA%20Final/13f7f8d5.jpg:banana:

The part about you being drunk was funny enough, but then you mentioned some guy hiding in a crypt at 2 a.m. scaring the crap out of you and I just fell on the ground laughing. You go from that freaky statue to him, it caught me off guard completely. I love the photo, he looks so natural, like he normally hangs out in crypts at 2 a.m. Did he say anything, or did you notice him with the flash (because that would be creepy as hell). What does one guy say to another guy when they meet at 2 am in a graveyard, one taking pictures, the other hunched in a crypt. There's something about the spontaneity of the whole event that is just hilarious. I think I'm going to make the pic of him my background, just so I can laugh my ass off everytime I see it. BTW, did you notice the orbs in the pics, some would say they're ghosts... :eek:

[Urban Sky]

LMAO!!!

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

You have got to be kidding me. I am crying and my gut hurts from laughing. What in the hell was that guy doing in a crypt at 2 a.m. in like a Tarzan outfit.

:banana: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/urban_sky/Miami/MIA%20Final/13f7f8d5.jpg:banana:

The part about you being drunk was funny enough, but then you mentioned some guy hiding in a crypt at 2 a.m. scaring the crap out of you and I just fell on the ground laughing. You go from that freaky statue to him, it caught me off guard completely. I love the photo, he looks so natural, like he normally hangs out in crypts at 2 a.m. Did he say anything, or did you notice him with the flash (because that would be creepy as hell). What does one guy say to another guy when they meet at 2 am in a graveyard, one taking pictures, the other hunched in a crypt. There's something about the spontaneity of the whole event that is just hilarious. I think I'm going to make the pic of him my background, just so I can laugh my ass off everytime I see it. BTW, did you notice the orbs in the pics, some would say they're ghosts... :eek:

yeah, it was so funny. the people i were with were standing in front of the crypt waiting for me to come take a picture. all of a sudden, we hear this loud groan form inside the crypt. they were only feet in front of it, but couldnt see inside. they took off running and i got the photo and also left quickly.lol :haha:

i glad we were able to entertain. i always laugh about it now too.