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America's Most Haunted Cemeteries

Across the U.S., numerous cemeteries are rumored to be home to restless spirits, drawing visitors with tales of folklore and the supernatural.

Colonial Park Cemetery (Savannah, GA) and Harvard Shaker Lollipop Graveyard (MA) report hauntings. Colonial Park's spirits are said to be disturbed by Civil War soldiers; Harvard's graveyard is rumored built on Native American land.

Dean Hill Cemetery (MA), for veterans, and Wildwood Cemetery (PA) feature legends of soldiers, a woman in white, a banshee, and a fireman's mausoleum.

Frenier Cemetery (LA) has a mass grave from a 1915 hurricane, with legends of a voodoo priestess. Georgiana Cemetery (FL) is haunted by murder victim Ethel Allen.

Old Tonopah Cemetery (NV) is associated with miners and prospectors, with reported EVPs. Alice Flagg's Grave (SC) is haunted by a heartbroken young woman.

Greenwood Cemetery (WA) has 'the thousand steps' with apparitions. Tunnels may be haunted by laborers. Dead Children's Playground (AL) has moving swings and orbs.

Unitarian Church Cemetery (SC) features a 'Lady in White' and Mary Bloomfield. St. Omer Cemetery (IL) has the grave of Caroline Barnes, supposedly executed for witchcraft.

El Campo Santo Cemetery (CA) has spirits believed trapped beneath concrete. Antonio Garra and Yankee Jim Robinson are among its reported specters.

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