Located on the grounds of the University of Louisville "Shelby" campus, this picturesque cemetery is little known and largely overlooked. Before the forty days of snow started, I went over to check it out and take these photos. It's like something from a movie...
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| Aerial view, from Bing maps. Strangely, I prefer bing to google for this one function. |
A view of the campus, from the cemetery.
View of the cemetery, from outside the stone wall that surrounds it. A neighborhood is in the background.
Another view of the cemetery, from the outside. The trees are pretty surreal.
More stones. These seem like movie props from some low-budget college film, yet they aren't...
As if this scene wasn't creepy enough, there are a pair of above ground vaults.
Aaaaand....they are busted open. No remains to be seen.
This grave has a separate historical marker. It too is busted open... I mean, really?
Another marker for the same grave.
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I've investigated that cemetery several times as well as Founders Hall yards away on the U of L campus. I can tell you this, DON'T take a picture of the inside of the cracked vaults. Big mistake! In 2011 I did just that and someone followed me home. In my picture there is an orb with a face in it inside the vault. At that time there was a small crack in one of the vaults and I was able to fir my camera lens in the crack and take the picture. Guess that made the occupant decide I was fair game and think he could come home with me. I had a heck of a time getting him to leave. Got numerous class A evps where he kept saying, "I don't know how to get back, I'm lost." Anyway, this is a very haunted location. It's beautiful, in a sad sort of way, in the spring and summer. Lots of baby bunnies in the graveyard in the spring.
ReplyDeleteI'm saddened as I look at your pictures, to see how desecrated it's become. The last time I was there was a year ago and the amount of destruction is alarming. The bodies were moved several years ago, but clearly the spirits remain.
That's so sad :(
ReplyDeleteI wish the pictures were clearer so I could read the memorials.
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