Let me give you a disclaimer that I have had few encounters with anything like this, and also, I love and fear the paranormal. If you are rolling your eyes right now, feel free to click away. I am just sharing a fun evening walk I had with my boyfriend, dog and his best friend.
So yesterday I was taken to this beautiful cemetery I think outside of Syracuse, called Oakwood Cemetery, and it was amazing!
It is gigantic and very historic, so it takes a while to get to a certain spot in the cemetery.
So you drive in, and go off the paved roads, down gravel, all the way to this old church, and park, then you walk up to the church where you can see a map of the entirety of Oakwood.
Then they took me to this statue of a lion. It is beautiful. I will have them attached below. His eyes are hollow so that when it rains, he cries. There is also rumor that he gets up and walks around at night. Which upon closer inspection I noticed he was not attached to the stone he was placed on. True story, you'll see.
We then went to various other locations, starting with an old abandoned barn. We walked past a clearing, on this gravel road, and I immediately noticed a temperature drop as soon as we stepped on the road. I also had this feeling of not dread, but like there was something weighing down my chest. As we kept walking, I noticed a little bit of a foul feeling, but kept along, I love seeing old structures and I especially love cemeteries.
The barn ended up not being there, and the feeling let up when we were in the clearing that had been the barn, as well as the temperature, but I do wonder what the temperature drop on the road was.
We also went to different structures, and I won't be able to remember them all, but don't worry, I already am itching to go back. We went to a circle pyramid, a few archways, another pyramid where there have been stories of lights seen at night, and if you put your hand at the top of the now cemented over door, you can feel the cool air coming out.
We also went to this monument where it was open on one side, and opposite to that was a window, with a bag hanging under it. I was told by my companions that people peed in there, and to not sit down. Dually noted, I thought. Also, it smelled of pee, and my germophobe kicked in. I had a weird unsettled feeling while in there, I also think that I was on edge because I didn't want to interrupt these people's resting grounds, these graves were from the early 1800's and I certainly had to right to be tramping all over, so I was trying my best to be cautious.
The bag ended up being full of trash, so we left it hanging on a giant branch outside of the building, against the window, and to me it was unsettling but lovely.
I believe it was across from that structure, or a little bit later, I saw an archway that was dedicated to a soldier, and I wanted to go look at it. So, I walked over to it, despite my boyfriends warning of, "Don't stand in that archway"
And as I walked over to the archway, I put one hand in, then another, felt a cool rush over me, and decided not to stand in it... Funny how we don't listen to the best warnings...
They showed me many beautiful things, old crypts, and baby headstones, and it was all so amazing. I am sourcing these pictures, because for my first introduction, I wanted it to be raw.
We also had a deer follow us through a lot of our walk, so I will post pictures of that!
So I hope most of you stayed to read this. And I will take more pictures next time I go, and hopefully go one night.
A baby tombstone
The chapel
The Lion, hidden up a path, and as you can see, not connected to anything.
An entire map of Oakwood cemetery
The pyramid that has been said to have weird lights at night, and the cool breeze
The John Crause Mausoleum
A lady did the GHOSTWALK tour, and they let her inside the chapel, or the church
This is a headless lady, I believe she has something headless on her left side
I cannot remember the name of this one, but I remember them telling me stories
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