The Most Haunted Cemeteries in America

Cemeteries are the final resting place for many, wandering souls.  Sometimes these souls decide to live beyond the grave.  These three cemeteries are the most haunted cemeteries in the United States.

1. Bachelor's Grove Cemetary.  Located in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, this cemetery exists peacefully in the Rubio Woods.

At first glance, it looks like a small, unimportant cemetery.  The chain link fence which once protected it from outsiders is broken, a big hole marring the protective metal.  The cemetery itself is broken down, suffering from years of vandalism and trespassing.  Some gravestones are dismantled.

Although this sounds like an innocent, unimportant cemetery, its past is shrouded in despair and death.  A white, uninhabited pond exists in the northwest corner of the cemetery.  Mob bosses used it as dumping grounds for their victims in the early 1900s.

The last burial in this cemetery was in the 1980s.  They officially stopped burying the dead in the 1960s.  Since that time, people have reported many sightings, making Bachelor's Grove the most haunted cemetery in the United States.  Many of those sightings are seen near the pond.

Sightings include a ghost called the White Lady.  Clad in white, she roams the graves looking for her lost baby.  Other sightings include a two-headed man and a ghost house.  Bachelor's Grove is truly the spookiest haunting grounds in the United States.

2. Old Western Burial Ground.  Don't let the name fool you -- this cemetery is actually located in Baltimore, Maryland.  The cemetery surrounds Baltimore's Westminster Hall, with some dead souls lingering in its basement.  The graves that exist outside of Westminster Hall tell spookier tales.

These historic grounds are the home of many perished souls, including the son of Francis Scott Key and the grandfather of James Buchanan.  It is also the home to America's greatest poet, Edgar Allen Poe.  After his mysterious death in the 1800s, people talk of a ghost resembling the troubled poet.  Catch is, he only appears on Poe's birthday, January 19.

However, Poe's ghost does no harm, just as the poet himself.  He leaves a memento at his grave, three roses and a bottle of cognac.

Another ghost, believed to be the ghost of Leona Wellesley, resides here also.  She died in a straight jacket, buried with the memento of her lunacy.  She was a recognized lunatic, straight up until her death.  She is still heard laughing manically at passer-byes.

Visitors are advised to take caution when visiting.  This cemetery is filled with un-restful ghosts, ghosts that like causing mischief.

3. St. Louis Cemetery, No. 1.  St. Louis Cemetery is one of the most famous cemeteries in the United States.  Located on the corner of St. Louis and Basin Street, St. Louis Cemetery no. 1 is also the most spookiest.

This cemetery isn't the home to no ordinary ghost.  This cemetery is the home of Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen of New Orleans.  Her remains lie in a tomb, marked with small x's.  Marie Laveau is not shy around strangers, and haunts people even in the day.  Voodoo followers leave gifts of beads and dried bones at her tomb.

Marie Laveau was a legend in her time, using her voodoo to help enslaved and freed Africans.  It's rumored she lived for 100 years while still maintaining her youth.  Voodoo practitioners today still go to her tomb for luck.

Laveau is not the only famous resident that resides here.  Other famous residents include Homer Plessy (famous for the civil rights case Plessy versus Ferguson), Ernest N. Morial (the first African-American mayor of New Orleans) and Paul Morphy, American chess champion. 

Although these ghosts stay in their graves, others do not.  Led by Laveau, disturbed ghosts wreck havoc on their visitors, warning them to leave.

This makes St. Louis Cemetary no. 1 the scariest cemetery to visit in the Creole state.  Be warned when entering this cemetery.  They might go after you too.