When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Beethoven was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got the priest to come and listen to it…
The priest bent close to the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music coming from the grave.
Frightened, the priest ran and got the town magistrate.
When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment and said, “Ah, yes, that’s Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, being played backwards.”
He listened a while longer, and said, “There’s the Eighth Symphony and it’s backwards, too. Most puzzling.”
So the magistrate kept listening, “There’s the Seventh… the Sixth… the Fifth…”
Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on the magistrate.
He stood up and announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery, “My fellow citizens, there’s nothing to worry about. It’s just Beethoven decomposing.”
We lived next door to a graveyard for more than twenty years. Our kids loved to have Halloween parties, and each year they insisted on a graveyard scavenger hunt. This was respectful, fear not. They simply had to go and find a grave with their birthdate on it (or their middle name or something like that). One year they had dug a grave for a funeral later that day. When the kids pointed to the hole in the ground, I said “Huh, I just saw them bury somebody there yesterday.” You never saw a bunch of ten-year-olds runout of a graveyard so fast.
I’ve got an old graveyard about a half mile down the road from me, the dates go back to the early 19th century, it’s surrounded by cornfields and is considered part of the National forest that I live in.
There is a city just south of San Francisco called Colma. It has lots of cemeteries and is known for there being more dead people than living people within the city limits.
One ofl my former classmates father was an undertaker at the city’s Catholic cemetery and lived on the front corner. I asked how it was to live in such a place. He actually replied “It’s dying to get better.”
There’s a church on the way back home from where my wife used to work the second shift. She said that once in a while, while driving back home, she noticed a cloud of fog would cling to the tombstones in the nearby graveyard. If that isn’t creepy!
Some wise guy builder decided it would be a good idea to surround an existing cemetery with retirement homes. As soon as we moved in, we bought spots in the columbarium. now we know we’ll have the same zip code forever.
When I lived in Charlotte my house was next door to a cemetery and I used to tell friends my neighbors were very quiet but I worried if they would start making noise
Years ago I worked for the Town during the summer, mowing cemeteries ……. while mowing the one by my Grandparents, I was mowing along and reading the names on the headstones …… suddenly I read one with my Grandparents name on it ….. that night I asked them about it and found out that they had a baby girl before my Father ….. but she died of crib death …… I have to say that it was a shock to see the headstone …… ;)
Reminds me of a character who appeared in the Li’l Abner comics: "Smilin’ Zack: A cadaverous, outwardly peaceable mountaineer with a menacing grin and shotgun, who prefers things “quiet” to the point of silence."
I took a new job once at a university campus, and shortly after that I needed to find a new place to live. One place I found was positioned so you had to go a long way around to get to the campus, or walk through a cemetery, which in winter I would have had to do after dark. I mean, it was a short very direct walk (or cycle) through the cemetery to get to work, it would have been so convenient.
C 23 days ago
Dead giveaway
Imagine 23 days ago
Except at night.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member 23 days ago
But it gets noisy on those nights when the female horses come to eat the grass and flowers … Yep, real night mares!
cracker65 23 days ago
Quite neighbors
ArcticFox Premium Member 23 days ago
And it’s under appraised.
Darth_Walrus_1975 23 days ago
Until the zombie apocalypse.
DaveG1960 23 days ago
Except for Michael Jackson singing “Thriller” during the night……….
DaveG1960 23 days ago
“The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller"……..
littlejohn Premium Member 23 days ago
Dad: “Did you know that the people who live in this town aren’t allowed to be buried in that cemetery?”
Me: “Oh, why?”
Dad: “Cuz they’re still alive.”
littlejohn Premium Member 23 days ago
Why are there fences around cemeteries?
Because people are dying to get in!
littlejohn Premium Member 23 days ago
I should have known the cemetery sale was a scam.
I mean, it was a dead giveaway.
littlejohn Premium Member 23 days ago
A cemetery is a terrible setting for a convincing horror story.
Too many plot holes.
littlejohn Premium Member 23 days ago
The groundskeeper for the cemetery…
in the end is buried by his work.
littlejohn Premium Member 23 days ago
When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Beethoven was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got the priest to come and listen to it…
The priest bent close to the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music coming from the grave.
Frightened, the priest ran and got the town magistrate.
When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment and said, “Ah, yes, that’s Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, being played backwards.”
He listened a while longer, and said, “There’s the Eighth Symphony and it’s backwards, too. Most puzzling.”
So the magistrate kept listening, “There’s the Seventh… the Sixth… the Fifth…”
Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on the magistrate.
He stood up and announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery, “My fellow citizens, there’s nothing to worry about. It’s just Beethoven decomposing.”
Purple People Eater 23 days ago
There’s a neighborhood here in Reykjavik that has a cemetery on one side, and a hospital on the other. It’s called “Between Life and Death”.
gammaguy 23 days ago
I had to move away from that neighborhood. My voice was starting to sound gravelly.
cdward 23 days ago
We lived next door to a graveyard for more than twenty years. Our kids loved to have Halloween parties, and each year they insisted on a graveyard scavenger hunt. This was respectful, fear not. They simply had to go and find a grave with their birthdate on it (or their middle name or something like that). One year they had dug a grave for a funeral later that day. When the kids pointed to the hole in the ground, I said “Huh, I just saw them bury somebody there yesterday.” You never saw a bunch of ten-year-olds runout of a graveyard so fast.
Odin 23 days ago
Hopefully.
Just-me 23 days ago
At least the neighbors won’t be partying on this plane of existence anyway.
russef 23 days ago
Except when you get that Beetle guy hanging around.
dflak 23 days ago
Not necessarily. One of our cemeteries is right next to the railroad tracks.
Man of the Woods 23 days ago
I’ve got an old graveyard about a half mile down the road from me, the dates go back to the early 19th century, it’s surrounded by cornfields and is considered part of the National forest that I live in.
Frer Squirrel 23 days ago
“The last guy to sleep here had lots of piercings: wrists, feet, side. But he went to a better place.”
Ron Dunn Premium Member 23 days ago
My friend use to live next to a cemetery, the good about it was they could have loud music outside and no one would complain.
elbow macaroni 23 days ago
Try something original.
ChessPirate 23 days ago
“You may get a few visitors. They’re not very good conversationalists, but they don’t eat much…”
blakerl 23 days ago
Who are the grave stones for? B.C. Cartoon world, has had no deaths or births since it was created. B.C. is and evolutionary dead end.
ladykat 23 days ago
In the town where I used to live, there was a retirement home right next to a cemetery. I loved the irony of it.
paranormal 23 days ago
Not a peep or moan from the neighbors…
delennwen 23 days ago
There is a city just south of San Francisco called Colma. It has lots of cemeteries and is known for there being more dead people than living people within the city limits.
Cincoflex 23 days ago
Tip-toe, through the tombstones . . .
Cerabooge 23 days ago
I don’t want to live next to a graveyard. I want to live in the center of a graveyard. Quiet neighbors all around.
ragsarooni Premium Member 23 days ago
Yes,yes it is! I’m a corner house and yes,the cemetery IS my next door neighbor,believe it or not…….
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe 23 days ago
Our local long term care is opposite a cemetery, bit spooky looking out at it
Angry Indeed 23 days ago
One ofl my former classmates father was an undertaker at the city’s Catholic cemetery and lived on the front corner. I asked how it was to live in such a place. He actually replied “It’s dying to get better.”
Angry Indeed 23 days ago
There’s a church on the way back home from where my wife used to work the second shift. She said that once in a while, while driving back home, she noticed a cloud of fog would cling to the tombstones in the nearby graveyard. If that isn’t creepy!
Kidon Ha-Shomer 23 days ago
Some wise guy builder decided it would be a good idea to surround an existing cemetery with retirement homes. As soon as we moved in, we bought spots in the columbarium. now we know we’ll have the same zip code forever.
DKHenderson 23 days ago
I wonder how Nature created those caves that are essentially individual stone huts.
Roscoe 23 days ago
Mortimer Brewster said the same thing!
bigdawgjohn 23 days ago
When I lived in Charlotte my house was next door to a cemetery and I used to tell friends my neighbors were very quiet but I worried if they would start making noise
zeexenon 23 days ago
Just dying to get in.
dpatrickryan Premium Member 23 days ago
When I was a kid, our house backed onto a cemetery. I loved it.
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault 23 days ago
“…..Or at least it will be until the zombie apocalypse.”
tammyspeakslife Premium Member 23 days ago
Until the rocks cry out! Luke 19:40
Moore 1 23 days ago
Everyone is dying to get there.
mindjob 23 days ago
It’s either this cave or the one next to the zoo, so he’s considering it
bwswolf 23 days ago
Years ago I worked for the Town during the summer, mowing cemeteries ……. while mowing the one by my Grandparents, I was mowing along and reading the names on the headstones …… suddenly I read one with my Grandparents name on it ….. that night I asked them about it and found out that they had a baby girl before my Father ….. but she died of crib death …… I have to say that it was a shock to see the headstone …… ;)
Trevor.brown 23 days ago
learn how to sleep like the Dead.
If you buy it “THEY” will come. WOOOO0000ooooo…..
bjminnis 23 days ago
but there are so many moving in!
Chazz 23 days ago
That yard looks dead.
dbrucepm 23 days ago
no bringing in coca cola because coke adds life (old advertising slogan of theirs)
eddi-TBH 23 days ago
The last owner left an exploding train set in the basement.
mistercatworks 23 days ago
And dangerous.
DaBump Premium Member 23 days ago
Reminds me of a character who appeared in the Li’l Abner comics: "Smilin’ Zack: A cadaverous, outwardly peaceable mountaineer with a menacing grin and shotgun, who prefers things “quiet” to the point of silence."
jacob591233 23 days ago
I wonder why
sunrisetrucker 22 days ago
It’s the dead centre of town
rockyridge1977 22 days ago
How many people are dead out there…….all of them!!!!
mgdavidson1968 20 days ago
I wonder what characters they have killed off for this
da_villa 17 days ago
You can be as loud as you want and no one complains!
flingebunt 7 days ago
I took a new job once at a university campus, and shortly after that I needed to find a new place to live. One place I found was positioned so you had to go a long way around to get to the campus, or walk through a cemetery, which in winter I would have had to do after dark. I mean, it was a short very direct walk (or cycle) through the cemetery to get to work, it would have been so convenient.
Found a different, place instead.