Haunted Holy Grounds:

A History of Cemeteries, a Legend of Ghosts

by Jacob Tucker, feature editor

It is a dark and chilly night.  You walk the aisles of shiny stone and occasionally glance at the script written on them.  Death is all around, but the only evidence is the ominous markers coming out of the ground.

Over the centuries, cemeteries and graveyards have been places of mystery.  But people have always been drawn to this unknown.

The first cemeteries were made primarily for people of high social status.  Peasants and lower-class citizens were forced to either bury their dead on family land, in church plots, or they were tossed into a mass grave with others.