…..Yeah, I know this sounds weird…..but you know me……I’m weird……so check this out…..GREYFRIARS KIRKYARD, SCOTLAND…..now this is supposed to be “the most haunted” one in the world……in the 1670’s…..Lord Advocate to Charles II…..George “Bloody” Washington imprisoned 1200 Covenanters on an adjoining field for 4 months……treating them so inhumanely…..some view it as the first-ever concentration camp…..Bloody Mackenzie was himself buried in Greyfriars Black Mausoleum…..a homeless man broke into it in 1999……since then visitors complain of unexplainable attacks…..leaving them with bruises, scratches, bite marks and even burns…….THE CATACOMBS OF PARIS, FRANCE…..towards the end of the 1700’s…..France’s oldest and largest cemetery……Saint Innocents was becoming overcrowded in 1780……when heavy rain collapsed the wall of an adjacent building…..a practical but macabre solution saw all the bodies exhumed……and relocated to disused quarry tunnels underground……The Catacombs contain the remains of over 6 million people…..in 1793…..hospital doorkeeper Philbert Aspairt died while exploring the tunnels…..they found his body 11 years later……in the 1990’s…..catacombs explorers found a video camera containing footage…..of a man going mad while lost in the tunnels…..before eventually dropping the camera…..and making a doomed run into the darkness…..HOWARD STREET CEMETERY, UNITES STATES…..this grave is the resting place of Giles Corey…..one of the five men killed during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692…..after refusing to speak during his trial….he was subjected to….. “peine forte et dure”…..which involved a board being placed on his chest…..with weights added until he was crushed to death…..my man Corey mocked his executioner by saying….. “put some more on man”……folklore suggest that Corey placed a curse on the town…..and was responsible for both the 1914 Great Salem Fire…..and the unexplained illness which caused Sheriff Robert Cahill’s early retirement…..they say his ghost still haunts the graveyard……LE RECOLETA CEMETERY, ARGENTINA……an orchard used to surround this one in 1822….and it has grown to the size of a city…..visitors can pay their respects to Eva Perón……and then acquaint themselves with the legend of Rufina Cambaceres…..who died in 1902…..the story goes like this…..screams where heard from her tomb days after her burial…..an exhumation revealed scratch marks on the inside of the coffin and on her face…..painting a grim picture of a failed escape and a torturous death…..THE MERRY CEMETERY – SAPANTA, ROMANIA…..now this one is pretty cool….merry is very low on the lists of words you would associate with this place…..because things are done way different in this one…..the graves are marked with carved oak crosses….painted blue…..and decorated with amusing verses and images…..commemorating the deceased’s life……addictions, mother-in-law jokes, local residents getting hit by trucks…..nothing is off the table in this offbeat cemetery……because it celebrates life rather than morning death……between 1935 and 1977…..all the carving, painting and inscriptions were the work of Stan loan Patras…..after carving his own cross….he subsequently passed on the work to his apprentice…..Dumitru Pop……HIGHGATE CEMETERY, ENGLAND…..this is one od the so-called….. “Magnificent Seven” cemeteries surrounding London…..the placed helped stop people from burying the dead wherever they could in central London around the turn of the 19^th century…..gothic tombs, plush trees and ornate pathways made it a highly sought-after resting place…..Karl Marx’s grave remains the biggest draw….but other well-know people such as…..Douglas Adams, Christina Rossetti and Michael Faraday are there also….the best know resident is my main man…..18^th century Romanian nobleman…..the Highgate Vampire…..sudden drop in temperature, red eyes peering through the gate and the sound of rapid movement…..have all been attributed to the resident bloodsucker…..THE CATACOMBS OF ROME,  ITALY…..beneath the outskirts of Rome…..lies the largest and possibly first set of burial tunnels…..dating way back to the second century……the word catacombs was first used in reference to the tunnels…..at one point they contained the skeletons of hundreds of thousands of people…..mainly early Christians of Rome….who were often priced out of surface burials due to the high cost of land….40 tunnels are known to exist but only 5 are open to the public….and scholars suggest there are many more tombs that lay undiscovered……OKUNOIN CEMETERY, JAPAN……dating back to 816 AD….this is Japan’s largest cemetery and one of its most revered religious sites…..Kobo Daishi….the founder of Shingon Buddhism is laid to rest there…..or as many Shingon Buddhists believe…..engaged in eternal meditation and awaiting the arrival of Maitreya…..the future Buddha…..the pathway to Daishi’s mausoleum is lined…..with the graves of over 200,000 monks….lit by 10,000 lanterns…..and lined with giant moss-covered trees…..now part of the Unesco world heritage site…..Okunion is regarded as one of the most peaceful cemeteries in the world……WAVERLY CEMETERY, AUSTRALIA…..this sits on a 40 acre cliff between Bondi and Vronte…..on the coast of Sydney overlooking the South Pacific…..this place may be one of the most beautiful burial setting in the world…..the architectural elegance of the graves also adds to the aesthetic appeal……with bright white Italian Carrara marble….which was used to sculpt Victorian and Edwardian tombs…..established in 1877…..Waverley is now listed as a heritage site….with more than 100,000 buried within…….ST. LOUIS CEMETERY, UNITED STATES…..New Orleans’ high water table leads to the spooky occurrence of coffins……floating back to the surface…..rendering above-ground burials the only option…..after a major fire in 1788…..prompted a redesign of New Orleans….St. Louis became the city’s main burial site…..the necropolis most famous resident is…..19^th century voodoo priestess Marie Laveau…..legend says…..that any mourner who drew an “x” on her tombstone…..would receive a granted wish from her…..this practice was outlawed in 2014…..THE NEW LUCKY RESTAURANT, INDIA…..yep, that’s the name of this place…..building on ancient burial grounds is one of folklore’s most reckless faux pas…..and restaurant owner….Krishnan Kutti realized that real soon…..after he bought the land and was told….it housed 26 graves….so he built around them and lined up booths side by side with exposed coffins…..iron bars prevent diners from stumbling over the dead…..and daily replenished fresh flowers….allow Kutti and his colleagues to pay their respects…..the identities of the deceased remain unknown but most local people think they were Muslim followers of the 16^th century Sufi saint…..and Kutti’s business is booming……PERE LACHAISE CEMETERY, FRANCE…..this is the world’s most visited cemetery, the largest park in Paris and an open-air museum all at once…..each year more than 3.5 million people walk across the 110 acres……of cobbled, tree-lined pathways mainly to glance at the final resting places of the many celebrities who live there…..Honoré de Balzac, Frédéric Chopin, Édith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde…..the predominantly Christian cemetery also includes Jewish and Muslim enclosures…..and three World War One memorials……you see, that wasn’t so bad…..If I was going to be put in the dirt and turn into worm lunch…..I’d pick the Romanian one…..just so I could see what stupid shit y’all would write about me.