While doing research for another post I stumbled upon some new places in South Carolina that are abandoned. In doing so, I decided to share this first website I came upon because it has a eight places I’ve yet to discover which is surprising to me because I’ve explored many, many areas of SC and I didn’t think there were any places left that were actually abandoned. I’ve explored every haunted place I can find, state parks, back roads, historical sites, lakes, rivers and anything else I’ve read about online that make SC interesting. So finding some new places is exciting for me because sometime next year when I get a break I will go to South Carolina briefly but my destination is Georgia and Florida.
There are some really interesting abandoned places to visit that I’ve yet to explore and the only reason for that is I’ve just never googled it I guess. At least not for a really long time. But I have to put some of these places on my bucket list to visit although some of the blogs don’t give very good directions on how to get there and some give no idea where they’re located. I’ve spent hours in the past trying to figure out where something is and I no longer do that. If I can’t find the directions through google maps relatively easily then I go to something else and there are plenty of parks, lakes, rivers, historical sites, battlefields, etc. that I can see and photograph and often along the way I find many old houses to take pictures of.
This post basically segues from my other post on an Abandoned House in SC Road Trip and while looking at websites to add content and update that post I found some new abandoned places to visit in SC when I get a break of taking care of my aunt here in Memphis.
Here’s a good book on abandoned places in South Carolina. SC isn’t a huge state but there are a lot of cool places to visit. I like many different things such as lakes, rivers, parks, recreation areas, historical sites, museums, haunted places and abandoned houses. There are also a lot of small towns to visit too. I like Myrtle Beach but my favorite place is Summerville which isn’t too far from Charleston. The last time I was in Charleston I had to leave early because it started raining and it often floods.
Traveling down US route 17 is one of my favorite drives and it connects Myrtle Beach SC and Wilmington NC and it’s a nice long scenic drive and if you stay on US highway 17 south you’ll end up in Charleston fairly quickly. One time years ago, I was leaving Georgetown and a few miles outside of town it started raining heavily and my windshield wiper motor stopped working and I couldn’t see to turn around. I had to pull over a number of times but I made it to a Walmart on the outskirts of Charleston but the next day I ended up having to drive back to Myrtle Beach to get my car repaired because when I called around a dealership there was able to squeeze me in at 10 AM. It took about two hours and $160 to fix the motor. But I felt like an idiot having to drive that 45 minutes all over again.
Moved from another blog……..Update: I visited this area sometime in 2019 or 2020 during the winter. It wasn’t overly cold but cool enough. It took awhile to find the old church. The directions aren’t very clear but I finally found it after going back for a second time but not before getting stuck in the mud. It is a dirt road into the church. I don’t know what happened to the pictures. I’m sure I uploaded them to facebook and when I find them I’ll post them. Valle Crucis is close to Boone NC.
I read about this demon dog(hellhound) one night while on my phone before going to sleep and it has intrigued me ever since. Not that I would want to encounter this monster but I found a detailed story that I found quite mesmerising. I find it so intriguing that when I get back to North Carolina I’ve decided to visit the place and certainly get photographs. It is said there is an old stone church(St. Johns Episcopal) nearby and that the rivers(streams) make a cross. The church was built in the 1800’s. The name Valle Crucis means “Valley of the Cross” in latin. The legend says the demon dog along with other strange beings lurk in the area. By far, this story of the demon dog is probably one of the most terrifying I’ve read so far. The old stone church is located along Highway 194 on the edge of town. The Watauga river runs through Valle Crucis according to wikipedia.
Since I found this fascinating I decided to do a bit of research on hellhounds. In ancient mythology they were said to guard the world of the dead such as graveyards and burial grounds. Their duties included guarding, looking for lost souls and undertaking other duties related to the afterlife. It is said seeing a demon dog or hearing it howl is an omen that means death is imminent. They are said to be protectors of the supernatural, all kinds of supernatural creatures. They are also referred to as the black dog. My uncle once told me a story of seeing a black dog one night when he was driving through Colorado and was extremely tired and of course defined it as a hallucination. In greek mythology the hellhound belonged to the god of death Hades and guarded the gates of Hell.
In the movie Black Dog with Patrick Swayze and Randy Travis, Patrick Swayze is truck driver that talks about and describes the black dog that you may see after driving for a very long time and when you’re tired like my Uncle was.
Before I get to the story told by a couple of young men driving in the area and another story posted by someone who was seeing a hellhound on a nightly basis and was seeking to banish it I will talk a little on my thoughts about this. Especially the nightly hellhound visits. One thing the poster said was she had been given a barrier spell by a friend. Also her parents weren’t bothered. Now this makes me wonder if she is into the occult or practicing spells. If she is, this should be a word to the wise, when you practice spells whether black or white, good or evil intentions, sometimes things can slip through. Sometimes a window or door is opened to other dimensions allowing creatures, entities, etc. to get through. Whether doorways to Hell can be opened I don’t know. I don’t want to find out. Many years ago I was very much into spellcasting. Not me so much but I relied on others to cast spells for me. Now the negativity should have fallen to them but a fair amount of negativity fell to me. Another big no-no is removing things from a cemetery. That too, can bring a large amount of negativity or bad karma. I’m not sure why but I read that there is no way to know how much negative energy is attached to the object or where it has been, for that matter. One thing is for sure, I would be praying very hard for God to banish this thing.
One thing to note: In most places where such demonic, supernatural occurrences are, is that satanic rituals are often practiced. And many of these places are gathering hubs for satanists. One such place is Stull Cemetery in Kansas(which is said to be a gateway to Hell) although after visiting I didn’t find anything particularly eerie, creepy or heavy about the place. But I also didn’t go up the hill to where the old church once stood. Whether the stories of satanic rituals is true I can’t say.
All of this is folklore and sounds like an episode of the TV show Supernatural but I don’t completely discount the stories even if they are urban legends. Legends get their start somewhere.
One of the most haunted roads in America is in New Jersey and said to be home to hellhounds, animal hybrids and other strange creatures. One stretch of highway from Monticello, Utah to Gallup, New Mexico was renumbered US Highway 666 in August 1926 and became known as the devils highway due to the large amount of stories of hellhounds, phantom hitchhikers, ghostly cars running people off the road and sign theft. Route 666 stayed in service until May 2003 when it was renumbered to US Highway 491. One story coming from that highway was that a group of motorcyclists were attacked by a pack of hellhounds and lost arms and one bitten on the face. It is said there are many satanic symbols in places that are supposed to be inaccessible.
This is the story from northcarolinaghosts.com from two young men driving in the area. Whether true or not I can’t say. The story was told to the writer some years ago. Valle Crucis isn’t too far from Boone North Carolina.
“It happened one time that that two young men were driving along this road around midnight. It was a clear night and the moon was full, bathing the valley in an eerie white glow.
As their car turned a corner passing the old church, the two young men saw a shadow leap out from behind one of the graves and into the road in front of them. Swerving to avoid whatever had landed in the road, the driver slammed his foot on the brake and pulled off onto the side of the narrow road. Wondering what he had almost hit, he craned his head around over his shoulder to see what was in the road.
It was a dog. But not an ordinary dog. This was a dog as tall and as wide as a full-grown man, covered with bristling black fur and baring its massive, yellow teeth. And the animal’s eyes were glowing. Not reflecting light like a dog’s eyes will do, but actually glowing, burning with a smoldering red light that seemed to have about it something of the very fires of Hell.
The one young man turned to the other and asked “Do you see that?”
“No,” his friend replied, “and neither do you.”
The animal began to walk towards their parked car. By mutual and unspoken agreement the driver lifted his foot off of the brake and slammed it down on the accelerator. They roared off down the mountain road, taking the hairpin turns and twists of the road and sixty …seventy…eighty miles an hour.
It was only when the driver looked in the rear view mirror that he realized the dog was still following them.
And keeping up with them.
And even gaining on them.
Panicked, and expecting the jaws of the dog to wrap around the bumper of the car and drag it back into hell, the driver gave one final push on the accelerator, and just as the beast was about to catch them, the car leapt over the bridge the water just below where the streams meet in a cross.
And the dog stopped following them.
They watched it fade into the distance and wondered what supernatural law it was that the animal was obliged to obey that kept its territory limited by the boundaries of the water. The two young men drove into Boone and went to the local waffle house, since it was the only place around that was open twenty four hours and they both knew that neither one was going to sleep that night.”
Here is a post on a forum by someone who was supposedly stalked by a hellhound.
“For the past three months I have been seeing this dog like thing at the bottom of my stairs. Its back is arched like a cats but twisted somewhat. It has a long rat like tail. It has black tuffed, ragged fur. Its legs are skinny like a wooden walking cane. I haven’t gotten a good look at its feet but it appears to be just it’s paw bones. It has a skinny dog face and its ears are really pointy with tuffs on top. It has a long tongue. About the length of your arm to your elbow. This thing is huge. No normal dog can be this size. And lastly it has yellow glowing eyes.
I have been seeing it for most of my life. Showing up at random times. Sometimes I would see it for a second and then it’s gone. Nothing big or too spooky until currently. It didn’t show up for a few years, but now its back.
I walked out of my room three months ago to go to the bathroom. Out of the corner of my eye I saw something at the bottom of my stairs. I turned my head and saw this thing. It was staring at me. It didn’t do anything for the next week. I would see it at after 9 o’clock at night when I left my room to go to the bathroom. Each time it would stare at me. It was creepy, but manageable at first.
The next week it moved. It started walking up my stairs. Its gaze never looking away from me. It walked strangely. Its body twisting in painful looking ways. I bolted back into my room. I closed my door and ran across my room to grab a knife. I stared at my door all night. Chills ran up my spine. I felt like I was going to vomit from fear alone. Then this wave of hate slammed into my head. Then I realized this thing was on the other side of the door, waiting. This continued for a week. The feeling of hate coming from this creature getting stronger and stronger each night that I dared go outside my room.
Another week goes by. I made the mistake of exiting my room. It walked up the stairs and sat at the other side of my door again. This time something different happened. I was trying to get a grip on myself when something slammed against the door. I jumped in front of my door and held it against the slamming. It felt and sounded like claws scratching on the door and the banging and slamming didn’t stop until hours later.
I’m at my wits end. This thing keeps getting more violent. My door hinges have had to be fixed and replaced twice and I’ve had to paint my door over and over again. What scares me the most is this thing keeps following me. I’ve lived all over California and each time I move somewhere new I see this creature sometime during the time I live there. I have seen it more then three times, but I’m not dead. It looks like a hellhound, but I’m not really sure what one would look like. So, I’m guessing and assuming from what a few close friends have told me.
I really need help on how to get this creature to leave me alone or get what it wants from me. What should I do? What is this thing? What does it want? Why is it following me?
All I know on how to calm myself down during the visits from this creature is a barrier spell a friend taught me. I’m not sure what kind of spell it is. It worked for two months, but I feel like this creature is slowly breaking the spell.
Any help and knowledge would be valued greatly.”
I find these stories quite interesting to say the least and have given my opinions at the start of the stories.
This is a very interesting book with paranormal stories as well as murder case stories.
Before I get into how I ended up here I spent over an hour trying to find the original article about how the story of this cemetery got started. The story of it being haunted. I no longer have the original article I wrote a few years ago. The story of it being haunted got started by a student at the University of Kansas writing for her college newspaper back in November 1974 where she claimed it was haunted by diabolical, supernatural happenings. According to the article the devil appeared twice a year. She claimed grandparents and older individual’s were the source of these stories. Witchcraft and devil worship figured strongly into the article. The locals said they’d never heard these stories and many were angry and upset over these alleged false stories. Following the article people started showing up on Halloween to see the the devil but he never appeared, of course. Over the years the stories have become more outlandish. Legends claim the devil has been appearing since the 1850s. Up until 1899 the town was called Deer Creek Community. In 1980 another article appeared in the Kansas City Times adding further fuel to the rumors about Stull Cemetery. Legend says a stable hand stabbed the mayor to death in the old stone barn sometime during the 1850s. By 1989 the crowds were overwhelming on Halloween night and the Sheriff Dept had to be dispatched. It is rumored that over 500 people showed up the previous Halloween in 1988. Sometime previous to this 150 people showed up.
It was so popular that other college students, high school kids and others starting going there to make out, drink beer and vandalize the gravestones. At the height of the story on a Halloween night back in 1988 and 1989 over 500 people showed up to view the rising of Satan. It got so bad the police had to monitor the cemetery on Halloween and were called constantly at other times. The whole story got started by a college student trying to make a name for herself with her college paper. There are a number of sites out there that talk about it being haunted but I didn’t see it when I visited. But it’s only open during the daytime and is regularly patrolled by the police. Unfortunately, I got this cemetery confused with another cemetery I visited while in this area and I no longer have the original post I made on my website that I’ve since let go and when I did I lost my posts. But I do have one short post.
In 1999 a news crew showed up. In 2002 the old stone church was demolished.
As for Stull Cemetery I couldn’t see that it was haunted but I was only there during the day not at night and that’s because it is gated and closed at night and No Trespassing signs are clearly posted. There are a few posts out there about it. I don’t think the same websites exist that did back in 2015 when I first discovered this cemetery. I personally think it’s a bunch of stories that primarily got started by the college student and by others as well. Small towns are notorious for gossip and rumors and I certainly don’t believe the devil rises on Halloween night here or anywhere else. I think that’s ridiculous. But there is no shortage of posts and stories about it. It is called the Gateway to Hell.
This article on Stull Cemetery is very in depth. I don’t think it’s the original article I found back in 2016 but there is a lot of information. How much of what I see posted online is true, I don’t know.
“There are graveyards across America — places with names like Bachelor’s Grove and Stull Cemetery — that defy all definitions of a “haunted cemetery.“ They are places that go beyond the legends of merely being haunted and enter into the realm of the diabolical. They are places said to be so terrifying that the Devil himself holds court with his worshipers there… and in the case of Stull Cemetery in Kansas, is one of the “gateways to hell” itself! But just how terrifying are these places? While there are few of us who would challenge the supernatural presence of a place like Bachelor’s Grove, there are some who claim that Stull Cemetery does not deserve the blood-curdling reputation that it has gained over the years. A few years ago, it went beyond the realm of merely “haunted” and achieved the status of “gateway to hell.” Read more at American Haunting Sink.
“The church on the corner, whispering cornfields, a broken street light, an old bridge, a widow’s peak. After all, spooky stories have to start in some way and it’s usually with a glimmer of truth that lends itself to fanciful exaggeration. Like every great genre, there are tropes to be met. Just as the classic hero’s journey has its victories, fables have their life lessons, mysteries have their surprising reveals, and romances have their happily ever afters—hauntings and headless horsemen always seem to follow a certain path.” Read more at the The Culture Crush.
“I don’t know if there’s a Gate to Hell in Stull, but my experience with it back in 2010 was a little strange. We were passing through on our way to Texas for a family reunion, and I’d heard that there was a “Gate of Hell” in Stull, so I managed to convince my brother to pull over so we could investigate. I’m pretty sure we weren’t supposed to be there, but both of us kind of just casually pretended the “No Trespassing” signs weren’t present.” Read more at Roadside America. This post claims there was blood in the cemetery which was probably animal blood and they acknowledge that but say it was creepy. I didn’t notice it when I was there.
Here’s my personal favorite story claiming Stull Cemetery to be the most evil place on earth with a hidden staircase descending to the bowels of Hell and called the devil’s playground. The cemetery located in Stull and has gained an amount of dubious recognition due to various urban legends referring to the Devil, the occult, and as being a supposed gateway to Hell. Stull Cemetery is supposedly the most evil place on earth, with a hidden staircase that descends directly into the bowels of hell. Rumor has it that even the Pope will not fly his plane over the grounds of Stull, because it is cursed. One of the many legends surrounding Stull Cemetery involved the church, which is no longer standing. Before the building had been demolished many had reported that rain would not fall within the walls of the building, even though their was no roof to cover the insides. Local police have discouraged curiosity seekers from entering the cemetery, especially on Halloween, and some people have been arrested for trespassing there. Urge Overkill released “Stull EP” in 1992 which features the church and a tombstone from the cemetery on the cover. The legends also form the plot in the film Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal. The cemetery is also the site of the final confrontation of the Apocalypse in season five of the television series Supernatural. Read more at Roadtrippers.
“An article in the ’70s started the Stull rumors, speaking of hauntings by demonic beings and presences. These events take place either once or twice a year depending on what story you’ve heard, but Halloween is always the main event. It’s said in the legend that on Halloween night, an endless stairway opens up in the earth, and the devil himself appears in the cemetery. Through the years, stories of vehicles moving by themselves, strange winds blowing the wrong direction, and spirits returning from graves spread around.” Read more at Only in Your State.
“Stull Cemetery was constructed in 1869 to accompany a small church that had been built two years before. The church was active up until 1922 until is was abandoned for a newer church built accross the road. According to the legend, in 1850 the devil and a witch have a child together. As you might have guessed, the birth was not successful and the child died and was buried within the cemetery. The Devil is said to visit the cemetery on two nights a year, halloween and the spring equinox, to pay his respects to his dead child.” Read more at TheClio.com. The legend was supposedly started by a college professor not a student as I had first assumed but no one really knows the truth because the locals don’t talk about it.
“Pretty much anyone who grew up in Kansas—or watches the show Supernatural—knows about Stull Cemetery, even if they’ve never seen it.” Read more at TheLineUp.com. This site talks about a few cemeteries. The show Supernatural dedicated an episode to Stull Cemetery.
“The road that led to those moments in Lawrence first brought me to Stull, the legendary unincorporated area in Douglas County. I drove out with our family’s new puppy, hoping to sneak in a walk along with a glimpse of the fabled Gateway to Hell. Having never visited during my years at the University of Kansas, I didn’t know what to expect. Turns out I wasn’t the first, and I won’t be the last, to be disappointed by Stull Cemetery.” Read more at the Kansas Reflector.
“When I planned my road trip this summer, I didn’t intend on visiting a gateway to Hell, but sometimes you just have to seize the day. After leaving Minneapolis on my road trip, my next stop was Lawrence, KS. I intended to visit some old college friends (I went to the University of Kansas, Rock Chalk!) and use it as a base to explore a little bit of Kansas City.” Read more at History FanGirl.
Visit HauntedPlaces.org for more information on Stull Cemetery and other haunted places.
“Today I’m going to do something that I haven’t done before. I’m going to revisit a topic I’ve already covered that, at least for my part, desperately needs a revamp. I covered this particular place back on my very first YouTube video about 5 haunted locations around the world. It’s a terrible video, so don’t bother watching it — but there were a couple of places I did still find interesting enough to go back over in more detail. Don’t worry, I will get to the others later. But for now, let’s talk about Stull Cemetery.” Read more at MaryHallbergMedia.
This(my post below) was originally posted on March 30, 2016. I didn’t post much because I’d posted about it on another blog that I no longer have and don’t have the article.
This was taken on my recent visit to Stull, Kansas where I visited the cemetery that is so famous for being one of the seven gateways to Hell, a witch having a baby with satan, demonic entities and several other outlandish stories.
Here’s a book about Lawrence, Kansas which is the closest town with anything in it to Stull. This post contains affiliate links that I may make a small commission from at no cost to the reader.
About me: I’ve been visiting and photographing allegedly haunted and/or abandoned houses/places/roads/highways, etc. for several years now. In the beginning it was mostly North and South Carolina but later when I started travelling extensively I started visiting places throughout the south, midwest and Michigan and Ohio and occasionally other places. Not too many are creepy but most are in disrepair and rural decay. I like photographing old houses, cemeteries, barns, old cars(restored and unrestored) nature, lakes, oceans, etc. Written by Rachel Holbert Jones Page
I’m moving posts from another blog to here after someone hacked my advertiser account. There used to be another post about Round Mound Cemetery in Cummings Kansas but it was on a previous website I owned but since have lost.
While in this area road tripping I also visited the Stull Cemetery which is about 45 miles away.
I ended up here in 2016 when I took a trip to California from North Carolina. On the way back, going through St. Louis, Missouri a young woman barely old enough to drive rear ended me. While waiting for my appointment to get my appraisal I decided to travel to Kansas after reading about haunted cemeteries in Kansas. I had read about it before but didn’t think I’d ever get to visit. I ended up changing my appointment when I got to Kansas. I started having some electrical issues which the body shop refused to acknowledge. Eventually, in 2018 I had to have the PCM(computer) replaced and whether it had anything to do with the accident I’ll never know. After the accident I developed power window issues and radio issues where it would turn on and off by itself and would adjust the volume on it’s own. In 2020, I again had issues with it stalling out at traffic lights, etc. It finally stalled on the interstate which was a nightmare. The vehicle went to my boyfriend’s brother’s to be repaired first and he thought it was the PCM and I had it towed to the dealership. The dealer eventually replaced the PCM and several other parts which didn’t fix it. They handed me my $1000 bill and told me there was nothing they could do. My boyfriend and others told me to tow it to the scrapyard. I just left it for months sitting and finally my ex took it and started tinkering with it and found some exposed wires that he taped up with electrical tape and around the same time the radio stopped working. He thinks it might have blown a fuse and says it’s best not to replace it. I’ve no plans to take it on any more road trips because if I did I would be disappointed that I can no longer use my Sirius XM radio which isn’t a preinstalled version but one I bought at a Best Buy earlier in the year. The previous Sirius radio stopped working and I bought it at a Best Buy just over the Alabama line. I was traveling in Florida and the closest store to get one was in Alabama. But even if I did take the vehicle out again I’d just do without the radio. I have an installed Sirius radio in the car I drive now and I rarely use it. I do like to have it though. The odd thing is it didn’t do that much damage. Later, while traveling through a different area of Missouri I stopped on the side of the road and used super glue on the bumper because it had knocked it a little loose but the clips were still in place according to the body shop. It took me a couple of hours to fix the bumper but I did it and only last year did I notice the glue starting to come loose but the bumper is going nowhere.
While near the cemetery I spent almost every day at the McDonald’s in Atchison, Kansas working online.
As for Round Mound Cemetery I couldn’t see that it was haunted but I was only there during the day not at night. This is often the case with cemeteries I visit that are supposedly haunted.
From Kansas Haunted Houses “My cousin and I went up to round mound to investigate at night, as we walked through the cattle fence gate that is there a car stopped on the road we turned from. Keep in mind there was no cars following us up to this point and we killed our lights going up. Also, as far as I know there are no houses within eye’s sight to see us go up. As we looked at the car I could feel their eyes on us, they honked three times in unison then took off down the road. Just a minute later a truck without any lights on appeared on that same road and we took off. As we sped down the narrow road to get out we turned onto the main road and flipped our lights on, there was no truck or car in sight. Just as we went down the road not a half mile, the cops appeared and went toward the cemetery, we stopped and watched as they stopped on the road below it and left as if they too were afraid to go up the one-way road to a place said to be haunted by a witch. I am not sure what happened that night at Round Mound, but I can say it was very creepy and weird experience even though we never even got into the cemetery itself. Remember to stay save out there!!” Posted 11/28/20
Their story is not weird or creepy. A neighbor obviously saw them there after dark and it is clearly posted the cemetery is only open during daylight hours, so he/she called the police. It is also posted that it is regularly patrolled by the police. He didn’t go farther up the road because he could see there was no vehicle there and left.
“The cemetery sits in the shade of a small copse of trees atop a hill surrounded by a sea of dead fields. Gravel roads tendril from county-paved highways in this rural area, some that lead from Atchison, Kan., to the nearby small town of Cummings.” Read More From The Shadows
“I grew up less than a mile from Round Mound. There was a chair cut out of a tree stump that was said to give you bad luck if you sat in it. 2 of the neighbor boys rode their 4 wheelers up there one day and sat in that chair. On their way back home one of them hit a car head on and almost died from his injuries. That’s just one of numerous strange things I can tell you about this cemetery.” Read more at HauntedPlaces.org
Most of the comments about this cemetery don’t sound weird or creepy just an overactive imagination. I’m not saying it’s not haunted because I’ve never been there are night but I personally don’t believe it is.
You can listen to an apple podcast on the cemetery here. There’s also a Round Mound Cemetery in Texas at Texas Historical Markers.
“We first discovered Round Mound in 1999 after a long night of drinking and a few ghost stories. One of our best friends, Curtis, was telling us about a haunted Cemetery in Atchison KS. Being young and drunk we decided to take a road trip. We were hooked after the first time and went back with Curtis on several different occasions.” Read more on this tripod website.
“Several years ago, TIME Magazine regarded the Round Mound Cemetery as being one of the most haunted places on Earth.” Read more at the Ghostly World.
Here’s a video on YouTube about Round Mound Cemetery. There are a few but this is the longest one. Round Mound Cemetery on YouTube.
This was a post from last March 2016. The pictures were taken then as well. I give more detail on my other blog(which no longer exists). I’m in the process of moving many posts there but since this one has a greater following and many of the posts are from when I first started back in 2009, I’m leaving many and providing links from that blog to this one on those posts. That blog(HauntedCarolinas.com) no longer exists and I’m now moving posts from the blog this post came from(haunted505.blogspot.com) to here.
Anyway, a little background on Round Mound from when I visited. It’s supposedly haunted and there are many posts online about it. Supposedly, there’s a witch that haunts the graveyard causing wind not to blow. I didn’t see that when I was there. In fact, it was quite windy when I was there. And a little cold. It was March in Kansas. So I’m guessing it would be quite cold although it wasn’t bad.
I didn’t experience anything paranormal although it was creepy which given all the posts I read online about the place it probably would be creepy. This post contains affiliate links that I may make a commission from at no cost to the reader.
Here is a book about haunted graveyards and cemeteries and there’s nothing I love more. I’ve been photographing cemeteries for a long time now. It’s not just the alleged haunted graveyards I take pictures of it’s the run of the mill cemeteries too and there are many beautiful cemeteries in the USA. They are peaceful and usually deserted and when there are people there they don’t bother me so I can walk through the graveyard admiring it’s beauty photographing the trees and the gravestones. I especially like cemeteries with a lot of trees and bushes which makes them so much more beautiful. I also like really old graveyards.
Here’s a link to Haunted Lawrence, Kansas which is only twelve miles from haunted Stull Cemetery and 45 miles from Round Mound Cemetery and Atchison, Kansas. You can get this book here: https://amzn.to/3TXQiwV
Update: I’ve had a love for all things haunted and abandoned since 2009 when I starting photographing every haunted place and abandoned house I could find when I ran out of haunted places to take pictures of. My love for hauntings and the paranormal actually started in 2007 when I was involved in a three car accident. For months I felt like I wasn’t alive. I can’t explain it any other way and this is what made me go down this path of exploring haunted places and abandoned houses. As for the abandoned places I would find in my travels it was the lure of the history that drew me to them.
I’m pretty sure this old, abandoned house is in South Carolina but I don’t remember where. I wish I did. I used to make note of the places where my pictures were taken but I take so many I can no longer do this.
This is from when I went through Georgia and South Carolina about two or three years ago. I’m thinking it was 2019. I know it wasn’t 2020 during covid because I went to Pennsylvania as soon as lockdown was lifted.
This post has been moved from my blogger blog and was posted on 03.23.2022. It’s an old photo taken in Ohio a few years ago. It’s a beautiful old house. I don’t photograph empty, abandoned houses like I used to. Last year I starting taking more videos than anything else but if I happen to see an old house I can photograph safely I will. Not everyone is happy about you photographing their property even though it is abandoned and I’ve run into issues a few times but luckily not too many because I don’t hang around very long. I snap the picture and leave. I would love to do video of abandoned houses but it requires me to hang around too long. Longer than I like. This isn’t to say I haven’t done some video, they just aren’t long and I link several small videos together but I’m still brand new to shooting videos. I do it on my phone and am looking into using a camera instead but haven’t decided. I’m not on the road right now. I’ll see when I am back to work and on the road.
I’ve been photographing haunted, abandoned and empty houses for many years now.
I didn’t post anything so I don’t know when these pictures were taken. I want to say before 2015 but before that time I used a Fuji Finepix DSLR camera. In 2015 I started using my Samsung phone. Truthfully, I want to say it was later.
I went back and looked at the image information and I downloaded the pictures from my facebook page and posted it to my blog. This tells me it was my phone because I didn’t upload that many pictures to social media. I found it a hassle having to plug my camera into my laptop every time I wanted to upload my pictures so I didn’t. When I got my samsung smartphone(I was very late to the smartphone party, I didn’t get my first until 2015. Before that I was perfectly happy with a dumb phone because I used my camera for all of my photography but when I bought my phone I started using it almost exclusively. Now I do video with my phone and I’m told this is the wrong way to go. I know as my YouTube channel grows I’ll probably get another camera. I had one but I think my husband pawned it when I was gone and he ran out of beer money. I haven’t been able to find it for a long time and he insists it’s in the house somewhere but I’ve torn the house upside down trying to find it and I can’t. This is something he does when he gets low on beer and cigarette money. One time he pawned my bicycle and he’s pawned other stuff we needed/wanted to keep and blamed me but that’s a story for my personal blog.
As for the old, abandoned house pictures in Ohio I have no idea when I took them. It was most likely when I was on my way to Michigan. I don’t know where. I always travel US Highway 23 North.
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I just traveled through Nebraska last summer(2021) but didn’t take much time to explore the area for old, abandoned houses. I instead spent the time traveling scenic byways. I did take pictures in some of the downtown areas that had some old buildings because I’m not picky. I photograph anything old and interesting. This is great book. An online friend in one of my van life groups purchased it a couple of months ago and said she loved it.