graveyards
From haunted ones to ancient ones, to flooded ones to famous ones, who doesn’t love a graveyard!
Where First?
Wherever you are in your graveyard obsession, you won’t go wrong with a few of these Scottish favourites.
Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh
With 700 + gravestones, Edinburgh’s ‘City of the Dead’ has body snatching tales, haunted mausoleums and ghost tours!
Holy Rude Kirkyard, Stirling
If memento mori is your ‘thing’ then Holy Rude Kirkyard can’t be missed! From death heads to winged cherubs, Holy Rude has it all.
St Cuthbert’s Kirkyard, Edinburgh
Targeted heavily by body snatchers, St Cuthbert’s now has some of the best memento mori in the city!
Scotland’s famous cursed grave
Protected with an iron mortsafe to keep the living safe, or so they say — visiting the cursed grave of Seath Mor is not for the faint-hearted.
graveyards With a darker past
Scottish Borders: A Darker Side
Spend some time in the Border towns of Scotland and discover some true hidden gems.
Dark Secrets of coastal graveyards
These coastal graveyards all have links with the macabre world of body snatching.
St Fittick’s, Aberdeenshire
Overlooking the banks of the Bay of Nigg, this graveyard saw a Christmas misadventure.
Lasswade Old Kirkyard, Scotland
In a quiet graveyard on Edinburgh’s outskirts, a female informant fed leads to body snatchers.
Why are there Cages over graves?
They say the cages are there to keep the vampires in — they couldn’t be further from the truth.
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Edinburgh Graveyards
What if your trip to Edinburgh’s Old Town could take in some of the oldest and creepiest graveyards in Edinburgh and you could do it all on foot!
Graveyards For Your Bucket List
St Louis Cemetery No. 1 New Orleans
From Voodoo queens to New Orleans craps players, this is the one with the pyramid that EVERYONE talks about!
new orleans graveyard bucket list
New Orleans Iconic 4 — inspiration for your travel plans, from ghost tours to infamous monuments.
The Saadian Tombs, Marrakesh
Once thought lost, this stunning Royal burial ground is now a tourist hotspot, but is it worth a visit?
Looking For body snatchers?
If it’s the sinister world of body sntaching you’re after, try these posts.
Does Body Snatching Still Happen?
From canibalism to stealing corpses for company and even — the macabre act of body snatching hasn’t exactly gone away.
famous bodies snatched from the grave
Whether it’s for ransom, medical science, or just because — being famous definitely has its downsides.
the hope street body snatching scandal
Wholesale body snatching at it’s finest — up to 3 adults per barrel, just how many bodies were shipped from Liverpool is anyone’s guess.