Why do people say some ghosts hang out in cemeteries and graveyards?

Question

I want to know some thoughts from people out there, because a lot of people say graveyards and cemeteries are a place to conduct a research investigation? We've been to many but never could understand the significance for why they were there i mean couldn't they be better off at an actual home, historical place, or business they originally resided in But also, if ghosts are already dead why would they want hang around there bodies wouldn't they go somewhere else to hang around in the world (like what i just said) besides a cemetery and be there 24/7 around there body? There are many answers to this i have found what's your's? * Thoughts please* :)


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Well I am a skeptical believer * which means i approach everything debunking it before i can classify something active or haunted! but I do believe spirits/ghosts exist but i am glad i am getting my answers to this questions from skeptics and believers!!! :)

No i do not believe that spirits only hang out in cemeteries! ,they hang out in other places too they were familiar with or places they have died! i asked this question for my research to see what everyone opinion is :) I

Answer 1

Well one theory is that cemetaries are built on holy ground and they are doorways to the other side. Some believe they are built on Ley lines but am not sure if this would cause a portal to open.

The thoery is that the cemetaries are like a bus station and spirits travel from our realm to theirs using this bus station.
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Answer 2

As with most questions you ask there are numerous theories. However, this particular question calls for reading people's minds (why do some people say....) and if your not one of those people then you can't say (with any accuracy) why they say this.
Here are some theories:
1. Ghosts show up at this location when relatives are
visiting and mourning in order to comfort them
2. Dark, quiet, creepy places can make some people
prone to imagining things.
3. The cemetery itself was the sight of a violent or other
emotionally intense setting (battle) that recorded these
events into the atmosphere and they replay, people
tuned to the right frequency see/hear/experience it.
4. The collective emotions of the grieving create semi-life
like energy forms (Tulpas or thought forms) that take
on there own existence.
5. People associate both cemeteries and ghosts with
death and there is a natural tendency to link the two
together in the mind.
6. The numerous Urban Legends (Resurrection Mary)
that have been told about cemeteries.

Answer 3

I think people have just always believed that spirits or ghosts can be seen in graveyards because they are believed to be scary places and have been for many years, obviously because people are buried in them! I don't believe that all spirits/ghosts hang out in graveyards, I believe that perhaps, some, of them might be there and others might be elsewhere, for example, where they used to live or with loved ones. I think it is just the atmosphere in graveyards that creates a spooky illusion, but it is also possible that there are spirits present. Everyone has their own opinion on this anyway, but it would be interesting if one day we could find out what is really happening in the parallel universe that so many of us cannot see :)

Answer 4

These are wonderful spots to do an investigation. The older parts of the cemeteries seem to be the most active our Paranormal group has found. There are so many reasons why these are good spots. I just know they are. Our group investigates places like this and have gotten clear messages from them that they do not like investigations to done there. Others are cool with it and we get along of things. We investigate many cemeteries at the request of the owners as they have seen things get scared. There alto of Shadow People who hang out alto in graveyards. With the Shadow People we just find a nice place to sit down and watch them. They will not hurt you.
Honestly I wish I could give you a direct concrete answer for you. I don't understand it and maybe we just aren't to know. Sometimes we just have to know that there are so many things we may not be ready to know yet. I do know that Our Group does have success in these places and I can't tell you why. We investigate homes, businesses and libraries and old Mills. We just do what we can to try and help others.
Good luck as I would like to know too!!

Answer 5

well ryan, they like to hang out there (or so i hear) because they usually died there. i don't think that they can release from their bodies or where they died. but, many ghosts live in other places such as in houses and resturants and bars...etc. but that's probably because they died in that certain place. so i don't know that ghosts ALWAYS or mostly hang out around cemeteries or graveyards but hopefully the not so clear, reasoning should help you on more paranormal investigations. :)

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Answer 6

It is very hard for some spirits to leave there body after all they are scared as well if they happened to of died suddenly and don't know what to do . the spirit lives on . and the only way to sometimes communicate with the living has been taking away from them , and yes they can leave any time they just choose to stay where they are comfortable. weird yes but some spirits do need guidance

Answer 7

Well if it's true that people hang out at the place where they died...maybe that's why so many people want to die at home. This is something to think about. I sure hope we don't get stuck wherever we die. I 've wondered about the ghosts in prisons etc..Why in the world would they stay in prison after they die??That would be about the same as staying at the cemetery. Just think...some day we'll all be ghosts...or not. Guess we'll find out then.

Answer 8

You've asked some very good questions. Why, indeed, would a departed spirit want to hang out in a cemetary next to their decomposing body? Perhaps the answer is because the beings congregating near places of death are not actual humans, but demons instead. It is well-known in evangelical christian circles, especially in the area of experiential theology, that demons are immensely attracted to death, rot, and destruction by their very natures, and particularly drawn to desicrate places of bloodshed since it was the shed blood of Christ that defeated them on the cross.
I suppose one can go even further, and ask the question if the dead actually do return at all, then why aren't we drowning in a bottomless ocean of ghosts?
Tell me what you think.

Answer 9

I have checked out several cemetary stories,and i got absolutely no evidence no audio,no video,no pictures (well except a water orb).I started thinking how many people have you ever heard of dying in a cemetary.Its a thought the spirit is supposed to leave the body at the time of death,people don't die in cemetaries they are put there way after death.

Answer 10

Because clairvoyants have seen them there, EVP recordings have been received there, There are numerous accounts of temperature changes, and magnetometer readings.

Another good place to ghost hunt are in old hospitals, prisons, houses where there have been murders or suicides, etc.