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Mira

(22,378 posts)
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 09:53 PM Sep 2016

Nearing night in the Garden of Good and Evil - I forgot about stopping and haunting the cemetery

This is not THE cemetery where the famous statue is from the movie with Kevin Spacey and John Cusak and of course “the Lady Chablis”. That cemetery is on the outskirts. This one is in the heart of town, and I passed it on my way back to the motel, and, in the absence of tourists and the abundance of parking places, I stopped and paid a short visit.







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Nearing night in the Garden of Good and Evil - I forgot about stopping and haunting the cemetery (Original Post) Mira Sep 2016 OP
It sure looks haunted, my dear Mira! CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2016 #1
Ohhh, the lack of color in that last one! Curmudgeoness Sep 2016 #2
A more clear one for you Mira Sep 2016 #4
New Orleans has above ground tombs. alfredo Sep 2016 #6
Spooky! mnhtnbb Sep 2016 #3
Wonderful photos, great sig line! marble falls Sep 2016 #5
Love that last one! ManiacJoe Sep 2016 #7

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
2. Ohhh, the lack of color in that last one!
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 10:06 PM
Sep 2016

I love it.

What are those brick structures in the first photo? They don't look like any mausoleums that I have ever seen, but...what else would they be.

Mira

(22,378 posts)
4. A more clear one for you
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 10:16 PM
Sep 2016

I can only imagine they are ancient mausoleums. The dates on the grave stones are the oldest I've seen in a coon's age. Most of them I cannot read. But then, it was getting dark, I was alone, and it was a hauntingly eerie place with lots of ghosts.

alfredo

(60,065 posts)
6. New Orleans has above ground tombs.
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 06:10 PM
Sep 2016

Maybe a high water table forced them to either dig shallow graves or. Build above ground vaults.

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
7. Love that last one!
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 06:22 PM
Sep 2016

The lack of color in the moss suggests an infrared shot, which would be very cool on it own.

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