Key West Cemetery
The Key West Cemetery is a 19-acre cemetery located at the foot of Solares Hill on the island of Key West. It is located in the northeast section of the Old Town area of the island, and it is estimated that as many as 100,000 people are buried there, many more than the 30,000 residents who currently live on the island. In 1847 it was established at its current location after a 1846 hurricane washed dead bodies from the earlier cemetery out of the coastal sand dunes on Whitehead Point near the West Martello Towers.
Many lives were taken by the Yellow Fever epidemic that swept across the island in 1887 and 1888, some by the great fire of 1886, and some by war including the Battleship Maine disaster of 1898. Many were killed in the numerous hurricanes that hit the island and several souls interred here met their fate at the end of the hangman's noose. With so much tragedy, it is not surprising that so many souls here walk at night, although many encounters have been reported during daylight hours.
One tale is of the ghostly spirit of a Bahamian woman who appears to those visitors who are disrespectful at the cemetery. This appears to be an "intelligent haunting" meaning she interacts with the visitor. Beware if you walk across graves, sit upon grave stones or burial vaults, or joke about the dead. She will appear and approach you with cold gazing eyes and scold you for you behavior. Some say she has made threats and will turn insolent, only to vanish right before your eyes.
The cemetery is also known for its disembodied voices, shadows, and apparitions that occur both day and night within the cemetery. Many people have found unexplained shadows or apparitions that have appeared in their photos.
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