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In Cedar Hill Cemetery, located in Newark Ohio, there are two reputed haunted spots.

First off is the Baker Mausoleum.

The mausoleum is referred to as the Asylum. Story is you are supposed to put your ear up against the door and you can hear screams and voices. the trips I made to the cemetery, I've tried and never heard anything. I was more worried
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This my rubber band ball that I've have for a little over 17 years. Started it when I worked at Bank One (Chase bought Bank One a few years ago), when I worked in the mai room. We used to have boxes and boxes of rubber bands that no one ever used. One day the lady I worked with showed me how to start a
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Being a fan of wandering around cemeteries, sometimes I find something that makes me perk up.

One day while wandering around Union Cemetery (old Union at Olentangy River Road and Ackerman Road), I came across a name I wasn't expecting.

I've never had an interest in the books or the films, but I know about them. Just kinda chuckled about the name. Happened to be
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Here is another Columbus related person.

Conn Baker is buried in Union Cemetery here in Columbus. He is buried in what I call old Union. The cemetery is actually split into two parts. The older cemetery on Olentangy River Road by Ackerman. New Union is on Olentangy River Road by East North Broadway. Depending on what date you are willing to go by, there are
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There was a bit of controversy back in October, 2013 at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati. It all concerned a couple Spongebob markers.

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/spongebob-squarepants-tombstone-monument-back-at-spring-grove-cemetery-after-dispute

To me, somebody's grave marker is how the person wants to be remembered. What they were into. Some markers have just a name and dates. Others have photos, all sorts of colors and whatever else the person wanted.

The two Spongebob
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Here's another marker from Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus.

Emil Ambos is located in section 50. In the same section, about a 100 feet away is author James Thurber.

When Ambos died in 1898, he had set aside $5,000 for the marker based on a photograph. His will also set aside a bank account with $1,000 in it. Once the the interest reached $200, the
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I know I've already posted about Georgie before. I wanted to show how he was decorated on Sunday, April 14th, 2014.

With it being close to Easter, there were some plastic Easter eggs set in his arms. The sunglasses look odd on him though.

There were some toys along the base, but as many at various points in the past. There was a snow globe
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Some pics from the trip to Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Pirates radio announccer 1936-1955

Negro League baseball player.

Civil war graves

A couple statues.

Owner of the Pittsburgh Crawfords.

Baseball hall of fame.

Chef Brockett on Mister Rogers Neighborhood. Also had a role in Silence Of The Lambs.

Yes, I'm obsessed with taking picture at cemeteries.

Here is one of my favorite cemetery markers.

At first glance it looks like a plain old bronze marker. Flush to the ground it really attract a whole lot of attention.

Hmmm.... Wonder what the part under Walter's name means? The Hollin marker is located in section 7a, space 1005.

Also back in October there was a
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Here's one from Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati. Spring Grove cemetery is 733 acres in total and is one of the larger cemeteries in the country.

Chunkie was the daughter of Thomas & Metilda Singleton. She died in 1884 of Scarlet fever about 3 weeks shy of her 4th birthday. The family lived in Covington, Kentucky, just across the Ohio river from Cincinnati.

Time and
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