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Kingston, New Hampshire
Betty and Barney Hill Graves
Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.
Milford, New Hampshire
Caroline Cutter Headstone
A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.
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Watertown, Massachusetts
Art of Jack Kevorkian
The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."
Cape Otway, Australia
Frederick Valentich Memorial Plaque
A plaque at the lighthouse where Frederick Valentich made his last radio contact before he vanished without a trace.
Manchester, Maine
Devil’s Footprint
A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.
Leicester, Massachusetts
Spider Gates Cemetery
The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.
New Haven, Connecticut
Grave of Midnight Mary
Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Mountain View Cemetery
Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.
Montpelier, Vermont
Green Mount Cemetery
Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.
New Haven, Connecticut
Grave of Sarah Winchester
Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.
New Haven, Vermont
Grave of Timothy Clark Smith
A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.
Northfield, New Hampshire
Memorial Arch of Tilton
The massive Roman arch in New Hampshire that was meant to be a tomb.
Hanover, New Hampshire
Panarchy Tomb Room
The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.
Cavendish, Vermont
Phineas Gage Memorial
The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.
York, Maine
York Witch Grave
The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Salem Village Witchcraft Victims Memorial
Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.
New Haven, Connecticut
Skull and Bones Tomb
The headquarters of the famous Yale society.
Westford, Massachusetts
Westford Knight
Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.
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