Charleston Graveyards: At Night

Be careful walking the graveyards at night, you don't know who or what may be lurking behind the tombstones. Tuesday night I visited 11 Charleston churches and graveyards in my Beyond the Grave class. They may all seem nice and quite, but watch your step, it will most likely be a grave. If you trip, I bet it is a spirit telling you to get off their grave.

Churches have their own beautiful architecture and unique layout of grave sites. At St. Mary's church on Hasell St. the graveyard wraps around the church and is very small, many of the grave sites were back to back to one another.

While the people were shorter back then, they also were known to dig up old caskets and replace them with new people. They would even dig a deeper hole for older caskets and have people stacked on top of one another. 



To the right is a very unique tomb, it is very grand and has different art work than normally seen.




First Baptist on Church St. has a grave site very similar to the one at St. Mary's. These are the only two with this style in the Charleston area.

While it is a bit hard to see, you may be able
 to make out the shape and see the similarities. 

This is the door way
to First Baptist

The Second Presbyterian Church is one of my favorites because you can see all the old detail and the aging of the church. There is wide variety of grave markers in the cemetery, some big and some small.

Thanks to CofC professor, Patrick Harwood, I was able to learn more history about the churches and graveyards in the area.