Me and My Favorite Tombstone

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Here's the opportunity to post your own photo of yourself and your favorite tombstone. It doesn't have to be a famous tombstone, just your favorite....

Just send it to my email address:

[email protected]

or if you need to send the actual photograph, send me an email and I'll be happy to send you a mailing address.

So don't be like the angel below, just thinking about it, send a pic today.

Photo submitted by Anneabe.

Here Dolores sitting in her living room, just kidding. This person wanted to spend eternity in replica of their living room, complete with two arm chairs and fireplace. You can see this tombstone at the Home Of Peace Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Here's Steve Goldstein who operates the site Beneath Los Angeles sitting on his favorite tombstone. It is the grave of F.W.Blanchard, the developer of the

Hollywood Bowl.

Steve likes it for it's beauty and calls it "The Weeping Lady." You can see this tombstone at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Here's Karen from the famous site Hollywood-Underground sitting upon Tyrone Power in Hollywood Forever Cemetery located, where else? Hollywood, California.

Dolores, Denis and Anne all standing by MY favorite tombstone. Curly Howard. Denis who was deemed by FindADeath as a "gravehunter extraordinaire", unfortunately is no longer with us. I offer this photo as a memorial to him.

Rest in Peace Denis.

Here are three photos of Jack Waite's favorite gravesite, his own. It is located in Our Lady of Grace in Bucks County Pennsylvania. This is his story: "My parents picked their grave at that cemetery many years before I got mine and they suggested that I get one next to theirs, but I did not take them up on the suggestion.

Years later, after my parents were dead. I could no longer get a grave in the same section as them, but I got one in a nearby section, a few minutes walk away.

The reason my parents picked that cemetery was because THEIR parents were buried there.

Most of my aunts are also there, but not all of them. .

I always resented the fact that they picked that cemetery, because NO public transportation goes within a mile of that place, and I do not drive. So, I have to take an hour's bus ride, and then get off the bus and WALK a mile, in order

to get there, and then a mile back in order to get a bus home. When I say "a bus" I am simplifying things. Actually I have to take a series of buses."

Here's A.J.Marik planted firmly on L.Frank Baum the writer of "The Wizard of Oz." He is located in Forest Lawn in Glendale, a cemetery that has a bad rap for harassing fellow grave hunters. A.J. however, has never had a problem there (hmmm, who does he know??? lol).

He chose this because, one, he's in it, and two, it was the very first one he remembers finding and recognizing it as an interred celebrity, which started the whole thing rolling....

To his credit he has submitted 2822 graves to the FindAGrave site.

If you would like to visit ALL his photos

click here

Jamie from the great website, The Mortician is posing with the first celebrity tombstone he discovered. It is of musician Roy Acuff who is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery located in Nashville, Tennessee. Another Celebrity buried there is Keith Whitley.

Well if I was giving out an award for the kookiest pic, it would certainly go to Anneabe and her friend Elliot (simply known as "E"). Here they are in the Beth El Cemetery in Queens, New York, trying to get a photo of

Edward G. Robinson Sr's crypt.

It looks as though they are using the "shade the mausoleum glass with an umbrella technique." Many of the greatest photographer's throughout time have used this method, achieving a quick boot out of the cemetery being photographed.

What's that I hear, yes, it's Edward G's body spinning in his grave.

Okay everyone, now is the time where I have to toot my own horn. Please forgive me this slight indiscretion. Without me, we all would still be looking in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery for him. I had to beg a rather scary looking caretaker, that was missing fingers on his hands, for the location. And yes, I think I had to resort to the use of girlish tears to get my way. If it works for traffic tickets, it works for elusive graves as well.

These photos were donated by Alexander. Even though she is not in the photos they have a very interesting story behind them. It's the grave of Julia Buccola Petta that is located in Mt. Carmel Catholic Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. Apparently Julia died while giving birth at the age of 29. Her mother kept having dreams after her burial tha something was wrong. She got the cemetery to exhume her daughter's body and when they opened the coffin they noticed that Julia had not decayed at all after being buried for six years. Her family took a photo of her in her coffin and placed it on her tombstone.

It is rumored that a ghost of a young woman walks around the area of her grave.

This one also submitted by Alexander is of a woman holding a baby in her arms. She isn't sure where she found it however, she finds it beautiful and at the same time heart breaking. She'd also like to think that perhaps her mourning husband (not Alex's, the dead lady, duh) erected it in her honor.

Last but not least, Alex found this angel weeping over a tomb. She says, "How heart wrenching and touching to see asauch a beautiful angel of glory weeping and broken hearted by the death of a loved one. Perhaps she was the guardian angel of a mortal." This can be seen on her website Midnight Myst

in the section entitled Cemetery Angels.