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China Grove Cemetery
The China Grove Cemetery was a place we had seen on another groups web page and it was close to home. So, we headed out with our equipment.
We arrived during the day and did our walk around. We photographed the entire cemetery from outside the fence so we could see all the tombstones and there exact locations. The first odd thing that we noticed was an outhouse in the back of the fence of the cemetery. It has no hole, it just drops to the concrete pad that it sits on.
There are stories of a dark figure that lurks around in front of the outhouse at night, and of an evil feeling inside the cemetery itself. This is what we came to here in hopes of finding.
We went back much later that night. Upon entering the cemetery we felt no heavy or evil feeling any where just peace and calm. The dark figure that is spoken of was thought to be seen a time or two but it was a dark tombstone that sits oddly in front of the outhouse that causes this effect. I know some are not going to want to hear that, but we looked at the day time pix for confirmation of this. We did have some luck however and we thought an answer to the haunting. As we were doing the investigation Linda kept seeing small flashes of light with her naked eye. There were only two of us and we were side by side and neither one of us were using any form of illumination, not for video or stills. So, she started snapping frames with NO flash. Here are the thumbnails for the resulting photos there are 7 here:

So, after getting back home and looking at the stills and seeing these we had come to the conclusion that these were plasma flares. A plasma flare is much like the spark that comes from a piezoelectric lighter. The ones that click, not the one with a flint wheel. This happens when you have quartz crystal that are under stress and a dry humidity. We saw quartz and limestone, which others have commented on, and the humidity was at 43%. No doubt that these were plasma flares. To back this theory up we returned when it was 60% and photographed no flares. We thought that was the end of the story until I was looking at the day time pix to find a good one for this write up and discovered what appeared to be a ghost of a woman close to the outhouse. Here is the thumbnail for that one:

And then I saw this other picture in which Linda and myself can see 4 to 5 children of various ages looking at us from outside the fence at the back of the cemetery. Two are VERY easy to see. The first one on the left appears to be wearing a dark hat and the one in the middle looks like his eyes are just above fence level. Here is the thumbnail for that one:

So, in closing we know we have plasma flares at this location and as far as the other photos we are going to leave that one up to you to decide. We try to keep an open mind and present the evidence as it is. We feel we have done that in this case and in our opinion this cemetery IS haunted. Please leave us feed back on this blog and the photos to let us know your opinion.

Posted by PORT at 5/1/2009 2:14 PM