Read about ghosts and cemetery stories. Scary stories about the cemetery and the dead

My parents and their parents are all from Vorkuta. But I didn’t see this city until I was fifteen, because they didn’t take me there and in every possible way dissuaded me from visiting the old people - my grandparents - who lived there until their death.

“Why do you hate your city so much?” - I pestered my mother in surprise. And she said that next to the mine, where almost all the men from the area worked, there was an old cemetery that terrified the local inhabitants. Allegedly, they saw the dead leaving their graves right in front of the eyes of Vorkuta residents who came to visit the deceased relatives.

My grandfather, my mother’s father, who lived next door to this cemetery as a boy in the 1930s, swore that he himself saw “people from the other world.” One day, literally the day before Epiphany, on a frosty January night, the risen dead marched in a column through the miners' village - so he claimed. And the cadaverous smell lingered on the street all day.

Of course, I didn’t believe these stories, believing that my grandfather was out of his mind, and the little girl—my mother was ten years old when he told her this nonsense—was easy to scare. However, my mother insisted that all this was true. And she claimed that her brother also witnessed the terrible incident. Once they were walking with the guys from the neighboring house in the evening near the fence of the cemetery, and at that time a man came out of the gate - a strange, even scary, bearded man in rags: he walked past them, shuffling with some tattered cast-offs that resembled felt boots, and turned behind them. corner.

The children rushed after him - they began to tease him, the fools. And he looked around, threatened them with a stick and simply disappeared into thin air, disappeared. At that same moment, the children felt a terrible gust of wind, as if a hurricane had begun... They were scattered along the road, one boy seriously injured his leg, another had his face scratched with blood by a torn off tree branch, and the girls rolled on the ground like peas and squealed from fear.

"So what? - I shrugged my shoulders in response to my mother’s attempts to impress me. - Just think, a strong wind! This happens. And a man in rags is not necessarily a dead man. And when he disappeared, he got scared of you, the brats, and hid.” But, according to the mother, there was something eerie about that figure and its disappearance - a person cannot simply melt into thin air. “Yes, and many of us have seen these walks of the dead. If you don’t believe me, ask whoever you want!” -Mom didn’t want to give up. “Why are you always bringing me some eyewitnesses? And you yourself? - I deliberately angered her. “No, I didn’t see it, thank God! - Mom crossed herself in fear. But I know many people whom I trust and who have encountered this evil spirits. And one boy from our yard went crazy from horror - forever! He never recovered afterwards... Such a dead man waylaid him and attacked him...

And here’s an interesting coincidence: on the very night when the dead man attacked him, I noticed an unusual bright light in the sky - something like the northern lights, but not quite lights. Wonderful! It never existed in our area. Still, we don’t live at the North Pole... And strange things happened at our school: at night, in the echoing corridors, someone’s shuffling steps could be heard, inarticulate muttering and plaintive moans were heard. The watchman, Baba Manya, told us this.”

“That old woman Manya of yours must have been a drunkard!” - I egged my mother on. “Fuck you... She fought in the Night Witches squadron! Has an order. What a drunk she is to you!” It is not surprising that when my mother married my father, she immediately left the “bad” village in Vorkuta forever. I never tried to visit my parents. My grandmother and grandfather often came to us, but my mother never visited them. And they didn’t let me visit the old people on vacation.

I was terribly envious of my classmates: well, everything is like summer - they go to their grandmothers in the village. Their stories fascinated me: there were adventures, fights and overnight trips, swimming and complete freedom! In a word, freedom! And I sat like hell all summer in the city, at best they took me to the sea, and then only for a couple of weeks...

When I turned fifteen, I made a terrible scandal and demanded that I be released to the old people. The parents resisted for a long time (or rather, my mother resisted), but in the end they gave in. Somewhere in mid-June I was sent by train from Kirov to Vorkuta. I enjoyed the journey for a day, then I found myself at the Vorkuta central station. Small, old, provincial, but quite clean. From the city center I took a minibus to the village of Severny to visit the old people. I found Vorkuta a dull, gloomy city. There is no need for a cemetery with zombies crawling out of the ground here - without that the landscape is apocalyptic.

My grandparents greeted me joyfully - after all, they were the only grandson! I, too, was very happy with the old people, however, when they took me to a neglected two-story house, surrounded by some rickety sheds and rusty garages, I became somewhat sour: I didn’t know that people still live like this in our time - well, I didn’t see barracks! This city, it must be said, is surrounded by a whole system of suburbs - mainly mining villages. There used to be a dozen and a half of them, but at the time I arrived in Vorkuta, only five remained; the remaining villages looked like gloomy ghosts among the bare tundra...

Honestly, I was no longer glad that I came. What can you do here? How to relax? How can you even live?! At least write to your parents: “Take me!” The next day, however, I found company - a couple of guys my age, and the prospect of spending two weeks here no longer seemed so gloomy. Moreover, I confess to you that I dreamed of going to the cemetery, about which I had heard so many “terrible” things.

I was dying to go there and, most importantly, take pictures! Suddenly I’ll get lucky, I thought, and someone from the other world will appear to me! These pictures will make me famous! A fool, of course, but I was only fifteen years old. I wanted thrills, like any boy. I asked my new friends to give me a tour of the cemetery: they say, I’ve heard about all sorts of miracles! They shrugged: it was a three-kilometer walk to get there. Don't be lazy, let's go...

And so we came to that same Lithuanian cemetery. Actually, it is not only Lithuanian, although its most noticeable grave is a monument to some prince with an inscription in Lithuanian: “Mother Lithuania is crying for you.” Yes, there were many of them in the local “Vorkutlag” - sons for whom Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Western Ukraine cried...

Tens of thousands of people went through this hell from the territories occupied in 1939, and then the Germans began to be sent here - no, not prisoners, but completely loyal to the USSR, only with the beginning of the war they all turned into enemies. Among my grandfather’s friends, by the way, there was a Lithuanian named Edgar - his ancestors ended up in Vorkuta in a convoy, and when they were freed, they stayed to live there. Edgar himself was born in Vilnius, but every year he came to these harsh lands beyond the Arctic Circle to lay flowers on his native graves.

There are hundreds, thousands of such stories in this city... But these prisoners still had graves, and how many people were left simply abandoned to lie in the frozen ground under snow and moss! What's strange about it, if you think about it, is that these souls do not know peace. And their ghosts walk around the dying city, looking for their executioners... Or maybe those who remained from their relatives to remind them of themselves? At the cemetery I saw many Orthodox crosses next to Catholic ones. And as an adult, I read so many tragic stories of ordinary Russian men, priests and teachers, workers and doctors, buried here!

Then, at the age of fifteen, I listened with rapture as one of my new acquaintances talked about how they were expanding a mine in the village of Yur-Shor. They simply dug up the neighboring cemetery, crushing the skulls and bones of the unfortunate people buried here with an excavator bucket. Here are the people! They don't care! They are ready to throw the dead in the trash! But there lay not only political prisoners, but also civilian and local prisoners - quite possibly, relatives of those who crushed these bones into dust with the wheels of trucks.

That's when the cemetery was disturbed, and the locals began to have visions. Or rather, the dead began to come out... Presumably, in this way they demanded peace, and maybe justice. From time immemorial there has been a tradition of burying the dead away from housing and treating graveyards with respect. Our ancestors knew that the destruction of a cemetery could bring disaster. And we forgot. And therefore we must blame ourselves, and not the ghosts that frighten us.

In the late 40s of the last century, a local miner received a prison sentence for talking about ghosts that came to him underground. He was immediately sent to jail for trying to sow panic and spread a hostile ideology. But what is the ideology of those ghosts?! They certainly did not create a counter-revolutionary group, did not find out secret information about the mine tunnels and did not prepare terrorist attacks...

That miner's name was Ivan Khrapov, he was the grandfather of one of the guys who told me this story. And he served until 1953, until Stalin’s death. And the last case of the appearance of dead people happened here in the early 60s of the last century, at a dance in a local club. When the watchman, having escorted all the young people home around midnight, began to lock the doors, suddenly someone began to strangle him.

The watchman, despite his age, was a healthy man. He dodged and grabbed the attacker himself: but immediately pulled his hands back. Moreover, the blow almost hit him! In front of the man stood a corpse as pale as a sheet - just a corpse! He had empty eye sockets and almost rotten skin on his cheeks. The dead man grinned threateningly with his empty mouth.

The poor old man ran away with a wild cry, and in the morning he quit his job and never went to that club again - neither at night nor during the day. But the young people, having heard his story, began to be on duty there almost around the clock - brave souls! Let's drink for courage and let's walk around the club with jokes and jokes. On the third night, perhaps, one of these guys saw the translucent figure of a man, but the others did not have time to notice it, and therefore decided that he had simply had too much port wine.

Why don’t dead people come to scare Vorkuta residents after 1960? I think because around that time, a former political prisoner of Yur-Shor installed the first memorial sign in the cemetery, common to all the victims. My mother, in any case, said exactly that: “Guests from the other world stopped coming to us, they calmed down, apparently they liked this sign of respect.” By the way, I saw this simple wooden pillar, reinforced at the base with a concrete pad, on which the numbers “1953” are embossed.

And later, in 1992, I think, the Vorkuta “Memorial”, together with former political prisoners from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, erected another wooden memorial cross at the cemetery with a sign: “Eternal memory of those who died for freedom and human dignity.” This certainly pleased those who lie in the frozen ground here: memory and dignity are exactly what they were deprived of for so long.

All stories about the cemetery are told through the mouths of real people. If you are under 18, run away from this page. Because you will be terrified and scared. Just 3 stories from life.

My grandmother, who is 82 years old, does not let me go to the churchyard alone.

Look, what a brave man you have found. A cemetery is a refuge for souls, some of which have not found rest. “They should go back to our world,” the old woman said terribly.

I'm Maxim, and my story about the cemetery associated with an uncovered mirror.

When my grandfather broke, or rather wrapped himself in a strong rope, I found him blue and scary.

I called my father, I remember shouting to the entire guardhouse.

“Oh, Lord, it was not for nothing that he was frightening,” my father said sickeningly, ordering me (a 17-year-old tomboy) to curtain all the mirrors.

Fortunately, there were a lot of rags in the village house.

I left one mirror open.

They buried my grandfather in a cemetery, on the outskirts of the churchyard, without Orthodox or religious ceremonies.

The people were loud that they were now excommunicated from the Lord God.

I was terrified to go there, where there was still a strong noose.

Walking around the house with memories, I accidentally looked into the mirror, which I deliberately did not cover.

What is this, righteous God!

In it I saw the distorted grimace of my grandfather lying in the village cemetery.

Something dark and strong, probably a fallen spirit, forced me to visit him.

I didn't say anything to my father.

He came, sat down, and began to sob.

And in the cemetery, the wind on the grave is restless, as if someone is desperately rampaging from underground.

The grave cross shook and cold rain poured over me.

Not feeling my feet under me, I ran away from the cemetery.

It was then that my grandmother told me everything.

You can't go to church - it's a mortal sin. Why didn't you hide the mirror? Obviously not created by the mind! Now wait for him in your dreams, grandfather will come and you will wake up. His soul, already imprisoned in hell, cannot say goodbye to this world. You hid it in the mirrors. Pray, poor thing, otherwise it will be bad for you and your father,” said the grandmother, baptizing me at last.

I read “Our Father”, chattering my teeth at night.

Grandfather left hard, he could not resist the noose.

Only I still have dreams in which she gradually tightens around my own neck.

Another story about the cemetery worse than the previous one.

Basically, everyone there rests in peace.

But there are also those who wander forever in lamentation.

I often leave some water or cookies on my grandmother’s grave.

I remember her, look around, and then look - there is no treat.

Apparently I'm disturbing someone...

For the twelfth year now I have been visiting an old woman who died of hunger during the war.

My the story about the cemetery is some kind of devilry.

One day he came to visit his father, and on the grave, instead of “dead” flowers, ritual candles were stuck.

Black, red, yellow, seemingly recently extinguished.

Lying nearby is a devil, or rather a wax figurine of him.

I dug them up, howling with indignation, and there, in the depths, my hand was wounded by an ancient dagger.

What are these, bloody masses?

He scooped up the desecrating trash and threw it in the trash.

He ran up to the cemetery worker and told him everything.

And he just shakes his head, saying, sorry, brother, I’ll notice, I’ll kill you.

On Easter I went to my father again.

The same picture was presented to my eyes.

Only instead of a dagger I dug up chicken remains.

This is a real story written from the words of a real person. However, my interlocutor asked to keep his name and some details secret. He is a medical worker, he went through two wars: the Patriotic and the Korean. We are sitting in a small, cozy living room, and he tells exciting, interesting stories, and he had many of them over the seventy-eight years of his life.

His sparkle in his eyes and oratory take us far, far back. However, now, telling this story, there was a stamp of sadness on his face, and a wave of pain splashed in his eyes.

“This happened just before the war. I had just received my diploma as a surgeon, and I was sent to work in the south - in the Kazakh steppes. He worked in a small regional center as a surgeon in the emergency room, but sometimes replaced a pathologist.

That hot summer day is deeply etched in my memory; there were many patients and I didn’t have a minute to rest. They sent an orderly to me with a request to stop the appointment and urgently begin an autopsy of the body of a man brought by his relatives on a cart; he was struck and killed by lightning. My colleagues examined him and pronounced him dead. The relatives were in a hurry; the journey home was long and far. One hundred kilometers in these places was not considered a great distance. Just at that moment I opened the boil and could not leave the patient. He replied that I could come over in a few minutes, asking my sister to apply a bandage. As soon as I headed towards the exit, I heard a quiet, female voice - “don’t go.” I turned around and looked around, there was no one in the office, the nurse was in the dressing room. Here they brought in a patient with an open hip fracture, and I began to provide emergency care. The orderly came for me again, but I was busy. When I finished providing assistance, again a woman’s voice very clearly said, “don’t go.” Then there was a patient with acute bleeding, and I was delayed.

An orderly came into the office and said that the head doctor was angry. I replied that I would be there soon. Having finished with the patient, and already approaching the door, I heard a woman’s voice again - “don’t go.” And I decided - I was stopped three times, I won’t go, and that’s it! I stayed in the office and resumed my appointment. The chief came - angry, beside himself: “Why don’t you follow my order?” To which I calmly say: “I have a lot of patients, but the therapist is sitting and not doing anything (I also got angry and was rude), let him go, he also went through this like me. The head doctor, furious, left after him.

Twenty minutes later the autopsy began. And a terrible thing happened: a colleague sawed open the chest and began to dissect the lungs, when suddenly the dead man jumped up and, spraying blood, began screaming and rushed at the doctor. A frightened colleague flew out of the anatomy room, covered in blood and with crazy eyes, ran into my office and shouted: “Faster, faster! He is alive!" I examined the patient and answered skeptically: “Who? Dead person? “Yes, he is alive, take the tool and save him.” I didn’t believe it, but I took the suitcase with the tools, talked to my sister and went after him. Having caught up with him, I saw that my colleague had turned completely gray.

A half-dead man was lying on the floor of the anatomy room. He was bleeding, it was too late to do anything, life was leaving him. A few minutes later he died for real. A colleague received a long sentence for premeditated murder. During the war he was released and died during the liberation of Warsaw. And to this day I don’t know who called me and stopped me and saved me from big trouble. Maybe a guardian angel, or maybe a premonition and intuition?..” He finished the story without touching the cooled tea. And I sat and thought about how thin the line between life and death is, how many mysterious and incomprehensible things are around.

My mother and I live with my grandmother, but we are building a house completely on the other side of the city. I'm 12 and have been living with my grandmother since birth. Her house is very close to the cemetery and school. When I bring my classmates to visit, they are horrified when they realize that our house is located opposite the cemetery. But I answer them with mockery. Like, what's so scary about that? I spent my whole life here and nothing happened... Looking at the cemetery I have no feeling of fear. I don’t look at a cemetery with the conclusion that the ground there is saturated with corpses. For me, this is just a place with crosses.. But for a long time, my grandmother told me that when passing by a cemetery you need to say hello to *spirits* Like, they look at you and wait, will you say hello to them? But I completely forgot about it..
One fine day.. My best friend Tanya and I agreed to go to the cinema in the evening, to the cartoon *Shrek 2* We are Shrek fans and didn’t refuse this) It was winter then.. The days were short and already at 8 pm it was getting terribly dark. It's like 12 o'clock at night. The movie ended, as we feared at 8. We lived nearby. But on different streets. There was not a large forest near the school. And behind this forest there was a street *Lesnaya* and my friend lived there.
When we got to school we split up. *we were separated by the damn forest* She’s going home, and I’m going home... On my own way. I walked quickly. Strangely, the lamp standing on our street did not turn on. But I didn’t attach any importance to this.
I was about 70-80 meters from the house when I heard slow footsteps behind me. I quickened my pace until I was almost running. Soon I heard the voice of an elderly grandmother. The voice was trembling, but in some places it was angry. Grandmother said that she could not find her mother’s grave. Buried in this very cemetery. I have already seen the burning light of a chandelier in the windows of my house. But my grandmother suddenly grabbed me by the hand and dragged me to the cemetery. I wanted to scream, but my voice seemed to have disappeared... Grandma was weak, so in the cemetery gates I grabbed the fence and didn’t let go. Grandma has disappeared...
I wiped the sweat of fear from my forehead and went home. Having reached very close to my house, I saw the silhouette of my grandmother at the gate. And she was waving her cane at the gate. Knocked. I felt terrified. I called my mother and told her to kick this grandmother out. Grandma either heard what I said and immediately disappeared.
Mom came out, there was no one there, only I stood scared at the gate. Mom asked what happened. Out of fear, not understanding what I was saying, I said that there was a grandmother there... Mom answered me that it seemed to me and did not believe me.
In the morning, it turned out that a grandmother came to everyone on our street and asked if they would help her find her mother’s grave. And upon hearing the answer, she disappeared, one might say evaporated into thin air.
A month later we moved to a new house. At the end of the city. A year later, they started burying people there and made another cemetery. Right opposite our house. It's a shame and disgusting. Now I am afraid of cemeteries, I do not advise you to walk near a cemetery in the dark. You never know...

Creepy stories about the dead, death and cemeteries. At the junction of our world and the other world, sometimes very strange and unusual phenomena occur that are difficult to explain even to very skeptical people.

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Mom died in September 1992. My older brother Gena lived in another city. During the years that my mother was ill, he came to us only once. And then, of course, they gave him an urgent telegram. He replied that he was leaving. However, I never got there. I drank on the train and went on a drinking binge. I woke up only a month later. He could not remember where he was and what happened to him. With that, he returned home. It must be said that my brother actually held a responsible position and could not drink for years, but still occasionally broke into binge drinking.

I noticed that I write about snakes often. Maybe this is connected with our mystical beliefs, I don’t know. Be that as it may, here is another mystical story for you.

My classmate told this story back in school. And I remembered her because her father, the main character of this story, recently died. A friend said that he was afraid of snakes to the point of panic. For a long time, the children could not understand why such a powerful man was afraid of even a harmless snake. However, over time they found out. Further from his words.

And creepy at the same time. As for the owner of the cemetery, maybe he stood up for the girl. I have already heard about the owner and read somewhere, they say that he can take on different forms, it seems even like an animal too. There was one incident that happened to me, which I told my mother later, when she and I went to the cemetery to visit my father.

My mother lives in a village, or rather in a village, and you couldn’t really see people on the street at that time, there was almost no one. And it was only my mother and I who were at the cemetery. There were a lot of fresh graves around, the cemetery was large, but they recently started burying people in one part of it. The sun was shining mercilessly, it was hot, summer, we were there at about four in the afternoon. We came to my father’s grave, and while my mother was taking care of the grave, I stood and mentally talked to him. I was so sad without him, even if I screamed, I missed him terribly, but I didn’t talk about it with my mother, I didn’t want to upset her soul. Especially in the first years, the loss of my father physically hurt me, and I told him about this then, there, in the cemetery.

This incident happened two years ago. I was driving home from work. The road passes near the cemetery. Driving by, I “heard” a request for help. This time I didn’t think for a long time, turned on the turn signal and turned towards the cemetery. I found the grave quickly. Well maintained, good marble monument. Inscription: Valentina Nikolaevna. I mentally ask the question: how can I help? And in response there was silence. I waited ten minutes. So I didn’t wait for an answer. At first I thought I had the wrong grave. I decided to take a walk in search. But no matter how many times I walked, there was no answer. While returning, I heard crying. I came up and saw the same tombstone.

He asked: “How can I help Valya?” “It’s my son’s birthday today. I want to give him a gift. Player with a record. At home in the pantry in a box,” was the answer. I think to myself that there is nothing complicated, I’ll come, I’ll say it and that’s it, my mission is over. But everything went wrong. I asked the people about Valentina, since our village is small. And I heard this story.

According to Christian tradition, after the Easter service, it is customary to celebrate this holiday at home with family.

My friend Katerina lived with her parents in a large house, divided into 4 parts, in each of which their relatives lived. There was harmony between the neighbors. Holidays were celebrated together at a large table in the courtyard of the house. Long benches on both sides of the table accommodated everyone, regardless of age and size. The children grew up, started families, some moved to their own separate housing, but at Easter everyone was sure to be there, according to tradition. The table with benches was built by Katerina’s father, Uncle Lesha. He was a kind and welcoming person. In his old age, of course, he lost a lot, but he always tried, if not to organize, then at least to maintain the fun. After his death, the neighbors at first began to get together less often, and then only the little ones played around in such a playground. And it became sadder in the yard.

One of my relatives, who survived the Holocaust as a child, shared this story with me. Further from her words.

Before the war we lived well. Our family was large and friendly. I was the eldest child in the family, helped my mother with housework, looked after the younger children and, like all Soviet children, dreamed of a bright future. One day my mother told me: “Daughter, today I had a terrible dream: my grandmother came to me and said that we will all die, but you will be saved and will live happily ever after.” It was