Would you be scared to walk through a graveyard in the dark?

[Kathyis6incheshigh]

And if you were scared, would you do it anyway?

When I get back to our village late at night after working away I have to take a short cut through the churchyard (unless I go the long way round on an unlit road, which is probably more dangerous in traffic terms).

It is pitch black and very spooky. The worst part is that very occasionally they lock the gate at the far end of it and my biggest fear is that I will get to the gate and find it locked so I'll have to decide whether to attempt to climb over or go back.

Am I brave for doing this or a wimp for being scared in the first place?

I'd be freaked right out, but I do have an over-active imagination... I run back from the bathroom at night!

Yeah, I take a short cut down a ginnel past some allotments and through the park. It's fine if you turn your mind off and don't think about how dark it is!

brave ..... i thought i was uite unscareable and used to walk anywhere whatever time ....since a man chased me boy do i scare easily

I wouldn't do it if I could avoid it. I run up the stairs sometimes because I'm scared something will grab me from behind

but I do remember we used to hang out in them as children and scare each other.

I wouldn't be worried about the walking through a graveyard part, but would be worried that the gate might be locked.

I have on more than one occasion thought there was someone standing there and it turned out to just be a tall headstone!

Dippy - yes it makes a big difference when you have actually had a bad experience, doesn't it?

Think about it this way. If you are dead, and in a cemetary, you are where you are supposed to be, final resting place, Father has said his prayers, you have been put to rest. Why be a ghost? And if you were, you were not likely to haunt a cemetary, unless you were a vampire digging your way out of a fresh grave, and how likely is that?

I would say a cemetary would be the safest place of all. Now, museums on the other hand.... (Especially the British Museum with all the mummies would freak me out a little)

We go through the cemetary every day on the way to school, and in fact, part of the childrens play ground has tombs (Catholic Church school)

You are safe. Dont worry.

Wouldn't be worried about ghosties, would be worried about mad hatchet men..

I think its a bit dangerous in terms of being more isolated (the one here anyway) so if you were atatcked you'd be less likely to be spotted than if you were by the road.... but its by far the quickest way from here to the post office and I shortcut it frequently after dark, the dead bodies aspect doesnt bother me at all. But I have a very matter of fact attitude and hey, the Vicar pinted out that not only was the original graveyard MUCH huger, so tehre could be bodies anywhere, my house is built on the edge of a Roman bBarracks so woudl have possibly been burial gorund anyhow....

Although my Grandad was employed in the war to pull dead bodies from planes and my dad used to move bodies during building projects, so heebie jeebies not exactly part of our genetic makeup.....

Me and DH once got locked into the park at night, we'd had a picnic and lingered even after the wardens came driving through yelling at people to get out. It was scary for me, but he took it as an ideal opportunity to have al fresco sex.

I always think you should be more scared of the living than the dead!
However yes I would probably shit myself

No. I run (almost) through a graveyard regularly - basically a path down the side of it. Not well lit. But I've come to the conclusion that as I'm taller than most of the men in this town and can probably run faster I'm OK. And if I stuck to only well lit and busy routes I'd never go anyway.

And dead bodies are just poor old bones.

Quint, I agree. I saw 'night at the museum' as more of a horror than a fun family film.

Yes, and not to mention Black Heath south east of London! Plague victims are buried all the way down to Graves End (which is why it is called that), and which is why Black Heath remains a park and is not developed.

It depends where you live - we have a graveyard in our village - I would walk through there in the dark on my own - but I live in a small village with practically no crime.

I find graveyards generally very peaceful and calming places not scarey so that will have an effect on my decision as well.

Quint, myself and friends were walking home over Blackheath and could hear screaming, we were all drunk and got worked up and dashed over to the village. We later felt a bit worried that it wasn't ghosties but that something bad had happened.

I wouldn't be worried about the dead but would worry about muggers and the like. When my mum was in her late teens she was mugged in the dark by a graveyard and found out later the mugger had stabbed all his other victims.
We all hung about a graveyard after we went clubbing years ago in the dark every friday night once 2 lads we know stayed there longer and both got attacked and mugged...

i used to have to cut through a cemetary when i lived in London.

it hadn't been used for about 20 years so was a really old creepy one.

i always walked through it half scared ..the other half of me told myself i was so tough i wasn't scared.

then one night a drunk that had fallen asleep leaning against a headstone fell over just as i walked past.
OMG i have never run so fast in my entire life.

and i swear i think i pee'd myself

No, i would'nt mind, we live near a graveyard/church and i have walked past it many times in the dark.

It's a small village and the roads are dark too so I sort of feel the roads are probably no safer than the churchyard. If you were a mugger wanting to lie in wait for someone you would probably be better off just waiting on the street. I don't come back at the same time every day so there is no way anyone would be waiting for me in particular.

I don't actually believe in ghosts or anything, except when the night is very dark and I'm about two thirds of the way through....

TheDevil, reminds me of a story my grandma told me from her youth. She was walking home after work (seamstress) one evening through the cemetary when she heard strange noises and moaning. Not being at all scared she went to investigate, and found an elderly ladey by a tombstone, having visited her late husband, and having a heart attack. My grandma got help for the woman, so she survived. Terrible thing, if supernatural fears prevent people from getting help.

I walk through a graveyard each Tuesday evening to collect ds from his choir...the lights are usually off in the church, but you can hear organ music coming from inside