cities.
One such cemetery is Green-Wood in Brooklyn, New York. It is so large and beautiful that since its creation in 1838, people have been going there to relax, sightsee, and just walk around. When New York City’s CENTRAL PARK opened decades later, many said it looked just like Green-Wood … without the TOMBSTONES!
Still, there’s just something SOOO creepy about being surrounded by so many DEAD PEOPLE. As the saying goes, “It’s quiet … TOO quiet!” Generally, cemeteries are not a place to be at night: The risk of hitting your knee on a tombstone (and that really bruises) or falling into an OPEN GRAVE are reasons enough to stay away. Plus, there have been numerous reports of CEMETERY HAUNTINGS across the U.S. Moaning or weeping can be heard from inside large CRYPTS. Onlookers have seen strange mists on clear nights. People born hundreds of years ago have been seen going for a late-night walk together.
Perhaps the most terrifying tomb tale is about The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, buried in the St. Louis Cemetery #1. Since her death in 1881, there have been numerous sightings of her ghost. Legend has it that you can hear her casting a CURSE on those who trespass within the cemetery walls and vandalize gravestones. Many people have reported seeing her in the form of a BLACK CAT walking amongst the graves. Don’t let her see your back or you’ll be cursed to do her bidding for eternity!
The scariest thing of all: Soon there won’t be any more room left in places like Green-Wood to comfortably bury anyone! Some interesting solutions to this problem have been found. For instance, several SKYSCRAPER CEMETERIES have been built in South America. Dozens of floors high, they offer the tradition of tomb burial while saving a whole lot of space. So will there soon be an R.L. Stine book on the horrors of being locked in a skyscraper cemetery at night? We shall see… .
The largest cemetery in the world (according to the
Guinness Book of World Records)
is the Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, Germany. Covering an area of almost 1,000 acres, it has nearly 1.4 million “residents.”
Not every culture buries its dead. One of the creepier traditions was found in ancient Persia. Followers of Zoroastrianism used to gather the dead in huge “Towers of Silence,” where FLESH-EATING BIRDS like vultures picked away at the corpses until only the BONES were left.
Which House Is Haunted?
Read the descriptions of five different haunted houses. Some are real haunted houses, but two are houses that R.L. Stine created for his terrifying tales. Can you tell which haunted houses are real and which are made up by R.L. Stine? Write your answers on a piece of paper and use the key at the bottom of the facing page to see if you’re right. If you can’t pick out the two R.L. Stine houses, you need to read more Goosebumps!
1 A family moves out of their house after a poltergeist breaks photo frames, messes up the furniture, and even melts a phone! Eventually, the family comes back home and defeats the ghost.
2 One night, the Payne family abandons their home, and the neighbors never hear from them again. Kids passing by the house on Halloween night dare each other to break in and have a terrifying run-in with a demon dog!
3 The Lutz family moves into a house whose previous inhabitants were murdered. Soon after, crazy things start to happen — green ooze pours out of the walls, flies are everywhere (even in the winter), and faces appear in the fireplace.
4 After their baby dies, a young couple lock themselves in their house and spend the rest of their lives bitter and arguing. After they die, they haunt the house and turn any children who come inside into ghosts!
5 A famous gun maker’s wife is haunted by the ghosts of the people killed by his guns. She is forced to move and build a new, bigger house — and must continue to build more and more rooms for them to haunt, or she’ll die!
KEY 1: REAL!
The Galway Ghost
terrified a family
One such cemetery is Green-Wood in Brooklyn, New York. It is so large and beautiful that since its creation in 1838, people have been going there to relax, sightsee, and just walk around. When New York City’s CENTRAL PARK opened decades later, many said it looked just like Green-Wood … without the TOMBSTONES!
Still, there’s just something SOOO creepy about being surrounded by so many DEAD PEOPLE. As the saying goes, “It’s quiet … TOO quiet!” Generally, cemeteries are not a place to be at night: The risk of hitting your knee on a tombstone (and that really bruises) or falling into an OPEN GRAVE are reasons enough to stay away. Plus, there have been numerous reports of CEMETERY HAUNTINGS across the U.S. Moaning or weeping can be heard from inside large CRYPTS. Onlookers have seen strange mists on clear nights. People born hundreds of years ago have been seen going for a late-night walk together.
Perhaps the most terrifying tomb tale is about The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, buried in the St. Louis Cemetery #1. Since her death in 1881, there have been numerous sightings of her ghost. Legend has it that you can hear her casting a CURSE on those who trespass within the cemetery walls and vandalize gravestones. Many people have reported seeing her in the form of a BLACK CAT walking amongst the graves. Don’t let her see your back or you’ll be cursed to do her bidding for eternity!
The scariest thing of all: Soon there won’t be any more room left in places like Green-Wood to comfortably bury anyone! Some interesting solutions to this problem have been found. For instance, several SKYSCRAPER CEMETERIES have been built in South America. Dozens of floors high, they offer the tradition of tomb burial while saving a whole lot of space. So will there soon be an R.L. Stine book on the horrors of being locked in a skyscraper cemetery at night? We shall see… .
The largest cemetery in the world (according to the
Guinness Book of World Records)
is the Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, Germany. Covering an area of almost 1,000 acres, it has nearly 1.4 million “residents.”
Not every culture buries its dead. One of the creepier traditions was found in ancient Persia. Followers of Zoroastrianism used to gather the dead in huge “Towers of Silence,” where FLESH-EATING BIRDS like vultures picked away at the corpses until only the BONES were left.
Which House Is Haunted?
Read the descriptions of five different haunted houses. Some are real haunted houses, but two are houses that R.L. Stine created for his terrifying tales. Can you tell which haunted houses are real and which are made up by R.L. Stine? Write your answers on a piece of paper and use the key at the bottom of the facing page to see if you’re right. If you can’t pick out the two R.L. Stine houses, you need to read more Goosebumps!
1 A family moves out of their house after a poltergeist breaks photo frames, messes up the furniture, and even melts a phone! Eventually, the family comes back home and defeats the ghost.
2 One night, the Payne family abandons their home, and the neighbors never hear from them again. Kids passing by the house on Halloween night dare each other to break in and have a terrifying run-in with a demon dog!
3 The Lutz family moves into a house whose previous inhabitants were murdered. Soon after, crazy things start to happen — green ooze pours out of the walls, flies are everywhere (even in the winter), and faces appear in the fireplace.
4 After their baby dies, a young couple lock themselves in their house and spend the rest of their lives bitter and arguing. After they die, they haunt the house and turn any children who come inside into ghosts!
5 A famous gun maker’s wife is haunted by the ghosts of the people killed by his guns. She is forced to move and build a new, bigger house — and must continue to build more and more rooms for them to haunt, or she’ll die!
KEY 1: REAL!
The Galway Ghost
terrified a family
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