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Hey there! My name's Shawna. I'm a junior at Hewitt-Trussville High School. While the idea of ghosts completely freaks me out, I chose to contradict myself and face my fears by researching whether ghosts are real or not. God help me.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Bass Cemetery

There's an orb in the top right corner!
A few of the graves.

Close up on some graves.

One night, Bradlie Gaiser, Tatum Buzbee, Karli Estock, and I all vistited Bass Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama. It was a chilly and clear Saturday night when we went. Jake Fagan and John Huffman drove us, and tried to act brave, but they were just as scared as us. I think we freaked ourselves out more than need be. We only walked around a few graves, and Karli took a picture of us. We did hear some noises in the woods. They were scream-like noises, but not blood-curdling. After we heard the noises, we took off. We had made a video, too, but it was too dark to see anything.
Bass Cemetery is over two hundred years old and is the grave site of numerous slaves and Civil War soldiers. It is said to be haunted. Many have reported going out to the cemetery at night and seeing ghosts, hearing screams and other strange noises, and finding animal corpses. People practicing satanist rituals have also been seen here at night. This causes differing opinions of the cemetery actually being haunted. Some believe it is the souls of the deceased who are buried there, while other believe it is simply evil from the horrid practices of satanists and people involved with the occult. We visited on a Saturday night, and took pictures. Although we never saw any dead animals, satanists, or ghosts, we did hear noises and captured a few orbs in our pictures. I am not sure if the orbs were supernatural or just dust particles reflecting light. Either way, it definitely freaked me out. I do not think it had a major effect on my opinion of ghosts existing or not. Although we never saw any, I was praying the whole time that I wouldn't see any, because I was so scared. So, I do not think it made me believe in them any less. Overall, I learned a lot about the haunted Bass Cemetery, but I do not think it majorly effected my overall view of ghosts existing or not.

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