I wonder if people still have cemeteries at their homes, like in their backyards

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@Sepia 😵

But this one isn’t my ancestors…from an old church@SW-User

@DeluxedEdition wow 😳😳😳😳😳

@DeluxedEdition Your place would be great for a Halloween party! C'mon have a party :P

@JimboSaturn i swear 🤣

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow how interesting

@SW-User hahaha you must make funny scary faces seeing it

@SW-User It's a mystery in the household. We thought the dog was just sitting on our TV remote at night or something like that, but we've left the remote up in hard to reach places. Not sure how else this is happening, but I'm sure there's an explanation for it 🤔

@Rhode57 I don't think it ever was, either; discounting private chapels on large estates, perhaps. And even there the graves would have been in consecrated church ground.

There seems nothing to say you can't scatter ashes in a private garden though.

On the other hand there are former churches, de-consecrated and converted into private homes. I don't know if the graves are still there in such places, now buried under the garden. Those closest to the building would be the oldest so the chances of there being any descendants of the "residents" now in the area are very small.

As for the OP's "ghost stories"... they are just that, stories! Not evidence for anything real and historical.

@ArishMell hey you haven't experienced them but others have

@SW-User Experienced, which? Domestic graves or "ghosts"?

Rhodes gave what he thinks is the British legal position on burials, and I agreed with him, but we can't speak for other countries in that regard. It would be very unusual though.

Regarding ghosts, you said "ghost stories" in a third-party sense. I don't deny people sometimes have eerie experiences, and I have had a few, but they have never made me believe in ghosts.

It does not mean such events must be supernatural simply by being alarming and inexplicable at the time, though their causes can be interesting and some are now understood. My examples were of two some of the most commonly-reported "ghostly" phenomena, occurring when in bed - a sudden feeling of falling (that of pressure is another), and innocent objects in the nearly-dark room appearing as malevolent figures; but we now know they are harmless little brain-storms called 'hypnagogic dreams'.

Besides, I don't know why there is this tradition of associating "ghosts" with cemeteries, even consecrated ones in which the deceased all had full, formal funerals !

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