Are you afraid of the dark, especially in a forest? 🌳

@SW-User LOL! At least the residents won't disturb you!

@ArishMell exactly! 💯😂

@SW-User My grandmother’s house in New Orleans was next to a cemetery and we would cut through it to get to a market that was on the other side. I remember walking with her, carrying groceries past the crypts in the moonlight.

@bijouxbroussard And it didn't bother you at all? Im not certain I'd have been so calm as a kid, however as an adult I've spent an afternoon cleaning my late sister gravesite and it was actually quite relaxing. Very chilled. I still don't think I could walk past there at night.

@SW-User Indeed - a cemetery is supposed to be a place of peace, after all.

I occasionally take a short cut even at night through my local church-yard. All the graves in that part were levelled some forty years ago and laid to lawn, so you'd not otherwise know they were there. Some of the stones are stood along the boundary wall, others used to help retain a bank; but where the inscriptions are still legible they are all some 300 or so years old.

If I didn't take the short-cut? I'd walk along the main road between the present and older cemeteries!

A Society of Friends ("The Quakers") cemetery not far from me was last used in the 19C. In recent years it has been refurbished and turned into a lovely, quiet little public garden. I am not sure if the voluntary group members responsible are local Quakers, are non-aligned "friends of", or indeed both. I think I've seen this done elsewhere, too.

@SW-User I was nervous, but my grandmother never was. Her parents and other relatives had been interred there and she told me once, "these people were your family and would’ve loved you while alive—nothing to fear now. Only the living can hurt you, anyway…not the dead."

@bijouxbroussard She was so right actually 😅