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Kelly Ghost Town & Mine

April 30th, 2010 by John Wolfe

After taking a ton of photos and video, I somehow managed to whittle my collection down to a ten minute film. It was hard to do because the old Kelly ghost town has really grown on me and I would have loved to have made a longer vid, but I think ten minutes is enough to capture the essence of the location. I hope you enjoy the way I’ve arranged it. Also, Dr. Necropolis and ssflipo13 were asking if I had any paranormal experiences while visiting. I did have an interesting encounter (unfortunately, it wasn’t caught on film) that I was going to write about in this entry, but I’ve decided to save that for tomorrow’s post.

Since this footage isn’t in HD quality, I’ve also uploaded the film to Season of Shadows and added a link so it can be played on your computer’s media player. The vid contains several scans of very old photos taken during Kelly’s heyday and the quality will probably be less than favorable when viewed on You Tube’s embedded player.

Click here to view on your media player: Kelly Ghost Town

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Cemeteries of Lodz and Prague

April 17th, 2010 by John Wolfe

Always on the lookout for amazing cemetery locations, I discovered the following vids on YT. First up is a short, but incredible slide show of the New Jewish Cemetery in Lodz, Poland, established in 1892.

Source: YT user, snakeeyesPL

Up next is the Old Jewish Cemetery, located in the Czech Republic’s capital city of Prague. The vid starts out around the location, but eventually makes its way to the burial grounds, where the amount of tombstones are overwhelming.

According to Wikipedia, the tombs are layered on top of one another, with an estimated 12,000 visible headstones and as many as 100,000 burials in all. The oldest surviving stone dates back to 1439, belonging to a rabbi and poet named Avigdor Kara, but some scholars believe the cemetery has been used for burials since the fifth century!

Source: YT user, dagschweinerei

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