Tome Cemetery Footage
December 22nd, 2009 by John Wolfe
After posting The Ghost of Tome Cemetery, I was inspired to get back over there and grab some video of the location as soon as possible. So I picked up my fellow paranormal enthusiast (my mom) and we spent some time there yesterday. While we did get EVP activity again on our recorders, I didn’t catch anything paranormal on the video footage or in my photos.
However, my main purpose for shooting this was to create a visual companion to the Tome ghost post, hopefully providing a better sense of the layout. The featured image is of one of the cemetery’s walk-in gates. There are two of these walk-ins flanking either side of the main gate, but neither one is used anymore.
If you’re curious about the full-story behind this vid, and you missed my post from a couple of days ago, you’ll want to checkout The Ghost of Tome Cemetery.
December 22nd, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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December 22nd, 2009 at 10:54 pm
That was really nice. I love SW cemeteries for their bleak beauty–but would never want to be buried in one! To me, it just looks like a terrible resting place for someone who survived living in the desert. These folks have earned some grass and trees. But, I still think they’re fascinating in a way you don’t see in eastern graveyards. I often tell people to please go film the cemetery or location in the daytime to compare with what you got evidence-wise to see what it might have been. Good example!
December 23rd, 2009 at 4:15 am
At long last, I get to see the cemetery I’ve heard so much of
I admire the manner in which you created this video. It sure does beat talking WHILE recording because it’s so easy to get caught up on a million other thoughts. I tend to multi-task more than I care to at times but it does have its uses. Having the audio done at home makes a huge difference so I’m glad you made this video that way, thank you.
Woah! What a difference from the collection of videos I just sent you, is it not? Amazing. Now THAT looked like New Mexico; flat land, desert, hardly any trees and so forth. If a tubbleweed came floating across the camera, then the picture would be complete
This video really pulled it all together for me though and I can now see just how easy the “woman” would be to view with just open space as that. Thank you for sharing this with us and I hope you do this again in the future with other locations as well.
December 24th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
autumnforest,
Thanks. I hear you about making a cemetery more hospitable. Albuquerque does have several that are covered in trees and grass. Hopefully, when I reach the point of making that transition, I’ll no longer care where my physical shell is located, but you never know. However, I did decide a long time ago that I’ll definitely be going the route of cremation.
Goldie,
Though we haven’t encountered any visible evidence of the paranormal in other locations, I’ll definitely be making more videos in a tour-like format of the local cemeteries. I’ve noticed a lack of photos online, not to mention videos, of New Mexico cemeteries and I’d like to change that.
What you saw in this video is a New Mexico desert location at its finest
— quite different from what your part of the country looks like. Interestingly enough, certain parts of Spain (where they filmed the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns) looks so much like this area. That’s why I made that comment at the end of the video.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. And, yeah, I love recording the video and then doing voice-over later. It’s so much easier because I always forget things as I’m filming, not to mention the sound quality is far superior than relying on the camera’s mic.