#haunted playgrounds

[myhauntedsalem]

Dead Children’s Playground

In 2007 the city of Huntsville, Alabama, attempted to remove a playground in order to enlarge the neighboring Maple Hill Cemetery. A public outcry at the removal of the park was heard and soon new play equipment was installed. Local children could continue to use the parks facilities but many who know of the legends of the area will tell you that not all of those children are living.

Many locals know the playground, located in Maple Hill Park, as the Dead Children’s Playground due to the reportedly high level of ghostly activity that has been experienced there. Children playing, children calling out to each other, mothers calling their children’s names, the playful footfalls of running children, all of these events have been experienced by many people who enter the playground after dark. It is believed that the most active time is between the hours of 10pm and 3am, as the children reclaim the park from the living, so they too can enjoy their play.

It is believed that the vast majority of these children come from the adjacent Maple Hill Cemetery, the largest and oldest in Huntsville, with well over 80,000 burials. The original land was sold to the city in 1822 by planter LeRoy Pope. Although this is the official date, it is known that the land was used for burials prior to this time, with the oldest intact grave marker being that of infant Mary Frances Atwood, who was buried there in 1820.

Later the cemetery was expanded to encompass the nearby private cemetery of the Pope family. Many of the new burials at this time were of Confederate and Union Soldiers who died during the Civil War. Over the years the cemetery grew and grew with new land purchases in order to keep up with the growing city.

It was not until 1901 that the cemetery was given its official name. Up until that time it was simply referred to as the burying ground.

The cemetery still needs new land and in 2007 it made the attempt at taking over the local park resulting in the public outcry.

The Dead Children’s Playground, aside from its reputation of a haunting ground for deceased children, also has another macabre tale attached to it, though this one probably falls more into the realm of urban legend.

Between 1945 and 1955 the area the playground now sits was the site of a limestone quarry. The high cliffs that surround the playground are not natural and were all formed as part of the quarrying process. When the quarry was closed and abandoned, plant life began to reclaim the land and wildlife along with it. Soon, within a matter of years, the area will have been a natural bushland, filled with weeds and trees of a more opportunistic nature.

Come the 1960’s a unknown person made use of the old quarries and the thick plant growth for their own dark opportunities.

A series of child disappearances began to be reported in Huntsville, and, with none of the children turning up, it was soon feared a child murderer was prowling the neighborhoods. These fears were soon given substance when a small skull was found by someone walking through the abandoned quarries. On investigation several skeletons were recovered, along with the small corpses from fresher murders.

It was never determined who the murderer was but it was discovered that the children were not simply taken and killed, they rather they showed signs of a long detainment, with malnourished and partly healed wounds found on the bodies of the more recent victims.

With the discovery of the bodies the disappearances stopped and the tragedies all but removed from the memories of those who lived in fear for their own children.

Many of the children’s remains, being local, were buried in the adjoining Maple Hills Cemetery. In 1985, twenty years after those terrible events, the quarries and surrounding land were turned into Maple Hill Park and the original play equipment was erected.

Today the equipment is quite modern and the park is well looked after. Even if you did not know of the stories and legends, visiting the park is said to be quite eerie. Although you are not too far removed from the suburbs, the natural rocky bowls, the well grown trees and other natural features leave you feeling like you are in the deep wilderness. It is eerily quiet and once night falls the area takes on a different feel.

Come 10pm you might be lucky enough to witness the vestiges of play, the swings move as if occupied and mothers calling out the names of their lost children.

#Dead Children’s Playground #ghost and hauntings #paranormal #ghost and spirits #haunted locations #haunted salem #myhauntedsalem #ghosts #paranormal phenomena #haunted playgrounds #spirits #supernatural #haunted #hauntings #haunting

[p1nk-pallas]

Unfinished art core

#tjere is so much more. #original characters #camp here and there #the haunted playground #the magnus archives #maximum ride #p1nk art #p1nk pallas #unfinished art

[ephemeral-phosphorescence]

Sejanus Plinth is Gale Hawthorne 60 years too early.

#really really on the Peeta = Lucy Katniss = Snow and Gale= Sejanus train tonight #Sejanus never stood a chance #Lucy Grey haunts the narrative #he is immediately doomed by the narrative #introduced to us as the lonely kid on the playground #not even life would bet on him #if he’d stayed in the capitol he would have been ostracised into grief #reaped in the districts #killed in district twelve (himself or others) #and let’s be honest #if he’d fled to the wilderness #he would have been betrayed by Billy Taupe or left #Gale’s rage gives him the strength to survive #Sejanus’s kills him #the hunger games #thg #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbsoas #sejanus plinth #gale hawthorne

[telekinesis-mind-control-comics]

#skeleton #skeletons #the walking dead #halloween night #gif #gifs #dead #lost souls #dark #darkness #nightmare #nightmarish #nightmares #bad dreams #from hell #spirits dancing #playground #haunting #children stories #dead pet dog sparky is turned into an ornament who guards family’s home and his owners still kiss & stroke him #skeletons dancing #animated gif #alternative #animated #skrulls #skull and bones #skulls #skull art #skull #skulls and roses

[haunted-xander]

Proper introductions for the cast of Hell's Playground!

They are the worstie squad

#i made a typo on Tsukikos info pls ignore it #rin #takeru #mari #tsukiko #riku #akira #enkai #daku #noushi #hells playground #original character #original characters #oc #character design #art #my art #xanders art #xanders haunting art #digital art

[snekdood]

people dont know what liminal means anymore. im gonna stab someone. an empty parking lot is not liminal THERES SO MUCH SPACE EVERYWHERE AND NO WALLS TF YOU MEAN

#nvm im wrong #but still the post i saw didnt seem liminal at all #i dont count outdoor spaces as liminal unless everything is perfectly pristine and trimmed #maybe im thinking of hell actually #grass trimmed under an inch #perfectly clean roads w no cracks or bumps #ROUND FUCKING TREES #SQUARE FUCKING BUSHES #nevermind the lack of biodiversity #bricks that look like they havent aged and have no chips or EVEN bird poop or ANYTHING. #nothing worn or weathered by time #yeah thats hell #mayeb i could consider that liminal. but like. just a regular outdoor place? naw... #and the above description i gave is physically impossible (and should remain that way death and decay is natural fuck immortality) #so thats kinda why i dont agree w wikipedias desc of liminal w the image of a playground w/o kids bc the grass isnt Perfect #so therefore it looks more natural #the episode of spongebob where everything is chrome in the future? liminal #empty playground but the grass is still different colors? das just a haunting image reminding the viewer of the state of our world #n capitalism n stuff #u know what im sayin dhfsafdggfsd. #there should be kids yes. but thats not the 'liminal' aesthetic (which i hate btw idk if i made that clear) #thats making you think about how there SHOULD be kids but instead they're inside all day on tiktok or being radicalized by the alt right #sometimes both #and that ppl are scared to bring their kids outside bc of so much propaganda out there about being in public spaces in general

[xskyll]

Me: Your Lie in April has been out nine years now. About time I finally watched it. Let's see, sick girl love interest is in the hospital? I can handle that.

Your Lie in April: CATS! HURT CATS! DEAD CATS! SUFFERING CATS! ABANDONED CAT! ABUSED CHILD CRYING OVER CAT! COLD CAT! CAT BLOOD! CAT HOSPITAL! CATS!!!

#the lie was cats #i'm not finished yet (almost though!) #but I was breezing along all good #and then a couple cats happened #kosei crying in the playground in the rain knowing his cat is suffering will haunt me #your lie in april #your lie in april spoilers #i guess??? #feels weird tagging spoilers for an almost decade old show but whatever

[shesailsships]

Sell Your Haunted House

Hold my hand. That's what I'm here for.

#sell your haunted house #daebak realty #jang na ra #kdrama #jung yong hwa #another hand holding gifset you say? yes. #because #I'm obsessed #with their hand holding cuteness #so there #they were caught holding hands at the playground hee hee hee

[eugeniedanglars]

also people who are opposed to will’s feelings being unrequited are missing out on the comedic potential of mike periodically waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night and calling will to apologize because he just remembered yet another homophobic microaggression he unknowingly committed against will when they were kids

#like you know once mike finds out will is actually gay for realsies 'it's not my fault you don't like girls' is gonna haunt him til he dies #they're like juniors in college and mike calls will at 1 in the morning like #'dude i'm so fucking sorry for officiating your playground wedding to kayla m. when we were 6' #it takes will 5 full minutes to even remember the event he's talking about #stranger things #gay will

[twistedwhitesnow]

new meds, who's dis?

#meds #pills #OD #OCD #anti psychotics #dolls #toys #haunted #playground #medicine #cure #what's up doc? #💊 #beheading #decapitation #off with your head #knockout #eat it #free your head #fill your head #insanity #madness #sick #going underground #candies #sweets #senza testa #fuori uso #follia #mental illness

[dyingfeline]

#dyingfeline #photo diary #photography #park #playground #night #night time #red #haunted #nostalgia

[p1nk-pallas]

he's not for heaven, nor yet for hell, lost in the cosmos, lonely

🌌

#camp here and there #chnt fanart #chnt au #sydney sargent fanart #hes so swaggy #this is for a fanfic im writing. it mixes chnt and some of my ocs. its gonna be so good i swear #the haunted playground #thauntp

[bonafidehero]

One embarrassing thing I did as a kid in elementary was my mom picked me up early just as my class was going out to recess and as we drove by she blared man I feel like a woman by Shania Twain and told me to stand in the sunroof and dance at all my classmates and they were just like 🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️

#lmfao that was so cringe why did she do that #and why did i listen #the whole class and teacher were walking to the playground and they just stared as we drove by #pls this memory haunts me #the 90s were wild my own mother told me to stand up in a moving car and STICK MY BODY OUT OF A SUNROOF #not even the worst thing an adult let me do as a kid

[thebleedingeffect]

I desperately need to talk someone's ear off about assassin's creed and it's dumb fucking lore and just how the fuck the animus works and how I would like to develop the lore- BECAUUUSSSEEEEE ITS HAUNTING ME!!! Is there a difference to descendants accessing their ancestors' memories compared to a random person? What if there was? Why isn't the bleeding effect still a major issue even if they aren't related? You can just kill yourself over and over if you have the shroud and there's a whole fucking lady in there??? I'M LOSING MY MIND

#okay so honestly ac is like my own lil playground to me and I do what I want ^-^ #I throw out shit out all the time and add other stuff cause ubisoft can kiss my ass and I do what I please #ANYWAY. IM BDINF HAUNTED.

[haunted-xander]

[ Smashing our prayers to God

As if stomping on them with twisted love

Holding our dreams hostage

The giant spider is crawling around ]

#enkai #hells playground #original characters #original character #oc #character design #art #my art #xanders art #xanders haunting art #digital art

[autisticjoys]

Gemini as Suburban Haunt

Inspired by @jupiterreed

Images are from Pinterest

#zodiac #gemini #moodboard #aesthetic #haunted #playground #curtains #old gate