"Cemetery Of The Living Dead"

(Evans City Cemetery - Evans City, PA)

A Little History

The famous Evan's City Cemetery located in Evan's City, PA is the home of the opening scene of the original 1968 movie - "Night of the Living Dead". The cemetery scenes were shot in November 1967. According to sources, not much has changed in 38 years. New residents have been added and others are still dying to get in there! >8>| The Evans City Cemetery could not be used for the 30th anniversary edition. Before filming the new footage, a tornado had torn through the Evans City Cemetery on May 31, 1985 and ironically, it unearthed several graves. Interestingly, this was the same tornado that wiped out much of Aedryan's hometown of Albion, PA when he was only 14 years old. Aedryan remembers that day well!

The Evans City Cemetery Association was incorporated January 7, 1891, with forty-nine members. The directors named in the constitution are: Henry J. IFFT, John ROHNER, George MARBURGER, Enos BARKEY and J. A. RIPPER. An eligible site was purchased and laid out in lots and this cemetery has since been used by the people of Evans City and vicinity. The cemetery contains many nice monuments and the soldiers' monument was erected in 1894 to the memory of the unknown dead being the most noticeable.

Prior to investigating the Evans City Cemetery the SHGHRS had not heard any reports of it being haunted. We simply thought that it would be a neat place to add to our repertoire of historical locations that we have investigated. To this date we have been unable find any reports of ghostly activity there or even any other groups that have conducted actual investigations there. We may be the first! However, we did find a hardcore Night Of The Living Dead fan who actually took dirt from the Evans City Cemetery, bottled it up and is trying to sell it. We also found an old auction on Ebay, where some idiot had walked through the cemetery with his camcorder and was auctioning off the video as "A Tour Of The Night Of The Living Dead Cemetery".

So, is the Evans City Cemetery - AKA "The Night Of The Living Dead Cemetery" haunted? Do the dead really walk the nights there? Read on....

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The SHGHRS June 24, 2005 Investigation

On June 24, 2005 SHGHRS member's - Aedryan, DD and Tony, along with FORMER members - Lynne and Michelle conducted an investigation at the Evans City Cemetery. As soon as Aedryan got his video recorder setup he almost immediately reported seeing what appeared to be orb activity. Aedryan only recorded a total of 60 minutes of video footage on this night, in which several orbs and other strange light anomalies were captured. Aedryan, DD and Tony continued taking pictures throughout the night, in which many possible orbs and other strange anomalies were captured. Michelle and Lynne monitored for electro magnetic frequency and temperature fluctuations off and on. No anomalous temperature fluctuations were noted. We did obtain strange EMF readings on a couple different occasions, but nothing in the 0 - 1 milligauss range. We noted that there were power lines, which run through the rear of the cemetery and the closer we got to them the more EMF readings we would get, even from over 100 yards away. However, we were getting low EMF readings in the front section of the cemetery, where no apparent electrical sources seemed to be. Our assumption was that the readings were not likely paranormal, as they seemed to come from the ground. It should also be noted that Aedryan suddenly felt sick, tired and weak as soon as we got out of the van when we first arrived at the cemetery, but it passed. No one else had reported any similar feelings, so it was probably nothing....

Read On To See Some Of The Evidence

Collected By The SHGHRS On This Nigtht!

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Equipment Used

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NOTICE: Due to more recent discoveries, which were made after this investigation we now feel pretty confident in saying, EVERY video and photographic anamoly shown on this page are nothing more than bugs, dust and other airborne particles. We will leave all of these "anamolies" here for comparisons and for others to learn from. Please be sure to read the following article for more info:

ORBS, LIGHT ANAMOLIES, ENERGY STREAKS & VORTICES DEBUNKED!

Aedryan's Evidence

Anamolous Photos Captured

Total Photos Taken: 263

"White Energy With Purple Glow"

Captured By Aedryan Methyus

Comments: This photo was captured at 12:09 AM. We aren't sure what this is, but it definitely doesn't seem to be a bug. As you will see, all 3 cameras captured pictures of these anomalies throughout the evening.

"Bright Orb With Purple Glow"

Captured By Aedryan Methyus

Comments: Photo captured at 12:16 AM. Notice how the purple glow surrounding the orb is identical to the "White Energy" photo above. The only difference seems to be that the "White Energy" anomaly was in motion.

"Red Orb In Motion"

Captured By Aedryan Methyus

Comments: Photo captured at 12:26 AM.

"Fiery Red Energy"

Captured By Aedryan Methyus

Comments: Aedryan captured this photo at 12:34 AM. Notice its "fiery" appearance. We aren't sure what these are, but we've captured pictures of them before during other investigations. The interesting thing about this anomaly is, we also captured several strange lights on video with the same resemblance on this night.

"Fiery Red Energy 2"

Captured By Aedryan Methyus

Comments: Aedryan captured this photo at 12:35 AM - Two photos after the previous "Fiery Red Energy" was captured, only moments later.

"Glowing White Energy Again"

Captured By Aedryan Methyus

Comments: This was the very next photo taken, only seconds after the last photo at 12:35 AM.

"A Bug?"

Captured By Aedryan Methyus

Comments: For what it's worth, this photo was captured at 12:48 AM. The SHGHRS has always considered these anomalies to be bugs and we're pretty sure this one is as well. The thing that baffles us is, its likeness to all of the above "Glowing White Energies With A Purple Glow" anomalies. It makes us wonder if the "Glowing White Energy" photos are nothing more than bugs, but out of several of those anomalies we captured on this night, why do only two of them seem to have, at least what resembles wings? If they are all indeed bugs, our best guess would be that, we just get lucky once in awhile and have the bug facing us with its wings spread when the photo is taken. The anomalies that don't appear to have wings could just be a side view of the bug and the wings just blend in with the rest of it and we can't see them. On the other hand, why does the "Bright Orb With Purple Glow", shown above in the second photo, have the same purple glow as these other anomalies? We just don't know for sure. One thing is for certain though, the orb shown in the second photo is definitely not a bug. It's photos like this that makes us rip our hair out!

"A Bug? 2"

Captured By Aedryan Methyus

Comments: This was the very next photo, taken only seconds after the last photo at 12:49 AM. Again, we have always classified anomalies of this type as bugs. But again, why do these two have the same purple glow to them that the orb has and if they are the same thing as the "Glowing White Energy" photos, why are they the only two that seem to have what resembles wings?

"Vaporous Misty Energy"

Captured By Aedryan Methyus

Comments: This photo was taken at 2:29 AM. We find this photo to be very interesting, because it has the same appearance as the "Glowing White Energy" photos, but this one seems to have a vaporous appearance with a misty type substance coming off of it. Also, note that a couple of the still shots shown below, which we captured directly from anomalous video footage seem to have a vaporous appearance as well.

Electronic Voice Phenomenon Obtained

Still Under Review - Check Back Soon!

Anomalous Video Footage Obtained

A lot of orb activity and strange lights were recorded on video during this investigation, but as always, we will only post the best clips. Additionally, we are pretty certain that we captured a "Red Plasma Rod" on video, but we have ruled it inconclusive, due to the fact that the video recorder was moving, because Aedryan was carrying it at the time, so we will not post it.

Be sure to read Aedryan's Orb Report for a detailed description of some of these amazing orb videos and learn about some of our new theories and new discoveries we have made about orbs!

Spiney/Ribbon-Like Orb - Notice the spiney/ribbon-like appearance of this orb. See our orb report for more about this.

The photos shown below are still shots that were captured from the above video footage.

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Another Ribbon-Like Orb - This orb has a slightly different appearance, but it still has a ribbon-like appearance.

The photos shown below are still shots that were captured from the above video footage.

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Another Spiney/Ribbon-Like Orb - This orb has an incredibly spiney appearance. You'll notice that Aedryan asked the orb to go back out in front of the camera and it does just that. It very well could just be a coincidence, but this happens pretty frequently.

The photo shown below is a still shot, which was captured from the above video footage.

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Killer Ribbon-Like Orb - This ribbon-like orb has a misty/vaporous appearance.

The photos shown below are still shots that were captured from the above video footage.

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Shooting Orb - We're not sure if this orb comes out of the tombstone or from behind it.

Strange Lights - Watch back by the tree line. These strange lights showed up in several of our video clips. We think there is a good possibility that these lights may be the anomalies we call "Glowing White Energy" or "Fiery Red Energy" photos in this report. And by the way, Aedryan was joking in the clip. We weren't really trying to summon demons (LOL).

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DD's Evidence

Anamolous Photos Captured

Before we get too far into DD's photographs, we feel it is necessary to discuss the camera she used on this night. Firstly, the camera belonged to Tony and we are happy to say we will never have to worry about dealing with that camera again! Anyway, the camera was an Olympus C920Z, D450Z 1.3 Megapixel Digital Camera and the following photos were shot at the camera's highest resolution of 1280 x 960. The camera had a fantastic flash, which we always liked about it, BUT it was also notorious for having a very slow shutter speed. You will also notice tiny little green and red dots that appear in the same place in most of the following photos. Our understanding is that these are known as "pixel errors", which are essentially just pixels that don't fill in when the camera processes the photo. But, back to the slow shutter speed issue.... For those of you who don't already know, slow shutter speeds are no good for ghost hunting unless the camera is mounted to a tripod, where the camera can not move or jiggle while the camera is processing the photo. Otherwise, blurry photos can occure as a result. Additionally, when there is a light source, you can get swirly light streaks in your photos as a result of a slow shutter speed and camera movement, which can be mistaken as something paranormal to the untrained eye. A tripod was not used with this camera on this night.

Anyway, our point here is, the camera used to take the following photos had known issues, which we have addressed to the best of our ability. We are very familiar with the types of false positive ghost photos that can result from slow shutter speeds and we know how to spot them. None of the following photos have the notorious characteristics of false positive ghost photos that are caused by slow shutter speeds, but the camera captured a lot of strange anomalies at this particular location that night. The camera had never captured ANY anomalies like these during any of our other investigations, nor has any of our other cameras, so we are not familiar with many of these anomalies. If anyone knows what the numerous anomalies are (paranormal or otherwise) in the photos below, which we have named "Strange Anomaly", please let us know.

Total Photos Taken: 334

"Strange Anomaly # 1 With Orbs"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 10:23 PM. We have no idea what this is, but this same anomaly showed up in MANY of DD's photos. After literally months of examining all of DD's photos numerous times that she had taken on this night, we were ready to just write these anomalies off as some sort of processing error, due to the amount of them that showed up in her photos. We have consulted other paranormal investigators as well and no one seems to know what would cause this. What had troubled us most about these anomalies was the fact that none of the other cameras used on this night seemed to capture these anomalies. However, we recently discovered this same anomaly in one of the last photos Crumbwell had taken on this night, so we feel it might be possible that these anomalies could be paranormal afterall. The majority of these anomalies were captured in the same exact area where Aedryan had been watching orbs in real time through his nightvision, as DD had been trying to capture photos of the orbs as we were seeing them. Due to the amount of orb activity we recorded on video in this area, it further adds to the possibility that these anomalies could be paranormal. If anyone knows what these are, please send us an email and let us know!

"Orb In Motion With Purple Glow"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this purple orb photo at 10:26 PM. This is a great photo, because the fact that it has a purple glow to it adds a lot of authenticity to the photos Aedryan captured!

"Strange Anomaly # 2 With Green Orb"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: This photo was captured at 10:29 PM. Again, this photo was captured in the same area at the same time orbs were being filmed on video. We shouldn't fail to mention that, what at least seems to be this same single vivrant green orb, shows up in numerous other photos during this investigation. It seems that if it were some strain of pollen, multiple green orbs would show up in the photos, as opposed to one single green orb and dust isn't green, so you be the judge....

"Strange Anomaly # 3"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this purple orb photo at 10:30 PM, just moments after the last photo.

"8 Strange Anomaly Comparisons"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured these 8 photos between 10:32 and 10:39 PM over the succession of 13 photos taken in a row. However, she actually had taken approximately 72 consecutive photos of this immediate area. Again, this is the area where Aedryan sat his video recorder up when we first arrived at the cemetery, where many orbs and other strange lights were recorded. Each of the comparison photos are numbered in the order they were captured in within that succession of 13 photos. Click Here to see the close up comparisons.

"Strange Anomaly # 12"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 10:52 PM.

"Strange Anomaly # 13 & Orb"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 10:53 PM. It was the very next picture taken after the one shown above. Odd how whatever this is seems to stay close to that same tombstone.

"Strange Anomaly # 14"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: Matt captured this ecto photo at 10:54 PM. There were two other photos taken of this area in between # 13 and # 14, both of which also had these strange anomalies in them.

"Strange Anomaly # 15"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this purple orb photo at 10:56 PM - Four photos after the # 14. The bright part of the anomaly seems to have what at least resembles wings, which makes us wonder if these anomalies are simply caused by the camera's slow shutter speed photographing bug's flight patterns. But, judging by most of the "flight patterns" above, it doesn't really seem likely. This was the last photo taken in this area then we moved.

"Turquoise Orb"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this vivrant greenish blue orb photo at 11:07 PM. Notice the purple glow around it once again. This is one of the prettiest orbs we've ever seen.

"Fiery Red Energy"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:11 PM. Though this camera has a slow shutter speed, there is clearly no light source that could have caused the camera's slow shutter speed to cause this and it is not the kind of false positive anomaly that is usually associated with slow shutter speeds. It also has a strong resemblence to the fiery red energy photos Aedryan had captured on this night and the shutter speed on the camera he used at the time was normal.

"Strange Anomaly # 16"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:13 PM.

"Strange Anomaly # 17"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:15 PM.

"Another Fiery Red Energy"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:15 PM. It was the very next photo taken after the one shown above. Again, there is no light source that could have caused the camera's slow shutter speed to cause this and it is not the kind of false positive anomaly that is usually associated with slow shutter speeds. These anomalies seem to have the same type of appearance/"flight pattern" as the "Strange Anomaly" anomalies. Hmm....

"Plasma Rod"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:16 PM - Five pictures after the above red energy photo was captured. Once again, there is clearly no natural light source that could have caused this. Some paranormal investigators refer to this type of "dotted"anomaly as a "Plasma Rod" and they claim they can be seen with the naked eye on occassion. We aren't sure what they are, but we have captured photos of them with other cameras on other rare occassions. On one of the occassions a very long stream of light like this seemed to transform into an ecto manifestation. See our Tinker's Creek Investigation Reports for those photos.

"Strange Anomaly # 18"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:17 PM. It was the very next picture taken after the plasma light shown above was captured and the second of five consecutive photos, which all produced anomalies.

"Strange Anomaly # 19"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:17 PM, just seconds after "Anomaly # 19" was captured and it is the third of this five consecutive photos. Notice how the anomaly seems to change shape and start moving?

"Strange Anomaly # 20"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:18 PM. It was the very next photo taken after the one shown above and the fourth of five consecutive photos. The anomaly has once again moved and changed shape.

"Then Yet Another Fiery Red Energy"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:18 PM and it is the fifth of five consecutive photos. As with the other "Fiery Red Energy"/"Plasma Rod" photos, there is clearly no light source that could have caused this. The blurry part is definitely caused by the slow shutter speed of the camera, but "something" had to have been there to cause the blurring effect to begin with....

"Another Plasma Rod"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:20 PM. It was the very next picture taken after the plasma light shown above was captured and the second of five consecutive photos, which all produced anomalies. Once again, the blurry part of the anomaly was caused by the slow shutter speed, but there had to be "something" there in order for it to have blurred....

"Strange Anomaly # 21"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:22 PM. It is the first of two more consecutive photos we will show....

"Strange Anomaly # 22"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:22 PM, only seconds after "Strange Anomaly # 21" photo was captured. Just as all the other "Strange Anomaly" photos, movement and shape changing can clearly be noted.

Please note that a lot more of the "Strange Anomaly" photos were captured before and after this point of the investigation, but no more of them will be posted at this time.

"Turquoise Orb Again"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:24 PM.

"Glowing Tombstone"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this interesting photo at 11:26 PM. You may notice a face on the tombstone. That's because there is one. This unfortunate young girl's family had her photo etched on the tombstone. We have no idea what the anomaly is about. It seems too perfect to be a streak from the slow shutter, but who knows....

"Twin Fluorescent Green Plasma Rods"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 11:31 PM. We have been thinking the second anomaly is just a blur from the slow shutter speend, but we aren't so sure, because the curled part on the bottoms are different from one another. In any case, there is clearly no light source that could have caused the slow shutter to make these blurred images. If the second anomaly is just a blurred projection of the first one, there still had to be "something" there to cause it to begin with....

"Ecto-Like Anomaly"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this interesting photo at 12:03 AM. We have no clue what it is, but it seems to have an ecto-like appearance.

"More Red Energies"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 12:38 AM. The camera's slow shutter speed obviously caused this anomaly to blur, but we don't believe the actual anomaly was caused by the moon and the slow shutter, because the moon appeared in several photos and nothing else like this was produced.

"Ribbon - Like Anomaly"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this photo at 1:19 AM. This is a great photo, because of its ribbon-like appearance. It has a strong resemblance to some of the still shots captured from the video, which further authenticates them. Notice how it seems to be either lifting from the tombstone or coming to rest on it. We feel it is likely landing on the tombstone rather than lifting off of it, because in the photo before this one it was above the tombstone.

"One Final Fiery Red Energy Streak"

Captured By DD Methyus

Comments: DD captured this interesting photo at 1:19 AM. It was the very next photo taken. Very interesting....

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Tony's Evidence

Anamolous Photos Captured

Total Photos Taken: 405

"White Energy With Purple Glow"

Captured By Tony Cromwell

Comments: Tony captured this photo at 10:31 PM. Even with a high quality 7.2 megapixel camera this energy still photographs the same. Notice the familiar purple glow.

"Purple Glowing Energy With Faces"

Captured By Tony Cromwell

Comments: Tony captured this ecto photo at 10:57 PM. It appears to be the same anomaly as all of the other "Purple Glowing Energy" photos, but notice the ghostly faces in this one? We see at least two of them and the tail of the anomaly, where the main face is has an ecto - like appearance....

"Blue Orb With Face"

Captured By Tony Cromwell

Comments: Tony captured this photo at 11:31 PM. This anomaly looks more like a floating head than an orb!

"Glowing Blue Orb In Motion"

Captured By Tony Cromwell

Comments: Tony captured this photo at 11:45 PM. We are starting to formulate a possible theory about all of the vivrant glowing anomalies we captured on this night, which we will mention in our conclusion....

"Purple Glowing Energy"

Captured By Tony Cromwell

Comments: Tony captured this ecto photo at 1:31 AM.

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Conclusion

Clearly an enormous amount of very interesting anomalies were captured in photos and on video during our trip to the Evans City Cemetery. It would be an understatement for us to say this cemetery seems to have a lot of activity. We believe it is most likely the most active location we have ever investigated! We feel there may be a reason for that. As previously mentioned in our report, there are power lines that run through the rear of the cemetery. If spirits do indeed thrive on energy, we can't imagine a better place to find ghostly activity than in a cemetery with power lines. This could quite possibly explain why the orbs and other strange anomalies we captured are so bright, vivrant and glowing. It could also quite possibly explain why we captured so many anomalies compared to any other location we've ever investigated. If it weren't for the excellent orb activity and strange lights we captured on video, skeptics could easily say these anomalies are just some sort of natural energy or electricity of some sort, but we do not believe that to be the case with most of them at least.

So, is "The Cemetery Of The Living Dead" haunted? We can't say that it is haunted per se', but