A Haunted Walk in Boston's Ancient Burying Grounds

It sure was a ghoulishly great walk around the most ancient and spooky burying grounds in historic Boston!  It was a nice crisp and sunny day for the long and fascinating ramble (You really wouldn't want to do this type of thing on a bleak day!) Some highlights included visiting the graves of famous painter Gilbert Stuart, hearing about the sad story of Chow Manderien, paying our respects to the resting places of the patriots of the Revolution, seeing the grave of Elizabeth Pain (inspiration for The Scarlet Letter), the sad story of the Worthlakes and their unfortunate drowning and the gravestone of Daniel Malcolm - riddled with bullets as a target by the Brits duing the Revolution - and last, but not least, we visited the ancient tomb of the Reverends Cotton and Increase Mather, made infamous with their involvement in the Salem witchcraft hysteria.  After all of the graveyard madness, we sure were all in need of some good cheer, so off we tromped to a local watering hole/eatery to schmooze and compare spooky notes about our scary day!   

Come on along for this frightfully fun and scary walk (2-3 mile) through the oldest parts of Boston visiting the oldest burying grounds in the city!  We'll be exploring the darkest and creepiest corners of four ancient graveyards, starting with the Central Burying Ground, the resting place for the remains of British soldiers who sadly died in Boston during the Revolution.  Next on the ramble will be the 1660 Granary Burying Ground where we'll gaze upon the graves of the five victims of the 1770 Boston Massacre, the resting spot of Samuel Sewall, the infamous judge at the Salem witch trials, then see the stone for Benjamin Woodbridge, victim of the first duel in Boston.  Next, it's on to the really ancient 1630 King's Chapel Burying Ground, site of purported spectral activity and of the grave of Elizabeth Pain, who wore a Scarlet Letter and was inspiration of the famous novel of that name.  Next, we'll stop by the spot where the well-known Boston Massacre took place, in front of the 1713 Old State House.  Meandering through historic and lively Quincy Market, we'll walk down the oldest streets in Boston (the Blackstone Block) on our way through the North End (cannolis anyone?) to the eerie 1659 Copps Hill Burying Ground, known to be one of the best spots in Boston for full-body apparition sightings!  There we'll make a somber visit to the tomb of Increase and Cotton Mather, the latter infamous as a witch hunter during the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.  Then here's the grave of the notorious killer John Webster who heinously murdered George Parkman in 1849, in a famed early detective and forensic crime.  And then there's more... This will be the ghoulishly good time you will not want to miss!!