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Picture: Wicked Lit, a haunting play that takes place each Halloween in a Mausoleum

I’ve never shared this story because I’m pretty sure no one would believe me but it really happened. One night I and several other students were sitting on the ground next to some interesting grave stones, telling ghost stories in a cemetery on the campus of William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo. It’s one of the things you do in a small town where there’s not much going on. As we sat there, something from beneath the ground stabbed (or poked) my hand which I was holding some of my weight on. It hurt! I don’t know what it was or why it happened but I jumped up and have never trusted sitting in cemeteries since then.

However, I, like many Californians, do enjoy  cemetery & grave tours, ghost tours, and speculating about the afterlife. Here are a few events that the Halloween season brings!

California Cemetery & Grave Tours 

• COLUMBIA: Stories in Stone October 6-7, 2017. You can’t miss with this evening tour in an historic cemetery at the Columbia State Historic Park. Docents re-enact the lives of some who have died there.
• ALTADENA: Wicked Lit, a play at a Mausoleum throughout October
• FORTUNA: Grave Matters & Untimely Departures Oct.29
• LONG BEACH: Long Beach Cemetery Tour Oct.28 at Long Beach Municipal Cemetery and Sunnyside Cemetery
• PETALUMA: Cemetery Tour  Oct.28 atCypress Hill Memorial Park
• SACRAMENTO: The Walking Dead Tour Oct.7 at Sacramento Historic City Cemetery