For those of you not in top physical condition, the  Old Hill Burying Ground in Newburyport, Massachusetts might not be the place for you. Unless of course, you don’t mind sweating all over yourself, like myself and Paranormal SPY colleague Ronin did the other day. But you know what, it was well worth it.

The cemetery was established way back in 1729 on a hill that was allegedly the result of an earthquake 250 years ago. Newburyport didn’t exist yet as it was still part of Newbury. It’s full of revolutionary war soldiers, privateers and ship captains. One of it’s most infamous buried there was Lord Timothy Dexter, an eccentric businessman who was really concerned about what people may say about him when he died. So he faked his death and attended his own wake.

Now if the history isn’t enough to get you excited, then the weirdness will. First they’ve had multiple incidents with people braking into crypts and desecrating corpses. One goof bag actually photographed himself dancing around with the skull of a civil war veteran on his shoulder. There was also a case where a local homeless woman had a favorite table-tomb for sleepy-time. I don’t know how anyone could sleep in this place. Oh, and there are some that even say that people have become temporarily possessed while walking through the cemetery. So you may want to say a few prayers before you enter.

As far as experiencing anything paranormal we can’t give anything specific other then it definitely has an overwhelming presence once that sun starts to set. Plus, we were not really there investigating as much as documenting the location. But one of the things that gives it that creepiness factor are the actual headstones. They’re really old and carved with some extremely haunted faces. It makes you wonder what these people were thinking when they ordered their headstone. Even some of the inscriptions were strange, such as long drawn out descriptions of suffering and pain before death. Although we couldn’t find it, there is a woman’s headstone describing how she choked to death on a pea. Now that’s something to be remembered for huh?

If you do go to investigate this place be extremely careful. It’s in really bad condition. Not only are there holes everywhere from some gopher or something but the headstones are leaning almost horizontal in some cases. And just for the record there’s more than one hill, so we would also recommend hiring a couple sherpas to lug your gear. Happy hunting.