THE SEACOAST DEAD ZONE

Lots of dead people inhabit our ancient region, founded in 1623. In this section we collect tales and tombs and memorials to those gone. Click on, if you dare. And for deadly places to visit see our ever-expanding cemetery archive in GOseacoast.

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MOST RECENT DEADLY ARTICLES

"Negro Burying Ground" Discovered?

Lthobolia: The Rock-Throwing Devil

Living with the Dead

Vampire in New England: Food for the Dead

Dressing for the Dead Zone

Cyclone Hits Shipyard

The Wrong Body

The Bereavement Year

Scalping of the President's Wife

Ghosts of the Sheafe Street Inn

Case of the Disappearing Bridegroom

The Unsolved Murder of George W. Stillson

Point of Graves Burial Ground

The Tragic Story of Ruth Blay

Witches and Their Horses

The Great Fire of 1813

The Phantom of the Music Hall

The Sudden Death of Molly Bridget

Lady Ghost, Rockingham Hotel & John Paul Jones

Plague Strikes Portsmouth

MORE STORIES OF TOMBS & MONUMENTS

St. John's Church, Portsmouth (above ground)

Levi Thaxter & Sons in Kittery, ME

BONUS PHOTOS: Hope Cemetery, Barre, VT

Beebe Cemetery, Star Island, NH

Thorvald the Viking's Rock in Hampton

Auburn Cemetery in Portsmouth

Celia Thaxter & Family Graves, Appledore Island

Smuttynose Murder Victims, Portsmouth, NH

Point of Graves, Portsmouth, NH

Old Pleasant Street Burials Grounds Portsmouth, NH.

Caswell Family Cemetery on Star Island

Beebe Cemetery on Star Island

Portsmouth's North Cemetery in Winter

Spaniards Graves & Haley Family Graves, Smuttynose Island

Pinehill Cemetery, Dover

Another tomb from pinhole camera

Old North Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH

More tombs

Skeletons in the Closet

Rev. Josiah Stevens on Star Island

Covering/Uncovering (Poem)

Viking Runes in Hampton?

MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS

Goodwin Civil War Monument Rededicated

Plymouth Rock: Grand-dad of Monuments

Orphaned Shrine Makes Ugly Memorial

Capt. John Smith Monument, Star Island

Making the Goodwin Monument Sing

Soldiers & Sailors Monument, Portsmouth

Sacrifices of War Memorial, Kittery, ME

Tucke Monument, Star Island

General Porter Monument

Marine Memorial, Hampton Beach