Haunted Virginia Cemeteries: Dare to Visit the Restless Dead?

The Richmond Newsletter (September 1936).

   At the corner of East Franklin and 21st Streets in Richmond lies the old Jewish cemetery—quiet by day, but by night, locals say, it stirs with eerie life. According to The Richmond Newsletter (September 1936 edition), neighbors whispered of midnight figures in long black robes slipping through the locked cemetery gate, of strange happenings that chilled the blood. 

   Mary, who lived beside the graveyard, admitted she often lay awake, fearing the ghosts said to roam the streets after dark. 

   Skeptics may scoff, but for those who’ve seen shadows move where no living soul should walk, there’s no doubt: something haunts this forgotten corner of the city.