St Thomas Rest Park, Crows Nest.

[Casaly]

I grew up living next door to this really old cemetery in Sydney. It was such a piece place to lay in the sun and read.

I'd love to know if anyone knows of any experiences or ghosts here!

To me, it was the best place to live. We had really quiet neighbours but  everyone else kind of thought we were the Adam's Family... 

[Christine]

I am not familiar with this cemetary. I generally find them very peaceful though.

[bja15]

Oh I love cemeteries.. and have admitted this to psychologists. I find them to be the most peaceful places to go. My sister lost a baby 5 years ago, and there are days when Im feeling really low and depressed that I will go and sit with her and just read.. and I feel so much better after. I sound sooo morbid lol

[Casaly]

Not morbid to me, try growing up next door to one... If you saw St Thomas you'd love it, it's beautiful and green and just lovely to be in.

Once I was walking behind a happy couple with their perfect dog and newborn baby, admittedly our hedges were really overgrown and it was raining so it looked gloomy as gloomy can be. I heard the man say to the women "Who lives there the Adam's Family?" then they looked back awkwardly as I walked in the squeaky gate.

There is a children's park in their now which kind of sounds weird but it fits in well!

[deka]

I find Cemeteries peaceful too. We can't all be weird can we!!  err... can we?

[Colleen]

I like cemetaries too.  I like the history I find all around and yes, they are peaceful.

[deka]

Absolutely Colleen! I love the old stones that tell a story, and trying to piece together family members. Headstones these days seem to be more focussed on the facts, but some of the older pre 1900 ones are rippers with the little stories they have engraved on them. Even the poems seem more poignant than those used today.

[violet]

My grandmother's beautiful garden backed onto a cemetery and as a child I loved stealing through her trees to visit it. I never felt frightened, in fact in memory it's more heavenly than most other places I've been.

[Colleen]

Yes, they are fascinating and can tell a lot of stories.   I love the older pioneer cemetaries because of this.  The headstones seem to
give us an insight into their lives and the way they were lived, the love, tragedies etc.

[catseyes]

Just becareful if you wander through them on your own ladies.   Human creeps hand around these places, sadly.  Far worse then any ghosties orn ghoulls IMHO.

[Colleen]

Yes, this is true.

[Craig Hazell]

I grew up near the cemetery in Nth Parramatta (cnr CHurch and Pennant Hills Rd, it merged into Richie Benaud Oval but i cant remember if it has a name).

Intensely disliked walking through it at night. Even being across the road was creepy.
I've not noticed such a feeling in other cemeteries.

[catseyes]

There is a cemetery in Melbourne, Cheltenham Cemetery.  It was beside a park.  I'm assuming it still is as I'm going back 20 years or so.   There was a problem with what the local people believed to be Satanic rituals taking place there. Burnt animal carcasses, candle stubs, pentagrams......weird deranged looking people, (no not me this time).   The place had a really bad feel to it.

[violet]

Hmmm, the resting dead don't seem to be the problem, rather the choices of the living.

I find most of Parramatta a bit disturbing Craig. I just don't like being there, it feels empty.

[chaney]

I heard a little of this cemetery, isnt it full of famous people who lived on the northside before the harbour bridge was built?
- is it on one of the sydney ghost tour's