There’s something strange…in the neighborhood (besides your mom)

So a couple of months ago, Jef Who and I headed off to the epicenter of everything cheese-goth and townie-like, Downtown Riverside. We were on a mission for two things – tacos and graveyard pics. The tacos were taken care of by Los Amigos on Main St; the tombstones courtesy of the Evergreen Cemetery.

So why were we taking graveyard pics? I’m in the process of self-publishing my first novel, and I wanted a tombstone/graveyard pic for the cover. No, I’m not cheesy like that, but the characters are, so I wanted something to represent that. So after the taco munch (and picking the cheese out from my cleavage), we parked the car and made our way to the graveyard.

So it was a pretty nice night, just a little breezy. I started taking pics of the tombstones and we admired what they had to say. Some were actually pretty bitchin’, and I was wishing that we would have showed up during the day so we could read them better.

It was getting pretty cold by then, so we decided to head back to the car. While we made our way back, I continued to take pictures. The cemetery had a big orange light post in the middle casting enough light, so the pics were coming out pretty decent. I took this one:

And then I took the next two:

And this was the last one I took of the evening:

So OBVIOUSLY those two middle pictures were ghosts. I noticed the blue spot of the second pic through my camera screen, but I didn’t notice the rest until I got home and brought them up on the screen. None of the other 60 pics had any blue spots in them, and there wasn’t anything in the cemetery that would have casted a blue light.

I wasn’t, and still not, scared of the cemetery ghosts – I grew up across the street from a cemetery in Orange County, and my apartment in Hollywood was across the street from the Hollywood Forever cemetery, so I’m down with the undead. Jef Who and I are talking about going back and seeing if we can get some more pics. And to quote Peter Venkman in “Ghostbusters” – “Yes it’s true – this man has no dick!”