Mount Hope Cemetery

We'll end our tour in the most typical of haunted places, and the final resting place of many famous Rochester historic figures.

The cemetary was created as a resting place for those lost to a massive outbreak of Cholera in 1838. However, even BEFORE this, the Haudenosaunee people who had once inhabited the property warned the settlers of the land's haunted nature. The Native peoples reported moving objects, noises at night, and unexplained phenomenon with their livestock and crops.

The cemetary is the heart of the College Town area in Rochester, and is a popular space for runners, dogwalkers, bikers, and power walkers. Many have said they hear voices, wails, and screaming from the cemetary, even in the daylight. Those that live in the neighborhood report having seeing lights going on and off at all hours, and the feeling of being watched prevailing. Perhaps the scariest of all, the middle of the cemetary's bowl like construction creates a valley known as the "Devil's Bowels." It is here that confirmed reports of occult activity occur after park hours. In 2000, one of these occult groups broke into and robbed the grave of a Civil War General, scattering the bones and grave items as a part of a ritual and subsequently disturbing the rest of all the spirits... and maybe stirring up so much more.