Tomb Bug is a website that explores morbid topics from a historical perspective, mainly through the final resting places of famous and notable people. We keep it interesting with articles chronicling adventures around the country, visiting cemeteries where famous and notable people rest peacefully. To insightful articles about cemeteries, burial customs across cultures, and other morbidly interesting things.
Hi Josh-
I just found your YouTube site through Lisa Banks’ Facebook posting and I think it’s great!! Isn’t it amazing how there are so many Michigan folks into this stuff? (Lisa is from the White Lake area and, btw, Scott Michaels is from Ferndale, if you didn’t know).
Anyway, I was wondering if you have an RSS feed set up for your blog? I’m on LJ (I don’t post as much as I used to) and follow a lot of cemetery folks over there and would like to be able to follow you as well!
Keep up the great work,
Bob Topping
Hey Bob, thanks for the comment its much appreciated. Yeah I knew Lisa Burks was from around here and now lives in LA. I also knew Scott was from the Detroit area but wasn’t sure which part. Scott usually comes back to the Detroit area around the holidays I haven’t had a chance to meet him yet as I usually find out he’s been in town after the fact. I’m seriously looking forward to the next time he comes back to Detroit or when ever I make it out to LA and take his infamous tour lol.
As for me I’m fine tuning my skills as a grave hunter here in the Motorcity. I plan on relocating to California sometime within the next 5 to 6 years I’ll probably start out in Sacramento as that’s where my sweetheart lives then we will hopefully work our way down to LA. The only thing that’s keeping me from moving out there is the high cost of living and me being out of work.
Hi found your site and i think it is very interesting and you sould check out mine it`s a bit similar to yours.Its new so there isnt much yet.Its called headstonehunter.wordpress.com
greta
Thanks Greta I’ll take a look. Thanks for the nice comments.
Hey Josh, just found your site while checking out links from Lisa Burks’ page and like what you do. I have a crawl blog of my own and am going add your site to my links section. Keep up the good work!
John
Hi Josh, I began my grave hunting adventures in LA on none other than Halloween, 2003.
Being at the crypt of Marilyn Monroe was like being in the presence of Royalty. I’ve been to most of the star cemeteries since my first visit then and the 4 times I’ve returned, but the one that stands out was the encounter I had at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Culver City on Friday, January 28, 2005.
As I was searching (in vain) for the grave of Mr. Jimmy Durante, I happened to look to my left and I saw, standing about 30 yards away, a young man who looked to be in his late 20’s gazing at me. It was around Noon. He was a white male, about 5′ 10′ with thick, black well kept hair. He was wearing a long sleeve, white dress shirt and black suit pants. He looked at me in such a way that I thought he was annoyed with me or just curious. I took my eyes off of him for approximately 3 seconds while I got my bearings once again and then glanced back his way to give him a smile and a wave. Much to my puzzlement, though, he was gone. I scanned the area where he had been standing and he was nowhere to be found. In the particular area in which he’d been standing there are no trees and there is absolutely no way possible that he could have gotten out of sight so quickly unless he’d had a jet engine strapped to his back. One moment he was out in the open, the next, he was gone! My puzzlement became astonishment as I realized it was a ghost I saw. This ghost, however, looked slightly familiar, but I just couldn’t place him. About a week later, after I had returned home, I started scoping out the Find A Grave website for celebs graves I’d missed. I clicked on one name and as I looked at the face of the actor there, I gasped! Before me was the very face of the ghost I had seen in the cemetery. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that I saw the ghost of Vince Edwards. Who was Vince Edwards? In the 1960’s he was best remembered as Dr. “Ben Casey”.
Thanks for your comment. That’s a really fascinating, & cool story about your ghost sighting. Holy Cross is a great cemetery to visit. I’ve been to L.A. twice and plan to return soon.