Comet Lodge Cemetery

My name is John Dickinson, and I completed a Masters project at SU on this site. I hate to disappoint, but the Comet Lodge Cemetery ended its existence when on All Souls’ Day, November 2, 1987, the City of Seattle bulled dozed these sacred burial grounds of the Duwamish Nation, families off the first boat, and the gravesites of my ancestors, one Samuel Bevans was the last Mayor of South Park. After bulling the monuments with histories chiseled in stone, a sewer main was deeply trenched and the zoning was changed to ‘retail space’ in the southern third, and single family residence in the northern third. The other third lies under the streets. The northern section was reserved for infants, ‘babyland’ as this section of a cemetery is called.
Summing it all up, this land is not a cemetery, but it is still a graveyard. The stones are not gravestones, they are cenotaphs, stones that don’t mark a burial site.
The correct name of this site is Mayors Rice, Schell, Nickels, McGinn, King County Executives Sims and Constantine Memorial Dogs Run Free Park.

Yes, it;‘s true, I am a cemetery groupie. I love everything to do with cemeteries, especially the history and backgrounds of the site itself and the people interred there. Visiting my daughter and son-​in-​law from San Diego, I prayed for decent weather so that I could visit a few of the beautiful cemeteries in the Seattle area.
This is the first cemetery we visited yesterday and it is really a very lovely place, even in the cold rain and wind. Regarding the review written by the two folks before me, things must’ve turned around because it cemetery seems well cared for now.
It is right smack in the middle of a residential neighborhood and surrounded by many trees and bushes. There are several headstonse in varying states of disrepair, probably more due to the inclement weather you folks have here in Seattle than anything else.
If it weren’t for the headstones scattered about, you might think that this was just a lovely little park in the middle of a neighborhood. No scary vibes, no weird anything at all. It seems like a nice place to throw a Frisbee or have a picnic in the summer as long as you’re respectful and decent about it.
One of the things I did notice were the couple of headstone that at first glance looked like trees but turned out to be headstones/​memorials that looked like tree trunks but were made out of cement.
Haunted? Hate to disappoint but I think even in the dead of night, in the dead of winter, you aren’t going to get much. It’s not that I don’t believe in the afterlife but my personal feelings are that once we pass, most folks don’t seem to want to hang around a cemetery.

What does that mean to give a cemetery 5 stars? Does that mean that it’s really creepy? Or just a nice place to plant grandma?
Anyway…Beacon Hills haunted little secret is a cool place. But please try to keep in mind that some of us actually have relatives buried there.

Do you have any idea how haunted this place is?
We all know what happens when a house is built on top of an old indian burial ground, but do you know what happens when you build a CEMETERY on top of an old indian burial ground?!
That’s right, it’s double haunted!
Here’s a small excerpt from the Endangered Cemetery report:
Condition: Cemetery in danger of destruction
Vandalized: Yes
VA: Gravestones-​Overturned
VA: Gravestones-​Broken
VA: Gravestones-​Stolen
VA: Graves-​Desecrated
Overgrowth: Graves-​Disturbing
Overgrowth: Gravestones-​Disturbing
So what happens when you build a cemetery on top of an old indian burial ground, and then you abandon it, and then you desecrate it?
I’ll tell you…
TRIPLE (possibly QUADRUPLE) HAUNTED!!!
I’ve actually hunted ghosts here before. Don’t ask me what I was going to do with a ghost once I caught it. I was thinking about wearing it in a vial around my neck just to be weird. It’s not like I can have it stuffed and hang its head over my mantle. That would be cool though.
«oh that? I bagged that one in the autumn of ’07 up at Comet Lodge, she put up quite a struggle, that one. Hehehe»
I thought it’d be funny to catch one and throw it at Scott K. just to watch him flip out «GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!!» like he does with spiders.
Anywhoo…
This place is great for a last date, or a 30^th birthday party, or just a good old fashioned night of getting high and freaking the shit out of your friends.
«When the members of my tribe become a myth among white men, when you think that your children are alone in the field, the shop, the store — they will not be alone. When you think that your streets are deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled and still love this land, for the dead are not powerless. Dead I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.»
~~Chief Seattle