Morbidity at its finest: Celebrity Graves

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-21 07:15pm

Something inspired by something I just read...famous people buried near you.

Andy Kaufman is buried literally down the street from me.

Jazz great Louis Armstrong is buried half an hour from me, in Queens.

Anyone else?

irishmick79 · Post by **irishmick79** » 2003-03-21 07:44pm

Blues legend Otis Rush died in a plane crash over Lake Mendota, here in Madison. He drowned when the plane actually sunk in the lake.

Stevie Ray Vaughan's plane crashed about an hour from here, as well.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-03-21 07:57pm

Bleeding Gums Murphy is buried directly under my computer

No wonder my music sounds so jazzy

RIP Murphy

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-03-21 10:56pm

Let's see, celebrity graves...

No famous people buried near where I live.

Speaking of graves, to the bathrooms at cemetaries use the gravestones of hated people as urinals?

Johonebesus · Post by **Johonebesus** » 2003-03-21 11:11pm

Not unless you count Woodrow Wilson's wife.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-03-21 11:12pm

I've got a kick-ass pic of myself at Bela Lugosi's grave, which is next to Bing Crosby's and family, in the same graveyard as Sharon Tate, Barney Oldfield, and King Farouk of Egypt's wife.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2003-03-21 11:15pm

Professional golfer Tony Lema is buried at nearby Holy Sepulchre Cemetary. No, I haven't heard of him either.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-03-21 11:18pm

Um, Jerry Spinelli and Alexander Lloyd live here in this town....

And there not dead NOW, but everyone's gotta go sometime...

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-03-21 11:24pm

When you're a stone throw away from Arlington National...well I claim JFK as my resident celeb.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-03-21 11:28pm

I've got Edgar Allen Poe (Baltimore), John Wilkes Booth (Baltimore), Napoleon's brother, sister-in-law and nephew (Baltimore), Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), Francis Scott Key (Frederick), Cal Ripken Sr. (Aberdeen), and John Paul Jones (Annapolis).

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-22 01:25am

Zaia wrote:John Paul Jones (Annapolis).

Oh my. My sister will probably love you forever now or something.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-03-22 02:22am

I've been in that crypt. Truely bizarre.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-03-22 02:38am

Howedar wrote:I've been in that crypt. Truely bizarre.

Would you find it more bizarre to know that this:

was what was interred in that crypt? His body was exhumed in Paris in 1906, it had been buried in a lead lined coffin and preserved with alchohol. Remarkable preservation, tough bastard didn't even surrender to decomposition!

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-03-22 03:25am

Umm...
Who's buried in NW Ohio that's famous?

EDIT: Oh yeah, I don't live too far from Lima, where Neil Armstrong lives.
(Ok, he's not dead yet but he's the only guy I can think of....)

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2003-03-22 03:33am

Near Burbank and Hollywood is a huge funeral home and cemetery called "Forest Lawn." Walt Disney is there, Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, and many more.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-03-22 07:55am

Dalton wrote:
Zaia wrote:John Paul Jones (Annapolis).
Oh my. My sister will probably love you forever now or something.

Really? Why's that? Is she massively in love with him or something?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-22 09:28am

Zaia wrote:
Dalton wrote:
Zaia wrote:John Paul Jones (Annapolis).
Oh my. My sister will probably love you forever now or something.
Really? Why's that? Is she massively in love with him or something?

Erm...it appears that I have the wrong John Paul Jones, as hers (Led Zeppelin) is still alive

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-03-22 12:58pm

What, Dalt, you've never heard of John Paul Jones, the American naval hero?

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-03-22 01:19pm

HemlockGrey wrote:What, Dalt, you've never heard of John Paul Jones, the American naval hero?

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

I know the phrase, but was unsure of the name. Besides, when I hear "John Paul Jones" I tend to think Led Zeppelin since my sister's obsessed with their JPJ.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-03-22 01:41pm

Captain tycho wrote:Umm...
Who's buried in NW Ohio that's famous?

EDIT: Oh yeah, I don't live too far from Lima, where Neil Armstrong lives.
(Ok, he's not dead yet but he's the only guy I can think of....)

Isn't President Taft planted somewhere up there? I could swear that was his library and home I visited when I was 9. There was a cannon in the basement of the library with an Arabic script on it, being 9, and unsupervised, naturally I had to play with it. The damned thing was unbalanced, and I almost pulled my arms out of socket trying to keep it from hitting the floor....

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-03-22 08:13pm

And then there's http://www.celebritymorgue.com which is a link off Rotten.com, so you can imagine that some of the pictures are rather vile and in bad taste. The main page that I linked to is just text, but clicking on the names there will bring up pictures of dead celebrities, and some of them ain't pretty.

Pistolero · Post by **Pistolero** » 2003-03-23 03:38am

Jimmy Hendrix, baby! A couple miles away! Bruce Lee too!