Unearthly Realms

On foggy nights, if you look at the cemetery, you can see the swinging lights of a coal miner's lanterns, you can sometimes hear whistling in the wind, supposedly that of the coal miners. It is also reported that a white horse is seen trotting around headstones. Regan of APART of Washngton External link indicated this may be a phenomenon called Ignis Fatuus that can be caused by gaseous exhalations from moist ground (see comments below).

History

The cemetery was established in the 1880s on a hilltop site at the edge of the thriving mining town of Black Diamond, then the biggest settlement in King County outside of Seattle. The cemetery is a complex cultural landscape, capturing the tremendous ethnic diversity of the town’s early history, in the surnames of those buried there, as well as in the languages, religious and fraternal organization affiliations, and styles of the grave markers.

History of Black Diamond Cemetery

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|76.22.117.xxx |2009-09-03 00:26:17 Regan - Black Diamond Cemetery
Ignis Fatuus: A wavering luminous appearance frequently observed in cemeteries, meadows and marshy places, around most any popular superstitions. Some folk names are, Will O'the Wisp or Jack O'Lantern, these suggest a country fellow bearing a lantern or straw torch (wisp). As the stories go these lights were supposed to haunt desolate bogs & land, that back then was of little use sometimes called moors. The stories were for the purpose of misleading travelers and drawing them to their death, (Spooky). Another superstition says that they are the spirits of those who have been drowned in the bogs, and yet another says that they are the souls of unbaptized infants. Science now attributes these ignes fatui to gaseous exhalations from moist ground or, more rarely, to night-flying insects.

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