Black Dhalia was the nickname for Elizabeth Short, a woman brutally murdered back in 1947. She was cut in half and her killer (killers?) were never caught. Here's the Wikipedia entry about her life, infamous murder, and sensationalized murder investigation.
Anyway, it turns out she's buried in Piedmont at Mountain View Cemetery (along with some other notable people). I've been to the cemetery many times for walks, it's actually designed with lots of trails like a park, but this time a group of us were on a quest to find the Black Dahlia.
Roll call: Me, Big Cherry, Specs, The Writer, and Croms (who brought the Black Dahlia to our attention).
We all stumbled to meet at the cemetery gates around noon--which was as early as any of us were going to show up anywhere on a Saturday morning--and made our way past the mausoleums and up the hill towards "Millionaire's Row," where some of the aforementioned notables are buried.
When we made our way to the top, Specs and The Writer pointed out how a lot of the monument tombs had symbols of Illuminati on them (the photo above features C.O.G. Miller's pyramid mausoleum). A good amount of our time after that was spent looking for other Illuminati symbolism on tombs and gravestones--eagles, snakes, pyramids, floating eyes, statues of a woman pointing up, etc.
On the way back down we began our hunt for the Black Dahlia. After a little online search the night before, Croms found out Elizabeth Short was buried in plot #6. Unfortunately the plots jump around without any sense of reason, from 12 to 13 to 37. And each plot had anywhere from 16 to 60 graves. The search was coming up fruitless and some of the crew needed to bail.
It was up to me and Croms to wander around one of the back corners of the cemetery for the elusive plot #6. One of the legends of Black Dahlia is that the groundskeepers move her grave around from time to time within the cemetery to prevent crowds of people converging on her grave. We finally found plot #6 and split up to read tombstones--unfortunately, no Elizabeth Short.
We wrapped up our quest and headed back out towards the main gate. Maybe next time I'll try to find the grave of Mac Dre (seriously...check that link of notable people).
3 comments:
Damn freefall that's ill. I thought I was a geeker for spending the night in a cemetary doing evp's & taking infra red video footage. All I got was two hours of me on my digital recorder going "hello, I mean you no harm, would you like to communicate?" What an ass I am.
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