Subject: [ParanormalCalifornia] Day 3: Our Amazing Journeys In Santa Cruz California April 23rd 2016
Date: 3/16/2018 2:47:36 AM Pacific Standard Time
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Santa Cruz Historic Evergreen Cemetery

Let me just start off stating that this is a very gorgeous cemetery which has many different sections including the Grand Army Of The Republic/Civil War, Chinese, Potters Field and even a Masonic section. The cemetery was erected in 1850 and contains many notable figures. While many pioneers are buried here including Judge Washburn, Louden Nelson and Isaac Graham the same man who founded Roaring Camp when he built the first sawmill west of the Mississippi. Roaring Camp was a small settlement that resides near the redwood grove at today's Henry Cowell State Park which we had visited earlier that day.

Everyone from Gold prospectors, artist, Chinamen, Yankees, Civil War veterans, masons, infants, lawyers, mountain men, authors, politicians and early residents of Santa Cruz can be found here. Santa Cruz is an old city as a matter in fact it was a small Mexican Village that begin as a Catholic Mission. So before the cemetery was even here it was under Spanish rule and keep in mind just a couple miles from the ocean.

The one thing I learned about the cemetery is it had many notable interments and historical figures. It also had over 2,000 people who were laid to rest. I was very excited to visit this place it also is tiered meaning it sits on a hill and goes far back into this gulch which is said to be haunted by the ghost of Jackson Sloan who was a farmer gunned down by a vigilante. Supposedly his gravestone has never been found and people refer to his spirit as restless. This gulch supposedly is in the back of the cemetery but all we found were graves that were tipped over and a bunch of old bottles of booze.

I was hoping to see Sloan's apparition who is said to wear a broad brimmed hat and a long black jacket. While reports say he haunts the gulch others say he haunts the cemetery. I am thinking the gulch behind the cemetery where pioneers often road there through buggies through is where many folks had sightings at. Whether or not the gulch is located in the cemetery the fact is years spent by locals trying to see his spirit have often seen it in this very cemetery. All I seen when I was here is a couple gothic kids that thought they were vampires lol. Well that was at first till later on the left and things had gotten really quiet here.

As a matter in fact when I first entered this graveyard which has a nice white picket fence at the very front of I entered the gate I came a across a couple nice bucks grazing with a few does. We actually got pretty close to them wish I took more film but I did get a few nice photos at least. I mean this is a city cemetery yet deer roam it as if its not a big deal. People tend to forget that Santa Cruz is overshadows by the mountains and the San Lorenzo River also flows through here so this means that their is plenty of wildlife to see here including in the town cemetery.

Its kind of a dark cemetery it resides in the woods many of the trees are very old. Their are big giant limestone rocks up on the hills behind the graveyard. Their is also many large stone walls including this old crypt built into the side of the hill. Many of the graves are in peril I seen some that were broken, tipped on their side, smashed to pieces and vandalized. But also the massive storms that hit this cemetery from the ocean probably took a toll on this place over the years too. Its evident trees have fallen before on some stones mother nature at its best I guess you can say.

I had a list of notable people buried here so my goal was to seek out Marie Homes a prostitute that killed herself. Strangely here stone went missing and then some hiker find it in the woods 12 miles away and today its restored. I also visited Isaac Graham a true mountain man who founded the first water powered saw mill in Felton and overthrown a Mexican governor forming the town of Roaring Camp. Then their was Louden Nelson once a slave that came to Santa Cruz as a free man who opened up a school that had closed for children. Their were many more notables I found to while exploring the cemetery.

I will say the cemetery has a creepy feel to it not all cemeteries to but if you climb the stairs into the gulch it goes very far back where you will find some of the oldest graves. I found this one area where all these graves were crumbling or where some construction was going on. But a part of the cemetery is really torn up as you go into the gulch which has graves that are overgrown and on steep hillsides as you take this walkway through it. But back here is an area the cemetery suffered the worst with piles of gravestones some look as if someone took a sledge hammer to them and some walls were cracked in half probably caused by earthquakes.We found one gravestone a tree fell on probably during a storm.

But the stone walkway in the gulch is very nice work not something you see often in graveyards. The sun was setting took there was some event going on across the street so music was playing really loud. This makes it kind of hard for me to do any sort of EVP work but I tried. I did get some EMF readings in the cemetery even heard a strange noise sounded like a woman screaming in the woods towards the back of the cemetery. Supposedly the lady in white not only haunts Santa Cruz Memorial Cemetery but her ghost has been seen in the woods at Evergreen Cemetery too. It seems this entire area of Santa Cruz has quite a few ghost stories it also had quite a few serial killers in the area so some of the victims buried in Evergreen were victims of fowl play.

Their is a Masonic section its not big but a white picket fence enclosure does contain some gravesites while some masons were buried outside of the enclosure. On a hill near the gulch is also a Chinese section with this giant memorial with Chinese writing its pretty cool. The civil section of the cemetery is off to the side and completely fenced off from Evergreen Cemetery. The grass was super green here but it also was growing quite high. Id say that cemetery had about 35 to 50 monuments and graves of Civil War Veterans. Their is a nice historic piece you can read before entering this section of cemetery.

Their is quite a few brick walls here including this plaque which has a really nice piece about the pioneer section of the cemetery. I found this one massive stone slab broken in half one of the half's of this tombstone was simply laying on top of the edge of this wall. Someone obviously put it there and it has to weigh a few hundred pounds. No less many nice older pioneer gravestones and not to far from here I heard a branch snap maybe more deer? Their is plenty of nature here including many naturally growing flowers to see especially this time of year and oh man their are some nice views nearby of the Santa Cruz mountains and being it was sunset I could not ask for more.

But I was getting kind of tired however a stroll through the cemetery was very lovely especially after the day I had spent adventuring at the Henry Cowell Redwoods Grove, Roaring Camp, Felton Covered Bridge, Bigfoot Museum, Mystery Spot, Court Of Mysteries and a few hours at the beach at the Natural Bridges State Park it was simply time to get back to my hotel to call it a day. It was a long day from early morning till nightfall almost. But the nice thing about being on the ocean is the days are longer so I was able to get more then enough done but boy was I beat. Maybe I was tired but before dusk I looked up on a woodsy hill and see a woman in a gown standing there staring at me and I thought maybe I witnessed one of the famous ghost which haunts this part of Santa Cruz which she is sighted at. Sometimes this female ghost can be seen at Santa Cruz Memorial Park Cemetery other times at the Masonic Club or even just walking down the street it was just the strangest thing that happened to me here.

When I had arrived at the hotel we had ordered on in which included some spicy habanero wings, two pizzas and cinnamon bread. It was good but my night was not done my son went swimming and I took a nice dip in the Jacuzzi with an ice cold beer to go with it to relax my body. I still was in pain from taking a terrible fall in the ghost town of Purissima and ending up getting a thousand thorns that broke off in my skin when we had gotten stuck in underbrush for three hours while trying to climb out of this ravine and get to the road. You can only imagine how exhausted I must had been being on a five day road trip and exploring from morning till night and we still had two more days to go on this trip. It felt so good to close my eyes in that Jacuzzi and enjoy that beer. Nobody pays me to do what I do I mean honestly the work I do is for you guys so that you can enjoy these locat ions on our website, see the pictures, watch videos and in the process even get to enjoy the strange.

I would turn in after the Jacuzzi we had a big day ahead of us once that would start off at the Santa Cruz Memorial Cemetery, Seymour Discovery Marine Center, Road Trip through the Santa Cruz Mountains, La Exaltacion De La Santa Cruz/Holy Cross Church and The Arboretum at the University of California. That also does not include my drive up the Pacific Coast to my hotel up in San Francisco that we had to check in at so we could spend our final day of this trip on Angel Island. So day 3 was about the half way point of our project in Santa Cruz and San Fran. We still had more adventuring and journeying to do but we were slowly making progress on this trip and these were some gorgeous little gems. State tuned for our final report which will include Day 4 and 5 of this Pacific Coast Adventure.
Peace,
Lord Rick

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