What do Edgar Allen Poe and Stephen King have in common?
Besides being American authors whose stories send shivers down your spine, they had another similar hobby—that of visiting cemeteries.(Stephen king still does)
Heck, they’ve even given a name to this macabre hobby—cemetery (or tombstone) tourism.
Seems like France’s Père Lachaise Cemetery, considered the most-visited cemetery in the world, has competition.
Our country too, has also woken up to this new form of tourism.
With 2007 marking the 150th year of the First War of Indian Independence or Revolt of 1857, premium tours are booked in advance by people who are interested in visiting the “mutiny route,” starting from Meerut, the place where the two-year mutiny started.
Long considered to be a morbid hobby, and an aphrodisiac for necrophilia, cemetery tourism looks all set to draw people, who are willing to spend a few thousands to visit, photograph, and observe graves, mausoleums, tombs, cemeteries, headstones, and crypts.
Sort of creeps you out, doesn’t it?
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