http://sanjoserealestatelosgatoshomes.com/hacienda-cemetery-and-memorial-park-in-new-almaden/ Real Estate in Silicon Valley, The Valley of Hearts Delight Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:45:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://sanjoserealestatelosgatoshomes.com/hacienda-cemetery-and-memorial-park-in-new-almaden/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Mary Pope-Handy Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:34:53 +0000 http://sanjoserealestatelosgatoshomes.com/?p=1250#comment-199 Thanks so much for sharing your fascinating experiences! Thanks so much for sharing your fascinating experiences!

]]> http://sanjoserealestatelosgatoshomes.com/hacienda-cemetery-and-memorial-park-in-new-almaden/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Cathy Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:20:16 +0000 http://sanjoserealestatelosgatoshomes.com/?p=1250#comment-175 I am a former resident of New Almaden and my home was located on Almaden Rd. Our backyard was bordered by the Los Alamitos Creek and almost directly behind us on the other side of the creek was the Hacienda Cemetary. You are quite right, the cemetary is on both sides of Bertram Rd. Mostly buried in this cemetary are children, many of them victims of the Spanish influenza which swept around the world in or about 1929. The severed arm buried at Hacienda really isn't as strange as it first appears. At some point in time a law had been passed in California requiring it's residents to give decent and proper burials to severed limbs and appendages. As for spirit or ghostly activity associated with the Hacienda Cemetary, I can only say I experienced something on almost a nightly basis. My experiences included "seeing" small pinpoints of various colored lights coming from the cemetary, crossing the creek and moving through both my yard and house. Also more than once I saw arrows, broken 2/3 down their shaft, on fire at the joint hit my bedroom window. The native Indians who coveted the red cinnabar found in this area buried their dead along creeks and rivers. Our history books say little about the "Vermillion Wars" raged by opposing groups of Indians battling for control of the source of their cinnabar. I am a former resident of New Almaden and my home was located on Almaden Rd. Our backyard was bordered by the Los Alamitos Creek and almost directly behind us on the other side of the creek was the Hacienda Cemetary. You are quite right, the cemetary is on both sides of Bertram Rd. Mostly buried in this cemetary are children, many of them victims of the Spanish influenza which swept around the world in or about 1929. The severed arm buried at Hacienda really isn’t as strange as it first appears. At some point in time a law had been passed in California requiring it’s residents to give decent and proper burials to severed limbs and appendages. As for spirit or ghostly activity associated with the Hacienda Cemetary, I can only say I experienced something on almost a nightly basis. My experiences included “seeing” small pinpoints of various colored lights coming from the cemetary, crossing the creek and moving through both my yard and house. Also more than once I saw arrows, broken 2/3 down their shaft, on fire at the joint hit my bedroom window. The native Indians who coveted the red cinnabar found in this area buried their dead along creeks and rivers. Our history books say little about the “Vermillion Wars” raged by opposing groups of Indians battling for control of the source of their cinnabar.

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