Cemeteries are the setting for many a ghostly encounter and are usually used in video games to create an unsettling atmosphere and are often home to many eerie ghosts. Video game cemeteries can be vastly different, some leaning towards the metaphorical side of what cemeteries represent, some exploring them as a place of mourning and others having a nicer image that is no less spooky.
These graveyard settings stand out in their respective games and will make you scared if you are brave enough to walk among the tombstones. You will find that you are not alone in these places as aliens usually inhabit them.
7 Classic Spookiness: Banjo-Kazooie
Mad Monster Mansion is the seventh world you explore in Banjo-Kazooie. The world has a spooky theme, complete with a haunted church, a hedge maze, and a haunted graveyard. While you are in the graveyard, avoid the tombstones that are trying to kill you.
The eerie atmosphere is enhanced by the sound effects, including all the staples like the howl of a werewolf, organ music, and the wail of a ghost. The world has all the classic elements of a haunted house and gives off Halloween vibes even if you play the game in the summer.
6 Night of the Living Dead – EarthBound
After Onett and Twoson, Threed is the third city you visit in EarthBound. The people of Threed take shelter in their houses to prevent the monsters from lurking in the graveyard and venturing into the city.
Much of Threed makes up the graveyard, which makes you wonder how many people have passed through the city to justify one of this size. However, it is not a peaceful graveyard where you can rest, as the dead return as zombies and ghosts.
5 Worm Your Way Out Of This – Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
While you’ll run into zombies all over Raccoon City, it feels most fitting to see them in a graveyard. Raccoon City’s cemetery looks like an average cemetery if you ignore the zombies waiting in the bushes.
The only thing creepier than zombies, however, is a giant worm, and that’s exactly what lurks in this graveyard – a Grave Digger, the result of a worm mutated by the t-Virus. The second time Jill Valentine faces a Grave Digger, he bursts out from under the graveyard, sending the tombstones flying. Once Jill is done with this monster, it’s RIP for this giant worm.
4 Who are you going to call? – Luigi’s mansion
With a game centered around ghosts and ghostly creatures, it’s no surprise that Luigi’s Mansion has a graveyard. One of the more haunted places in the game, the graveyard, is haunted by Skeleton Ghosts who have to suck up Luigi with his Poltergust 3000.
While in the cemetery, you must face the Bogmire, also known as the Cemetery Shadow. It appears in a typically dramatic fashion when lightning strikes a gravestone in the cemetery, revealing the apparition itself. However, this poltergeist is no match for the Poltergust 3000.
3 Marowak’s resting place – Pokemon red and blue
Above the streets of Lavender Town, the Pokemon Tower is the burial place of many Pokemon that have passed away. The Pokemon Tower is a sad place where people come to honor their deceased Pokemon. The floors are rampant with Ghost Pokemon and Channelers, communicating with ghosts and challenging you to Pokemon battles.
In Pokemon Red and Blue, you witness a ghost sighting when you arrive at the top of the tower. After using the Silph Scope, the ghost turns out to be the ghost of Marowak, who died protecting his child, Cubone, from Team Rocket. The whole place has an eerie atmosphere undermined by a layer of sadness.
2 The Dark Past of the Royal Family – The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time
Kakariko Village Graveyard is located behind the village. It is the burial place of many Hyruleans and Sheikah who were subjects of the royal family, as well as the royal family itself. While in the graveyard you can explore the graves and what can be buried in them at the risk of being attacked by Kitty.
As a Child Link, you can also participate in Dampé’s Heart-Pounding Gravedigging Tour with a chance to win Rupees or a Piece of Heart. You can return to the graveyard as Adult Link, only to find that Dampé has passed away and is now haunting the graveyard. If you want to get the Hookshot, you have to race against his ghost and win. The royal family’s tomb at the back of the graveyard is also the entrance to the shadow temple, recognized as one of the creepiest temples in the series.
1 Digging Your Own Grave – Silent Hill 2
You will visit two cemeteries in Silent Hill 2 – Toluca Graveyard and the graveyard in the labyrinth under Toluca Prison and the Silent Hill Historical Society. Toluca Graveyard is where you meet Angela Orosco, who is looking for her mother. It is also this graveyard that James Sunderland and Laura walk through in the Leave Ending.
However, when it comes to spookiness, the graveyard in the labyrinth takes things to the next level. The fact that this graveyard is indoors and deep underground almost makes it look like a diorama, creating an unsettling experience as it is impossible for this graveyard to be real. Among the buried are graves named for Walter Sullivan, Angela Orosco, Eddie Dombrowski and James Sunderland himself. James has to jump in his own grave to progress, symbolizing his journey into his psyche.
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