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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 10h

Local slate is plentiful so it made a good substitute. Unfortunately these plain stones often get mistaken for debris and removed from cemeteries when well meaning people try to clean them up Willow Tree Cemetery, Hant's Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 10h

Until the mid 1800s we didn't really have a gravestone carving industry in Newfoundland so gravestones were imported. But importing a gravestone was expensive and ordinary folk in small fishing communities like Hant's Harbour pictured above couldn't always afford that cost

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 10h

Day 12: Ordinary At first glance you might not be able to tell this is a cemetery. But the stones you see were used as headstones when ordinary folk couldn't afford imported carved gravestones. They are made of local slate and often get overlooked in the burial landscape #31DaysOfGraves

Willow Tree Cemetery in Hant's Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador. There are headstones in this photo but they are the kind normally called fieldstones, made of local slate and not usually inscribed. They often get mistaken for debris and removed from cemeteries when well meaning people try to clean them up. However until the mid 1800's, carved headstones were imported to Newfoundland and Labrador as the carving industry had not yet gotten under way. It was expensive to import gravestones and ordinary folk in small fishing communities like Hant's Harbour would not always have been able to afford the cost. Local slate was plentiful and made a good substitute.

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm picturing them below my knees but I'm still saving up so I have time to figure out the placement!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Day 11: Humourous The grumpy sun and equally grumpy moon on this stone in the Old Burying Ground, Halifax Nova Scotia always make me giggle. One day I will have them tattooed on me #31DaysOfGraves

A gravestone in Halifax's Old Burying Ground that has Masonic imagery including a very grumpy moon and sun

A close up of the grumpy sun and moon on the previously mentioned stone

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just finished it and overall I give it 8/10. I think if we'd gotten like a second season and could have spent more time developing the characters would have benefited the story!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I hope I see more from them though. I want more series set in Newfoundland not just using us as a stand in for small coastal America

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm watching episode 5 now and the only thing I wish is that they'd given the show more space. 8 or 10 episodes might have been what it needed to tell the stories without feeling like they rushed some parts

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My friend in Poland who only knows a Newfoundland accent through me could even tell that it was not quite right. But I'm enjoying the show anyway!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm going to finish the last two episodes today. The accents aren't quite right but they're better than a lot of other things filmed here so I'll give them that!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I suspect that this stone had fossils or some sort of imperfection in it. You can kind of see one in the wing of the cherub in the second photo. I imagine it didn't deter the original carver but someone at a later date was curious and cut it out to investigate!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Day 10: Missing There is a piece cut out and missing from this headstone in Bethany United Cemetery in Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador. You can see right through to the stones behind it! #31DaysOfGraves

A headstone in Bethany United Cemetery in Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador. There is a rectangle cut out of the stone near the top beneath a cherub. It may be because there are fossils in the stone as one can be seen in the cherub's wing

A view through the rectangle cut out in the previous headstone showing the headstone behind it

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Old Burying Ground, Halifax, Nova Scotia, btw

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Day 9: Lettering One of my favourite things is when you look closely at a stone and see the guidelines carved in so the lettering in the inscription will be straight and even. And then they still ran out of room and had to put 'wife' on two lines #31DaysOfGraves

The gravestone for Jane and John Conway in Halifax, Nova Scotia's Old Burying Ground. It features a cherub at the top of the stone. The inscription reads:

Here lieth the body
Of Jane Conway
Wife of John Conway
Who departed this
Life the 6th day of
Oct, 1776, aged 56
Years. Also the body
Of John Conway

The rest of the inscription is obscured by grass. There are guidelines carved into the stone so the lettering will be straight.

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Stopped after 2 episodes tonight because I want to make it last. It's not bad! I'm looking forward to more episodes tomorrow

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Curious if any non-Newfoundlanders are watching Below on Netflix and what they think of it. I've watching 2 episodes so far but I'm trying not to blast through it. They're all trying with their accents, god love em

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Day 8: Animal Two dogs on graves in Highgate Cemetery, London, UK. Emperor is depicted on the grave of Ann Jewson Crisp in Highgate East and Lion on the grave of bare knuckle boxer Thomas Sayers in Highgate West #31DaysOfGraves

The grave of Ann Jewson Crisp in Highgate Cemetery East, London, UK. It depicts an portrait of her dog Emperor with the phrase "Her faithful dog Emperor" around the portrait

The grave of Thomas Sayers in Highgate Cemetery West, London, UK. It is a tomb style monument with a full body statue of his dog Lion laying in front of his grave

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's by a gravestone carvjng family that I am obsessed with. All their stones are so amazingly detailed, including the stone the sons in the family carved for their father when he died!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Day 7: Home This is one of my favourites, by an amazing local carver. Love the details of the hand especially. In Greenspond, Newfoundland and Labrador. #31DaysOfGraves

The gravestone of Stuart G Bragg who accidentally drowned in 1931. The top of the gravestone has an open book with the word home written on the left page and a hand with a quill. Underneath it is:

In loving memory
Of
Stuart G. Bragg
Accidentally drowned
May 30th. 1931
Aged 25 years.
Erected by his wife Minnie.

Lo where this silent marble weeps
Husband, son, and brother sleeps
A heart within whose sacred cell
The peaceful virtues loved to dwell

Just apart where no shadows fall
In perfect peace awaiting all,
Safe in the land that knows not pain
He is longing to meet us all again.

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Day 6: Weather Here's a little video of a stroll through the General Protestant Cemetery I made a few years ago after a fresh snow fall #31DaysOfGraves

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Day 5: Vehicle This one is a hard one. After much browsing of my photos, I present the grave of George Pentland, coach and harness maker, buried in Greyfriars Burial Ground, Perth, Scotland #31DaysOfGraves

A large white marble gravestone covering a grave in a wall in Greyfriars Burial Ground in Pert, Scotland. This is the grave of George Pentland, coach and harness maker

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Black is traditional. But if you'd prefer...pink, or vermilion or chartreuse? Though you might make me jealous!" Coraline inspired nails for Halloween

Katie's right hand with Coraline inspired nail art. Her thumb, index finger, and pinky are the same blue as Coraline's hair. Her middle finger is yellow like Coraline's jacket and has a key with a button motif on it. Her ring finger has a button shaped moon with the Beldam's hand silhouetted against it.

Katie's left hand with Coraline inspired nail art. Her thumb, index finger, and pinky are the same blue as Coraline's hair. Her middle finger has the swirling pattern of the tunnel to the Other Mother's world. Her ring finger has the pink and grey-green stripes of Coraline's gloves holding the green hagstone.

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Despite its name, this is a multi-faith cemetery which sets it apart from most other cemeteries in St John's. There are various flavours of Protestant but also several early Chinese immigrants and an entire section for Muslim burials

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Day 4: Entrance I've always loved the main gate to the General Protestant Cemetery in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. I wish the rest of it was still around and not the concrete wall that exists today. #31DaysOfGraves

The main gate to the General Protestant Cemetery in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. It is a narrow wrought iron arch attached to two low concrete walls on either side. The top of the arch has the words General Protestant Cemetery in rusting white metal

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Day 3: Glass Not a lot of glass in graveyards in Newfoundland and Labrador so here's a glass jar filled with slips of paper I found on top of a mourning figure in Abney Park Cemetery, London, UK. I didn't open it because it felt private! #31DaysOfGraves

A close up of a small glass jar filled with pieces of paper with writing on it on top of an overgrown gravestone with a statue of a mourning figure in Abney Park Cemetery, London, UK.

A small glass jar filled with pieces of paper with writing on it on top of an overgrown gravestone with a statue of a mourning figure in Abney Park Cemetery, London, UK.

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me too! There's so few here, it's a shame this one is in poor condition. The urn fell off and it's behind slowly pushed over by the tree behind it 😞

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Day 2: Urn Taken last autumn at the General Protestant Cemetery in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. An urn tops one gravestone and a second urn lays at the base of a broken zinc monument behind it almost hidden in the autumn leaves #31DaysOfGraves

A gravestone topped with an urn amongst piles of autumn leaves in the General Protestant Cemetery in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If anyone wants to join in the challenge, we're starting this month! The rules: Two movies a month One movie per letter Watch on your own time

The first page of Katie and Esther's Alphabet of Horror challenge. This shows the movie picks for the letters A and B.

A is for The Amityville Horror (1979)
B is for Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Day 1: Flower A field of little purple flowers in the Old Irish Cemetery in Harbour Main, Newfoundland and Labrador #31DaysOfGraves

A field of little purple flowers in an overgrown cemetery in Harbour Main, Newfoundland and Labrador

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I saw red this morning when I saw the article

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We've finally reached the end of our challenge! The last movie of the month is Candyman. The only movie that breaks our rules of one we haven't seen (or seen in a long time) because this is one of my comfort films

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We're nearing the end of our movie challenge and Esther and I have decided we want to do another one. So here's a sneak peek to our next challenge! I'll post our picks and the rules in October in case anyone wants to follow along.

A bloodstained background with an old school tv on top which shows a spooky black and white cemetery with skeletal trees and a 1950s-esque woman looking startled. Above the tv it says "Katie & Esther's Alphabet of Horror Movie Challenge." Below the tv it says "The haunting begins October 2026"

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's almost my favourite time of year again! I'll have to push myself to go out and get some new photos for this

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There is another beech nearby that has a very thick and gnarled trunk which might speak to it being one tree that presents as individuals!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I honestly don't know enough about trees to be able to answer that. I suppose either is possible. There is an old farmhouse not far from there and the trees are not native to the area, so they could have intentionally been planted that way. But it's also reasonable to think it's one system too!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I pop out that way a fair bit, I'll have to check it out!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They definitely stand out over the rest of the trees. We were followed down the trail by several crows which added to the surrealness. The trees are so beautiful!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Locals in Harbour Grace call this the Fairy Circle or the Fairy Ring, a group of beech trees growing in a perfect circle in an otherwise empty clearing. It was humbling to be able to stand inside the ring (and no, I wasn't taken by the fairies)

A group of weeping beech trees growing in a perfect circle in an otherwise empty clearing in the woods

The inside of a group of whispering beech trees growing in a perfect circle in an otherwise empty clearing in the woods

The canopy of a group of weeping beech trees growing in a perfect circle in an otherwise empty clearing in the woods

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I haven't been able to get out to the cemeteries as much as I used to. But I'm glad I got to visit this cemetery in Harbour Main, NL this past weekend. Happy #Cemtember!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think I liked the concept better than the execution honestly! It was one of my friends favourite movies so I think she may have hyped it up too much haha

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's the last month of our movie challenge! This month's theme is Slashers. Up first we're watching In A Violent Nature. I'm going in blind but a friend did tell me it's one of her favourites!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Took this last year in the General Protestant Cemetery here in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Looking forward to crunchy leaf cemetery autumn today

A cemetery in the fall with golden leaves on the trees and scattered over the ground. A caption at the centre reads: Mentally I'm here

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Finally getting around to the final pick for August. I haven't watched Ginger Snaps since it came out so I am curious to see how much I actually remember about it

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The only thought he's leading is his own straight down the toilet 🤦‍♀️ I would be ashamed to work with him

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If I did this as a student I'd be charged with plagiarism, but the Dean of Science at this university can get away with it? JFC, this is the death of academic thought

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

On to August. Teen horror! First up is I Know What You Did Last Summer which I've seen a dozen times but not for several years

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I'm gonna hold out for Boulder to support local, and because I'm not supporting Amazon or Indigo anymore!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My grandmother doesn't make the date buds anymore now that she's in her 90s, so I've taken it over. But when she did make them, she only made one batch at Christmas. So this scent memory is pretty potent

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I know it's supposed to be a medieval take on vanilla but it gives me such a specific nostalgic memory of baking date buds with my grandmother. The sweet sugary dates, the baking cookie crust, it's all there. I can't wait to buy a full bottle when it's back in stock!!

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I don't know how active @paraphraseperfume.bsky.social is on here but I have to say, I got a sample of the new Vanilla Virtue perfume and I am absolutely *obsessed* with it.

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