Have You Ever Heard About the Hauntings of Shreveport's Historic Oakland Cemetery?

The Oakland Cemetery sits right across the street from the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium and at one point was the 'city' cemetery of Shreveport. You have probably driven past it several times and not thought twice about what creepy stories this space holds.

Have You Heard About the Tarantulas That Crawl Out of the Oakland Cemetery?

According to Shreveport and the World's History, you can catch a glimpse of brown tarantulas exiting the Oakland cemetery near Christian Street late at night. Some claim that these tarantulas are Texans who got here via train. Shreveport and the World's History said in a Facebook post "We believe they are Texans that arrived here via railroad .. they are huge and jump.. I tell people the graveyard is not open at night, you have to have permission of Parks and Rec (SPAR) to be in any city graveyard or park at night."

Have You Heard About the "Massive Grave" Somewhere in the Cemetery?

You have probably heard that the Oakland Cemetery is home to roughly 800 victims of the great yellow fever epidemic of 1873. Some Shreveport residents swear that hundreds of bodies were thrown in a massive grave and laid to rest in that manner. The thought of that freaks us all out, right?

 

The Oakland Cemetery was founded in 1847 and in 1977 it made it on the National Register of Historic Places. Oakland is also the home of the first Jewish cemetery in Shreveport which opened in 1858. If you can't find the brown tarantulas you can find monuments dating back to the 1860s. They probably go back even further, however, several headstones are hard to read. Will you brave the tarantulas to find the oldest headstone in the cemetery?

Check out this video about our creepy cemetery in Shreveport.

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