The Mt. Olivet Cemetery Is One Of Nashville’s Spookiest Cemeteries

The Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee presents both the expansive history of the city as well as an air of the inexplicable supernatural. Whether you're looking to wander for a ghost story or perhaps in search of a southern ancestor, one of the most haunted cemeteries in Nashville is a fascinating place to spend an afternoon. We wouldn't recommend heading over at dark, though. Who knows what walks the rows of tombstones at night?

Mount Olivet Cemetery is located in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee, just a mere two miles east of the bustling downtown area. It's located next door to the Catholic Calvary Cemetery, just a short drive from the city center.

The cemetery itself was established in 1856, by Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley and John Buddeke way back in 1856.

The original chapel designed in the 1870s was once utilized as an office. The cemetery itself was modeled after the famed Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known as a rural or garden cemetery.

You'll find all sorts of famous graves in Mount Olivet Cemetery buried on the aristocratic side of the cemetery, separate from "commoners." This, of course, means that the US senators, representatives, and Tennessee governors in the cemetery are separated from the slaves and commoners. Visitors that visited Nashville and perished were buried with the poor folk, usually with less than opulent fanfare.

There's a facet of the park known as, "Confederate Circle," where more than 1,500 soldiers were buried thanks to the ambition of the Ladies of Memorial Society of Nashville.

The chapel on site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places but unfortunately, burned in 2015 under less than clear circumstances. One can draw their own conclusions from the mystery...

Famed men and women buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery include plantation owner Adelecia Acklen, William B. Bate, the former Governor of Tennessee, Lytle Brown, a major general in the army, Thomas Ryman, founder of the famed Ryman Auditorium, and Anne Dallas Dudley, a women's suffrage activist.

Would you visit one of the most historic cemeteries in Nashville? Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, so you can capitalize any time you please. Address: 1101 Lebanon Pike, Nashville, TN 37210

Looking for more haunted cemeteries in Nashville? You'll find them in our previous article. Happy wandering the cemetery, folks!