According to reddit.com, there are posts there of people who caught ghost Pokemon in the graveyard, Ghastly to be exact. There was also another post there where someone claims you can catch them in hospitals as well, oh and the graves are Pokestops? I kind of wondered about this, and I live near a cemetery here in Oregon, so I had to go check this out and do the research myself.
The elusive trio – Haunter, Gengar and Gastly
We arrived at the cemetery not from my home in hopes to catch one ghost Pokemon who reside in cemetery settings, and after wandering around for a bit, (and one incense dropped) found nothing more than a few Spearows, Pidgeys and a couple of other Pokemon I already had… but no ghosts. I did get to use the Pokestop a couple of times, but this one was attached to the land mark that was the cemetery sign, not the grave plots themselves as some people has speculated. So this was slightly disappointing.
After getting back in the car, my girlfriend, Charlotte (love you girl) had mentioned something about this anomaly taking place at night. Duh, that makes sense now, ghosts don’t come out during the day time anyway, right? So we left the grave yard and decided to return another time. (Ok this next part took some courage, because really, who wants to wander a graveyard at night????)
Nope nope nope nope nope
So a little over a week later, I once again found myself chilling in a graveyard, staring at my phone…. I have to say, that sounds a little weird lol. But I went, at what is considered night even though its summer time right now and the day does not get dark until like 11 pm (I have a hard time staying up that late anymore, being old and all … )
Now I didn’t visit the same one as before; in fact I went to a different one just a little further up the road and bigger. I was hoping that maybe with it being twice the size of the previous one, that maybe it will give more grounds for something to happen. Well there was a difference than the first right off the bat, there were Pokestops on the grave stones! Just like I had read before on the reddit site. But they were attached to actual grave plots, more like memorial spots. One of the spots belonged to a stone in memorial to 9/11, and another called the “veterans memorial of Springfield Oregon,” but neither of these were inhabited by an actual body. Still cool nonetheless.
I decided to drop another incense, (yes, I used up two in graveyards) and wandered around, looking at the lovely stones, flowers, the trees… yes it was just breathtaking there. And fervidly scan the phone whenever I felt it buzz in my hands while I walked, to see if this may be a Haunter or Gastly Pokemon…. Which it wasn’t. But I did manage to attract some Pokemon I did not have yet such as Jigglypuff, Clefable (this one put of a hell of a fight, like 6 balls in total to get this asshat) and Tangela. But sadly, no ghost Pokemon. But oddly enough, there were Zubats, a lot of Zubats, that found me in there. I’m not sure if its just a coincidence that it was a graveyard and a ton of Zubats or not but I found that neat.
After a bit and feeling frustrated that still not ghost, I decided to try the smaller graveyard I had wandered around the other day, just to give it one more shot…. But still no luck. (I did however catch a Poliwag!) Now can I say that this is a myth and there are no ghost Pokemon in the graveyard, being that I wandered around for some time and wasted incense, trying to catch these buggers… On the other hand, I may not have gone late enough, but being that I wake up at 3:30 am every day, staying up till midnight is quite difficult for me. Regardless, it was fun just the same trying to see if this was fact or false. One this is for sure, there are Pokestops on grave stones, just maybe not body filled ones. As for the ghost… well….. this has yet to be determined. ^_^