In 1892, the Albuquerque B'nai B'rith lodge incorporated the Jewish Cemetery Association and acquired two acres of land in what is now the Fairview Cemetery. In 1902, Congregation Albert acquired that land which has been the Congregation Albert Cemetery for more than one hundred years.

The "old" section of the cemetery, 1.5 of the 2 acres, has many upright tombstones typical of Victorian times, as well as ground level markers in line with current practice.

It also is the final resting place of governors, mayors and the body of the La Posada's alleged ghost, Julia Staab. Their gravestones are large and mausoleum-ish. They rest under grass.

The cemetery is also the resting place for the nameless dead, unidentified and/or unclaimed bodies. Their hundreds of graves are pushed off into the corners of the cemetery. The ground they are under is just dirt, pockmarked with the occasional beer bottle or a hole where a prairie dog has dug up their bones.

Reported Phenomena

The Investigation

A broken tombstone in the old section of the cemetery.

The cemetery was heavily vandalized at the time of our visit. we started on the east side of the older section and worked our way to the west.

Locating any suspect EM fields was difficult due to the powerline that borders the eastern flank of the graveyard. EM fields as high as 260 milliguass were emitted from the powerline as far away as 200 feet. This made any EM sweeps of the east side unreliable and difficult to analize.

After travelling about half way across, we were able to aquire three distict EM fields that may be indictive of paranormal phenomena. The fields were at a frequency of 37HZ with power levels as high as 7ut. The areas around these locations were heavily photographed.

Oddly enough, the areas where we aquired the unusual EM fields also seemed to be the most vandalized.

Initial Conclusions