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Linkville is old enough to remember when this town was called something else — and on a full moon, some say it remembers loudly. One grave in particular, deep in the grounds, is rumored to pulse with a cold green glow when the moon is full, drawing eyes and unease in equal measure. Strange sounds drift across the hillside on still nights, and lights appear where no lights should be. More than 150 years of loss are buried here. Stand among the stones long enough and you start to wonder if the counting ever really stopped.

Established in 1885 on 20 acres purchased from the Crouch Dairy — for the princely sum of $40 — Linkville Pioneer Cemetery is the oldest surviving burial ground in Klamath Falls, back when the city still answered to the name Linkville. A 1931 redesign added formal lanes and stone portal entrances. Over 5,700 souls rest here, including victims of the 1945 Japanese balloon bomb, WWII internees, and one gloriously unnamed occupant known only as 'The Sleeper,' whose stone-carved bed has resisted 40+ years of historical detective work.