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The best place to play Pokemon Go is pretty creepy

Jul 10, 2016, 17:25 IST

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The fun part of playing Pokemon Go is the exploring. The goal of the augmented reality game is to find and catch Pokemon in real-life locations, as well as collect items at places called Pokestops.

Pokestops can be located anywhere. From my experience, their locations in the game usually correspond to the real-life location of a statue, a store, or a plaque. But some players have found out that there's another place where you can find Pokestops: gravestones.

"I have a graveyard in my backyard. All of the graves are Pokestops," Reddit user TheBatInTheBirdcage posted in the Pokemon Go subreddit. Here's a screenshot of the user's game -- the floating blue cubes are Pokestops.

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It doesn't seem like a fluke; other players are reporting similar experiences. One commeter in that Reddit thread said a local cemetary has three gyms -- places where you can battle other Pokemon Go players -- and is filled with Pokestops. A few YouTubers found Pokemon gyms and Pokestops at nearby cemetaries, and there are are also Pokemon Go locations at memorials, including the 9/11 Memorial Pool.

I haven't seen reports of anyone finding ghost-type Pokemon at cemetaries just yet, though.

The upside of playing Pokemon Go at a cemetary is that they're usually not very busy, and so you can run around and catch Pokemon in relative peace. The clusters of close-together Pokestops on graves also means that you can potentially collect hundreds of items like Pokeballs really easily and quickly. The downside is that you're in a cemetary.

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