This may best be cinsidered folklore, because I haven't seen anything happen myself, but my boyfriend related this story to me as HE experience it:
In a very small country town close to where we live, there is a small cemetary on the top of a hill. It is rumored that a witch is buried there. Kids used to go out there all the time to check it out and get scared. Supposedly, so did somebody else: it was supposed to be a cult gathering place. I'm not sure exactly what type of cult, but let's just say there have been a lot of pentograms and mutilated farm animals in this area. Needless to say, the "witch's tomb," as it is referred to, has quite a reputation, even to the extent that it has been referenced by the media.
Whether there is actually a witch buried there is uncertain. There are probably about a dozen grave markers, and they all belong to members of the same family. There is also a very large "monument", my guess is about fifteen feet tall, in the center that seems to be a dedication to the entire family. The cemetary is on the top of a hill at the corner of two roads. There's not too much else around--a river, creeks and lots of woods. Because it is a highly wooded area, you can not view it from the road very easily.
There are two ways to get to the gavesites: you can either park along the side of one road, walk up the side of the hill through some trees and then down a ways to the markers OR you can drive off of the other road onto a worn trail for a short distance, then walk the rest of the way up the hill. The second way is preferred: there are some trees you have to climb over, but you're a lot closer to your car and you don't have to walk back "down" towards the tomb, as you do if you approach it from the other direction. There is a streetlight at the corner of these roads, and although the trees block much of it, you do have visibity without a flashlight after you get to the tomb area.
The story: About five years ago, my boyfriend and a few of his friends decided to visit the witch's tomb on Halloween. They split up into two groups, each approaching the tomb from the other direction. They were supposed to meet at the tomb area, and if anything should happen, they were supposed to meet back at the bar where they conceived this idea. The first group departed, and my boyfriend's friend started to get a little wigged out and didn't want to go. After a few minutes of coaxing, they left. In the meantime, the first group had arrived. They were supposed to take the first approach to the tomb(parked their car along the side of the road, walked up, through the trees, then back down towards the tomb.)
As my boyfriends' group was arriving, they were walking up the hill from the other direction when they heard something. Of course, they took off for the car and went back to the bar, FAST. When they met the other group at the bar, they found out what had happened: The first group was getting a little freaked out because they had already been there for ten minutes, waiting, so they decided they were done. When the guys were walking back DOWN the hill towards their car, one of them felt something grab at his feet and trip him. He then proceeded to scream and the other guys in his group turned around to see him being pulled by his feet UP the hill. He obviously got away...
I'm not going to speculate as to whether or not this really happened, and I'm not going to make statements to the fact that there is an ominous feeling surrounding the site. You'd have to go there yourselves to make your own judgements. My boyfriend has been there ONCE since that night, and I went with him. To me, it was scary. I did not feel safe, I did feel watched, and there are tangible things about the place that seemed really strange. For example, why is this family buried in this spot(the grave markers are dated around the 1880's) and not in an ordinary cemetary? There are plenty of them around, all older than this one. And it seems that this must have been a prominent family, to have their very own cemetary, for one thing, and to have a huge monument and a couple of marble tombstones must have been fairly expensive. So why does it lie isolated on top of hill, surrounded by trees? Why doesn't anyone from the town know anything about these people? And how in the hell did the two marble tombstones, both four feet fall, get split in exactly the same spot with a very, very clean break(in other words, even if someone took a saw to them, they couldn't have been broken so perfectly, in the same spot?) Incidentally, they are not broken at the base, but about one-third of the way down. At any rate, anyone who lives around here will tell you that the witch's tomb is not the type of place you go to just to hang out. And if there is "something" there, no one here wants to know what it is... Back To Index