East of Indianapolis in central Indiana is the small town of Wilkinson. In early days you could leave the town on Main Street and follow it to a cemetery that is basically out in the middle of nowhere. The Main Street Cemetery, also known as the Hays Cemetery, has over the years developed the reputation of being haunted. It is at the end of a rather rough gravel road and the road climbs a small rise and cuts across the center of the cemetery. Put Hays Cemetery in Google maps and you’ll get directions to the beginning of the gravel road.
The video shows that the Hays Cemetery is a neatly kept and open cemetery. There is plenty of room between the headstones. Several of the headstones list the names of Hays family members. Unfortunately lots of the stones have suffered from decades of weathering, making them very hard to read.
One of the Hays family who died in 1872
Sad marker for a sweet young girl
Now to the haunting stuff. Several sources on the internet refer to the “fact” that this is a very haunted cemetery. One of the paranormal things has been the discussion of a ‘devil child’. There is supposed to be a pitch-fork shaped tree growing from the child’s grave. There are reports that local kids used to go out at night and try to call ghosts. We also saw one reference to some man hanging his wife from a tree and shooting her as well, thus spawning another ghostly presence.
Based on location, this might be the “Devil Child”
Ghostly wise, we didn’t see anything. We didn’t hear anything. We didn’t sense anything. We thought that this was a beautiful, peaceful and quiet resting place for many centuries gone Indiana early pioneers.
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Very interesting read.
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Thanks Art, glad you enjoyed it.
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It looks like a peaceful place. Years ago, my friends and I used to visit different cemeteries at night, rather creepy!
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You still in Michigan?
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I love Hoosier cemeteries and not just because I have so ancestors in the ground there. I think it’s the way they cut them out of cornfields.
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Rural cemeteries do seem to just pop up. We find the old small family cemetery plots especially interesting. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
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Hanging and shooting seems a bit like overkill
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We thought the same, Derrick. A scary scenario…
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I think old cemeteries are fascinating! There’s so much history there!
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It makes you really feel you are stepping back in time as you consider the people whose graves you are visiting. Thanks for sharing.
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Looks quite peaceful to me, too.
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It really was, and the bird songs added to the ambience.
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Wonderful read …it’s amazing that there are so many places like these to explore..
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I used to go there in the 70’s and 80’s. Heard lots of stories. The cemetery was trashed, knives everywhere, garbage, etc… There were a whole lot more tomb stones. Most of the stories are made up and the bad juju there is from idiots dabbling in things they have no understanding of.
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Your assessment of the validity (or lack thereof) of the stories is spot on. as is your condemnation of those messing in areas in which they have no clue. As we noted, we felt nor saw anything otherworldly. Interesting that you saw more stones decades ago… Thanks for sharing.
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