[Music] [Music] I went to visit my girlfriend and her family in Lawrence during the holidays her dad enjoys exploring and her parents are night owls then one night we all decide to go to stall Cemetery which was about 20 minutes away from her house it was around 4: a. m. and my girlfriend's mother chose to stay home so her father she and I decide to go there when we arrive we park near a church across from the cemetery I was feeling a bit scared because her dad had told us that the town doesn't let outside people into the cemetery and usually there's a police officer here to stop people from going in but this time there wasn't any when we got out of the car it was so quiet almost like the air was heavy and stopping the wind we left the car and crossed the street as we walk past the graves we notice a dead tree standing alone at a turn that led us up a hill at the Hill's Peak there were only ruins left of a church that used to be there my girlfriend told me that the town destroyed the church in the 9s because lots of people would come and damage it especially on Halloween according to a local story if you threw a glass bottle at the back wall of the church and it didn't break then Satan would come and take you to Hell the remains of it were still there we walk around and even move things around around to see if we could find anything interesting unfortunately we found nothing except for some strange scratches on some of the stones but it didn't seem like it was done by an animal but it could have been kids playing around we searched for another 20 to 30 minutes then headed behind the church toward the dead looking trees we walk around some bushes along the edge since it was so quiet we could hear a car coming from a a couple of miles away so we turn off our flashlights to make sure nobody could see us then my girlfriend found a glass bottle near the edge of the church just lying on the grass it was an empty glass bottle when she saw that I was about to bend over and pick it up she later told me she couldn't believe I would touch the glass bottle her dad was on my side shining a flashlight on the bottle as soon as I touch it we heard a strange sound it sound like gas or fizzing even though the bottle was empty the sound seemed to be coming from about 15 ft away towards the back of the rubble right away her dad and I Shone our flashlights toward the noise but we didn't see anything about 3 seconds after the fizzing we heard a strange gargling sound and some sort of clicking it sound like an animal but not one I recognized her father who had lived in Kansas all his life said he'd never heard a sound like that before what was odd was that if it was an animal it should have been scared or woken up earlier because we had been making noise and walking around for a while we never found where the sound was coming from I finally dropped the bottle and took a couple of photos when I look at those pictures I saw saw something kind of weird face in one of them in the background feeling quite scared we walked back to the car when we reach it we noticed the lights were on inside it was the only light in the darkness as we approach it from a distance when we got there we check all the doors and they were all locked and closed I thought maybe one of us had left the door open so I got into the car and turned off the light none of us remembered turning them on when we left in fact we remember turning them off because my girlfriend's dad was changing the batteries in one of the flashlights even before we got to [Music] stall it all took place when I was just 13 on a Halloween Queen night that I'll never forget at the time I live in a brand new suburb freshly built to accommodate the growing town next to the freeway things have changed a lot since then but it's funny how you could notice it most at the cemetery which was a bit off the main road and used to be on the edge of town not many people had passed away yet so it was mostly empty but that night me and my two friends let's call them Aron and Michael decide we'd rather explore the quiet graveyard than go trick-or-treating we dress up in costumes and First grab some candy bowls from houses mixing them all up to make it seem like we'd gone trick-or-treating just like our parents expected then we walk about a mile away from the usual path to get there we had to climb over a fence around a big pond which used for draining water from the freeway then we walk along the edge of the pond and climb another fence to get into the cemetery it was really dark so we figured nobody would see us but we didn't realize someone was following us the place was super empty and kind of creepy we were used to seeing graveyards filled with tombstones but this one was mostly just empty grass we got bore after a while but we didn't want to go home yet so we sat against some gravestones making sure not to sit on any Graves we were just sitting there acting like regular kids for a moment then suddenly we heard what seemed like someone behind us we all got scared and turn around but there was nothing there just gravestones The Wailing kept going and then it started saying our names we thought we were the only ones there so maybe it was a ghost who was angry at us for trespassing we cautiously approached the sound taking tiny scared steps hoping to find someone hiding behind a gravestone playing a prank on us each of us held onto pieces of broken Granite as if it could protect us from the ghostly presence it felt like we were pinpointing where the sound was coming from then it said something that haunts me every day just to give you some background my friend Aaron's grandmother was really sick that's one of the reasons we were acting out by sneaking into the cemetery in the first place as Aaron was feeling down and angry at everything but he was still our friend so we hung out together but when the voice said it was his grandmother's ghost Aaron froze I can't imagine what he was thinking a jumble of strong feelings for sure it must have been overwhelming for a 13-year-old he yelled back trying to deny it but it hit him so hard that he couldn't stop his tears then everything shifted suddenly when the voice stopped crying and start laughing it no longer sounded like a woman's ghost but more like a sneaky boy laughing we glan over and spotted someone creeping out from behind a gravestone I know who it was but I can't tell you his name he was older than us by a few years and he was known as a bully in the neighborhood in a Flash Aaron sadness turned into rage he stormed towards the bully who was laughing so much he didn't see how angry Aaron was nobody saw what Aaron did next coming he tackled the boy to the ground and start hitting him Michael and I felt the same way hating how this kid bullied us so we didn't stop Aaron we thought it might teach him a lesson but we didn't realize until it was too late that Aaron wasn't just hitting the boy with his hand hand but with the piece of gravestone he'd grabbed earlier Michael and I glanced at each other nervously realizing this had gone too far we knew we had to stop it so we rush over to Aaron and pull him away from the bully Aaron calmed down and began to understand what he had done he pulled away from us but then panicked and rush back trying to wake the kid up by shaking him and yelling his name Michael called 911 and told them what happened within 10 minutes the police and Medics arrive they check and told us he was unconscious but his condition was pretty bad then they took him to the hospital and fortunately he survived the doctor said if Michael hadn't called 911 things could have turned For Worse this happened around the middle or end of the 2000s at Greenwood Cemetery in Southwest deater Illinois and this cemetery is considered one of the scariest places in the midwest it started as a barrial ground then became a mass grave for soldiers during the Civil War it was also connected to some cult activities around that time A big flood washed away many graves a long time ago my sister Celia has always been interested in creepy things this caused some issues for her because she was raised by our great-grandparents who were very kind but also very religious she moved to decar which was turning into a place filled with crime much like it is now it was already pretty chaotic in her new house there was a creepy basement room with dirt on the floor the previous owner an old man had passed away and her mom had visited the house before she mentioned everything looked very dark like it had been burnt so there was already a weird vibe in the house Celia my sister was feeling down because of Life struggles and money problems as a kind of Escape she start going on ghost hunts with her friends I won't bother telling you their names because being lazy is fun they often went to Greenwood Cemetery it was like a safe place for Celia in a weird way she'd go there at midnight with her dog Brutus who was still alive and a great dog they didn't experience anything too scary just some weird noises now and then then one night when she went with her friends things got really wild the first time they went they took lots of pictures then then one of them went up to a light pole and said if there's anyone here with us knock back he knocked on the pole but nothing happened a little while later they heard two really loud knocks they turned around to look but they didn't see anything but then suddenly they all felt like time had stopped it felt like something made them turn their heads towards a gravel road on the other side of a fence just as they turned they all saw two dark shapes running down the road but these thing didn't make any noise didn't breathe and seem like Misty clouds just like in horror movies everyone felt Frozen unable to move until the dogs had gone by then they hurried out of there running back to the car for a whole mile later Celia looked into it and found out that some others had also seen these dogs before for but it was apparently a rare thing the pictures they took were packed with colorful orbs of all sizes but they never made copies after some time they gather courage to return and went to the scariest part of the cemetery called hell's hallow they were acting mean and talking about how the place wasn't as scary as they thought they didn't really believe it but they wanted to see if they could get a reaction because nothing scary Haden happen yet and then out of nowhere they heard a really scary scream coming from the sky like a woman being torn apart they decide to leave again and headed back to their cars they sat there for a bit and talked when one of Celia's friends had a cat toy laser and was playing with it while she played with the laser lights appear in the trees Celia noticed they form a pattern two white lights followed by a deep red one they definitely weren't flashlights or made by people then the chain link fence started shaking really hard they drove away fast but they felt like something was following them when they got back home everything seemed fine until they found there was something strange in the closet and often heard scratching and growling sounds coming from inside after their experience at Greenwood Brutus the dog always seemed scared in the house also some doors in the basement would open by themselves especially the one near the dirt room there were often stomping sounds coming from different rooms especially when someone was alone people would hear their names being called while they showered especially Celia I think whatever it was it attached itself to Celia the most because of her dark emotions and this really fueled The Entity there was one time when she was alone with Brutus at night during a power outage but then she turned and saw a shapeless Dark Shadow moving over the furniture and drifting down the hall she grabbed Brutus and sat on the porch for hours until the others came home they had rent the house to a guy before but he left about a week later probably because he experienced something strange too she often has dreams that seemed to predict the future or give her warnings but she turned her life around and found her faith in Christ again it seems like this has kept away any darkness that might have still been lingering around [Music] her I remember working night security at a cemetery for about 2 weeks it wasn't something I wanted to do as a security guard but I had no choice at the time I really didn't want to work at the cemetery because it's kind of creepy and gives me the Shivers this cemetery is the oldest one in the city and it's well known people come here to remember their loved ones but recently there were some Graves got robbed and everyone got scared so they hired us to keep watch at night to stop this it only happened two times recently ly within a span of 2 weeks which made everyone worry it might happen again I was really nervous on the first night so I walk around a lot in the cemetery I hope it would help me get used to how scary it was being there in the dark but it had the opposite effect though then one night I saw one of the Grave already robbed by grave robbers the grave they dug up was already filled back in but the grass hadn't grown back yet the marker was old and worn but I could tell it belonged to an old woman I said a little prayer and kept walking not thinking too much about it for a few nights nothing exciting happened it was one of the most boring Beginnings to a job I've ever had normally I finish work by 4:00 or 5: a.
m. at the latest but here I was in the graveyard from 8:00 p. m.
to 8:00 a. m.
