Tennessee – Mausoleum at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Cleveland
Originally called St Alban’s, St Luke’s was established in 1867. In October of 1871, on St Luke’s day, John Craigmiles, the patriarch of a prominent local family, took his granddaughter Nina for a carriage ride. They were killed at a railroad crossing because John was an idiot and tried to race a train. With a horse carriage.
The Craigmiles decided to pay for a larger, fancier church to be build with a marble mausoleum for Nina, John and the rest of the family. They even commissioned a white marble bust of Nina from overseas, to be kept in a niche behind the pulpit. Sadly, the bust never made it to it’s new home as the sculptor shipped it aboard the HMS Titanic (40 years later. Some people have trouble moving on).
The most interesting thing about this whole thing is the mausoleum build for Nina and her family. White carrera marble shouldn’t have blood red streaks running through it, and yet, it does.
You missed the boat on New Jersey! THE JERSEY DEVIL is most definitely the official haunting creature of the Garden State. Long before NJ was even a state, the legend of the Jersey Devil began. It was the 13th child of Mrs Leeds, who had no desire for another baby. According to legend, she cursed the baby even before it was born. At its birth, the creature assumed otherworldly dimension and flew up the chimney of the home. Since then, the Devil regularly haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, frightening all it encounters. On the eve of a National tragedy, the Devil is said to appear at many varied places in the state to warn of evils to come (most notably in December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.)