Arkansas – Avon Cemetery, DeQueen
Legend has it that once, a long time ago, before there was a graveyard, a woman sat her baby on the edge of the well while she was getting water. The baby fell in and drowned. The graveyard grew around the well, and nowadays if you sneak into the cemetery, at night you might see a woman with a baby running through the graveyard. On top of that, if you go to the well and drop a coin in, you’ll hear a baby’s cry.
Its cry probably sounds like, “Why didn’t you just put me on the ground?!”
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.)