Moon Point Cemetery
By makleenMoon Point Cemetery – Streator, IL
By Michael Kleen
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Moon Point Cemetery is an old graveyard located just south of Streator in Livingston County. Like other rural graveyards, Moon Point became an object of folklore in the late 1960s and ‘70s when local teens, looking for a place to ‘hang out’ after dark, picked this isolated location to drink, spin yarns, and play pranks on one another.
According to the History of Livingston County, Illinois (1878), Moon’s Point got its name from Jacob Moon who, along with his daughter and three sons, was the first to settle that particular area. Moon had fought in the War of 1812, and like other veterans of that war, moved west in search of cheap and abundant land. In 1830, the family settled along a winding creek near a wooded area in Illinois country that became known as Moon Point.
Moon Point Cemetery is located adjacent to Moon Creek, leading many to refer to the graveyard as Moon Creek Cemetery and it is listed as such in the Shadowlands Index of Haunted Places for Illinois. According to the Index, Moon Point is haunted by the ghost of a “hatchet lady.” This lady went insane, the story goes, after either her son or daughter died, and “each night of a full moon a spirit is seen running around the cemetery, tossing hatchets.”
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ive investigated moon point a hundred times and have never caught anything, this is just a urban legend, and from the looks of some of the headstones and beer bottles i wish people would take it off “the list”, i think it is just adding fuel to the fire
Does something being a legend make it less interesting or less worthy of retelling?
Ive been in this field for about 7 years now and one thing i have learned is a story is never just a story and a legend is never just a legend, i have always had a problem with graveyards being on shadow-lands and other websites, teenagers and others who do not care about this field read and hear of these places and though i think it is great when people show an interest in the paranormal, they decide to investigate themselves. They go out to these places and some, not all but some of them get bored if they don’t see anything paranormal and trash these places. i understand that there will always be some bad apples out there but i also understand the power of suggestion especially to small town people with little to do.
and one thing that should be stressed is the fact that going into cemeteries after dark is ILLEGAL and dangerous, i don’t see these warnings often enough and should be stressed to any would be ghost hunter that happens upon the website.
it is sad when i go to a graveyard that is supposedly haunted and find smashed graves. We need to remember that these “ghosts” and spirits were once real people with families and friends.
lol now i will get off of my soap box
happy hauntings
p.s. there are plenty of teams in Illinois, if you want to investigate contact one. and be part of a real investigation. If you want to experience paranormal phenomena you don’t need to go traipsing through a graveyard at 2am
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