Comments on: Moon Point Cemetery

By: Peggy McNary

Peggy McNary — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 03:18:34 +0000

My entire family is buried in Moon Point. My grandmother took us there for picnics many years ago. The place is totally peaceful–a place of quiet rest. I’m so sorry if those of you who go to graveyards looking for thrills are disappointed. Check the train schedule before you go to MP, and make sure your vehicle is drive-worthy. There is no “Hatchet Lady”, but there are lots of mosquitoes. Moon Point is far from “creepy”. Perhaps because it has a remote location, people consider it creepy. I just consider it my future home.

By: dbish25

dbish25 — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:24:58 +0000

skuzzy it’d be great to go on an actual investigation

By: Nesa

Nesa — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:23:38 +0000

I do agree that is a shame that teenagers do nasty things, like steel grave stones and smash things. I have encountered an experience there when i was a teen checking out that cemetary with other kids in the late seventies. About 4 of us went there on the old legend, being we were all from Streator, we had a more detailed story that the hatchet lady appears on a thursday at midnight and perferably a full moon. We went there and we got out of the car and we could see strange mists around in the back by the trees and tiny orbs floating around. It was a warm summer night and it suddenly seemed chilling for all of us. A girlfriend and i got scared and we jumped in the car and yelled for the other two to get in. They both got in and we could hear the train. I tried to start my car and it would not start. I tried and tried and tried. It suddenly seemed like we were surrounded by fog. My car did not start till the train could no longer be heard and then the fog dissapeared. We were screaming in fear the whole time making sure that the doors were locked. That is another part of the legend “the train” Cars stall when the train goes by and you are in the cemetary at midnight or afterhours. Thats when the hatchet lady appears. There was nothing wrong with my car starter. My dad checked it out the next day. One story told about the train was that a couple of kids were in the cemetary after dark and when they left their car stalled on the tracks it’self and the train killed them.

By: JEB BUCKINGHAM-Washington state

JEB BUCKINGHAM-Washington state — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 05:43:20 +0000

Skuzzy, you’re so right in your last paragraph about how sad it is to go to a graveyard and see smashed graves, and vandalized plots. This is what happened to Bachelors Grove Cemetery in the Rubio Woods, and it was once a beautiful place. Aftyer all the destruction and smashed graves, is it any wonder that it is haunted?

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By: skuzzy

skuzzy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:54:45 +0000

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

By: skuzzy

skuzzy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:49:27 +0000

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

By: makleen

makleen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:47:38 +0000

Does something being a legend make it less interesting or less worthy of retelling?

By: skuzzy

skuzzy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:18:25 +0000

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

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