This graveyard is located
way out north in the boonies of Columbus.
Supposedly on a full moon the headstones
are supposed to "glow", but
most believe that this is just the cause
of the limestone in the rock being reflected
by the moon.
Right beside the graveyard
is a bridge in which according to a myth
a bus full of kids rolled off the bridge
and died. Supposedly if you put powder
all over your car and drive over it in
neutral you can see the hand prints from
children, or if you turn your car off
in the middle of the bridge, your car
won't start again.
History
The
cemetery in this legend is actually
listed as Saint Patricks Cemetery.
It is located north east of Columbus,
Nebraska.
There is, in fact,
a small river that runs directly
beside the graveyard along with
a small wooden bridge. The bridge
looks big enough to support a bus,
however there is an 11 ton limit.
If a bus went out of control, it
could easily crash through the guard
rails and fall into the water below,
but no hard evidence can be found
to support this claim.
I did however find
an article describing a deadly bus accident
in a different part of Nebraska about
50 miles away. Apparently the bus swerved
to avoid oncoming traffic, while driving
through a construction zone on a bridge.
The bus fell into the creek below killing
three children & one adult. The full
story can be found
here.
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July
2005:
After
learning about this legend, I wanted to see
what sounded like a very beautiful scene. Upon
arriving at the graveyard with it's bright glowing
gravestones and old wooden bridge spanning a
lazy creek, it was clear to me that the picture
painted in my head certainly lived up to my
expectations. Even if we don't catch a spook
it was worth the trip just for the beauty of
this place.
I was
the first to enter the graveyard, and
I happened upon a fresh grave of a young
girl that had passed not a week before.
It is very tragic. Upon the hill I turned
my gaze upon the whitest tofu looking
gravestones I had ever seen (bringing
the total number of tofu looking gravestones
to an even 1). An intoxicating color I
had not even thought existed. Very nice
indeed, and they seemed to glow in my
camera flash, so I guess they could seem
to glow in a bright full moon too. That
is something far from anything paranormal.
It's just light reflecting off the white
statues.
While
in the graveyard we took all the normal
readings, like EVPs, EMFs, and temperature
readings. None of which turned up anything
of interest. The only anomaly in anything
is the pictures to the right taken seconds
apart. There seems to be and 'orb' in
it one, but not the others. Proof of a
ghost? Judge for yourself.
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After
about an hour in the graveyard, we now
turned our attention upon the bridge where
the children supposedly died. We drove
across the bridge a couple times and then
parked it in the middle. We shut our engine
off, and I made sure that everyone in
the car who believed in this stuff said
it out loud. i then turned the key and.....it
started up like a rental should. We quickly
drove on across the bridge because it
was old and wooden and people were coming
in another car. When I got out to take
some more pictures I noticed a huge "new
SpookHunter" sized hand print in
the dust. Haunted? hmmm. I'm thinking
more along the lines of wishful thinking.
Plus, that would have to be a pretty big
ghost to create a hand print that size.
The sun was just starting
to set, and we all were hungry so we returned
to our hotel for dinner. After dinner we were
supposed to return to the graveyard since it
was dark, and continue the SpookHunt, but I
noticed a lightning storm to the west. I tried
to convince everyone to go storm chasing and
they all said yes, except for Greg. A true dedicated
SpookHunter, he reminded us that SpookHunting
comes first!
So,
we hustled to the now easy to find glowing graveyard
and pulled up to the north gate over a pitch
black graveyard. The sky was continuously parted
by heat lightning to the west. We park and get
out of the rented SpookHunter transport vehicle
and I got set up for taking lightning photos
before I entered the graveyard. The others got
out and walked up to the graveyard gate. I got
a beautiful shot of some purple bolts as new
SpookHunter Stephen takes the rest of the equipment
into the graveyard. A few moments later I hear
Stephen, Carlos and Robert "SCREAMING"
and what one could only describe as them being
a bit upset. They make a mad dash back to the
minivan...I mean back to the rented SpookHunter
transport vehicle. They started up the van and
the headlights automatically come on. Needless
to say, the headlights over expose my photos,
so I pack the camera up after only about 10
minutes. They are visible shaken and afraid
and protest that they will not stay here another
minute. So I jump in and insist that we drive
thru the graveyard.
Once I am safely inside they
tell me what they have seen. Greg didn't see
it, but the other three did. It was moving from
right to left about 20 yards away. It "stood",
nay, floated a foot and a half above the graveyard
turf. They tell me it looked like a candy bar
wrapper floating from right to left. This is
what they run from?!?! They don't think to take
a picture of it, they don't go after it, they
panic and wiggle off into the rented SpookHunter
transport vehicle!!!
It is then I see a strange
light in the graveyard. Its a red floaty
light. You can see the picture here. Some
sort of light on a tombstone. Obviously
it is not paranormal, but I can not help
but wonder if this is also one of the 'glowing
gravestones'. A mere shred of truth mixed
in with pop-culture legends and half true
facts.
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If you're ever in Columbus
Nebraska, and find yourself with nothing to
do (that's not a stretch or the imagination
there), I think it's worth a short drive to
this cemetery for the fresh air, lightning storms,
and beautiful headstones. I really enjoyed it
all, however I don't believe it's haunted. Just
memories of those buried here.
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