Springfield Ghost Society

Haunted Cemetery Investigations

Greenwood Cemetery


Investigation Report

By Sheri Sheppard

Date: July 6, 2002

Time: 5:15 pm

Weather conditions: hot, sunny, temp. over 90 degrees

Equipment: : Automated Voice Recorder, Canon Sure Shot 35mm camera and Yashika 35mm camera

Members Present: Diane S., Gayle H., Julie H., Barb L. and Sheri S.

5:15 p.m.
We arrived at Greenwood Cemetery. We began our investigation in the Civil War Section of the cemetery.

5:40 p.m.
We walked on down to the bottom of the hill just South of the Civil War section. On the way down, we were all intrigued with a stone that was an angel. The grave was that of a little boy who died at about two years of age. My picture doesn't show anything unusual but Diane took one that has blue streaks across the top of the picture. We walked on around to the area that has been stated to be the site where Indians were massacred. We climbed up to the top of the hill. From this point, I took photo's looking down at the site. We proceeded to walk back through the cemetery.

6:10 p.m.
We were standing on the intersection of B-10. While here, Julie and Barb were looking closely at one of the tombstones. I was standing on the roadway just a few feet behind them. Here, I caught a glimpse of a green orb in motion two different times, as I was about to take a picture.

We left here, and continued to climb up the hillside. I stopped to take pictures again with both cameras of the James and Sarah Carter tombstone. (This is the one where James Carter is buried standing up rather than below the ground. On the tour with the American Ghost Society, I took pictures of this stone with both cameras and nothing turned up on either roll of film at this site. The negatives were totally blank - no tombstone, absolutely blank. So, I tried again with both cameras at this time.)

6:20 p.m.
By now, we were up near the George Wessels mausoleum. From this spot, we ventured back to the area where the story of the "bride" is supposed to walk. We took more pictures. At this point, we also got out a couple of pairs of dowsing rods and did get some activity. At one time, I again got a glimpse of an orb near Diane as I was about to take a picture. One of the dowsing rods moved to Diane's right side and then bent down toward the ground. I did not get a picture of an orb or anything, but you can clearly see the rod bending down to the ground.

7:00 p.m.
We began to head back to Section B-9. This is where the staircase is located where folks claim to have seen a woman weeping. We stayed pretty close to this area taking pictures. At different times, we walked around nearby gravesites taking pictures. I found one stone that from the roadway looked almost like a tree stump but as I got closer found that it was shaped like a chair with the name of the deceased engraved into the seat. The man buried here was a Captain in the Civil War. As I headed back toward the staircase, Diane was mentioning that her camera screen was not focusing properly as she was attempting to take pictures of the staircase.

7:40 p.m.
We all finished taking pictures and left the cemetery at 7:40 p.m.

In conclusion -
Other than the orbs I spotted, I did not get any unusual feelings while in the cemetery, nor did I feel any cold spots. At one time, as were walking away from the George Wessels mausoleum, Diane mentioned to me that she had the feeling someone was watching us. All of my pictures developed okay this time, but nothing out of the ordinary in any of them.

Greenwood Cemetery

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