Nashville Haunted Handbook. Jeff Morris

      directions

      Stay on I-24 West from downtown Nashville for about 18 miles to exit 31, the New Hope Road exit. Turn left onto New Hope Road and follow the road for a little more than a mile and a half to Old Clarksville Pike. Turn right onto Old Clarksville Pike and follow that for a little less than a mile before turning left onto Bear Wallow Road. Follow Bear Wallow for almost a mile and a half, and then turn right onto Peter Pond Road. Follow Peter Pond Road for a half mile, and then turn right to stay on Peter Pond Road. Continue to follow Peter Pond for about 2 miles. You will then make a sharp left onto Carney Winters Road/Middle Blue Springs Road. The cemetery will be on the right just past the intersection. The cemetery is visible from the road.

      history

      This cemetery is located in a remote section of Ashland City and is rather far from any businesses or public places. The cemetery is surrounded by two houses that were eventually built around it. The property lines of these houses border the fence that surrounds the small cemetery.

      The history of the cemetery itself is rather unremarkable. There are some children who were buried here, which is not unusual for a cemetery that has been around since the 1800s when children would die more frequently. There are many more adults than children buried in the cemetery, though. While each person buried here is likely to have his or her own interesting story, those stories are left for the ghosts to tell.

      ghost story

      Most of the ghosts of this cemetery show themselves when people are either driving by on the adjacent road or when people park their cars on the adjacent road and look into the cemetery. People who park their cars on the road will often hear a car approaching. As they wait for the car to arrive, the sound slowly fades away. There are no places where this ghostly car could have turned off the road.

      People also will often see shadowy figures walking through the cemetery at night. When these figures are investigated, there is never any sign of them anywhere in the cemetery. The gate to the cemetery is secure, and there is no place where the figures could have left.

      The most famous ghost of this cemetery, however, is that of a small girl who walks the cemetery at night. This girl will appear as a white glowing apparition that is either sitting on a small bench within the cemetery near a small statue of a girl or walking around near the same bench. When the girl is spotted, she will suddenly look up at the frightened witness and vanish.

      visiting

      Even though the cemetery is off limits at night, you can still experience these ghosts after the sun sets. The cemetery is quite small and its entirety is visible from a small parking area alongside the adjacent road. You can park your car there in the middle of the night and watch the cemetery for shadowy figures even though the cemetery itself is closed. As long as you don’t walk onto the property of the abutting houses or cross the fence into the cemetery itself, you are not trespassing, and you can watch the haunted cemetery for apparitions to your heart’s content.

      CEDAR GROVE CEMETERY

      609 South Maple St., Lebanon, TN 37087

      directions

      Take I-40 East for 28 miles to Exit 238, US 231 South toward Lebanon. Turn left onto US 231 South. Follow this road for a mile before turning left onto West Adams Avenue. Turn left onto South Maple Street. Cedar Grove will be the cemetery on your left. The cemetery on your right is another one called Memorial Cemetery that is not reputed to be haunted.

      history

      Even though Cedar Grove Cemetery has been the city cemetery of Lebanon, Tennessee, since 1823, it wasn’t at its current location until it was moved from the churchyard of the College Street Church of Christ in 1846. Many of the important men from the area are buried here in this cemetery, including a Confederate general, a Tennessee governor, and a Supreme Court chief justice.

      The cemetery itself also contains more than 130 Confederate soldiers who died during the war or were veterans who died later. The cemetery remains in use and is still growing. The cemetery land encompasses 34.6 acres, but at this point only 23 acres are being used for burials.

      ghost story

      There is only one ghost story reported here at Cedar Grove, but this story is repeated quite often. At night, when gazing into the cemetery from outside its gates, people will often see strange lights moving throughout the cemetery. Many times these lights will be purple and white and will float among the headstones quickly.

      Oftentimes people will see these lights out of the corner of their eyes and then will look

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