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The Dark Angel of Maple Grove Cemetery

There are two versions of the legend surrounding the infamous "Dark Angel" statue located in Maple Grove Cemetery, both of which center around a woman named Alice. The most popular version claims that Alice took the life of her small daughter.
Overcome with grief, Alice erected the statue of a larger- than-life angel over the child’s grave. Shortly after, Alice went "insane with grief" and died. She was buried next to her daughter in Maple Grove Cemetery.
Almost immediately after Alice’s death, locals began reporting that their livestock were mysteriously dying. Others noticed that the angel statue had what appeared to be blood on its hands and mouth. According to this version of the legend, it was that the evil spirit of Alice was inhabiting the statue, causing it to leave its place in the cemetery at night and fly across the countryside attacking and killing livestock. It was decided that the hands and wings of the statue should be cut off, thereby preventing it from causing any more destruction.
After the hands of the statue were sawed off and its wings were "clipped", there were no more reports of livestock being killed. In addition, it is said that what appeared to be tearstains appeared on the angel’s face, supposedly caused by the spirit of Alice weeping for her sins.

Another version of the story also claims that the spirit of Alice inhabits the statue, however in this version, she was a kind spirit... at least in the beginning. It is said that during a cholera epidemic in the early 1900s, bereaved parents would bring the bodies of their children to the cemetery and place them in the arms of the statue, asking that the angel take the children away to heaven.. As a result, the hands of the statue were sawed off. This evidently angered Alice’s spirit and it is said that from that point on, anyone desecrating or tormenting the statue would meet an untimely death.

Recently the Cemetery has removed the statue all together because of the ledgend that surrounds it and all that is left to show that it once stood there is a concrete base.

Stull Cemetery, Kansas City (Gate way to Hell)

At first sight, the cemetery appears very normal.Roughly 100 graves, an old tree, and a burnt out church pretty much make the scene, but as always, there is more lingering right under the surface.

In 1995, Time Magazine asked Pope John Paul 2nd why he ordered his plane to fly around Kansas, and his response..."I don't want to fly over unholy ground..."

Some of the hype may come from the fact that Stull Cemetery is located in the Topeka zip code prefix of "666", or perhaps even that the road leading up to the cemetery, was literally named Devil's Lane up until 1905.

In 1974, the University of Kansas college newspaper did a report on Stull Cemetery, which sites the legend being over 100 years old.The elders of the small town believe that Stull Cemetery is one of the alleged 7 gateways to hell, allowing Satan to allegedly manifest on earth through a supernatural portal..

This legend comes from a handful of local rumors, one being that Satan's unholy son is buried within the walls of Stull, and that on the Spring Equinox, and on midnight of Halloween, the Prince of Darkness comes to earth to visit the tomb of his son.

The exact location of the gateway to hell is unknown, but most of the controversey centers around the burnt out church in the cemetery.The church was build in 1867, and was swept over by the mysterious fire in the early 1900's.Some say that the religious communtiy destroyed the church in an attempt to seal the gateway to hell.Although the church has no roof, it is said that no rain will ever fall within the church.

Another secret to the Stull mystery revolves around the pine tree that was mentioned above.It is reported that witches were hung from this tree during the Spring Equinox Sabbat years ago, and that a town man was reported missing for some time, only to be found later hanging from this very tree.

Modern covens did indeed visit this cemetery to pay homage to those witches that died there, up until 1998, when the caretakers had the tree cut down and removed.

Halloween night of 1999, media from Lawrence Journal World and Sunflower Cable Station Channel 6 News were at the cemetery by permission of the Sheriff.At 11:30pm, only 30 minutes before the alleged gate to hell would be cast open, an unknown representative of the cemetery caretakers appeared, and requested the Sheriff to remove the reporters.The media left peacefully, mere moments before the stroke of midnight.

Bloody Mary
If you stand in front of a mirror in a dark room and chant "Bloody Mary" thirteen times starting at the stroke of midnight, the face of a hideous woman will appear in the mirror. It's the spirit of a girl who was born with a disfiguring disease and was killed by a cruel joke gone awry.

There are many variations to this classic, what Mary does when appearing varies. Besides appearing, sometimes she slaps the summoner, or scratches their face, grabs at them, drives them mad, etc.