Tedrow Cemetery

Iowa · USA · Cemetery

Visitors to this small Iowa country cemetery say the danger is not in the graves but in the woods around them, and that a light out there stops engines.

Tedrow is a small country cemetery outside Mount Ayr, Iowa, ringed by woodland. Everyone who tells the story is careful to make the same distinction: the burial ground itself is not the haunted part. The woods around it are.

The local history offered as explanation places a small cult at the cemetery somewhere between fifty and a hundred years ago, performing ceremonies there. What visitors report now is a glowing object moving among the trees. The rule attached to it is specific. You can drive in, but if the light comes close enough, your car will not start again.

The method people describe follows from that. Engine off, headlights off, and wait. A torch is allowed. It is the sort of instruction that spreads through a county because it can be tested on a Friday night, and the tree by the entrance, which by daylight is said to show a face in its bark, gives the place a reputation that holds up in either direction.

FAQ

Hvor ligger Tedrow Cemetery?

Tedrow Cemetery ligger i Iowa, USA.