Hillside Cemetery, Skiatook

Oklahoma · USA · Cemetery

An old graveyard with a historical marker, and a grave that local people say belongs to a witch.

Hillside Cemetery at Skiatook, Oklahoma dates from the late 1800s and early 1900s and carries a historical site marker.

Local account holds that a woman buried there in the early 1900s was a witch, and a great deal has grown up around that: talk of possession, and of damage done at and around the site.

The damage is the part that is verifiable, and it runs the wrong way. Cemeteries with this kind of reputation get their stones broken by visitors, and it is the grave that suffers rather than the people who come.

A woman in a small Oklahoma town in that period who was called a witch was almost certainly a midwife, a herbalist, an outsider, or simply a woman who lived alone. That is who the word was used for.

The cemetery is a public burial ground and is patrolled.

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Hillside Cemetery, Skiatook liegt in Oklahoma, USA.