The old church house at Oxford

Arkansas · United States · Execution site

Local rumour holds that women were hanged as witches by a vigilante group at this Arkansas church. From the churchyard, people report seeing the shadow of.

Beyond the old high school building at Oxford, Arkansas stands a white church house. Local rumour holds that several women were executed as witches here by a vigilante group, of the kind the Bald Knobbers represented elsewhere in the Ozarks. No record has been produced for it, and it is set down here as rumour.

The inside of the building cannot be entered. The floor has rotted through.

What visitors report from the churchyard is a single image, and it is the same one every time. On the ground, in daylight, the shadow of a rope, cast by nothing.

One account that circulates locally involves two high school girls who went out to the cemetery to copy names and dates off the old headstones for a school research project, which is to say two people who went there for an entirely unromantic reason and came back with a story.

Vigilante justice in the Ozarks is well documented. Whether it reached this churchyard is not.

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The old church house at Oxford is in Arkansas, United States.