The grave at the back

South Carolina · USA · Cemetery

Near the back of the cemetery, at a grave with almost nothing on it, visitors heard a child crying. One of them left a flower and it stopped.

Near the back of this cemetery at Summerville, South Carolina there is a grave with almost nothing marking it, and visitors have heard crying from it, like a child.

One of them followed the sound to the stone, took a flower and left it there. The crying stopped.

Another visitor heard it on a separate occasion and left a windmill, and the same thing happened.

The name and date on the stone are not set down here. The child died in this century and the family are in this town.

What has grown up at that grave is a practice rather than a haunting. People arrive, hear something, leave a small object, and go. Toys, pinwheels and flowers accumulate on children's graves in cemeteries across the country, left by strangers who never knew them, and it is one of the few things in this archive that does no harm at all.

The cemetery is a public burial ground.

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The grave at the back ligger i South Carolina, USA.