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directions

Take I-74 to exit 7 (SR-128 Cleves/Hamilton). Take SR-128 north toward Wendy’s and BP. The cemetery will be on your left. Just past the cemetery, turn left on Mill Street. There is diagonal parking alongside the cemetery.

history

The current cemetery is a conglomeration of several other cemeteries that have been combined. On the north side of Miamitown, there is a street called Cemetery Road near the Village Pump antique store. There was once a cemetery here, but it was moved. The headstones were moved across town to the new cemetery, but when workers attempted to move the bodies, the old wooden caskets broke apart, and they decided that moving the bodies would be too difficult. The headstones remain at the current cemetery but the bodies have been paved over and are still underground at Cemetery Road.

Another cemetery, which was located where the elementary school sits today, was moved across the street to the churchyard (see Miamitown Elementary chapter in the Schools and Public Buildings section of this book). This time both the bodies and the headstones were moved. Unfortunately, there were many unmarked graves in the original cemetery so when they dug up the ground to build the school, they dug up piles of bodies. They had no idea who these people were, so they simply reburied the bodies across the street at the current cemetery without markers.

Further, a caretaker who once worked at the current cemetery didn’t like broken headstones in his cemetery, so whenever a headstone broke, he would tear it out of the ground and throw it into the Great Miami River. The section of the graveyard that is today the municipal cemetery, the area closest to the old Methodist Church, is completely full despite the fact that there are hardly any headstones in the area.

ghost story

Various paranormal phenomena occurs at the cemetery. People will feel very uncomfortable while they are here, especially at night. They either will feel as if they are being watched, or they will feel chills crawling up and down their spines. Other times, people will actually feel an icy finger touch them on the back of their necks. Shadowy figures will also roam throughout the cemetery and then vanish.

The most famous ghost of the cemetery, however, is a little girl in a white dress. When people see the little girl, she will often vanish immediately or linger until the witness approaches her.

visiting

This cemetery is open throughout the night, so you do not need to worry about legal issues after dark. The haunted area is the section between the Methodist Church and the blacktop road that wraps around the church in the shape of an ‘L’. The remainder of the cemetery is private—known as the Miami Cemetery—and officially closes after dark. If you stay on the church side of the road, you are free to search for ghosts throughout the night. Just make sure you are respectful while inside the cemetery gates.