Grapevine Cemetery

Kentucky · United States · Cemetery

An angel statue in Madisonville, Kentucky said to weep blood at midnight under a full moon, and to cry for all the dead children buried around her.

There is a statue of an angel in Grapevine Cemetery at Madisonville, Kentucky, and two versions of her story circulate, separated by a generation.

The older version holds that at midnight on a full moon she will raise her head to look at you, and that blood runs from her eyes. One account comes from the mother of a local resident, who says she saw it around twenty years before the report was collected.

The younger generation, who grew up within minutes of the cemetery, tell it differently. In their version her head has been broken off.

What both versions agree on is what she is doing. She weeps for all the dead babies buried in that ground.

That detail is likely the origin of everything else. Cemeteries of this age frequently contain a concentration of infant burials, and a weeping angel placed among them says exactly what it was carved to say. The statue in its damaged state is what visitors find now, and the damage is not part of the legend but the result of it.

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Where is Grapevine Cemetery located?

Grapevine Cemetery is in Kentucky, United States.