Hope Hill Cemetery

Tennessee · USA · Cemetery

A child's dollhouse stands on her grave in Medina, Tennessee. The story most often told about how she died is wrong, and the correction matters.

There is a grave at Hope Hill Cemetery in Medina, Tennessee with a dollhouse standing on it, and visitors report seeing the little girl there, talking to her dolls and playing.

For years the story attached to the grave held that she had been raped and beaten to death by her uncle. That is false, and it is worth stating first, because the accusation names a relative of a real family.

An update in March 2005 gives what happened. The girl was killed by a piano, dropped by a mover her parents had hired. The dollhouse on the grave was put there by her parents, because it was her favourite place to play.

That is a far sadder story than the one that replaced it, and it explains the object on the grave in a way the invented version never did.

A further tradition attaches to lights seen at the cemetery. The grave and the dollhouse are real and can be visited, and the family deserve the accurate version to be the one people carry away.

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Hvor ligger Hope Hill Cemetery?

Hope Hill Cemetery ligger i Tennessee, USA.