You can’t visit this haunted cemetery near Nashville anymore…but you can visit precisely where it once was, “Poltergeist” style. This is a graveyard that was once a community hub, but has since become a story fit for the eeriest Hollywood film. The Pegram Family Cemetery – or where it once was – is at the very end of Walkup Road in Pegram, Tennessee. It has a story that will chill you to your bones…
Chloe Blanchfield - Flickr In 1970, a group of developers decided to raze a bit of land that ran along a stretch of the Harpeth River in Pegram, Tennessee.
Nick Foster - Flickr It included the then fairly dilapidated Pegram Family Cemetery.
Topdog5757 - Flickr The team was looking to build small homes, which they did on concrete slabs. The area went from wild growth and a peaceful atmosphere to American suburbia. The eerie thing? The dirt from the area was sold as fill dirt. We’ll come back to that later.
Nick Foster - Flickr In 1975, five years after the beginning of the project, the Harpeth River rose 30 feet - and brought a coffin up with it. Archie Greer of Pegram woke up with the coffin of a Mrs. Carrie Pegram Heath in his front yard. She also happened to be the first postmistress of Pegram.
Mendhak - Flickr The town realized that the developers hadn’t taken very good care of their dead - and that dirt we were chatting about? Was used as fill dirt across town, which means that cemetery ground was scattered all the way through Pegram.
Tracy O - Flickr They buried Ms. Carrie, but the town has been plagued by weird situations ever since. Homes that shouldn’t have flooded were filled with water, a supermarket inexplicably burned. It’s a strange thing, when you build over a graveyard. People aren’t too happy about it.
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Chloe Blanchfield - Flickr
In 1970, a group of developers decided to raze a bit of land that ran along a stretch of the Harpeth River in Pegram, Tennessee.
Nick Foster - Flickr
It included the then fairly dilapidated Pegram Family Cemetery.
Topdog5757 - Flickr
The team was looking to build small homes, which they did on concrete slabs. The area went from wild growth and a peaceful atmosphere to American suburbia. The eerie thing? The dirt from the area was sold as fill dirt. We’ll come back to that later.
Nick Foster - Flickr
In 1975, five years after the beginning of the project, the Harpeth River rose 30 feet - and brought a coffin up with it. Archie Greer of Pegram woke up with the coffin of a Mrs. Carrie Pegram Heath in his front yard. She also happened to be the first postmistress of Pegram.
Mendhak - Flickr
The town realized that the developers hadn’t taken very good care of their dead - and that dirt we were chatting about? Was used as fill dirt across town, which means that cemetery ground was scattered all the way through Pegram.
Tracy O - Flickr
They buried Ms. Carrie, but the town has been plagued by weird situations ever since. Homes that shouldn’t have flooded were filled with water, a supermarket inexplicably burned. It’s a strange thing, when you build over a graveyard. People aren’t too happy about it.
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