Posted in Nashville
August 02, 2016
This Haunted Cemetery Near Nashville Is Not For the Faint of Heart
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…
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.
It included the then fairly dilapidated Pegram Family Cemetery.
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.
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.
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.
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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