In all my years of visiting cemeteries, this was the most…interesting trip. I must warn anyone who wishes to visit Purdy Cemetery: Be very quiet. I mean don’t even breathe hard. The neighbors called the police and we had to try to explain what we were doing there. I told the officer that I was taking photographs of the cemetery (past midnight, mind you) and he looked very puzzled and asked, “Why?” I knew if I told him the real reason why I was taking photographs he would think I was nuts or had been drinking, so I told him I had been told it was an interesting place to take pictures. After about 10 minutes of talking to him, he let us go and made sure we left the cemetery. His main reason for letting us go was because he didn’t want to deal with all the paper work of arresting 8 people. Anyway, I am very grateful he let us go and here are the pictures that almost landed me in jail. I hope you enjoy them!
I went to the cemetery with some friends and we took photos of most of the graves there. MY wife puts these on FIND A GRAVE.Com for genealogy purposes. We had heard stories about the Hurst mansion and the haunted cemetery, in fact spoke to a lady at the store there who also heard stories of the cemetery being haunted. When we took all the photos, my wife was looking at them on her camera and found, only on the ELijah Hurst headstone, the outline/shape of what looks to be a face. When we were taking the pics, we did not notice this. All the pics were taken the same time of day so other shots should have been shaded the same way. But there were no others. You can see the photos on FAG. See what you think.
For anyone else interested in looking at these photos, they are at http://www.findagrave.com. I have looked at them and knowing how the cemetery is laid out I believe it to be a shadow from the tree limbs nearby.