Wayward Cemetery

The legends of Wayward Cemetery date back hundreds of years, it is situated in the middle of nowhere somewhere along the road to Utah, no sign of civilisation for miles it is said to only home the psychotic and deformed, the people who no one wanted were sent to the only place that would take them and there they lay to rest.

Any groundskeeper that had worked here had left within a matter of hours, stating that spending time alone out there really plays with your mind. The cemetery can be visited all year round for those crazy enough but it is one night of the year that thousands flocked here and this of course was October 31st, Halloween night. They gathered like the homeless around a newly open shelter, waiting patiently all night to see something that they truly do not want to see. Somewhere in the cemetery is said to be the opening to the gates of hell that opens sometime during that night.

Some of the recorded sightings of that night over the years included blue lights seen dancing around a grave, the holy ground randomly going up in flames and also reported sightings of people seen hanging from a tree known as the tree of despair. Old ruins remained scattered around the cemetery which were said to be part of a passageway that the Devil used to reside in, the people who came here on Halloween would worship this area, they would sacrifice whatever/whoever they said they were asked too as it is thought the Devil could communicate his work to them, this truly was the Devils playground.

Perhaps the most frightening documented story was that of Ursula Archer, a lovely innocent woman that came from a very holy family but she gave birth to a child that was "Different" the child was born with one hand shorten than the other and only 3 fingers on it but also it had a severe intellectual disability. Ursula loved her boy who when looked at his mother gave her a smile that brightened her day, when the people of the town saw the boy they demanded it be took away, describing it as a freak or Satan's spawn. The authorities one day came knocking on Ursula's door demanding that she gave up the child, they took it away and sent a letter to Ursula stating that her child was buried in Wayward Cemetery with their deepest apologies. 

Ursula was heartbroken, her days were now filled with endless crying listening to her boys favorite song over and over. A few months later on her sons birthday she finally managed to get the courage to go visit her sons grave , Eugene Archer October 31st 1912 it read. As she prepared to leave she could see from the corner of her eye blue flickering lights and heard whispers of a child crying coming from each grave she stepped over. The voices drove her deep into the cemetery to the passageway that had steps leading down into it, she was said to have entered the passageway and never came back out, many reporting that she was lured in by the devil and then turned into flames.
Her body was never found, the last known sighting of her was in the cemetery that night but what really happened no one knows for sure.

In modern day Wayward Cemetery there hasn't been a body buried here for twenty five years, it is mostly vacant except for the occasional paranormal investigator or on Halloween night where still a handful of people come out here to see if they can spot something out of the ordinary but for the most part it lays idle, walking through the cemetery gives you the "chills" there is an atmosphere that cannot quite be put into words you really got to witness it to understand. What remains of the passageway can still be seen, people have said that the pieces are extremely hot when you touch them and the area where Ursula was said to have disappeared is marked on the ground by a mysterious black burnt circle that won't be wiped away. Wayward Cemetery certainly has some mystique to it and there certainly was a lot of cruelty that took place but if the Devil did reside here remains perhaps folklore of the people's minds.