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My family does own the Gibson Graveyard and what is the actual truth is my family is buried there. The story about the Vampire isn't true, but an albino man lived in Esther and many children had disappeared around the time that he had moved there. They believed he was the cause of the children's disappearance but it turned out that it was an illness an some of the children were found and survived. They had hung him and learned he did not do it later on in the 1800's. The graveyard is now going to be kept up and they are replacing a few headstones. The graveyard is believed to be haunted. I have had experiences of trees blowing around and storms coming out of no where. I believe the graveyard is haunted but that is my personal experience. RE I saw your site about Gibson graveyard and it is a privately owned family plot it is owned by my family but back between 1700-1900 it was for anyone it wasn't until 1910 when my family purchased it I am related to a lot of people buried there tho some of them even having the same last name as me as for the vampire he wasn't really a vampire he was just a Hungarian miner who didn't like to come out at day cause of his skin being so white the people ridiculed him so he became cruel and played jokes on the people at night and one time he said it was him killing the children cause one of the parents said he was a vampire and the town got scared and murdered him buried him put cement on his grave put a rout iron fence around it and hung a cross on it but the cross was stolen and reports of seeing the Hungarian minor walking around by his grave have been reported I know a whole lot about this place and yes park hills was wanting to put subdivisions there but my family wouldn't let them. B M Hi, I am a local minor from park hills and yes I lived by the grave yard for a long time...i have only been there once or twice but i know that the first time I was up there we were on 4-wheelers and we were just riding around and the wind started to blow and the trees like weren't moving at all!!! and I did notice something glowing. I was on the back of the four wheeler and we went over to the iron bars. The grave was a whitish color but it was kind of glowing. It scared me so I rode my 4-wheeler home. They shouldn't take the cemetery down though because it is a historical land mark. KL I live in the area and the story of the albino being called a vampire and hung over children mistakenly thought to be his victims. He is reported to buried within the fenced area deep in the cemetery. The pictures of the bent bars are where he supposedly "escaped". However, if you look closely you can tell the bars have been cut and bent inward. There is a tree growing in the center of a sinkhole which is in turn in the middle of the fenced area where the grave is supposed to be. At the beginning of the cemetery there is a small wooden sign identifying the spot as Gibson's Cemetery. There is also a small area fenced off by small landscaping garden fence pieces; it appears to be a pet cemetery, (due to it's size). While walking though the slightly dense woods, I spotted an odd item. It was a Cabbage Patch knock-off doll. The cloth body and half head was entirely covered with green moss. Nothing grew on it's pale cadaverous face. I left it there undisturbed, all I took of it was a couple of pictures. While I was there, I experienced no kind of odd or eerie feelings, sensations or occurrences. The history and mystique of the place are the most haunted things about it. MDB Hello, I have lived in the Park Hills area my whole life. I know alot about the local history in Park Hills & St. Francois County. I would like to make a few corrections to some of the stories about Gibson Graveyard. The owner of Gibson Graveyard is Ken Douglas. The Albino Hungarian man was from Elvins, MO. not Esther. Esther was not even a town at this time. There was an article about Gibson Graveyard in The Daily Journal around 10 years ago for Halloween. I have been in Gibson Graveyard at least 100 times in my life. I have seen nothing Paranormal in the Cemetery but at night I have felt an uneasy feeling there. M B If you have experienced paranormal activity at any of these haunted sites, please e-mail us with your photos or stories to add to the database. Page Back |
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