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Welcome
to the Ash Grove Park Memorial website |
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Ash Grove Park History In December of 1995, an small article appeared in a local New Jersey newspaper I was reading while stopping for a coffee break in my drives around the NJ countryside. The article spoke of a number of recent strange occurrences in a small old cemetery and churchyard. The article also cited a few of the old journal entries from generations ago, in which one local resident claimed Ash Grove Park was “haunted by diabolical and supernatural forces” and that the cemetery was one of the few places on earth where the devil appears in person two times each year. The article also said that the cemetery had been the source of many legends in the area, stories that had been told and re-told for over a century before they were forgotten in a more cynical time. Intrigued by the short article, I decided to
track down the cemetery and investigate it. What I found was a neglected
and partially overgrown graveyard that, at first glance, looked to
possibly hold a few days of mildy interesting exploration. As I began
to dig (sorry, poor choice of words) and poke around, I began to find
things that didn't fit in with what I had found in most of the other
small Jersey cemeteries I have toured. As I began to document and
research the small cemetery and the stories and legends about it,
I found myself spending months examing the headstones, tracking down
and talking to local old-timers, and so on. Like any old cemetery
or graveyard, Ash Grove Park is filled with individual stories and
histories, hidden tales that can only be found by hours of research
and investigation. But there is something more here. A story whose
pieces I am only now beginning to uncover and understand. In the next
few months I plan on adding the actual history of the cemetery to
this page, as I've come to understand it. |
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