New Haven, Connecticut - Midnight Mary's Grave
- Address:
- New Haven, CT [Show Map]
- Directions:
- I-95 exit 45 (boulevard) main entrance to Evergreen Cemetery, on the right approx 1 mile. Go in the main entrance and straight through to the back. She's right near the fence near Winthrop Ave.
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New Haven, Connecticut - Midnight Mary's Grave Evergreen Cemetery is the eternal resting place of Mary Hart, aka Midnight Mary. New Haven natives know the story well: Mary had some sort of attack and fainted; her husband assumed she was dead and had her buried immediately. The night of the funeral, her sister woke up at midnight from a nightmare she had about her sister screaming from the grave. She begged to have her sister exhumed. When the casket was opened, Mary's fingers were bloody, her fingernails were ripped off, and she had a petrified expression on her face. The gravestone reads: "At high noon/just from and about to renew her daily work, in her full strength of body and mind/Mary E. Hart/having fallen prostrate/ remained unconscious, until she died at midnight October 15,1872/born December 16,1824." And above those words in big black letters: "The people shall be troubled at midnight and pass away."
I went to southern ct state university and heard stories on campus about students who had ventured into the graveyard at midnight. They were found the next morning on her grave with scared looks on their faces. Other students, from Yale and Quinnipiac were supposedly found driven into the fence that surrounds the graveyard. [allison sanchez, 02/16/2005][RA: April 2006: Photo Added.]
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