That is NOT spray paint. What you see are actually burn marks. I was on my way down there one night close to Halloween (of course) and a car was flying off the little dirt road. I figured they got spooked, when me and my friend got down there the tree was on fire around and inside the cross carved on it. I'm not sure if the people we saw leaving did it or not. However my friend and I put the fire out with two 20oz bottles of Mountain Dew. I also have pictures from that night, the fire and after the fire. I can also tell you that the spirits were not very happy that night. I have several pictures from down there that have got spirits and other little oddities in them.

I think I told you that the Mary Jane Cemetery was a mess. I thought I would tell you that while I was not looking, this summer, the cemetery was fixed up and there is access to it again. It now has a few stones and one huge one with bunches of names on it, which (I think) replaces a lot of broken stones.

Hi, I just read your page on Mary Janes Grave. I might say it is typical of the stories told about this place. However, the reason the graveyard is in such disarray is because of the inaccuracies told about this place and the lack of research prior to listing stories about it. If you research thru the books Haunted Ohio, you will find the story of Mary Jane. SHE WAS NOT A WITCH AND SHE DIDN'T DIE AT THE STAKE. She was a servant of the man who owned all the property in this area. When he felt she had served him long enough, he gave her a piece of land down near the cemetery where she lived out the rest of her life. She was a herbalist not a WITCH. When she died, she asked to be buried on the slope of Hidden Hollow where the sun would shine on her grave. Furthermore, A witch would not be buried on Holy Ground. She wouldn't have been buried or given a tomb stone.

Please help to preserve this site by giving accurate information so kids will stop destroying the graves of the dead. Thank You.

I remember a story about Mary Jane's gravestone. Supposedly there was a hole in it, and if you looked inside you could see Mary Jane's eye. My friend's father told me it was just collected rain water reflecting your own eye.

Just yesterday a friend and I drove down to Mary Jane's grave...the reason we went there was because we both heard a story about it. Supposedly one night 4 guys were going down there and three of them were drinking (except the Designated Driver). Anyway, they had gone down there because they wanted to see her grave. The three guys that were drinking peed on the big pine tree behing her grave. On their way home the three guys that peed on her tree died in a car accident, but the one guy who didnt pee on her tree lived....

The story about the guys that peed on the grave...one of the guys that lived was my uncle! Yeah, and there were two guys in the 1st car which hit a tree and the two guys in the car died. The two guys, one was my uncle, were behind them and lived. My dad was just telling me and my friend about that story which is really weird! The bodies of the two guys who died were scattered all over the road, they had to use garbage bags to collect all the pieces! My uncle swears it was because they peed on the grave! I live like 4 miles from Mary Jane's graveyard and I guess now they have cops down there so you can't get back there and there are no trespassing signs everywhere

I was just reading one of your stories about how they have cops and no trespassing signs everywhere, that's so not true. Me and my friends go down to Maryjane's grave all the time, seeing that we live about 15 minutes away. As a matter of fact we were just there a few nights ago, (January 29, 2005). You can still get back to the graves. I've heard that if you go to the middle where Maryjane's pine tree is and stab it with a knife dead in the center then it will leak out a liquid which is said to be blood. Think about it: its a pine tree and something leaks out. You tell me what it is.

The story posted by Larry, about Mary being a servant and owning that land and not being a witch and stuff..true! BUT if you look VERY close at the front of the tree the "burn marks" you see are an angel!! And the other side of the tree the burn marks make out to a noose, which Mary Jane was hung by! It all makes perfect sense! I've been down there quite a few times and its sooo scary! A friend of mine swore on their life and everything that as they were driving down the gravel road they saw an older white woman dressed in a white dress for like two seconds and then she disappeared!!

I went to Mary Jane's grave today out of curiosity and there are no "No Trespassing" signs up and no gates up. You can walk freely back to her grave. I saw the tree she was supposedly burnt at and I did not see her name or initials in the tree anywhere. I got an overwhelming feeling of sadness while I was there. I wasn't afraid at all, I was just sad.

I saw all the other graves but I was too scared to walk around and look because of the sad feelings I got. So I just left. I am unsure exactly where she is buried or where her old house was, I would however love to know because it intrigues me. I find her very interesting. I would not, however, go out there at night...I'm too chicken!

I just thought that you might like to know that back beyond the cemetery, in the woods behind, is a Mohawk Indian burial ground. It's been mapped and recorded in county documents. My boyfriend and I placed a sattelite photo over an old plat map and it matches perfectly. So maybe all the "Creepy" feelings that people get when they screw around there have nothing to do with the old herbalist woman, but the Indians who are constantly getting stomped upon by over-zealous spook hunters.

My stepdad says he saw the old woman at Mary Jane's Grave too, but he went there on Halloween night when he was in high school around 1992. He had just got a new camaro, and when he turned down the old dirt road, about halfway up there he saw what he thought was a ghost. Suddenly his car died, then he saw the ghost walk down in the woods. Then she disappeared. After that, his car came on! He said it was the weirdest thing that he's ever seen. My Uncle, Mark Eden, went up there too, but he said I need to go up there and find out for myself!

The cemetery is actually on state property, and it is patrolled by the park service. I was pulled over and told that it was closed after dark and that I was trespassing. However, I have been down there several times and have always had trouble. Once we heard a scream and once we had severe car problems. A friend received a flat tire. Also cell phones and car radios seem to quit working.

On a side note, it is a very dangerous place even without the "haunts." A couple years back two females were attacked by a car load of 7 men, who chased them into the woods then lit their car on fire.

My sister, me, and my boyfriend were going up to Mary Jane's Grave today. This road we were on to get to Mary Jane's grave had a sign that said "Bad - Turn Back", and then we finally got to Pleasant Valley Road. When we got on the road, me and my sister and boyfriend all saw a white wolf. Then we about hit a black crow. When we got on Tucker Road we saw a thing in the road, and it was a bird! We all saw it, and of course my sister moved the car really quick! But when we looked back, it was just branches with leaves and shit. We kept going of course, and then there was a puddle of water that I swear looked like a body laying there.

Well, we keep driving, and then the hills...OMG!! Every hill we went up they just kept getting bigger and bigger. My sister started to freak out, so she turned around and man oh man...I think that was a wrong idea! We turned around, and then we went the other way on Tucker Road. There was this old fucking barn that looked like something was messed up with it. Well, we finally got to Hanley Road and I honestly don't think it was Hanley Road. Then we came to another road, and it turned into Possum Run Road. It takes you back to Tucker Road. We didn't turn onto Tucker Road, but the weird part is we ended up where Mary Jane's grave is! It was so weird...we were going around and around and around in circles! And the last time, this black dog appeared out in front of the middle of the road. It didn't run to the middle of the road, it just appeared there and then ran to the side we weren't on. It just stood there and looked at us, and then when we drove off it disappeared. It was so weird that the hills kept getting bigger and bigger too. And when we first got to where the grave is, we saw a man looking at us like something was wrong. That's why we turned around.

The truth about Mary Jane's Grave - indeed she was a witch, and I am sure that anyone in Mansfield cound tell you that! But I can tell you about a little story that happened to me about a year ago in August of 2004.

It was a hot summer day, and of course me and some friends wanted to go down to the grave to maybe just goof around or to just get out of the house. Anyway, we go down to the grave and we all prayed around the tree where people say she is buried. One of my friends happens to be into witchcraft, and asked us if we thought it would be ok to have a seance, where you bring people back from the dead. We looked at each other in a weird manner at the time, but we all said sure why not? So we all go back to my house, but before we left the cemetery we took a piece of bark off the tree. We came home and we all got in a circle, and my friend said all the things needed to be said. She asked Mary Jane, that if she was in our presence, to please knock on something one time. There was a knock on my television which was only 2 inches from my head! Then she asked for Mary to do it again, and the knock was heard again. Then she asked Mary Jane to do something really drastic if we had pissed her off by waking her up...then all the power went out in Mansfield that night!!!

Of course, all of us were scared off our asses and we didn't know what to do. So the only thing we could think of was to go down to the cemetery and put the bark on the ground, then pray over her grave. On the way down there my friend who has had his license for 5 years without being pulled over got pulled over for a back tailight being out. Everything was fine before we left the house to go back down there. So we asked the officer why the power was out. He looked at us and said lightning had hit a transformer, but then he looked at us strangely and said, "you know with all the storms we've had, never has this happened. But then we get heat lightning and it blows out the whole city." So we all just looked at each other, we didn't know what to think. We got down to the cemetery and we put the bark on the ground. My friend did a little spell, and needless to say all the power came back on in Mansfield!!!!!!

Me (Kayla Sinclair) and about 7 friends went down to Mary Jane’s grave on October 16, 2005. Well, we went down around midnight and went to the big pine tree were she was burned. It looked like it was bleeding. A friend and I walked down by the fencing and there was this path. We told our group of friends that we wanted to go down that path. Well, we did and all this stuff started happening - like screaming and things were being thrown at us. We were getting hit with things that she was throwing at us! We all freaked out and ran back to the cars, and that is what happened to us!!!!!

• Photo and Title
• Article

I have been to Mary Jane's grave many times, but recently I went with some friends of mine (about 9 of us to be exact). Well, we got down to the bottom of all the hills where it dead ends and we got turned around (we had 2 cars) and we all got out at first. Then more people we didn't know came, so I would say there were about 15 of us (which is a rough estimate). We were walking around and one of my friends had just put new batteries in her digital camera on the way there....It wouldn't take a picture.....But when we got back out on the "main road" it was fully charged.

But after that, 4 of my friends went back to the cars. My friends Kayla and Kaitlyn noticed the moonlight was kinda in a strange "line" that ran from the large pine tree into the woods on the right side of the cemetery. Well, we all decided to hold down the fence and go across because there was a path I hadn't known about before. So we all got across and we had walked about 25 feet when we heard this shrill scream that I had heard one time before. My other friends and I had brushed it off as an owl. So we started walking again, and we got about 150 more feet when we heard a noise by a large tree. That's when the crazy shit started happening....small logs and rocks started flying at us, so we ran back up the path and got back in the cemetery and got in the cars.

Mary Jane's grave is real. The first time I went there was 1973...I was young then, only 8 years old, but went with sisters and friends. Four people pee'd on her gravestone...all four are dead today! My mom also told me stories about that place - cars won't start, etc. All I remember are lots of people wearing the same thing...walking in rows coming from Hidden Hollow. They were heading for the graveyard, so we split. That was 1973...I think they were satan worshipers. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

Me, my boyfriend, and his friend went to Mary Jane's grave, and everything everyone says is a lie! Nothing bad or weird happened up there...I got the most peaceful feeling I've ever had while I was up there. It is bullshit about all the gravestones being broke, and all the beer cans...if I was buried there, I would haunt poeple too! Nothing fucked up happened, and everyone needs to stop telling lies about that cemetery. Yes, it is freaky - but that's because it's abandoned. My boyfriend would have known if there was a bad spirit around because the hair on his arms stand up...and they didn't stand up there. So whatever kind of drugs these people are on, they need to shut their mouths!

I was working in the Emergency Room at the Mansfield hospital, and a couple of teenaged boys came in. One of them had been badly beaten while at the cemetery. I believe this happened at night, because I think I was working 2nd or 3rd shift that night, and I'm sure it was on a weekend.

I was one of three investigators who investigated the two young girls that got attacked at the graveyard (that story is true by the way - two young ladies that got attacked by five, not 7, young boys). After the incident, the other investigators and I made our way to the gravesite about an hour after we helped check the young ladies into the hospital. Fist things first - about halfway down the drive I looked out the passenger window from the backseat and saw an older lady clear as day. In hopes of getting more information about the case, I told him to stop so I could question her. I got out of the car, assuming she was a local to that specific area, and walked over to her. For some reason she was crying, and I asked her why. She said "I forbid violence when it pertains to me!" I turned around to motion to the other investigators, and when I turned back around she wasn't there. Now I don't believe in ghosts or what have you, but that morning at 3:00 AM I started to believe. There was nowhere for her to go, she was just gone. In fact, all criminal investigative reports are open to public view after the case is sentenced, so see for yourself. Anyways, we made our way down to the cemetery got out and shut the car off, but with the key turned to off, the car kept going. Weird, huh? We went to the center tree where the burn marks are...and yes, they are burn marks. Forensics were done and it was carbonized wood from being lit on fire, this area had been known before for it's wannabe occult lover sideshow meeting areas. We walked over to the tree, and one of our team members decides to pass out. So we ended up leaving to go back to the hospital to make sure he was alright. Ayways, long story short... I don't know if there are ghosts, but this place definetly has something more than human powering it. For years we've gotten calls on vandalism, occult meetings, etc.

It is trespassing when you go beyond the gravel road. Keep that in mind. It is not state property, and the owner of the property has won every case he's pressed for trespassing. So be smart and just be captivated by the story - don't see for yourself. I'd hate to have to go arrest someone just because they think there are ghosts that reside there. Maybe there is a ghost, maybe there isn't. Just take a law enforcement officer's word for it - IT IS DEFINITELY CREEPY

Last night four of my friends and I went down to Mary Jane's Grave. Of course, I was scared shitless beacause I hate things like that. We walked to the tree and I just got this weird feeling. We decided to walk through the woods, and we made it like 1/4 of the way in and noticed that there was a light behind us. We stood there staring because we were shocked. Well, the longer we looked the closer the light got to us. Everyone got really quiet, and all a sudden we hear this noise that sounded like a door opening! My friends swear it was a tree, but it was enough to freak me out. We started walking towards our cars, and the light disappeared. I don't care what anyone says about this place...it is really creepy! Also, nothing happened to my car last night, but today when I got off of work I started driving and it stalled. I just thought it was creepy!

Here's a true story for you. This happened about 6 years ago. Me, my friend Charlie, his girlfriend, her sister, and her friend decided to drive down to Mary Jane's grave. It was around dusk time, and there used to be an old house nearby that people used to write graffiti on. Anyways, when we went past it nothing seemed strange about it. So we get to Mary Jane's grave and get out of the car and walk over to the tree. Sitting on the ground beside the tree was an old teddy bear with black candles on either side of the bear. So my friend Charlie gets this idea to light the candles. As soon as he lit them, we heard what sounded like a woman screaming...it seemed like it was coming from above the trees. So we all got scared and ran to the car, jumped in, and started it. Well, it stalled on us, which was weird because it was a new car. We finally got it started and drove off. We went past that old house that was covered in graffiti, and sure enough on the tree next to the house it said 'Hi Steph'...which was Charlie's girlfriend's name. I am 100% positive it wasn't there before. CREEPY, HUH?!

I have just read some of the stories from your site about Mary Jane Hendrickson. I would like to say simply that I doubt most of those people that have emailed you have really been to see the gravesite and really know what they are talking about. They are probably making up stories. I have been to the gravesite myself and have taken pictures that look similiar to your photos. I have been there because I go to camp Hidden Hollow every summer. This past June was the third time I've been to the camp, but only the second time I've been to see the graveyard...the people who said they've been to the graveyard speak of it as if it's easy to find, and that everyone knows about it. However, the truth is that the graveyard is NOT easy to find. It is in a huge woods, and if you are stupid enough to try to make your way through the woods, you may never get out...it is HUGE! The graveyard is really small and the only ones to know of it, I imagine, would be the staff of HHC. Another thing - one of the responses says if you look into the hole of Mary Jane's grave you can see her eye...that is absolutely ridiculous! Anyone with a brain knows that if a woman dies in the 1800's then the eye is going to rot. Thus, you can't see the eye...duh. Also, Mary Jane didn't have her own tombstone...her name was on one big marble slab amongst a number of other names. So there was ALSO no hole on that one.

I do, however, believe that satanic rituals, seances, or whatever you'd like to call them, have occurred there... mostly because the staff of HHC have found remains. They warned us to not pick up anything unusual on the ground - we found confetti all around the base of the tree.

Ok, most of the stories people tell about Mary Jane's Grave are probably just lies. I have been down there several times and nothing has ever happened. Someone posted that cell phones stop working...complete bullshit because I was talking on the phone down there standing in the cemetery. Also, someone said there are no houses even close to it - wrong again. One night two of my friends and I walked through the woods and actually walked into someone's backyard, and it wasn't Mary Jane's little house because they had a security light and a big dog which was chained up (thank the Lord).

I just wanted to add a small bit of information on the Bloody Mary legend. Of course I have heard of the slumber party mirror trick, so when I was in High School, naturally, I did a report on the myth. The original Bloody Mary is Scotland's royal Mary Stuart, also known as Mary Queen of Scots. It has been awhile since I wrote the report, but she had killed her husband and was separated from her child. She was very mentally unstable and was sentenced to the guillotine. Hence the legend, she comes back covered in blood when you call her name because she is searching for her child.

We went to Mary Jane's Grave about two weeks ago, which would put it roughly in the beginning of September. Anywho, we spent a weekend prior to that trying to find the cemetery itself and it is NOT in Hidden Hollow. It is off of Tucker, and I can say the fastest way coming out of Columbus is 71 N, exit at 169 I believe, and take a right on Hayden Road, then turn right onto Pleasant Valley, which takes you to Tucker Road. Turn left, and where it dead ends is the cemetery. Aside from that, I wanted to let everyone know about our experience there.

It was myself (the only girl), Sammy, Adam, and Robert. We came across Tucker Road by accident, and I told Sammy to go left because I was informed that is was South on Tucker Road and I am pretty good with directions. At this time it was rolling at about midnight. The path went from paved to gravel to dirt quite quickly. We all started getting excited, believing that we'd actually found the graveyard this time. Sammy, who is the driver, lets out an excited whoohoo because we finally entered the site. As the car pulled past the gates, it was hit on the roof on the driver's side with a huge rock or something. When it hit, it sounded like a boulder hit it. I screamed and Robert and I both hit the deck because it was creepy, and well, we were scared. We turned the car around in what little room there was to turn around in, and decided after reading all the stories to leave the car running. That way it wouldn't stall. Nobody wanted to get out because of the creepy rock throwing in the beginning. I started getting impatient and said we had to get out because we drove all the way here and had looked for it last weekend and couldn't find it, so it was a waste to not get out. However, I stated as well that I didn't want to get out alone. The guys joked and said that if any ghosts popped out they would offer me as a sacrifice since I was the only girl. I found that to not be funny.

So we finally get out of the car and decide to have a look around. As we walk toward the bleeding tree (which it really looks like its bleeding), Robert saw a lady in white off to the right looking at us in the woods. So I turned to look at it and there she was. I quickly turned back around, figuring it was a trick of my imagination. We saw one of the pictures looking up in the tree here, so we decided to try and take pictures like that too. As I snap the shot I freeze and look at Sammy, "Did you see that or was that me?" Sure enough, he saw the lady's face looking at us from up in the tree. I said let's go back to the car, but Sammy was really into it so he kept snapping pictures and joking around saying "pose for me","thats it, work it,&uqot; etc. I told Sammy he was gonna piss her off, but he didn't listen and kept at it. Robert, Adam, and I decided to look around, and went to the left. As we were walking Adam got pushed by something and almost fell. Robert and I were in front and sammy was still taking pictures, he did NOT trip...Robert and Adam said they had enough so they went back to the car. Sammy couldn't find his lighter, so I headed to the car to get one, promising him we would go to the right to go down the path that Mary Jane supposedly throws stuff at people on. Sammy had his lighter earlier because he lit my last cigarette, but he couldn't find it and everyone checked their pockets and no one had it. So as I headed to the car to get one, Sammy following behind, he suddenly paused as did I because he yelled at us to shush. All of a sudden we could hear this woman screaming. I panicked so bad...I raced back to the car and jumped in, Sammy not too far behind. We decided to stay a little longer because we didn't believe we had seen enough to say yeah we saw her. As we sat in the car Sammy asked everyone to check their pockets again for his lighter. Robert said "Dude, I already told you I don't have it, I had my own." Well, he reached into his pocket anyways to check again and there was Sam's lighter. I was standing between Robert and Sam the whole time...Robert never had Sam's lighter, Sam lit my cigarette then put it back in his shirt pocket. I don't know how it came to be in Robert's pocket, nor do I care to find out.

We left shortly after that and Sam's car has not stalled yet. Basically, we plan to go back and see if we find anything more plauseable, but that adventure was scary enough in itself. It was a nice cemetery, except whoever was there before took beer out there there were beer bottles and trash scattered through out and it was sad that people could be so cruel. Another thing is one grave stone (crumbled) had the personal alive in 1767. Man that guy was old...

Many years ago, when I was in my teens, a group of us (including 2 adults), went to Mt. Olive. The car I was riding in stalled as we got near the end of the dirt road. The radio had been on so it died too. The energy there was almost fog-like, and it was bitter cold.

We got back in our cars to leave, and as soon as I got in, the car died. I got out, the car started. I got in, it died. I walked most of the way out of that area before I could get back in the car without it stalling.

The person who said that the stories about Mt. Olive are all lies doesn't know what she's talking about. I am a mom and grandmom, and I'm also Pagan. I have interest in Mt. Olive for my own reasons but I also have respect for Mary Jane and all who rest there.

Consider too, in the Burning Times, many were accused of Witchcraft because they grew and used herbs for medicinal purposes. Much of what was believed to be fact back then carried through many generations. Even today, Witchcraft is considered satanic worship.

On January 21st 2007, four of my friends, my friend's stepdad and mom, went to Mary Jane's Grave. We took two cars. Halfway down the road where the gravel turns to dirt, my friend's stepdad stopped the car he was driving and made me stop because I was driving my car. My friend's mom was having a terrible asthma attack. They turned around, and my four friends decided we'd still go up there. We went up there, got out of the car, and the tree does actually look like it is bleeding. My friend said he thought he heard footsteps out in the distance, but no one else heard them so we thought he was just being stupid trying to scare us. Anyways, we all got back in the car. Nothing scary happened at all. I would like to go again just to see if I have the same luck. My car didn't stall, everything still had power, and we didn't see anything like a ghost. I will say you do get a pretty creepy feeling like someone is watching you though. Someone watching you, or is it just your heart racing because you know all the stories behind Mary Jane's grave? I think that's what makes it so scary. Your choice what you want to believe, but as for me I say nothing happened to make me not want to go back. Will probably be back sometime shortly!

Today, on Saturday, March 24, 2007 my little brother and I were on our way to go to the cemetery to get a few shots of the site for my class project. On out way there, after the last big hill, we both saw this red pick up truck. So I pull out my digital camera and started to film my brother driving up to this guy...we were both too afraid to go out of the car because as you know how far back it is in the woods...away from yelling distance. Well anyways, he starts backing up so we can pull forward and turn around. I have the camera on at this point with a full battery, and I walk up to this guy and am filming. I ask him if he minded if I questioned him on film. He said he did, so I turned it off. Well, we go about filming the rest of the little cemetery, which is so unkept and a sad place to look at. While filming, I noticed the battery bar had gone almost dead along with my cell phone. So we turn back and started driving home. I turned the camera on and started watching the footage. When it came to the guy in the truck, the truck was there but the guy wasn't in the video at all. His voice was, but it was all disoriented and unusual. I also happened to notice the battery was full again in both my cell and camera. Ever since then I went to work and had this weird cold chill on the back of my neck.

My friends and I went out there tonight, Friday the 13th, and OMG...NOTHING HAPPENED! Contrary to the other tards that write to you and you post on your site, absolutely nothing out of the ordinary happens; even on Friday the 13th and after dark! It was me, Amanda, and my friends Keely, Nikki, Courtney and her sister, Ryen, Dani, Davis, and Jeremy. We went out there around 10:30 tonight. And aside from what everyone else on here says, there are NO ghosts, screaming, things getting thrown at you, 'bleeding' tree, car stalling, bad cell reception, trespassing signs, cops, horrible road conditions, or woman dressed in white. I think that everyone on here is soft in the head because nothing they said is true. I even came home and repeated "Bloody Mary" in the dark bathroom mirror 3 times. Ha wow, people are stupid and like to tell lies. Furthermore, I think that this Mary Jane Hendrickson was just an ordinary person who just happened to get a legend started about her. People should stop disrupting the souls that lie in that cemetery because this myth is absolutely busted!

Now, I'm not too sure what to really believe when it comes to Mary Jane's grave. I only have the experiences that I've come across with its history. The first time I went there, I was attending Hidden Hallow Camp. It seemed fine, and all the markings that were said to be there were pointed out by the camp counselor. One of the boys with us decided to spit on the tree. About 30 minutes after we got back to the camp, he broke his arm and had to go home.

That was when I was younger. The next time I visited the site it was very late, with a few friends of mine. As we drove down the road, everyone swears they saw some figure in the woods. Of course, I'm still trying to convince myself that it was some random person. It was pretty dark that night. I parked my car (an SUV) in a way that the headlights would shine into the cemetery. We all got out, and we walked to the tree. We all had this terrible feeling that we were being watched...and it was very cold in the cemetery, although the temperature was closer to 80 degrees.

We could hear sounds...almost like drums, but I'm almost positive it was just an overactive imagination. We get to the tree, and we look at it. We walk around it...suddenly my car lights go out. My doors were locked, so no random person in the woods would've been able to get into the car. We start walking towards the car, and the lights come back on. We decided to leave at this point. We get into the car and start to drive away. Suddenly there's a deer in my path and I have to stop real fast. I closed my eyes for a brief moment, expecting to hit it...but I didn't. The deer was nowhere to be seen, and I was apparently the only one who saw it. Now the deer could've just sprinted off, and if it was really there, I'm sure that's what happened...except that I should have hit it.

Again, I don't know what to believe...maybe it's an overactive imagination in a place where things are really, really creepy...

Like most of the other people that have written to you, I'm from Richland County as well. I went down to Mary Jane's Grave back in 2003, and I can report that nothing "spooky" happened. Now, let me establish something - I am a Witch, or Wiccan if you prefer, and I have been for over a decade. If there was something malevolent there, I could sense it. There were energies, just like in all cemeteries, but the most evil thing I encountered was the alignment being destroyed on my car because of that crummy road. Nonetheless, I'm more afraid of the living than the spirits of the dead, anyway.

And about Mary Jane being an Herbalist and not a Witch - back in those days, those words were interchangable. A big part of Witchcraft involves herbalism, as any Witch can tell you. The whole idea that a person could heal ailments with herbal concoctions and energy manipulation automatically made people assume they had some evil, supernatural power back in her day, so when she may have been viewed as a healer by those close to her, there is the possibility that others viewed her as an evil being.

If your visitors are looking for angry spirits, send 'em to the Reformatory here in Mansfield. Heck, even 545 going past it is chock full of nasty energies from escaped convicts, the family a couple of serial killers murdered, and random victims.

I went out to Mary Jane's Grave for the first time this year yesterday, April 27, 2007. I am personally skepitical when it comes to the idea of ghosts. We reached the drive to the cemetery at about 2:15 in the afternoon. From what I read, I had expected the road to be a lot worse than it was. We reached the grave simply (no rock, no women, nothing). Both of the gates were open, and there was spray paint covering most of the trees and the gates. Rocks weren't thrown at us, and I didn't see or hear anything in the woods. Once we got to the grave site, I had a real eerie vibe. The cemetery has thus been destroyed...The pictures on your website show quite a few gravestones standing that are now either pushed over or broken. Most of the gravestones are now broken and placed around the "bleeding tree." It looked like someone had taken spray paint and painted the tree. I didn't see any blood...it looks just like a pine tree. We walked around a little more, but nothing happened. We also turned our vehicle off to see if it would stall once. We tried to start it again, it started normally. There aren't any cameras hidden in the trees, and cops don't really patroll that area. From what I've gathered, it's just a cemetery that got beat to hell. You could tell that the people who go up there just leave all their trash. The fence isn't there anymore, and where Mary Jane's name is carved it looks like someone tried to paint over it...

Besides the eerie feeling I got when I first got there, nothing out of the ordinary happened...We did, however, see a blue shirt that was on the ground that looked like it moved. It might have been an overactive imagination...it was on the opposite side of the woods, but we didn't really look into it. I figured it was just an animal.