Alabama Adventures - Cragford Witch Grave

[@shaneliffin6116]

Great information. Looks like a great area of Alabama.

[@ElizaBXX]

We used to rent the school for Family reunions around 10 years ago and it is EXTREMELY creepy. Even in the daytime.

[@barbarab8479]

Herman Manning Lashley, whose headstone is one featured in the video, is my great uncle. He was my maternal grandmother’s brother and known as Manning. Manning died in Greenville, South Carolina while serving in the military during WWI from complications related to the Spanish Flu. He never married. I am related to almost everyone buried in the Cragford Cemetery in some way, but I only heard about Mary Sunday this week via a Facebook group related to Clay County. Someone posted that the reason her gave was dug in a north/south direction was two boys dug her grave not knowing the tradition of a grave being in an east/west direction. I have no knowledge of Mary Sunday being related to me, but there is more to the story about her history than most people know about how she was slandered after her death. My father was born in Cragford, and his mother who died following childbirth when he was 3 years old is buried there along with the baby. Cragford was a thriving town in its early days, and most of the businesses were still viable when I was growing up and my parents and I would go to Cragford to attend a family reunion for my paternal grandmother’s family. Cragford eventually went the way of a lot of other small towns in Alabama with people like my parents who grew up during the Great Depression leaving for better job opportunities elsewhere. I never thought Cragford was “creepy” and I still don’t. The last time I visited the cemetery was about 3 years ago. Many headstones and markers have deteriorated because no family is around to regularly care for them when they become cracked, sunken, etc.

[@lisaknox8746]

Loved t song! Another great video ✝️💜

[@alabamabigfootsociety4427]

The song fit the video. This is my very first attempt at doing videos, lol. I like your new picture! very beautiful!

[@billtisa9141]

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[@chrisdenney201]

That school does open for family reunions and such. I helped do a lot in that place as a kid.

[@alabamabigfootsociety4427]

OK, and thanks for watching

[@hamprepper]

There's a "blue spring" near there in Wesabulga that my Uncle (Denney side of my family) said he went to in the mid 1940's (he was around 10 ears old then). They warned him not get close because it's like quicksand. The lady (probably an aunt or cousin) that was warning him was mad as wet hen, because she lost a big hog in the "blue spring". That might have been her only hog. I'm not sure, but it's interesting talking to my relatives down there & how they survived in the depression. Is anyone know of this? It was a Well with quicksand like conditions around it.

[@chrisdenney201]

Also some older graves outback of the cemetery that wasn't found until it was logged. If your interested in the inside of the school contact me.

[@alabamabigfootsociety4427]

I have only heard stories of the old school, would like to do a ghost hunt sometime, Is it haunted or anything like that?

[@renee8642]

Alabama has alot of paranormal activity for sure. Hoopers graveyard in Muscadine is one....You would have to have someone take you to it because it isnt marked and hard to find if you dont know where to go.

[@alabamabigfootsociety4427]

Renee Erwin I would enjoy gong there, is it haunted? Have you seen ghosts there?

[@renee8642]

Yes, I had pictures of Orbs and also a blue strek of light that flew over the graves...I wish I could find the pictures for you to see. It was about 10 yrs ago. Sorry, I hope I am not worrying you with so much info. I use to tell people about all the things that went on when I lived there and of course lots of people would just would blow it off with other possible explanations.....Im glad to share with someone who knows these things do go on.

[@alabamabigfootsociety4427]

You are not worrying me, i am enjoying your encounter stories. I would like to sit down and maybe record some of them sometime. I do believe in just about all paranormal topics. And thank you for sharing these stories

[@renee8642]

Thank you and glad to share info. I am planning on trying to visit the Soldier tombstone you posted in one of your video's sometime. Very interesting!

[@alabamabigfootsociety4427]

I will be looking forward to your comments on it, let me know if it moves

[@scottbaker-ScottyB]

Check out William M. Branham grave site photographs. He was a prophet born in Kentucky.

[@alabamabigfootsociety4427]

I will do that, thanks

[@ChuckHydro]

Very, very interesting. I have never seen a N-S grave. Thanks

[@alabamabigfootsociety4427]

This is the only N-S Grave I knew of, but after doing this video someone has told me of another, that too, is suppose to be a witch grave

[@ChuckHydro]

Alabama Bigfoot Society Thanks for the info, I have never really thought about because I have never seen it before. But whoever got planted the wrong way was trying to make more than a fashion statement and to think, right there in Sweet Home Alabama who could have known. Ha! My GrandPa came from Alabama and settled in Louisiana and that's about all I know but I have enjoyed many good friends from and in Alabama over the years, when I used to go there I always felt like I was going home!

[@alabamabigfootsociety4427]

Lots of nice people here, I have cousins in Summerset, I believe thats close to Baton Rouge LA. Thanks for watching

[@ChuckHydro]

Alabama Bigfoot Society Yes, I have friends from all over your state, If I did not live in this state, I would choose Alabama, I like the people's mind sets, honesty and traditions. It truly is Sweet Home!

[@gingersowers8315]

Why did the school close?

[@alabamabigfootsociety4427]

I never found out why, I even asked local residents and people just didn't seem to want to talk about it. Thanks for watching

[@barbarab8479]

Ginger Sowers, when the population of Cragford declined and the school was perhaps not up to date regarding building standards, students were assigned to other schools within Clay County. It was more economical & practical to consolidate students within a county system. alabamaclaycounty.com/education/

[@mikecatg]

I have a video I want to send you of New Hope area cemetery. Loud screams coming from the woods around it.

[@alabamabigfootsociety4427]

Would like to hear it, email is [e-mail]

[@wisdombear4965]

Post Office still open.

[@wisdombear4965]

School closed somewhere around 2000.