Missouri
The Lost Missouri Town Where All That Remains is a Witch’s Grave
Have you ever ever heard of Mayfield, Missouri? It is a city lengthy misplaced to historical past the place about the one factor that continues to be is a witch’s grave on the aspect of the highway. The story of the way it acquired there’s even stranger.
The Jagged Issues YouTube channel lately discovered remnants of what was Mayfield, Missouri. This is how the described what they discovered:
Include us as we seek for indicators of the 1800s city of Mayfield’s existence and its misplaced graves. Bonus, our discovery of witch’s grave. City was stated to have disappeared within the late 1800s.
They discover a small cemetery, however the grave of the alleged witch shouldn’t be there. It is on the aspect of the highway. As they inform it, the residents believed the girl was a witch and didn’t need her buried in the identical cemetery as the opposite residents, so she was entombed alongside the aspect of this unhappy highway.
The girl’s title was Laycock who lived within the 1800’s. Due to the idea that she was concerned within the supernatural, now passersby depart tokens on her grave together with skulls, jewellery and somebody has vandalized a close-by tree with an occult image.
There’s subsequent to no historical past of the neighborhood of Mayfield, Missouri. It was positioned south of Cape Girardeau, however even the Wikipedia web page has virtually no info aside from it is an unincorporated space. There’s just one actual truth shared about how the city acquired its title:
Mayfield had been named by W.H. Mayfield, who had established the put up workplace in 1886.
That is it. Simply rubble of possibly one house someplace on this space and the grave of an alleged witch. A tragic legacy for a misplaced Missouri neighborhood.