Bachelor's Grove Cemetery

Established no later than 1844, Bachelor's Grove Cemetery takes its name from corruptions of Batchelder, a prominent local family when English homesteaders settled the area in the 1820s-40s. Abandoned around the turn of the 20th century, it's since become one of the most famous haunted sites in the country, with paranormal investigators documenting over 100 reported encounters: glowing orbs, a phantom farmhouse, phantom cars, and the ghost of a woman and child near the adjacent pond, which by the 1920s carried its own rumors as a dumping ground for mob victims. The cemetery's most iconic image is the "White Lady" or "Madonna of Bachelor's Grove" — a figure in a flowing white hooded robe, seemingly carrying a baby, captured on camera by the Ghost Research Society on August 10, 1991, seated on a tombstone and nearly transparent despite the clear photograph. Decades of vandalism and looting have left fewer than 21 markers standing today.