Bonaventure Cemetery

Gracie Watson died of pneumonia in 1889 at age six; her grief-stricken father commissioned sculptor John Walz to carve a life-sized statue of her in 1890 to mark her grave, and it remains one of Bonaventure Cemetery's most visited monuments. Visitors leave coins, toys, and other small gifts in the statue's hands, and legend holds that removing them causes Gracie to cry in the night or the statue itself to weep tears of blood. The cemetery is also home to a widely repeated legend of a spectral pack of dogs said to guard the grounds from trespassers — visitors report disembodied barking and snarling, and some say they've been chased out by hounds no one could see.