Confederate Graveyard
It is said that in this lost cemetery, there is a mysterious light. Allegedly, if one travels to the cemetery after dark, he will be confronted by a floating blaze. As one tries to escape, it is said the flame will follow, screaming in a very shrill voice.
I live just 10 minutes away from Lebanon, VA and would like to go and see this! If you could get back to me and let me know exactly where this I woul;d appreciate it!!
Comment by Amanda | 10.11.2005 | 9:02 pm
now that’s very weird. A flame following you screaming? WoW! if that was me i’d run like hell
Comment by Dan | 10.21.2005 | 9:39 pm
Lebanon is near where I grew up. I also would like to know the location of the cemetary
Thanks,
K. C.
Comment by K. C. | 11.9.2005 | 8:15 pm
I live close to Lebanon do you have directions?
Comment by Josh | 11.12.2005 | 2:25 am
I would like to know how to get there. My boyfriend goes ghost hunting. can you e-mail me directions. emo_dork88@yahoo.com
Comment by Jessica | 11.30.2005 | 10:49 am
Oh Hellr there!!
I would love to know the location of this cemenentary
I a’int lyin let that that blazerer follow me I a’int lyin
I may run like hell, but I’ll be shootin back at it.
I a’int lyin!!
Comment by Madea said, | 01.5.2006 | 9:10 am
This is a confederate soldier cemetary and it is located on North Church Street in Lebanon, Virginia. You travel 1/2 mile until you reach a trailer park and you go through the trailer park until you reach the end at the top of the hill.Here you reach a gate that is not locked. There you have to continue on foot unil you reach the cemetary. (Not sure of the actual distance but not far)
Some have said the floating blaze could possibly be a soldier carrying a lantern. The man to talk to about this would be Richard Fulgam (former senior editor of The Lebanon News). He has visited this cemetary.
He left this review mentioning the graveyard incident on Amazon.com referring to a book entitled Civil War “Ghosts of Virginia”
by L. B., Jr. Taylor, Brenda Goens (Illustrator):
Ghosts in lost Graveyard of Lebanon, VA, April 20, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
My name is Richard Fulgham, author of “The Hogs of Cold Harbor”, “The Embracing Woods”, “The Lion of Saint Catharine”, “Appalachian Genesis” and “Man’s Laughter: Anatomy of a Manhunt”. What I say here is true. I met Mr. Taylor in the late ’90’s when I was a reporter for the Lebanon Newspaper in Russell County, VA. I’d discovered a 200+ yr old graveyard near North Street, all grown over with trees and undergrowth. Some of the trees were three feet thick. Amongst the tombstones, I found about a dozen graves of Confederate soldiers. Mr. Taylor visited and I took him to the site. I don’t know what’s in the book, but we saw nothing spooky. But when I went back myself that night, I saw reddish “lamps” moving around, emanating from quivering fog-like forms — which were translucent and seemed to glow in the moonlight. This accouht may be in another one of Mr. Taylor’s excellent studies, but it happened. I was the man. I was there. I saw them.
Comment by ghost seeker | 02.1.2006 | 4:36 pm
I’m interested in this story, because Lebanon isn’t very far from where I grew up in Virginia. I can’t say that I have ever heard about this place. My question is do you ever list places that are gave to you as haunted. I know a few places for the states of Virginia and Kentucky.
Comment by mel | 04.29.2006 | 11:50 pm
Ahhh, I thought that this would be here. I’m the caretaker to that Graveyard. It’s true it’s got Confederate soldiers buried there. There are, on some nights, floating lanterns and what not. The shrill voices that you may here are “Rebel Yells”, which have been known to be blood-curdling.
Comment by John | 08.26.2006 | 10:20 pm
This comment is for the caretaker; My name is Allen Gross, I’m a confederate ghost hunter Please Contact me.
Ghosthunter1863@Yahoo.com
Comment by Allen Gross | 10.19.2006 | 8:27 pm
is the lebanon you speak of in russell co. or another place
Comment by Adam Mitchell | 10.24.2006 | 7:11 pm
Hey. I love virginia. i think this website sucks becuase none of it is true. alothough i wanna go see something you guys mentioned. i cant wait!
Comment by Julie Hasburnsky | 10.29.2006 | 3:17 pm
My ancestors lived/live up in Lebenon. We try to go up there every August for our reunion. I haven’t made it in several years. I have always been fasinated with cemetaries and would love to visit this one. Anyone here a Combs or Skeen? Or related in anyway?
Comment by Jennifer | 12.12.2006 | 11:44 am
I live a short distance away from Lebanon, VA and would like to go and see this!! If you could get back to me and let me know exactly where this I would really appreciate it!!
Comment by James | 12.17.2006 | 12:36 am
That really is creepy, and especially when my cousins live in Virginia. Is the cemetary close to Fairfax?
Comment by missychristy14 | 01.13.2007 | 12:30 pm
reply to missychristy14 –
Lebanon is in southwest VA, probably 5.5-6 hours from Fairfax.
Comment by mossyfern | 04.3.2007 | 11:00 pm
I live in Southwest, VA.. not far from Lebanon. I’ve been to that Graveyard before, at night… and I did see a light but I couldn’t hear anything. My dad saw it too.. but we didn’t really pay much attention to it… but it was out of nowhere… so yeah…
Comment by Cami | 07.28.2007 | 1:01 am
Yes this place is real. I lived on church street for 5 years. From 1991 to 1996. My old house is till there. This graveyard is kinda creepy but I never went at night. Most of the markers are long unreadable but I was always told it was a cival war graveyard. It is not hard to find at all.
Comment by Adam | 08.31.2007 | 5:41 am
I heard this same story about a graveyard near Lynnwood virginia. I visted this place several times as a teenager, a few times late at night. Lot of imagination but not much else. The grave yard very interesting as some of it was fenced in and the rest was some what overgrown, but still disernable were the sunked in spots where the graves were and plain rocks for headstones. I was very surprised to such a similar story about another place so close. I also heard that lights were supposed to be civil war solders lanterns.
Comment by Chad | 10.14.2007 | 2:29 am
I am from VA myself and I am also obsessed with my sates wonderful history especially the Civil War. I am definetly like ghost hunting and this will definetly be on my list to visit. How cool is this!!! Thanks for the info!
Comment by Erin | 10.16.2007 | 1:46 am
I am from Virginia. I am obsessed with history especially from my home state of VA and definetly Civil War History. I am also definetly loving ghost hunting it is a hobby. Thank you so much for the info and it will be high on my list of places to visit for the ghosts and most importantly for the civil war history!!!!! How cool is this???!!!
Comment by Erin | 10.16.2007 | 1:49 am
Sounds like maybe there’s a Banshee or two in this place as well!
Comment by loco | 10.26.2007 | 10:11 am
hey by chance does anyone l know of the exact location of this place?
Comment by amber | 10.27.2007 | 12:47 pm
I live in Lebanon and if anyone wants to email me I can give you directions to the graveyard. I’ve been up there but not at night. It’s even scary in daylight. The earth has fallen away from the concrete slabs that cover some graves and you can see down inside them. Not only are confederate soldiers buried there but many slaves are buried all around that area with only a rock marking the spot. My email is debbiemcreynolds@bvunet.net.
Comment by Debbie | 10.29.2007 | 9:30 am
I live in Grundy, Va and I went to this cemetary with my wife and we went looking and became to be lost from each other. i lookeed ofr her, but i couldnt find her. this was in 1997. if anybody sees her can you tell her to call me. i need her to pick me up a pack of cigerettes, i have been waiting for one 10 years and i cant get any money because all teh welfare checks have her name on it.
Comment by Jimbo | 10.29.2007 | 9:53 am
thank you for letting me know that i’m not alone….i discovered this grave yard when i was about 14 and i’m 25 now…everything u described with the orange light to the scream is absolutely true…me and a couple of my friends was walking through those woods because one of my friends lives right below that old cemetary in Deer Spring’s Trailor Court and i triped on one of those tomb stones and when i shined a light on it i noticed what it was and when i looked back, i seen an ornage light swaying back and forth and twords us while we all heard a loud shreck…it scared the hell out of me but i have been there many times after and never saw anything but not after dark… if anyone is intrested in going up there after dark to check it out and see what happens just holler back at me on this site
Comment by Mike | 12.18.2007 | 11:16 pm
Hey, I was up there the other day Jimbo, and I saw your wife. She gave me yur smokes. Sorry, but I smoked em all. She said she’d call ya when she got to the Save-A-Lot.
Comment by Bobbi | 12.27.2007 | 10:06 pm
Hi friends. This is Richard Fulgham, the guy that saw the light in both the literal and the metaphorical sense — deep in the woodsy Confederate graveyard at night. I believe now that there is something supernatural, even divine if I may say so, about the unrest of the rebel soldiers. My great grandfather fought, along with about seven or eight great uncles. They come to me whenever I vist the ground in which their bones are interred. Obviously their spirits are restless and roam about at night searching for someone to help them find spiritual inner peace. Do you guys think we could write a book and maybe photography with infrared the misty lights and shapes of “shapeless” soldiers? If interested, contact me at rlfulgham@hotmail.com . Look, I’m a sixty year old gray bearded **** because the Yanks destroyed my cultured world. Like the ghostly soldiers — connect to me by blood — I seek inner peace, even grace. Who is interested in contacting the ghost rebels? I am crazy but I’ve published a real commercial history book, plus four others (POD) on Amazon.
Comment by Richard Fulgham | 01.12.2008 | 4:23 pm
me too. but if u r reading this i’m already home! i have heard this story so many times but in different ways.
Keris.
Comment by keris | 02.14.2008 | 1:35 pm
hi my name is jessica i live in virginia the story is not true sorry guys….
Comment by jessica | 02.15.2008 | 11:42 pm
I live in a small town not far from lebanon. Abingdon Va has it’s share of haunted places also. The Barter Theatre and The Martha Washington Inn are a couple of places any aspiring ghost hunter should visit.
Comment by Barbara | 03.15.2008 | 9:05 pm
that is so cool i live like 10 mile away and did not know that
Comment by Emma | 03.19.2008 | 1:08 pm
The story is great I live 10 miles away and didn’t know that
Comment by Emma | 03.19.2008 | 1:19 pm
I live in Lebanon!! I will be checking this out myself. I will post again afterwards. If there is truth to it I will let you know.
Comment by Don | 03.28.2008 | 12:44 pm
Alright, Yall want to know the directions to this place well ive been there and the only thing i seen was the police. but anyways go into lebanon find the middle school and go right across the road from it they should be a parkin lot behind lebanon methodist church ur gonna want to park there after u park start walking twards the mountains away from the church and main street ull be walkin up hill and near some houses when u get to the top they will be a right hand turn and a gate in front of u on the right is a water tower go over the gate and follow the trail on the right its about a 5 min walk until u get to another gate with posted signs hop that gate and walk to the top of the hill and there it is the big tree with the fence around it use to be a old hanging tree and most of the grave stones was from the 1800 and early 1900 anyways set around the tree and turn all lights off and be quiet and u might hear something but if any1 wants to go and cant find the way give me a hollar and ill take ya there and a couple haunted tunnels and the haunted govenors mansion Keith07willis@hotmail.com messenger or myspace or just drop me a email
Comment by Willie | 05.10.2008 | 2:32 pm