Real Haunted House
The Witch’s Grave
Old Mesilla, New Mexico
By Robin Wright
Old Mesilla and the area around it has had a dubious history, even before anyone officially settled there. The city of Las Cruces, the second largest city in New Mexico and a mere 6 miles from the quaint town of Old Mesilla was so named because of an 1830 massacre of a wagon train headed west along the trail known as El Camino Real. When the survivors buried their dead, they put up the requisite markings of crosses. Those following used it as a landmark, calling it “La Placita De Las Cruces”–the place of the crosses. Those who settled along the trail shortened it to Las Cruces. Las Cruces is now a bustling modern metropolitan, but enter Mesilla, New Mexico and you step back two hundred years.
Mesilla still has the thick adobe walled buildings that kept out both heat and dust. This was where Billy the Kid was caught, jailed, and allowed to escape. This is also the home of San Albino’s cemetery, home of the Witch’s Grave.
At the end of Calle De Lupe is the dirt packed ground that composes the cemetery. Tumbleweeds skitter across the graves, but your eyes will be drawn from the beautiful sculptures that serve as tombstones to a 4’x4’ cinderblock and cement tomb decorated with a 2‘ black cross that someone has carved with the number “666.” This, legend says, is the Witch’s tomb. It is the only headstone in the cemetery that has no name inscribed on it. There is no record of who she is or what she had done to get such a fortified grave, but it has been said that when she was buried there, her ghost kept trying to get out from its supposed final resting place. She has spent decades trying to find a crack that will set her free, and those who live near the cemetery have spent just as many years repairing the cracks that do appear.
Local lore claims a girl once slept on the tomb in response to a dare. She walked away alive, but was afterwards afflicted with incurable epilepsy. Further caution to those who feel the need to visit– in case escaping witches and mysterious illnesses aren’t enough, the fine folk who live near the cemetery do not appreciate late night visitors, and strongly discourage entering the cemetery after dark.
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the mexican says: |
March 10, 2006, 8:27 am |
hey you racist motherf&@#@%s why don;t you stop f&@cking you family members bunch of damn rednecks
mexico says: |
March 10, 2006, 8:28 am |
be bop your full of s@#t, go home and f^&k your cousins.
charro says: |
March 10, 2006, 8:34 am |
west side your mom said she liked f*&^()g your uncle/dad/cousin, 100% trailer trash KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY
Robert says: |
March 11, 2006, 3:57 am |
Hey ya’ll….Well i would say something racist, lord knows i know a lot..However, I do see more Mexicans, and Afro. americans, out here fighting in Iraq….I mean if they are coming from Mexico to fight for something that is none of their business, Well, let me be the first to welcome to the states.
Robert says: |
March 11, 2006, 4:02 am |
And besides, this is supposed to be about the witches grave there in Mesilla. Janette, I was born in that hospital you are talking about, and yeah it is run down, and supposedly off limits to anyone. I havent been there in a while, however, if you head a little south of Silver city you have Fort Bayard Med. Center. Now that has some stories. Most of my family has worked there, and they hate the night shift. Also the church you are refering to, i have heard of, and it is supposed to be pretty close. However, i have not had much time to invstigate.
claire says: |
March 11, 2006, 8:23 am |
hey does anybody wanna hook up?
rolando says: |
March 11, 2006, 8:24 am |
in what way?
claire says: |
March 11, 2006, 8:24 am |
well you know
claire says: |
March 16, 2006, 6:37 am |
rhochelle you can go F*&k yourself
rolando says: |
March 16, 2006, 6:39 am |
muuuuuaaaaaaaahahahahaha
marie says: |
March 17, 2006, 4:11 pm |
I DARE YOU TO WRITE BACK YOU ******* AND HOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BECCA says: |
March 17, 2006, 4:17 pm |
by the way, what does DE BOP mean? is it some kind of crazy mexican slang because if it is i would like to meet the person who came up with that one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
Becca says: |
March 18, 2006, 10:02 am |
So to all those mexicans who think they are full of ****
I rather be a white person and living in the westside then be a mexican like you all
so shove it were the sun don’t shine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this was suppose to be a story of my dear friend marie and her wheelchair and you guys had to make it into a civil war so burn in hell for that
Becca says: |
March 22, 2006, 2:43 pm |
It’s not a haunted wheel chair you asses she is really in a real wheel chair we didn’t say one word about it being haunted so i don’t know what you are talking about it being haunted maybe you should hang out with savanna more often you guys are both stupid looks like you have alot in common oh yeah and next time you say something thats not true in the frist place look it up or better yet learn how to read i bet you can’t even do that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Claire says: |
March 24, 2006, 8:13 am |
F U ******* F U Marie and Becca i can fuse where ever and when ever i don’t need you telling me what to do and leave Mexican alone Putas
cochon says: |
March 24, 2006, 8:19 am |
Hey west side shut up before I f uck you up
Cherish says: |
March 24, 2006, 10:24 am |
Omg, some of you people need to grow up.
becca says: |
March 30, 2006, 10:34 am |
mexican i ment to put dumb ***
becca says: |
March 31, 2006, 11:00 am |
you should talk you say the same stuff about me and i don’t know how old you are but you sure act like a child to swearing at me and my friend so you act your own age
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Cate says:
March 9, 2006, 6:58 pm
HEY NICOLE!!!! VEVA MEXICO ASSS! oh and savanna, you go can go suck a donkey’s ****! because it’s stupid hoe’s like you that make witchs attact my dear friend marie….so try and sleep tonight….i’ll be watching…MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA *****!