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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jazzy says: |
April 6, 2006, 10:18 am |
Mexican you make the worst comments i have ever seen
go and look in a mirror how old is that why don’t you do us all a favor and just stop talking on this website it’s not doing anything for you
Unknown says: |
April 9, 2006, 6:02 pm |
Gadsden High is haunted. I am a student to that school and well I have experience stuff from there first hand. Me and my friends herd the screams and the scratches on the walls. We may not have seen the ghost but we sure herd it.
jazzy says: |
April 12, 2006, 8:53 am |
Hey mexican no one cares where your from or if you ever heard of the witch’s grave
jazzy says: |
April 16, 2006, 3:02 pm |
mexican no one says poo hoo what dose that mean anyways is it your language or something
pablo says: |
April 16, 2006, 3:02 pm |
hi guys u guys are fat. i like chipmunks. becca ur awesome mexicans are smelly like a onion.chipmunks have big acorns.they bite there acorns.i have acorns.I HAVE A CHIPMUNK. i like ace age. i like ice age 2. they have a nut guy. he has nuts!he bites nuts. the pistons are cool. u guys are fools. i kno im meen but what am i? im pablo im from an acorn.which came from a chipmunk.ya.blgggggggggaaaaaaaa i kno michael jackson and chipmunks
becca says: |
April 16, 2006, 3:06 pm |
I aggree with pablo you guys are fat and are fools
i like chipmunks too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ice age 2 is a good movie
so there!!!!!!!!!!!11
Jordan says: |
April 18, 2006, 4:03 pm |
I’m from las cruces, the Witches grave is located in san albino’s cemetary in Mesilla. You take Avenida De Messilla, into mesilla and turn right onto Calle de Sur (at the shorty’s gas station) Off of Calle De Sur, you take a left onto Calle De Lupe, the cemetary is at the end of the street.
Juan says: |
April 18, 2006, 8:07 pm |
dear stupid “Mexican”,
why r u so full of ****? i bet you’re not even mexican!It’s u who degrade my race!marie and becca were just telling a story that might or might not be true, and you had to start a rascist fight!i hope u don’t see me in a dark alley cuz i will f**ck you up you son of a b***h. it’s people like you who make me sick!!!!!!!
el coco says: |
April 19, 2006, 2:13 am |
to everybody involved in a childish fught over something stupid? I f you don’t believe in the story check it out thanx to Jordan, we now have directions to get there. If youhaven;t checked it out you should, to Marie, Becca, Mexican if you like to argue or act like children please take it elsewhere. A week ago I went ot the Witch’s grave sight i saw as three men worked on the site as they explaine to me the reason they were patching the old grave.
Sunesta says: |
April 26, 2006, 8:07 pm |
Well GHS is haunted. The other day I was so freaked out cuz I saw the ghost. Now that is just freaky…
spenser says: |
April 28, 2006, 2:20 pm |
vtuhvjhnvjdkcgynesvyixgkks!
BLUE MAGIC says: |
May 7, 2006, 12:25 am |
Hey I think we should just concentrate on the stories that are being shared. If you all came to this website to fight thats ok also I only ask that if you are one of the parties involved in the trash talking that you all meet up and fight with eachother in person so you can just end it. Now please let us return to the tales that are being told here.
shirley says: |
May 22, 2006, 12:02 am |
4 god sakes i read all commets of this 1st of all becca and westside shu*t the f*** up ur both racist am not from mexican but i hav cousins and freinds living there. also i agree in nicole and mariane o ya be bop u to stut the fu–k up u ****
shirley says: |
May 22, 2006, 12:05 am |
god i hav lots to say to u guys but wat the hack of sayin it u guys all fight some r u r right some most r rong
Courtney says: |
May 23, 2006, 2:42 am |
You guys are acting really dumb. I hope that you all grow the hell up and learn to type.
Anyways, does anyone have the address? I wouldn’t mind going tomorrow to this place. Even if it isn’t real, it’s still something interesting to do. Has anyone been to the Holy Cross in Deming?
Joseph Clark says: |
May 23, 2006, 11:24 am |
What do bebop amd his friends do on Halloween? Amswer: Pumpkin!!!!
Debbie says: |
May 31, 2006, 12:40 am |
One really allegedly hanted place is the old Santa Fe prison where they had that bloody riot years ago! A local radio station did a halloween visit there and put the pics up on their website and it showed a lot of orbs and they claimed there was some sound recordings. It’s not to foreboding looking during the day, just an old water tower, fence etc. Old Town in Albuquerque has it share of hauntings as is the Kimo theater (by a young boy who will stop for donuts) and a few other places. They do have a ghost tour in Old Town but boy they are expensive!
Jared says: |
June 4, 2006, 5:41 pm |
This place is interesting….I havent heard of it.
June 7, 2006, 2:27 pm |
Yo pienso que esto es muy raro you never know when there could be a crack on that toomb.
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nion lopez says:
April 1, 2006, 6:28 pm
is this realy true oris it ****