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The Witch’s Grave

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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mizzpeachpassion says:

October 2, 2006, 6:41 pm

Hey thanks for telling me where the witches gave site is now i can go check it out ive been trying to find somthing to do in new mexico and i finally found some thing does any one else know about any more places out there in new mexico cause i like to travel and i want to find out so if you can give the location to where they are that would be great. im very intrested in the paranormal thanx…..

mizzpeachpassion says:

October 2, 2006, 6:43 pm

and also is it in las cruces or some where else the witches grave?

friendly new mexican says:

October 3, 2006, 11:03 pm

Well have you ever been to the haunted hotels in Santa Fe mizzpeachpassion, a freak for the paranormal should check out the hotels and some of the old buildings. there is also albuquerque that is filled with tons of freakish things.

bed dover says:

October 6, 2006, 1:37 pm

i really dont care biout this god damn tomb i bet she was a fine ***** and i would tap dat

Someone says:

October 8, 2006, 1:21 am

I hope that witch haunts you for that bed dover, you are sick!!!!
She is probably too old for you and why would you leave that?

Nora says:

October 9, 2006, 2:24 am

For the question about the Silver City hauntings..the old hospital is not haunted..has a bad vibe, but that’s about it, and mainly put there by the vandals and vaggabons that stay there alot. The old church is a place that will turn your stomach. I wish I could give directions, but it seems every time going out there, there’s another way to get there. Pinos Altos is also a good place for a fright on a full moon, though I never recomend going alone on any night out that way.
As for the fighting, that’s rediculous. This isn’t a “lets talk ****” board, if you’ve nothing to say that is within context of the original post, don’t write it. Take it to a flame board if you need to vent so bad.

nick says:

October 13, 2006, 7:09 am

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leila says:

October 13, 2006, 4:37 pm

Hello! Wow…i am a so disappointed at all the punks who have gotten on here and really made this site ugly. Grow up! Is there anyone who has anymore stories on the witch’s grave or about the hospital?

metoo says:

October 14, 2006, 4:42 pm

I live in A 70 year old house and you people probably wont believe the things ive heard and seen in there we moved in when i was only 14 im now 32 and i stil see and hears thing. there are so many thing for me to tell you but it would take to long my sister never belived me until she seen it herself just about a couple of months ago

metoo says:

October 14, 2006, 4:45 pm

and its for real

Shea says:

October 19, 2006, 9:49 am

Hey,
I don’t think this stuff is fack. But if yall wanna see some scary places come to Gadsden, Alabama. We have some wird things. But there also scary.

question mark says:

October 24, 2006, 8:04 am

So u guys on this page wouldn’t be scared if a witch came back to life and killed you or turned you in to a frog that go ran over? U guys are a**

tati says:

October 28, 2006, 3:17 pm

It is fasinating how many scary stories there is in NEW MEXICO.

tati says:

October 28, 2006, 3:19 pm

I also have a strong interest in witches and haunted places.

Bev says:

October 29, 2006, 3:51 pm

Wow. I was hoping to read a good ghost story and was horrified to come across such comments showing such racial hatred. Many of these entities that don’t pass on and become “ghosts” as we know them are souls conflicted who did not learn their lessons in life sometimes remain earthbound. Maybe some of you writing some of this ugliness need to look a little deeper into your own souls and think about showing some love and respect for your fellow humans. We all will have to answer for our actions one day.

Jennifer says:

October 29, 2006, 8:42 pm

Hey why are these people talking about racism when you are supposed to be talking about the Witches Grave. Oh I’m just kidding does anyone know any good chat sites I don’t know any. Or does anyone wanna hook up! Does anyone watch Most haunted today they had people watching live camera’s so you can watch any live paranormal activity.

lazer says:

November 20, 2006, 7:08 am

Just say “No” to crack !!

karla says:

December 8, 2006, 2:39 pm

hey thats what i thought so none of yah lil ******* have nothing to say

steven says:

December 25, 2006, 2:40 am

there is also alot of stories about an old church by lovington called antioch….they say it is haunted, the story goes that 2 different church groups have been killed there by there preachers, and that both preachers commited suicide by hanging themselves in the tree out in front of the church…the only odd thing we encountered was some bees in the winter time…

Marie and Becca says:

December 31, 2006, 7:32 pm

RESPECT! r-e-s-p-e-c-t! find out what it means me! sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me !

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