There is a cemetery in Milledgeville, Georgia that might just qualify as the downright weirdest graveyard in the whole nation. Known as Memory Hill, this twenty-acre resting place has not one, but three odd legends associated with it.
In the last quarter of the 19th century, a typhoid epidemic was sweeping through Georgia, claiming many lives. Many of Milledgeville’s residents buried their loved ones at Memory Hill that year. One of these unfortunate families was that of William Fish. He buried both his wife and child in the cemetery that year and found himself living a depressed and lonely life after their loss. Unable to cope with his grief, Fish entered the gates of Memory Hill one night and went inside the small crypt which held the remains of his family. He committed suicide inside it, blowing his own head off in a desperate, final attempt to reunite his shattered family.
These days, it’s told that this act not only reunited the family, but set their spirits into a state of extreme restlessness. Legend has it that if one knocks on the door of the Fish mausoleum, there is a faint but distinct return knock that answers from the inside.
There is a tombstone in Memory Hill which features a tall spire surrounded by an iron fence. This fence is decorated with hundreds of small devilish faces. No one is sure who sculpted these faces or why they are there. Stories are told that on Halloween these faces let out blood curdling, high pitched screams. People often travel to this grave in the dead of the night around Halloween time in hopes of hearing for themselves the strange sounds emitted from these fence-demons.
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