so, my brother found this story about how, in mt. holly nj. (a town about 10 minutes away from us) around the 1700's there was this whole witch scandal. the towns people threw this witch into a well because...well, they thought she was a witch. so, they threw her into this well, and it was said that at night they could hear her screaming to get out or something... so in order to get away from this, they built a little four walled ... thing.... to encapsulate her. but young kids would go up to it and knock on the door, and of course they would swear that they could hear her knock back.
apparently there is this table in the middle of the woods close to this little "house" there's this legend that it was a witches alter, and underneath the new jersey devil is chained up, and at night, if you put your ear next to it, you can hear the chains rattle because he wants to escape.
this whole thing by the way is in the middle of a cemetery and it started because there is this tombstone right at the front of the cemetery, and it says something like, this is the fate of those who forsake god. and apparently some guy wrote a story about it, and signed it benjamin franklin.
later though, they decided that the story was false, and it really wasn't ben.
so of course my brother found this little tid bit of information and what do we do?
we go and find it...
or try anyways. my brother, dad, nikki and i all went out to the cemetery where this is all supposed to revolve around. of course it is uber late into the evening. so we turn the car off. very scary... ugh. and we start looking around.
we never found the tombstone, or the little mausoleum type object with the witch in it... but we did find the witches alter...
it was like 4 ft. high and 8 ft. wide
it had holy holy holy carved into it, and two benches on either side.
and of course chad lifted me onto it, and tried to sacrifice me (while i'm freaking out)
haha, good times?
there was also this wooden stump, next to it, that is supposed to be part of the original scaffold? is that the right word? where they hung the witches...
so, all in all, tonight was pretty weird...
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