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Some Legends refuse to Die
Some Legends refuse to Die
Axe Murder Hollow is located in an area of Thomas Road between Sterrettania Road and California Drive, by the old Weiss library, than at the bottom of the first big dip you will find the hollow. There you'll find the burned out foundations of a small home. (Not anymore, though. We've been told that plot was the last site sold in the housing project that's sprung up in the area.)
A rock path from there will lead you to a creek with a tree stump near its' bank.
A jealous husband who suspected his wife of cheating on him with a farmhand chased her down that path and beheaded her with an axe on that stump. Then man went crazy and taking the axe, killed his entire family. Burying the bodies, never to be found, it is said that the man grew old alone with nothing but the continuous haunting from the spirits of his daughter and wife who visited him regularly to torment him. One cold dark night he could take no more and began running through the house after the ghosts of the 2 females, chasing them again with an axe, screaming and going wild. As he ran out the back door of the house he had forgotten in the haste that the edge of the cliff was just feet from the door itself, falling to his death. While they found the body of the man, mangled and chopped with the axe that was laying beside him, they never found the bodies of the young girl and her mother.
Some versions of the story say that the young girl was murdered by her father because she had put the family to shame ,marrying a young man whom her father did not approve of. Because the mother sided with her, she secretly sewed the girls wedding gown for her big day and the father came in while the girl was getting the finishing touches applied by her mother. The father, in a fit of rage, said that he would not tolerate his daughter marrying this man and chased after them, killing them.
It is said that the young girl roams, still in her gown, looking for her lost love while the mother roams about moaning and crying at the loss and horror brought upon them from her own husband.
All though some who have grown up in the area claim they have never witnessed anything unusual, or even have claimed to have spooked curious onlookers by throwing stone from the shadows, I know of at least one resident whose dog refused to enter the hollow, shaking and cringing whenever they came close to the old foundations, or the stump.
During Halloween and the weeks before, they actually post police around the area because there are so many people that pull off the side of the road looking for the area, the house (what's left of it) and hoping to glimpse the ghosts. Others have simply done nothing more than pull over to the side of the road, turning off their car when they hear running through the woods and a woman scream. Most who have heard the screams don't have the gumption to go further into the woods and those that have, have never come out.
(As in all Legends, there is an element of truth to the story. In the late 1940’s a man did go insane and wipe out his entire family with an ax. He spent the rest of his days incarcerated in an asylum.)
While the stories and versions of Axe Murder Hollow are probably as different as the number of people investigating the area each year, you can be sure of one thing..... on a foggy night even the most non-believing of investigators seems to get the chills and end up chickening out before they get very deep into the forest
Some Legends refuse to Die
Some Legends refuse to Die
Axe Murder Hollow is located in an area of Thomas Road between Sterrettania Road and California Drive, by the old Weiss library, than at the bottom of the first big dip you will find the hollow. There you'll find the burned out foundations of a small home. (Not anymore, though. We've been told that plot was the last site sold in the housing project that's sprung up in the area.)
A rock path from there will lead you to a creek with a tree stump near its' bank.
A jealous husband who suspected his wife of cheating on him with a farmhand chased her down that path and beheaded her with an axe on that stump. Then man went crazy and taking the axe, killed his entire family. Burying the bodies, never to be found, it is said that the man grew old alone with nothing but the continuous haunting from the spirits of his daughter and wife who visited him regularly to torment him. One cold dark night he could take no more and began running through the house after the ghosts of the 2 females, chasing them again with an axe, screaming and going wild. As he ran out the back door of the house he had forgotten in the haste that the edge of the cliff was just feet from the door itself, falling to his death. While they found the body of the man, mangled and chopped with the axe that was laying beside him, they never found the bodies of the young girl and her mother.
Some versions of the story say that the young girl was murdered by her father because she had put the family to shame ,marrying a young man whom her father did not approve of. Because the mother sided with her, she secretly sewed the girls wedding gown for her big day and the father came in while the girl was getting the finishing touches applied by her mother. The father, in a fit of rage, said that he would not tolerate his daughter marrying this man and chased after them, killing them.
It is said that the young girl roams, still in her gown, looking for her lost love while the mother roams about moaning and crying at the loss and horror brought upon them from her own husband.
All though some who have grown up in the area claim they have never witnessed anything unusual, or even have claimed to have spooked curious onlookers by throwing stone from the shadows, I know of at least one resident whose dog refused to enter the hollow, shaking and cringing whenever they came close to the old foundations, or the stump.
During Halloween and the weeks before, they actually post police around the area because there are so many people that pull off the side of the road looking for the area, the house (what's left of it) and hoping to glimpse the ghosts. Others have simply done nothing more than pull over to the side of the road, turning off their car when they hear running through the woods and a woman scream. Most who have heard the screams don't have the gumption to go further into the woods and those that have, have never come out.
(As in all Legends, there is an element of truth to the story. In the late 1940’s a man did go insane and wipe out his entire family with an ax. He spent the rest of his days incarcerated in an asylum.)
While the stories and versions of Axe Murder Hollow are probably as different as the number of people investigating the area each year, you can be sure of one thing..... on a foggy night even the most non-believing of investigators seems to get the chills and end up chickening out before they get very deep into the forest