GHOST GIRL

Graceland Cemetery has another grave that is said to be haunted. This is the grave of Inez Clarke, a six-year old girl who was struck by lightning in the late 1800s while on a picnic with her mother and father. The distraught parents commissioned a life-size statue of the girl to be placed on her grave. According to local legend, the girl haunts the cemetery and sometimes, her statue will disappear from the box. A night watchman who was making his rounds during a storm, came across Inez’s grave and saw that the box was empty. He fled, never to return. The next morning, the statue of the little girl was back in its usual place. Others claim they have caught brief glimpses of a small child in 19th-century dress wandering through the cemetery.