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| Huntsville
– Bowden Rd, perhaps better known as "Demons Rd,” has a steady flow of reports
regarding the experiences travelers claim to have had while driving down the old
road. People that wander off down “Demons Rd” tell tales of disturbing encounters,
and an eerie feeling that sweeps over anyone who dares disrupt the spirits said
to be lingering down “Demons Rd.” The old road leads to an old cemetery known
as Martha’s Chapel Cemetery. |
Bowden
Rd / Demons Road
Photo courtesy Dana
Goolsby, October 2010 |
Driving
down Demons Road
Photo courtesy Dana
Goolsby, October 2010 |
| Locals warn curious
people who desire to brave the path or visit the graveyard not to provoke the
spirits. Many of those warnings are spoken by those who claim that a spirit followed
them home after being in that area. |
Martha
Chapel Cemetery
Photo courtesy Dana
Goolsby, October 2010 |
In May of 2010 a women
reported the encounter her husband and their friends had while at the cemetery.
She claimed they saw a man wandering through the cemetery one evening, but did
not pay much heed to the wanderer.
A few days later, as the woman was
getting into the shower, she turned around to close the shower curtain, and much
to her surprise, there in her bedroom, stood the same man they had seen wandering
through the cemetery.
The man disappeared after instilling immense fear
in the woman, and she has not reported seeing him since. |
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| According to one man’s
story, he and a buddy saw a hand protruding from a grave in the cemetery off “Demons
Rd.” Eventually the whole arm was said to be out from within its grave, and grasping
around in search of something, or anything. The man moved towards the grave against
the persistent urging of his friend. He said he bent down to touch the hand, with
his friend pulling at him desperately the whole time. His friend’s pleadings did
not stop him from making contact with the hand, which in turn, allegedly grasped
his hand and began to pull him downward toward the grave. He was able to pull
free from the hand. He turned to his horrified pal, who asked if he was ok, before
noticing that there was someone standing just behind his friend. He darted towards
his friend in an effort to protect him from whoever was behind him. Just before
he reached his friend, the man behind his friend lifted his head and looked at
him. According the man the figure that had been standing behind his friend looked
exactly like his friend who had been begging him to leave. When he turned to look
at his “real” friend, he was not there. The man then says he bolted and headed
for the vehicle. As he raced up to the car he noticed handprints in the dust on
the car. The man said that as he climbed into the safety of the car, he realized
his friend was dead in the back seat. |
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First
Burial at Martha's Chapel
Photo courtesy Dana
Goolsby, October 2010 |
Witnesses report
large handprints being left on their vehicles.
Some witnesses claim the
handprints appear to be where someone or something unseen grabbed at their car.
Almost 100 car owners who found prints on their vehicle have reported their encounters.
Reports of mysterious red lights seen along “Demons Rd” are also often made. Those
who claim to have seen the lights say that the number of lights that appear depends
on the number of people traveling in the vehicle. One group of four said that
as they were leaving the road, at approximately 4 a.m., four red lights appeared
out of nowhere. Suddenly four handprints appeared on the hood of the truck, according
to one of the men in the group.
Some say that a cult, believed to be that
of the KKK, has been spotted down “Demons Rd” holding ritual ceremonies. It has
even been said that members of the cult have been seen drinking blood from a sacrificed
dog.
Others allege that they were visited by apparitions of a young child,
with glowing eyes, riding a tricycle while on the road. A strange, faceless, threatening
creature is also said to appear to some people. Whatever form the spirits choose
to reveal themselves in, the spirits have never been reported as anything less
than hostile, and terrifying, or at least frightening. |
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