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string(156) "Grave of Mark Sandman. Mark Sandman was born on September 24, 1952 and died in Giardini del Principe, Palestrina, Italy due to Heart attack on July 3, 1999."
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string(174) "Grave of Bunk Johnson. Bunk Johnson was born on December 27, 1885 and died in 638 Franklin Street, New Iberia, Louisiana due to Lingering effects of a stroke on July 7, 1949."
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As the story goes, at 48 years old Mary E. Hart, as she was known in life, “just drops to the floor” one day at midnight. Believing her dead, her family had her buried at Evergreen Cemetery the very next day. However, one night her aunt has a terrible nightmare that Mary’s not actually dead. The aunt eventually convinces the family to exhume the body, and when they open the coffin, they find Mary’s nails bloodied from scratching and a petrified look on her face as if she died of asphyxiation. Legend has it that she may of just suffered a stroke when she fell to the floor, her family not realizing she was still alive. So now urban legend has it that Midnight Mary haunts Evergreen Cemetery and will curse anyone with certain death if they are found in the graveyard at midnight or caught desecrating her grave.
Fun Facts
While there is evidence that some people have been buried alive, there is absolutely no evidence that Mary Hart suffered this fate during the mid 1800s. But hey … who am I to pee on your corn flakes and ruin a perfectly good haunted grave.
There is no known photograph or drawing of Mary E. Hart.
Cemetery Information:
Final Resting Place:
Evergreen Cemetery
769 Ella T Grasso Blvd
New Haven, Connecticut, 06519
USA
North America
Map:
Map of Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut
Grave Location:
Section 50, Plot 4
Grave Location Description
As you enter the cemetery off Hwy 10, drive straight until the road ends and then turn left. Continue following this road through the cemetery and follow it around to the right until you come to Winthrop Avenue. Continue with the black metal fence on your left. Drive about 200 feet and look for “50” engraved on a stone on the curb. Park here and walk to the second row of memorials for the allegedly haunted gravestone of Midnight Mary.
best_know_for: Chang Bunker and Eng Bunker were Siamese-American conjoined twin brothers whose fame led to the term "Siamese twins" to become synonymous for conjoined twins in general. They were first pair of conjoined twins whose condition was well documented in medical records. Eng and Chang Bunker were connected at the chest by a five-inch-wide band of flesh, and performed as curiosities world-wide. After retiring from performing, they settled in Mount Airy, North Carolina, bought a farm, and took up farming. They became naturalized citizens, adopting the surname Bunker, and in April 1843 they married a pair of sisters, Adelaide and Sarah Yates. Chang Bunker died on January 17, 1874, from a cerebral blood clot and his brother Eng Bunker died three hours later.
Friederike Hauffe
popular name: Friederike Hauffe
date_of_death: August 25, 1829
age: 27
cause_of_death: Unknown - multiple health issues
claim_to_fame: The Odd and the Interesting
best_know_for: Friederike Hauffe was a German mystic and somnambulist. She suffered from convulsions, and fell into spontaneous trances. Frederike claimed to have communicated with spirits and experienced visions, and she was made famous by the physician Justinus Kerner who examined her at Weinsberg in 1826. Kerner recorded alleged instances of clairvoyance and prophetic dreams. She drew with tremendous speed perfect geometrical designs in the dark, used the divining rod with great skill, exhibited disturbances of a poltergeist character, and communicated extraordinary revelations from the spirit world.
Charlotte Bridgwood
popular name: Charlotte Bridgwood
date_of_death: August 20, 1929
age: 68
cause_of_death: Unknown
claim_to_fame: The Odd and the Interesting
best_know_for: Charlotte Bridgwood patented the first electrically powered windshield wiper in 1917, improving previous manually-operated wipers such as the one patented by Mary Anderson in 1905. However, her wiper used rollers rather than blades and did not catch on. She was also the mother of silent screen star Florence Lawrence (a.k.a The Biograph Girl) who followed her mother in inventing automotive accessories.
