{"id":2436,"date":"2012-09-20T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/to-the-haunted-cemetery.html"},"modified":"2012-09-20T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T21:33:00","slug":"to-the-haunted-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/to-the-haunted-cemetery.html","title":{"rendered":"To the haunted cemetery!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>According to haunted Ohio lore, there is a small, largely forgotten cemetery just south of Delaware,\u00a0accessible\u00a0from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stratfordecologicalcenter.org\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stratford Ecological Center<\/a>. \u00a0The fellow who wrote a bit about it for some haunted cemetery fan site suggested that strange things happen at this\u00a0forlorn\u00a0corner of the county, which abounds in all manner of haunted airs. <\/p>\n<p>Well the family and I, seizing upon a day off due to the annual Little Brown Jug, decided to have a go at finding this little gateway to the netherworld. \u00a0We arrived late, alas, and this only gave us an hour to go through quite a bit of winding trails through the woods. \u00a0This wasn\u2019t aided by the fact that map reading-wise we are a family of\u00a0amateurs. \u00a0So it was almost 20 minutes into our journey before we figured out which way to go (despite the presence of signs pointing the way). \u00a0Just when we came to the fork in the trail that led down cemetery trail (maybe it\u2019s not so forgotten), we had to turn back as it was getting near closing time. \u00a0Oh we\u2019ll save the rest for another day, but knowing how way leads to way, at least in our crazy family, who knows when we\u2019ll be back! \u00a0Hopefully soon, or even in October, that witching month. \u00a0We\u2019ll see. \u00a0We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-l4LR4hgCiFw\/UFvCoGAelaI\/AAAAAAAABkY\/C6soCBc0p9A\/s1600\/Boys+at+stratford+ecological+2012.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-l4LR4hgCiFw\/UFvCoGAelaI\/AAAAAAAABkY\/C6soCBc0p9A\/s400\/Boys+at+stratford+ecological+2012.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">The boys listening to our youngest explain which direction we need to go<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2Mzxy4cmPNs\/UFvCtGtVX2I\/AAAAAAAABkg\/wC_sG2Sj9Wo\/s1600\/stratford+ecological+center+2012+edited.bmp\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2Mzxy4cmPNs\/UFvCtGtVX2I\/AAAAAAAABkg\/wC_sG2Sj9Wo\/s400\/stratford+ecological+center+2012+edited.bmp\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">The woods as they looked in the late afternoon\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--T15mjkS2fw\/UFvDNHzQ27I\/AAAAAAAABko\/DFvlaHStAW0\/s1600\/stratford+ecological+center+black+and+white.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--T15mjkS2fw\/UFvDNHzQ27I\/AAAAAAAABko\/DFvlaHStAW0\/s400\/stratford+ecological+center+black+and+white.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">The woods as they <i>felt <\/i>knowing that time was ticking and it was getting late<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to haunted Ohio lore, there is a small, largely forgotten cemetery just south of Delaware,\u00a0accessible\u00a0from the Stratford Ecological Center. \u00a0The fellow who wrote a bit about it for some haunted cemetery fan site suggested that strange things happen at this\u00a0forlorn\u00a0corner of the county, which abounds in all manner of haunted airs. 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