Green Lady

In Burlington, Connecticut, the Green Lady Cemetery is haunted by the ghost of a woman who drowned in the nearby swamp.

Green Lady

According to local legend, a woman named Elizabeth lived with her husband in the house next to the cemetery.

During a particularly bad winter the husband left their house to get food and supplies. Unfortunately the storm was so bad that he was delayed for a few hours.

Meanwhile Elizabeth had grown concerned and had taken it upon herself to venture out into the storm and find her husband.

She got lost in the marshy woods and accidentally wandered into the swamp. She became trapped in the quicksand-like mud and slowly sank down, crying out for help.

Her husband was making his way back to the house, carrying a lantern to guide him, when he came upon his wife, sinking up to her neck in the marshy swamp.

For whatever reason, the husband refused to help her, no matter how much she pleaded with him. He simply watched as his wife sank deeper and deeper, ignoring her screams for help.

Eventually, the water rose above her head and Elizabeth drowned in the murky waters of the swamp.

Since then, witnesses have reported seeing the ghostly figure of a woman walking on the dirt road surrounded in green mist.

Green Lady

They say the haunted cemetery is home to Elizabeth’s ghost and that she has returned to haunt her husband until his death. Her ghost drove him insane as revenge for watching her die.

But she did not leave after the death of her husband. Many residents in the area have sighted her in the past thirty years.

A young couple taking pictures in the graveyard, saw a green mist over one of the graves. When they checked later, they found that this was the grave where Elizabeth was buried.

A group of teens driving through the haunted cemetery were surprised by a green mist that suddenly appeared in front of the car, and caused them to swerve and crash into a tree.

A mysterious light is often seen near the swamp. Those who have seen it describe it as a lamp or lantern that doesn’t move at all. It just remains motionless by the side of the swamp. Locals believe that this is a lantern held by the ghost of Elizabeth’s husband, coldly watching his wife drown.

A group of friends walking through the cemetery said they were chased out by a mysterious man holding a lantern.

If you drive by the cemetery, you can see the house next door and the Green Lady’s portrait can be seen through the window. Locals say that even though the old house is abandoned, the portrait is still lit, bathed in a weird green light.

Posted in Haunted Cemeteries on Jul 26th, 2008, 3:26 pm by scary for kids   
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15 Responses

  1. musical_person
    July 29th, 2008 | 2:06 am

    why’d she make them crash they didn’t watch her die

  2. alander97
    July 30th, 2008 | 9:55 am

    Angred spirits don’t care,They kill you for the fun of it.
    Same with demons except they are black smoke that has been burnt from just a regular six foot under ghost.Demons posses,angred spirits don’t.A ghost can be crossed-over,a demon has an excercism done on them and they are only temporialy gone.these pictures scare me to death.I hated the part about the muddy quicksand stuff I would have chocked myself instead of that horrible death.

  3. jazzygirl28
    December 14th, 2008 | 6:25 am

    Oh my gosh
    I wish I never opened this.
    The green lady popped up in my face
    and it made my heart jump…

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  5. scarystorylover
    December 22nd, 2008 | 2:22 pm

    i went to the cematery and i saw her

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  7. DemonsloveSins
    January 31st, 2009 | 1:24 am

    angered spirits will do any thing to satisfly them, just like Satan

  8. IloveSpooky
    February 22nd, 2009 | 5:02 pm

    CREEPY! I was a summer club thing adn we went to a castle and beside it was a swamp and my friend said Thats were the green lady is. Reading this makes me shiver.

  9. Dancing-babe
    April 5th, 2009 | 4:10 pm

    omg scarystorylover i went too but i didn’t see her but a greenish fog-like thing and i felt compelled to wander towards it….which would have been bad as it was hovering over a lake thank god my boyfriend stopped me!!!!

  10. misanthropic
    April 25th, 2009 | 4:44 am

    Dumb husband. Why didn’t he help her?

  11. Hoos
    June 18th, 2009 | 10:59 am

    For whatever reason, he chose not to help her. So, in punishment for watching her die, she made him insane and killed him.

  12. izzywizzylove
    March 28th, 2010 | 11:53 pm

    this is intresting to read ima send it to my friends to scare the heck out of em

  13. demonchick_13
    April 6th, 2010 | 9:33 pm

    wow i really want to see that. but knowing myself ill probably get killed :\

  14. lucy500
    April 18th, 2010 | 9:29 pm

    she will probably try to kill you by scaring the shed out of you like you can take out an ipod and play it by annoying her from scaring the shed out of you or turing on your tv or calling testing you friend or whatever like annoying not paying attention to her cause she just trying to scare the crap out of you for you can die i dont if that will really work

  15. ashleigh
    August 27th, 2010 | 6:10 pm

    because the photo is real (not) :L

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