For generations, people have been looking for its location.
Some claim it is located in the woods off Mount Misery Road in the West Hills
area of Huntington. Other stories place her grave in Stony Brook, Head of the
Harbor and Mt. Sinai. Who is Mary though?
The legend of Mary herself, who doesn’t seem to have a last
name, has changed several times over the years. One story claims that Mary
murdered her two children and her husband, and because of doing this dreadful
deed, she cannot rest peacefully in her grave. It is said that her tombstone
has her birth date but no death date, and the location of her gravesite is a
center for strange happenings. Supposedly, if the tombstone is found and you
shine a flashlight on it at night, the face of Mary appears.
Another story claims that Mary became possessed by an evil
spirit. She was a lonely girl who was the daughter of a wealthy landowner. She
didn’t have any friends because the family lived some distance from town, so
she kept herself occupied with her animal friends. Her father built her a stone
clubhouse on their property, where she played with the animals. As the story
goes, it was at the clubhouse where she became possessed. She started
mutilating the animals she had loved, and then set out to kill her brother and
father with an ax. As time went on, the townsfolk wondered where the landowner
was. When people came to the house to check on him, they found Mary sleeping in
bed next to her dead father, who was covered in blood. Mary was hung by the
townspeople in a nearby tree. This tree is said to still exist, although no one
seems to know where. Burn marks from the rope supposedly can be seen on the
tree branch, and the tree itself appears to be dead all year long. It is
rumored that her stone clubhouse exists somewhere in Stony Brook on private
property.
In the 1960’s and 1970’s there was another story surrounding
the Stony Brook location where the grave was said to be located. Young men were
considered brave if they went up to the haunted gravesite and urinated on it.
However, rumor has it that whoever did
so would get into a car crash on his way home, trying to avoid hitting a
ghostly girl wearing a white dress.
There is also said to be a stone clubhouse located somewhere
in Head of the Harbor. This particular story states that the father was
abusive, and would abuse Mary at the site of the stone clubhouse he made for
her. Not being able to bear it any longer, Mary took her own life by hanging
herself in a tree. Her body was buried somewhere nearby, and her gravesite
contains an angelic statue. The statue appears to be crying, and some believe
it is Mary crying for other abused girls that she cannot protect.
Finally, there is the story of Mary’s grave being on the old
Chandler estate in Mt. Sinai. When Mrs. Chandler converted her house to a
boarding house, a girl named Mary came to stay. Supposedly, she had been a
patient at Kings Park Psychiatric Center. Whether Mrs. Chandler was aware of
this or not is unknown, but as the story goes, Mary disappeared suddenly and
Mrs. Chandler was concerned about her whereabouts. The rent had not been paid,
yet her room looked still lived in. At night, the lights were said to go on in
her room when nobody was there, and strange noises could be heard. Mrs.
Chandler was quite worried, but never did she see Mary again.
Have you searched for Mary's grave?
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