Mt. Zion/Dan's Run - Henryville

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Dan's Run - Daniel Guthrie was murdered and placed in a shallow grave near the corner of Pixley Knob Road and Cemetery Hill (Mountain Grove). Guthrie's body remained undetected for one year before being found, unearthed and reburied in nearby Mt. Zion Cemetery . The hole he was buried in is still open (about 4-feet deep) near the edge of the woods. Homes in the nearby area have experienced sightings of a young man with a large, handlebar bushy mustache, doors open and close by themselves, footsteps walking up and down hallways at night, footprints found outside bedroom windows, objects moving by themselves, and ghostly whispers. Also, a tape recorder left on Guthrie's gravestone in Mt. Zion later revealed a faint, haunting man's voice crying, "Help me, God help me, please help me..."

Mt. Zion cemetery - The green Lady - in the early 1900's a young woman was killed on Henryville blue lick road after a terrible car accident and buried in Mt. Zion cemetery on the same road. it is said that she roams the cemetery, with a green glow to her. she will jump on your car if its parked in the cemetery at night (said to be looking for a ride home) and the green goo will still be on your car until you wash it off.




Just went here tonight, and I'm still confused as to what happened there. We made the trip up there at dusk to make sure we could find both places, and it was no problem since as I suspected they were practically right next to each other. We got out of the car to walk around the cemetary and try to find Dan Guthrie's grave with no success. I also got out of the car at Dan's Run to try and find the shallow grave, but it was partially on private property. We headed back down the road to grab a bite to eat before going back, and my friend got a call from his nearby Aunt to stop by before we went.

After visiting for awhile with them, the subject of the cemetary and Daniel Guthrie came up. They told me that Dan Guthrie was just one victim in a string of murders in the Henryville area. They said he was not only buried once, but was also dug up again by his murderer and then burnt in a fire. They also confirmed that the creekbed beside the woods at the intersection I suspected Dan's Run to be at was correct. The only thing I found that didn't make sense from the description is the fact that people were seeing an old fashioned man with a handle bar mustache. Daniel Guthrie was murdered in the early 90's, and was a teenager. This made me much more anxious to investigate, and I was not disapointed.

Now night has fully fallen on the area, so we head back to the cemetary. We picked a bit of a crummy night to investigate as far as it being the day before Independence Day and people were already shooting off fireworks. I thought this might detour any paranormal activity, and it might have, but not completely. I took a handful of photos around the cemetary while we were there. After about 10 minutes my friend was getting anxious, asked for the flashlight and wanted to leave, and couldn't understand why. Finally he said "something is whispering to me." He told me at first he dismissed it as me talking, or possibly someone nearby playing a trick on him, which is why he asked for the flashlight to check around. Finally he realized it wasn't me or anyone else around he could see, and it whispered to him again something about "light" or "a light." I could tell he was pretty freaked out, so I said we could go. The photos didn't really show anything particularly interesting, nor did I see a green glowing lady around, but here are a couple pictures I took:





So as we drive back down the road, we hit the intersection and Dan's Run. I get out of the car, but my friend refused still being a bit freaked out. I start taking pictures from the road of the creek below, and after taking a couple pictures as I look into the flash of the next photo I see a transparent blue fog in the creek. I have never been more caught off guard in my life, I was frozen for a second and then just jumped back into the car and got out of there. Upon reviewing the picture, I don't see the blue fog, but just looking at it gives me chills. Here's the photo:



Was Daniel Guthrie trying to make his presense known to us? I don't know, but I am very anxious to go back and investigate more.

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Oh wow. That is pretty creepy.

Oh man, I wish you would have been able to catch that fog. That would have been pretty cool.

I hope you go there again soon. I'd like to know what else you find.

It's really cool that you found someone who knows a bit about the death of Daniel Guthrie. When you find people that know about the people mentioned in the stories that can really put credibility to the story.

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I'm thinking about going up there alone again tonight, since my friend I usually go with is at an Independence Day party, just to see if I can find the shallow hole where he was buried.

Yeah, it's a small town and they've been living there forever, it should've been common sense for me to go to them and ask about it. It kinda surprised me that it wasn't just some urban legend, and he was actually buried where I thought. I'm not sure how I'm going to feel if I do actually find that open shallow grave.

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Just went back here tonight with a few friends. We hit the cemetery first again, and didn't really have any strange occurences this time around. Although the crickets were so loud that even if someone was trying to whisper to us we probably we wouldn't be able to hear it. The Green Lady was a no show this time around again too.

So we go back to the intersection at Dan's Run, and I was really anxious to see whether or not I'd see that mist or could find that shallow grave. To avoid having my car just sitting on the side of the road, I ask my friend to take the wheel and just drive around for a few minutes and come back while a friend and I check out the creek. When they pull off we walk up to the over pass and shine the light down into the creek. After a couple seconds we hear a very low gutteral growl come from the woods, I turn to my friend and say "You hear that?" and he gives me a terrified look and responds "Yeah." The longer we stand there the louder the growl gets, and soon we decide something does not want us here. So we run back across the opposite side of the road and start walking along it in the direction the car went. As we walk the sound follows us along the woods on the opposite side. I thought about shining the light into the woods, but I quickly decided I don't want to aggrovate whatever the thing was anymore than I already had and I wasn't sure if I really wanted to know what it was. After making it past a section of the where there was a wide path that seperated two sides of the wooded area the sound stopped, but as we stared into the woods we saw a white glow that was there for a second and then gone. I looked around, and saw no cars and no light being shined from anywhere. We kept walking a little more and waited for the car to comeback to pick us up, which seemed like an eternity but in reality was probably only a few minutes. D**n, this place really seems to have something to it. I'm anxious to go back and check it out again, but I don't know if I'm prepared for it. Next time I'll probably take a few more people down there with me.

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Just went back again tonight, and had some more strange things happen. I didn't have many people with me so I couldn't have someone drive around. So we just stop the car on the small bridge that goes over the creek at Dan's Run for a couple minutes. I roll my window and just listen, and as I'm sitting there I see something out of the corner of my eye. A shadow against the road from my headlights of what appeared to be a man walking across the bridge appeared in my headlights, I quickly looked up and saw nothing, I then looked at my friend and asked "Did you see that?" and he said "That shadow that looked like a guy?" After so many occureneces here this really didnt' surprise me. I then decided to get out of the car and look around from the top of the bridge to see if I would hear that growl again. After about 30 seconds of standing there I hear a kind of muffled cough from in front of me, and then decided to get back in the car.

Then we drove up the road to Mt. Zion and I pull into the gravel parking lot. I listen for a second and decided I really didn't feel like going back in there, getting bitten to death by bugs again. So I go back down towards Dan's Run and as I'm driving I drive by this big black object that came right past my car. It was strange, but I'm not sure if it was paranormal or not, possibly could've been a big bird.

This is quickly becoming one of my favorite places, we're getting some kind activity just about everytime we're out there. I'm thinking about asking the guy whose big storage building that's right by the creek at Dan's Run for permission to be out there, since the only thing keeping me from really exploring that area more closely is the fact I'd be trespassing and it'd be very easy for me to get caught. Anyone have any tips for the best way to go about doing something like that?

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Wow...this place sounds really really interesting.

I would just contact the owner and tell him you've heard some stories about the place around the storage buildings being haunted and that you'd like to put this "myth" to rest.

Or you could make up some excuse about you writting a paper for school on local hauntings and you'd like to investigate the area to disprove (or prove) the haunting.

I've also heard of people contacting the local police departments and asking them for permission to be in places that are private property (Things like houses and what not. I'm not sure if this actually works or not because I've never had to ask for permission before).

Always be professional though. And tell the owner of the property that if he likes you could show him what you caught. And make sure you let them know how many people are coming and the times you will be out here.

Or you could always just rent a storage bin there. So that way you are not technically tresspassing on private property, lol.

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Well the storage building itself isn't haunted, as far as I know, the creekbed where Dan Guthrie's body was temporarily buried is where most of the activity takes place. I'm pretty sure the guy who owns the property uses the building like a barn, I just hesitate to call it that due to the fact that it doesn't really look like what comes to mind when I think of a barn.

I thought about making up something about school, but it's summer so I'm not sure how believable that excuse would be. Of course I could possibly say I'm taking a summer course at the local community college.

I'm not sure what kind of reaction I would get if I asked the person, since it is a small town and the murder only happened approx. 10 years ago, the subject might still be a bit touchy in some people's minds. Also if he says no, if I ever get caught I couldn't use the excuse that I didn't know I was trespassing.

I'm also not sure whether or not I really should go down there. I have a feeling that whatever is there really doesn't like me that much, especially that thing that was growling at me, and then followed me unitl I was a good distance away from the creek.