Asbury Cemetery, in Calloway County, has long had a reputation for being haunted. The huge, old hemlock trees, and dark shadows, even on sunny days, just adds to the eerie feeling of the cemetery.
One day many years ago, a young man was walking home after a long day working in the fields. He decided, as he often did, to save time by taking a shortcut through the cemetery, no doubt lured by the prospect of a cool walk through the shady rows of tombstones on a hot, dusty summer afternoon. As he wove his way through the stones, he looked up to see a neighbor walking towards him. Not an unusual sight, as those were the days when most people walked whenever they went from place to place in their neighborhood.
As they drew nearer, the shy young man nodded his head, and murmured a "How-do?" as they drew abreast. As they passed the young man, slowed, as he realized the lady he just saw had been buried just a week or so before. He had even been to her funeral! He glanced back, but the woman was no where to be seen. He hurried through the cemetery, and on home, where he burst into his house, and shakily announced, "Don't ever bury me at Asbury Cemetery. That place is haunted!"
