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4 ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CEMETERY, MARIETTA
Local lore surrounds one burial plot in the St. James
Episcopal Cemetery — and it’s not the grave of
JonBenét Ramsey, a child beauty pageant queen from
Boulder, Colorado whose 1996 murder remains unsolved.
The decaying statue of Mary Meinert, located towards
the front of the cemetery, features a woman with flowing
hair holding two babies in her arms. The cemetery is
directly across the street from Marietta Middle School,
and Meinert’s statue has scared generations of middle
school students.
“All the legends are a bit different,” said Lindsey
Coleman, owner of the Ghosts of Marietta Tour. “Some
say if you go on Halloween night, some say it’s Friday the
13th, it just depends on the legend, but they always say if
you go around Mary Meinert’s statue and you say ‘Mary,
Mary, what happened to your babies?’ supposedly she
cries tears that are so real they’ll even gather on the bodice
of her dress.”
According to her obituary published in the Marietta
Daily Journal on May 26, 1898, she had just given birth to
twin girls four weeks before her death.
There is speculation as to how Mary and her babies
died. Coleman said some accounts have her dying in a fire
alongside her children, others say she died in childbirth,
and some say Meinert herself contracted a lung disease.
spooky stories
around Cobb
ABOVE: Mary Meinert’s monument in
St. James Episcopal Cemetery. The
statue is said to cry real tears if
children perform the correct ritual.
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