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Goodleburg Cemetery

Cemetery in New York state, US

Field	Value
name	Goodleburg Cemetery
image	Gbcemetery1.jpg
imagesize	260px
caption	Goodleburg Cemetery
established	1811
country	United States
location	South Wales, NY
coordinates
type	Not private
owner	Town of Wales, NY
size	1.5
graves
website
findagraveid	64673

Goodleburg Cemetery is a cemetery located in South Wales, New York. It is an old, inactive village lot whose use has been discontinued. Many of the original settlers of Wales and the surrounding areas are buried here.

History

Goodleberg Cemetery was an active cemetery from 1811 until 1927. The cemetery stood relatively peacefully until the late 1990s, when stories spread about ghost stories and ghastly apparitions. Various paranormal research organizations, intent on capturing the paranormal activities at Goodleberg paraded carloads of investigators from neighboring counties, intent on capturing evidence of the paranormal.

Folklore

A vandalized headstone at Goodleburg Cemetery

In recent years, it has been a site of frequent desecration.

Paranormal author Mason Winfield has written about this cemetery and its purported activity several times, but has also expressed regret to writing anything about it due to the spike in vandalism since then.

References

http://members.tripod.com/~wnyroots/index-wales-good-cem.html – Retrieved 12 October 2008
Kearns, Michelle ''The Ghostly Menace of Goodleberg Cemetery'', Buffalo News, 27 October 2007

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