Little witch of Pilot Knob

There's an urban legend of a little witch girl from Pilot Knob Cemetery in Marion, Kentucky. It's been spread throughout the internet, and appears in a lot of paranormal websites. So here is the legend:

In 1916, a woman named Mary Louise Ford was accused of witchcraft. She and her five year old daughter, Mary Ellen Ford, were feared so much by the townspeople that they took it upon themselves to execute both. Mother and daughter were burned at the stake. There was never a trial. According to legend, the mother's body vanished! The body of her daughter was buried in a steel coffin at the Pilot Knob Cemetery because everyone was afraid that she would return from the dead. They filled her grave in with concrete and then put gravel on top. Afterwards, they surrounded her grave with an iron fence made up of gleaming white crosses. 

It's believed the ghost of the girl paces around inside her grave at night. A child's footprints have been found left over her grave. Local people today fear the site and don't like talking about it. Often it's believed that anyone going near the grave will be pulled inside by the witch girl and disappear. People who've seen the ghost of the witch girl described her as blonde and wearing a long white dress with scorch marks at the hem. She pulls faces at people and tries to lure someone close. Some say there is a darker entity in the cemetery called The Watcher who follows people and is around simply because of the witch girl's energy.   

While this awful legend frightens local people (and those online too), I shall uncover if it's really true or not. There really is such a grave in Pilot Knob Cemetery of the child. Mary Ellen was the youngest of six children of parents James Andy Ford and Mary Rebecca Davis Ford. Only six weeks after her fifth birthday, on 31st May 1915, Mary Ellen died of peritonitis, an inflammation of the stomach. The legend claims the mother's body is "missing" but she's really buried at the same cemetery! She passed away in 1955. Neither mother and daughter were witches and nor were they burned at the stake. The real background is very sad but the shocking nature of the legend is disturbing. While there might be paranormal goings on in the cemetery, the story of the "little witch girl" is untrue. 

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