The Glowing Tombstone LbNA #53460 (ARCHIVED)

The Legend of the Glowing Tombstone: Not really much of a legend, I thought that sounded neat though! So anyway, when I was growing up in Byron Center, Michigan I lived close to Winegar Cemetery. I used to love to ride my bike there, and walk around the tombstones, reading the names and dates, and inscriptions. I've always thought that cemeteries were quiet, peaceful places. This particular cemetery is small as cemeteries go, but it did have something that most don't have. It was rather well known, (among local high schoolers) as the cemetery with the glowing gravestone.
The cemetery is quite far off the road, but when I was young you could clearly see it from the road. It's situated on a hill. If you stood on the road outside the cemetery at night, or even drove slowly past, you could see one of the gravestone's glowing. It glowed every night, all year long. I wish I could tell you a really cool story to go along with this, but as far as I know there wasn't one. I heard that a few daring people went up into the cemetery at night, to see if they could find out which tombstone it was, but I wasn't one of those brave souls. I don't think you could actually see the glow if you weren't standing a ways away, like on the road. Word of mouth spread, and people would come from quite a ways away to see it at night. Eventually, some trees were planted between the road and the cemetery, so you can no longer see the cemetery from the road. I suspect the trees were planted on purpose, to stop people from coming to see (usually but not always teenagers) the glowing tombstone. I think it's still up there, glowing......
If you dare.... Winegar Cemetery is on Homerich Avenue, between 92nd St and 100th St., but closer to 92nd. Homerich is about 1.5 miles west of Byron Center Avenue. As I said, you really can't see the cemetery any more from the road, but when you come to the white fences you're there. The driveway goes up a hill, there's a black entrance gate that you'll pass through.
Park at the water pump, your quest starts there. Walk south until you come to the round Mother. Stand in front of the round Mother, and look to the southeast, you'll see where the Adams family is buried. There is a very scared tree there, in fact I think it's petrified! Starting by the Adams family, walk east until you find a tombstone that will remind you of a big purple dinosaur. Keep going east, crossing the road. Count tomestone rows now, in the 6th row (from the road) you'll find something young between 2 trees. You're almost there! Standing by the southern tree (of the 2 trees) walk east until you come by the fence that surrounds the cemetery. There's a small rock sitting there, and “The Glowing Tombstone” should be sitting somewhere close by....
If you dare...... go at night, let me know if you see the glow.......