The Ghost of Col. Fielding Hurst and the Blood Stain from Hell
The title of this post sounds like a bad Harry Potter novel. I just love running across posts like the following. It just goes to show how whacked out some of the stories about Col. Hurst have become in the time since his passing. Lots of these stories involve Fielding being murdered in the Hurst Mansion. This one from the shadowlands.com is especially entertaining, the bloodspot from hell. (Fielding died broke in M. Gilead of old age. He has already sold the Purdy property and had not lived there in some time at the time of his death. Boring, but true.)
Purdy, TN. Old Purdy Cemetery
Purdy is a small community in McNairy County, in the southern part of West Tn. It’s is located between Selmer and Adamsville. I have been to, and taken pictures of the cemetery. The oldest grave there is around the 1840s. I have also been there at night, several nights, with my grandmother. Once we talked to one of her good friends that grew up in Purdy. People say you can go there at night and hear sounds of old Confederate soliders. Also, many people have witnessed the ghosts of slaves that were forced to bury the dead. Many locals don’t go there, because they are affraid of the cemetery. However, everytime I go back to visit, I make sure I go to the cemetery. The original iron fences are still there, and the grave markers are still standing. Most of them anyway. To get to the cemetery you have to go down an old dirt road, which is about a mile long. I have heard things there. Sounds like little children playing. Once my grandfather’s friend saw a man, woman, and child riding in a horse pulled wagon. They had on old cloths that looked to be from the 1800s. He was clearing some trees from the road when he saw them. All of his machines went dead, and they didn’t start working again till the wagon was out of sight. There is also a house across from the cemetery that is believed to be haunted. It’s said that a Union general living there when the Union army came into Tn. He was also said to be a evil man. One night after the battle of Shiolh, he was shot by Confederate supporter at the top of the stairs on the second floor. People say that his blood has stained the floor in the spot he died in, and everytime someone cleans it up, it comes back a few days later. If your every in McNairy County, ask someone where Purdy is. I don’t know what the name of all the roads to get there is, but it’s not that hard of a place to find.
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