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University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1985
Page 16
Ghostly tales haunt town's graveyard
Terry Burkart/KANSAM
STULL — The old abandoned church and graveyard at Stull Cemetery are an attraction for some curious KU students. Rumors abound about the cemetery being haunted, but several of the town's residents deny the rumor.
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
STULL — It's sunset at Emmanuel Hill. Tombons reflect the dying rays of the sun, and a gnarled tree is silhouetted against the burning ski
Some say this graveyard is haunted.
For years, ghostly tales about the graveyard, dwarfed by the shadowy remains of an abandoned church, have lured visitors — mostly KU students — to this German community of about 30 residents.
In the town, halfway between Lawrence and Topeka, houses are scattered on either side of Douglas County Highway 442. A steady stream of traffic rushes through, but
In Stull, questions about the cemetery are as common as directions to the nearest gas station.
Mina Bidinger, owner of Stull Garage, the only public building in town other than a church, leaned on it and pointed at a house overlooking the street.
"The Stull sisters would know," she said.
Evelyn and Zella Stull, granddaughters of one of the town's founders, said the graveyard was not haunted. But they said students who visited the cemetery late at night made enough noise to wake the dead.
"We don't drink or smoke," Zella Stull said. "Maybe we'd act that way if we did. I guess we're just old fuddy-duddies."
On several occasions, the sisters said, they have called the sheriff when cemetery parties got out of hand.
REX JOHNSON. Douglas County sheriff, said the cemetery was vandalized occasionally. He said 200 to 300 students mobbed the cemetery a couple of years ago on Halloween, few tombstones were knocked over
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The years have erased the inscriptions on many of the markers, but some can be traced back to the 1650s. Most of the headstones bear inscriptions that mark the graves of children who died from diphtheria or whooping cough.
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Graffiti mar its interior, and the words DEVO and JESUS WAS AN SAE, conflict with satanical symbols carved on the walls. Whatever lurks in the church satisfies its thirst with beer — not blood — because the remains of six-packs litter the grounds.
She said one of the cloaked worshippers turned around, the sign of the devil — a star within a circle — overlapped on the floor of his chair.
"I've seen some strange things there around dusk," said Sue Barrens, Kansas City. Mo. senior. "I saw a couple of people jumping and chanting around a little bonfire."
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Not wanting to join the party, Barnes quickly disneared.
But Ernest Hildenbrand, one of the cemetery directors, said the ghost stories were a "bunch of hooey"
Leo Bidinger, another resident, said he was reared in Stull and attended Halloween parties in the church as a child.
"Big kids played a lot of tricks on us," he said. "But I've been up there and I isn't seen no ghost."
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