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- As the historic cemetery began running out of room in 2007, officials from the city of Huntsville decided to raze the play area to make room for more burials. Yet the locals were so outraged at the loss of their playground that a new playground was built, bringing the site back from the dead, so to speak.
www.atlasobscura.com/places/dead-children-s-playground-2Dead Children's Playground – Huntsville, Alabama - Atlas Obscura
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Oct 8, 2020 · According to legend, many children who died in Huntsville during the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic are buried in Maple Hill plots adjoining the playground. The spirits of those children, some say,...
Oct 16, 2023 · Some say the children who died of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that were buried in Maple Hill Cemetery come out at night to play at the playground. Others think the cause of paranormal activity is a series of child abductions that happened in Huntsville during the 1960s.
Feb 16, 2021 · The ‘Dead Children’s Playground’ is located in Huntsville’s Maple Hill Cemetery, Alabama. This urban legend is about how many children lost their lives in Huntsville, during the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918. Most of them were buried in Maple Hill, alongside a playground.
The Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Alabama contains a playground which was initially intended to be a place for children to go while their parents visited graves of loved ones, but which has been the locus for many stories of hauntings leading to its being dubbed “Dead Children’s Playground.”
Oct 11, 2020 · Tucked away behind the historic Maple Hill Cemetery, you’ll find a depression in a natural alcove. Nestled at the bottom of the rocky hillside, is a playground. It’s not an overly impressive park, but it is pretty in the daylight and surrounded by shady beech trees.
The cemetery playground is now referred to as ‘The Dead Children’s Playground’ by locals, and it is considered to be one of Alabama’s most haunted locations. Visitors report orbs, apparitions of children who died in Huntsville’s 1918 flu epidemic, and swings that move without being touched.
