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Moon Point Cemetery – Streator, IL
By Michael Kleen
Moon Point Cemetery is an old graveyard located just south of Streator in Livingston County. Like other rural graveyards, Moon Point became an object of folklore in the late 1960s and ‘70s when local teens, looking for a place to ‘hang out’ after dark, picked this isolated location to drink, spin yarns, and play pranks on one another.
According to the History of Livingston County, Illinois (1878), Moon’s Point got its name from Jacob Moon who, along with his daughter and three sons, was the first to settle that particular area. Moon had fought in the War of 1812, and like other veterans of that war, moved west in search of cheap and abundant land. In 1830, the family settled along a winding creek near a wooded area in Illinois country that became known as Moon Point.
Moon Point Cemetery is located adjacent to Moon Creek, leading many to refer to the graveyard as Moon Creek Cemetery and it is listed as such in the Shadowlands Index of Haunted Places for Illinois. According to the Index, Moon Point is haunted by the ghost of a “hatchet lady.” This lady went insane, the story goes, after either her son or daughter died, and “each night of a full moon a spirit is seen running around the cemetery, tossing hatchets.”
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By Michael Kleen
Moon Point Cemetery is an old graveyard located just south of Streator in Livingston County. Like other rural graveyards, Moon Point became an object of folklore in the late 1960s and ‘70s when local teens, looking for a place to ‘hang out’ after dark, picked this isolated location to drink, spin yarns, and play pranks on one another.
According to the History of Livingston County, Illinois (1878), Moon’s Point got its name from Jacob Moon who, along with his daughter and three sons, was the first to settle that particular area. Moon had fought in the War of 1812, and like other veterans of that war, moved west in search of cheap and abundant land. In 1830, the family settled along a winding creek near a wooded area in Illinois country that became known as Moon Point.
Moon Point Cemetery is located adjacent to Moon Creek, leading many to refer to the graveyard as Moon Creek Cemetery and it is listed as such in the Shadowlands Index of Haunted Places for Illinois. According to the Index, Moon Point is haunted by the ghost of a “hatchet lady.” This lady went insane, the story goes, after either her son or daughter died, and “each night of a full moon a spirit is seen running around the cemetery, tossing hatchets.”
trueillinoishaunts.com/haunted-places/cemeteries/moon-point-cemetery/
