THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Stepney Cemetery has accumulated numerous ghost stories during its long history, with visitors reporting apparitions, mysterious lights, and unexplained sounds among the graves. The old burial ground is considered by some local paranormal enthusiasts to be one of the area's more active haunted locations.
The 1700s Stepney Cemetery (a.k.a. Birdsey’s Plain Cemetery or Beardsley Plain Cemetery) is haunted, according to witnesses who have seen apparitions and blobs of ectoplasm here. Some say it is the second home of the White Lady who lived in nearby Union Cemetery, or that it has its own similar ghost. Famed ghost hunter Ed Warren is buried here, near the graveyard’s southern border.