THE STORY
Reported Haunting
Sunnyside Cemetery is associated with the ghost of a woman identified in local accounts as Bessie M., whose spirit is said to linger among the graves. Visitors have reported apparitions and other unexplained activity within the historic cemetery.
A woman named Bessie M. Baxter was struck by an oncoming car and thought to be laid to rest here (though it was discovered that she was buried at an adjacent Sunnyside Cemetery). Still, people claim to have seen her in a white wedding dress wandering among the graves.