Mouth Cemetery is one of the most talked about cemeteries in Muskegon county. But is it really haunted?
Mouth Cemetery is another one of those places you have to watch out for. Not because the place is filled with ghosts and lost souls waiting to take you to the grave with them, but because it’s a “legend creator.” It has all the spooky elements that cause wild and ghostly stories to explode out of it at an exponential rate. Mouth Cemetery is:
1. Small
2. Remote
3. Well Hidden
4. Surrounded by woods
5. Old!!
All of the above equal up to an abundance of ghost legend ingredients. Learn more about the cemetery in the book "Ghosts and Legend of Michigan's West Coast" by Amberrose Hammond. Check it out by clicking on the book picture above. We appreciate it.
Michigan's Otherside Emails
-Submitted April 2010
Two friends of mine who live in Whitehall and myself from Grand Haven go to Mouth quite a bit and have captured a few unexplainable photos and awesome evp's. But my comment is about the chair that is supposed to be cursed. It's not inside the cemetery. It’s on someone’s property before you even go down the two track to get to the cemetery on the other side of a field. There is a bench/chair at the back of the cemetery through the opening in the gate that you could mistake for the legendary "cursed chair", but sorry, that’s not it. You'll need to take a hike through some tall grass and thorny bushes to find what you’re looking for.
- Submitted June 2009
I finally went to Mouth cemetery to see what the hype was about. I must say the creepiness of the surroundings when alone, is a bit scary. I went alone on my first visit just to see if I could find it. Once there, I was on my cell phone (just in case something did happen!) While on the phone, the phone suddenly stopped working, even though the battery was fully charged. Then the thermometer inside the car dropped 10 degrees. I hauled butt out of there at that point. Now the phone problems could be due to the fact that it is back in the woods and same for the temperature change, so I'm not claiming anything paranormal happened. I went back the next day with someone and it wasn't nearly as creepy, just rather interesting. Although I did take a picture and there appears to be someone looking in at us from outside the gate. We were the only ones there. The other funny thing was that we purposely did not lock the car because no one was around. When we got back to the car, it was locked. Luckily we didn't leave the keys in it. Maybe it was just their way of thanking us for picking up the pop cans. People, please show some respect.
- Submitted October 2008
Let me just say, I do believe in ghosts, spirits, apparitions, etc. I have had plenty of personal experiences and seem to be sensitive to paranormal activity. Recently, I accompanied a group of people to Mouth Cemetery. Some of them had been there before but myself and a few others had not. Those that had been to the cemetery before were insistent that they had seen orbs and shadows. They showed us a chair and “not just any chair”.
The chair was a replacement for an old chair that had been in the same location but had broken. The legend behind the chair was that you would die one year from the day, hour and minute that you sat in it. Again, it was not the original chair, but they believed the new one was cursed as well. It has not been a year since I sat in the chair, but I highly doubt my eventual death will be in anyway related to that chair. The cemetery did NOT feel even the least bit "haunted,” and I did not see a thing. I believe the fear and hallucinations were created by people scaring themselves.
In short: you would need a good imagination to find this place to be haunted.
- *All cemeteries should be entered with respect. Leave them like you found them. Don’t liter, if you smoke, pocket your butts and for the love of every god, don’t vandalize anything or so help me, 10,000 demons will strike you down. If the cemetery has hours posted, respect that as well or find out how to get permission to be in there after hours. Many times a simple phone call to the right person will grant access into a cemetery after hours. If you can’t get access, enjoy the cemetery during open hours. We are firm believers that spirits don’t just come out at night. I think it’s just ghost hunters who only come out at night.