M.L. Bullock's Haunted Case Files: The Church Street Graveyard

On June 28, 2019 my fellow investigator Tori and I loaded up our equipment and headed to downtown Mobile, Alabama. Our destination was the Church Street Graveyard, the oldest cemetery in Mobile. There was an older cemetery on the same spot before the city purchased the property in 1820, before that it was called Campo Santo. Full disclosure here, I’d been to this location before. Last October (2018) actually with a Haunted Tour Group that included a stop by the Boyington Oak which is located just outside the cemetery. It was this location where a ghost box spit out my name, MONICA and AUTHOR. I’ll never forget that. 

Besides the many old and interesting markers in the Church Street Graveyard, there are many unmarked graves including those belonging to poor souls that could not afford the luxury of a grave marker. Or anyone to mourn them. We purposefully didn’t do much research before walking the property, as two sensitives, it was important that we made the walk without knowing too much about in in advance. 

At It was a beautiful day, warm and sunny. Nobody else was around, except one guy who had been sleeping in the cemetery. He exited the area as we arrived. We found rubbish around one of the graves and he was wearing a backpack. There were used needles, empty drink cans and other assorted garbage in a few places. And there was a tree that had fallen and been cut up on the far side of the cemetery that nobody had bothered to remove. I felt terrible for the poor souls that rested there.

Beside this terrible oversight, the Church Street Graveyard was beautiful, peaceful and quiet with the exception of two experiences. As we walked along the far right side of the property, near where the Masons and indigents were buried (which I discovered later), I “felt” a woman who was awake and not happy about our presence. She was buried with her husband and two children all of which she was trying to protect. I got the impression, from the candle stubs and other items around the area that not everyone was honoring the “stay out of the cemetery after dark” rule. I apologized for getting too close and we continued our walk. We took lots of pictures, did some EVP work but didn’t see or hear much besides one other entity, a female with a bad attitude. I felt her immediately as she pushed me away and later discovered that Tori and I successfully captured a voice on one of the audio files.
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Here’s the clip, if you would like to hear it. At :42 was when I walked into the lady. :50 is when she speaks. I'll tell you at the end of this post what I think she said. I don't want to influence your listening skills. 

Some notable residents of the Church Street Graveyard include Charles Boyington, Joe Cain and James Roper, the man who built Oakleigh Historic Home, the inspiration for Seven Sisters. It's a small area, only four acres but those that rest there have been there a long time. If you come to Mobile and decide to visit this historic location bring some beads for Joe Cain and lots of respect. They'll thank you for it. 

PS. I'm hearing, "I hate you," at the :50 mark. What did you hear?