Are Indian
burial grounds/mounds really ‘haunted’? Is there truth to these stories of
spirits inhabiting these areas, or is it just a figment of imagination that has
been passed down over the years and been reinforced by Hollywood? What’s that
you say? Hollywood would never embellish anything? Ha! Perhaps they are lumped
together with cemeteries in that regard. The only experience I have with any
kind of ‘burial mounds’ is on an old golf course long ago that has since fallen
victim to the developers looking to make a buck or two. On the 10th
hole, in the middle of the fairway, there were several of these mounds that
were quite prominent. Being young and impressionable at the time, my father took
delight I’m sure, and scared me with a story that the mounds were Indian burial
mounds and that the locals said they were haunted and guarded by Indian spirits
and you should never walk over them or you would be subjected to a curse from
the gods. I was always afraid to hit my ball near them. Over the years of
course, I knew that they weren’t really Indian burial mounds. I’ve played
thousands of different golf holes and forgotten most of them, but I’ll always
remember the one with the ‘burial mounds’.
