Avon Cemetery, De Queen
Avon Cemetery in De Queen, Arkansas, is a purportedly haunted location where a mother's ghost is seen running through the cemetery searching for her baby, who drowned in the cemetery's well after the mother accidentally dropped the infant there while drawing water. Visitors have claimed that if you drop a rock into the well at night, you can hear the baby's cries. The cemetery is said to be haunted by the ghost of a mother and her baby. According to the legend, the mother was drawing water from the well when she accidentally dropped her baby into it, and the child drowned. The mother's spirit is believed to be seen running through the cemetery in search of her child, and the baby's crying can be heard from the well at night. The well is a central feature of the legend, and dropping a rock into it is said to elicit the sounds of the crying baby.