Greenwood Cemetery in Decatur, Illinois is known for being haunted by the ghosts of Civil War soldiers and a tragic bride, with reports of phantom soldiers, disembodied wailing, and moving lights. The most haunted area is the Civil War section, where soldiers died from yellow fever and were buried hastily, leading to sightings of apparitions and rapid-moving lights. The Greenwood Bride is the spirit of a young woman who committed suicide after her bootlegger lover was murdered, and is seen searching for him, sometimes wearing her wedding dress. During the Civil War, troop trains brought Confederate prisoners with yellow fever to Decatur. Some died, and their bodies were quickly transported to a mass, unmarked grave on the side of a hill near the cemetery. Visitors have reported seeing confused soldiers in tattered uniforms, a symbol of their hasty, possibly incomplete, burial. Phantom lights, possibly the lost soldiers searching for their remains, have been seen moving through the graves at rapid speeds. A young woman eloped with a bootlegger. When her parents discovered the groom had been killed in a bad deal, she drowned herself in the Sangamon River. She is sometimes seen as an apparition in her wedding gown, forever looking for her lost love within the cemetery grounds. Unexplained wailing sounds have been reported in the areas where the soldiers are buried, adding to the cemetery's unsettling atmosphere. The Civil War section is considered the most haunted part of Greenwood Cemetery.