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Her Vacant Chair

Taunton, MA

The grave of three-year-old Pearl French is marked by a carved stone rocking chair, an unusually intimate Victorian-style memorial. Local stories later attached ghostly movement and other paranormal claims to the chair, but those remain folklore. Visit the cemetery respectfully during open hours.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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