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Merchant Ball

Marion, OH

The Merchant family grave at Marion Cemetery is topped by a roughly 5,200-pound granite sphere that has slowly rotated on its pedestal over the decades. No definitive supernatural explanation is needed for the movement, but the visibly shifting stone has become a longstanding cemetery mystery; visit respectfully during cemetery hours.

Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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