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The Grave of XYZ

Deep River, CT

A tiny stone marked only 'XYZ' identifies the burial place of an unidentified bank robber killed during an 1899 attempted robbery. For decades, local lore said a mysterious woman dressed in black appeared at the grave every year around the anniversary of his death.

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

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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