The Cemetery Where Nobody Stays Buried: Nashville City Cemetery (Tennessee)

Haunted American History · Aug 20, 2026 · 20m

Nashville City Cemetery holds roughly 22,000 people—and apparently Nashville has never been particularly good at leaving them where they were buried. Civil War soldiers were dug up and moved. President James K. Polk passed through on his way to multiple graves. An epidemic vault filled with bodies was deliberately burned. And in 2010, construction workers accidentally uncovered the remains of the man Andrew Jackson shot in a duel and sent him there too. But the cemetery's most famous legend centered on a massive river boulder said to mark the grave of a heartbroken woman who killed herself…