Black Aggie

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first started small, the first being the easiest to confirm. It was said that as the sun set on the statue, shadows overtook its face and left the shroud surrounding it completely black. The figure that was left sitting at the grave looked solemn as if death itself were waiting for those brave enough to venture past the thick bushes surrounding the monument, ready to take their souls to whatever world awaited them. And as curious sightseers were drawn to the graveyard, another story was heard amid hushed and terrified whispers. So sit back and enjoy the legend of Black Aggie.

When Felix Agnus put up the life-sized shrouded bronze statue of a grieving angel, seated on a pedestal, in the Agnus family plot in the Druid Ridge Cemetery, he had no idea what he had started. The statue was a rather eerie figure by day, frozen in a moment of grief and terrible pain. At night, the figure was almost unbelievably creepy; the shroud over its head obscuring the face until you were up close ...

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