Brown Springs
Bachelor Grove is well known as a former mob dumping ground. Brown Springs in Thackerville, Oklahoma is also known for its body dumping past. Nestled in a low area near Chickasaw Smoke Shoppe, Brown Springs flows in to a nearby lagoon. It's neighbor is a cemetery founded in the 19th Century.
Over the last couple of decades, bodies have been discovered in the springs. These people met violent deaths in Dallas and then were taken to their final resting place in Brown Springs. Several were found in the 1970s. Then, one in 1989. One of the last ones found was a woman from Gainesville. In 1997, she was found in the springs on top of her car.
Some visitors to Brown Springs have been pulled to particular grave sites. Trees bleed. There have been sightings of a little girl standing next to a headstone marked "Butch".
For more information and photos , visit http://www.oklahomahistory.net/brownspr.html.
Over the last couple of decades, bodies have been discovered in the springs. These people met violent deaths in Dallas and then were taken to their final resting place in Brown Springs. Several were found in the 1970s. Then, one in 1989. One of the last ones found was a woman from Gainesville. In 1997, she was found in the springs on top of her car.
Some visitors to Brown Springs have been pulled to particular grave sites. Trees bleed. There have been sightings of a little girl standing next to a headstone marked "Butch".
For more information and photos , visit http://www.oklahomahistory.net/brownspr.html.
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The cemetery began with a tribe of American Indians, I have reason to believe Creek. The chief had teenaged twin daughters. He had picked husbands for them but the girls did not agree with his choice. He told them if they could dance from sun down to sun up, they could marry the men of their choosing. The chief did not know the girls both had heart defects, and both died on the spot shortly before sun up. They were buried where they fell in the Creek tradition, marked with identical cedar/juniper trees, with a rock wall placed around them to bind them for eternity. This story was passed down through generations of my family. A tornado in the early 70s uprooted the trees and took down part of the rock wall.
Other early residents then began to bury their own in the same area. I too believe the history of this place is worth preserving.
The cemetery began with a tribe of American Indians, I have reason to believe Creek. The chief had teenaged twin daughters. He had picked husbands for them but the girls did not agree with his choice. He told them if they could dance from sun down to sun up, they could marry the men of their choosing. The chief did not know the girls both had heart defects, and both died on the spot shortly before sun up. They were buried where they fell in the Creek tradition, marked with identical cedar/juniper trees, with a rock wall placed around them to bind them for eternity. This story was passed down through generations of my family. A tornado in the early 70s uprooted the trees and took down part of the rock wall.
Other early residents then began to bury their own in the same area. I too believe the history of this place is worth preserving.