Stepp Cemetery at Morgan-Monroe State Forest
Martinsville, IN 46151
Numerous stories exist around this cemetery that all point to it being haunted. Some say an apparition of an old woman roams the grounds. Legends has it that her German Shepherd was hung from a tree by fraternity boys, as a result, she (being a witch) cursed the boys and cemetery. Another ghost of a mother also exists here. Her infant boy was killed by a car and over taken by her grief, she spent her remaining days at the cemetery talking and singing to her son by a tree. Some say they've heard soft cries and singing near the boy's grave.
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Got a few reading on our EMF reader, our spirit box picked up a few words nothing big. Didn't get any uneasy feelings while there. However 3 other groups of people showed up. It's just too popular of a place.
September 2025
| Would Recommend | Unsure |
I was 19 just going on a hike in the woods with my boyfriend and some other's when we got to the back I started panicking and was ready to go I started running and got 3 large scratches on my leg bleeding and everyone wanted me to stop because I was bleeding I refused to stop till we got back to the car . I had no clue till years later that this was a paranormal hot spot . I definitely was concerned with the 3 large scratches on my leg . I have never been back . We never made it to Steep Cemetery before I freaked out !
March 2025
| Would Recommend | No |
I went over night but nothing I saw nothing. Felt something evp recorded something but no actual manifestation of spirits . I am a demonologist, and paranormal investigator, but my findings where calm and collected
August 2024
| Would Recommend | Unsure |
October in 2015 me and 3 of my buddies decided to go to Stepp. None of us had ever been but had we all had a wild hair that night. I drove and when we got to the trail we thought we were supposed to take we drove past it so I (driving) stopped and made a 3 point turn in the middle of the road. When the head lights shined into the woods all 4 of us in the car saw a lady dressed in all white. I slammed through reverse and drive as quick as I could and by the time we got completely turned around the lady had somehow made it from the edge of the trees to the passenger door. She was reaching for the door handle by the time i was able to gun it out of there
June 2024
| Would Recommend | No |
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Do not go will be haunted the rest of your life beware
April 2024
| Would Recommend | Yes |
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
I was working 2nd shift and after work decided to squirrel hunt and parked my car at the gate that has a trail to the cemetery and this trail goes far beyond the cemetery into the forest where I was going to hunt but stopped at the cemetery and used my flashlight to look at some of the old graves and I sat down on the ground leaned back against a tombstone and fell asleep in an instant! I woke up when the sun hit my face through the trees. My shotgun was across my lap. I experienced nothing but a deep 6 hour sleep! That was in the late 1970's and before I knew the history of Stepp Cemetery. I have been back many times and it always felt different after I found out that it was supposed to be haunted. I do believe something is there, I have felt it however I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary. In reality, it may just be my imagination and I think there have been a lot more vandals there than actual ghosts but one thing is definite, I won't ever get caught sleeping there at night again. Something is there, I have felt it both during the day and after dark. It's a beautiful serene cemetery especially in the late fall and I hope visitors will respect it and the dead. DNR and Conservation Officers will not be happy if you're seen there after 11:00 PM - fair warning - they can be scarier than the ghost Lady in Black guarding Baby Lester's grave.
January 2021
| Would Recommend | Yes |
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
I visited Stepp Cemetery on 9/30/20 around 7pm. As this cemetery is been consecrated as Holy Ground, I had no qualms about being out there alone. I did have the sense of being watched, and heard many sounds like small animals running through the surrounding trees, my photos didn't reveal anything except what vandals have done to the stone marker at the front of the cemetery.
However, when I got back to my car, and drove about a mile and a half toward Bean Blossom Road, I saw a young man, dressed in a black, long sleeved dress shirt and black dress pants walking on the left side of the road. His hair was coal black and his skin was pale white. I didn't stop because I was alone. I couldn't help but think that this was highly unusual, considering he was walking in the middle of the forest.
October 2020
| Would Recommend | Yes |
6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
I went there years ago as a teenager and supposedly if you get to the top of the hill after counting the steps you will see your last name on a tombstone...I did as soon as I hit the top and then there was a stump that I set on after I seen it and freaked out ..then my idiot friends ended up taking a stone which I wasn't aware until we made it home ...I wonder if everything I am experiencing as an adult has to do with this somehow...makes your mind really wonder.wish I knew
September 2020
| Would Recommend | No |
2 out of 6 people found this review helpful
I just wrote a comment but I am so creeped out even thinking about Morgan Monroe state forest don't go there... The woman actually existed she was a witch and I'm sure she still there don't go there a lot of missing people in that state forest.. I don't live in this area anymore I'm just visiting but it still creeps me out and thank God I live in another state...
September 2020
| Would Recommend | No |
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
The which lived there in a decrypt and old house or should I say shaq..Went there when I was a child back in the sixties and I will never go back I will never step foot in Morgan Monroe state forest ever again. Not any time on the day especially Eve .. or early morn .or anytime NEVER AGAIN...??????
September 2020
| Would Recommend | No |
1 out of 4 people found this review helpful
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