Expedition Team: Dave Miller
Date: February 6, 2024
Reputed to be one of the most haunted locations in Central Ohio, this cemetery is also known as the “London-Darbydale Cemetery” and the “Woolyburger Cemetery”. The entrance to the cemetery is creepy. I parked on the side of the road just off state route 665 a mile west of Darbydale. I walked two hundred yards on a path through a tunnel of trees and came to a short fence. Beginning on the bottom of a hill and ascending to the top were old tombstones on each side. This narrow hillside cemetery was surrounded by thick trees with the Big Darby Creek downhill to the west. Very quiet, very creepy and no houses anywhere nearby. The oldest gravestone is from 1811 with most of the people buried there is local pioneers. Lots of strange tales surrounds this cemetery. First, Wooly Booger is the name of a Bigfoot like creature who may live in the nearby woods. It is believed this is where the name Woolyburger may have come from. Ghost legends associated with the cemetery include the “Little Girl in White”, a young girl murdered in a pond behind the cemetery who is seen walking through the gravestones. People visiting the cemetery at night have seen dark robed figures conducting rituals who then run off in the woods. Two murders, one in 1957 of a woman’s body, and again in 1979 of a man’s body in the pond behind the cemetery, add to speculation that their ghosts haunt this isolated cemetery. All I can say is that this remote, secluded cemetery is unsettling. From atop the hill I could see my truck through the tunnel of trees, and it looked like a day’s walk to get there safely. I took many photos but saw no apparitions on this day.
