Forest Dale Cemetery's Not-So-Ghostly Ghost
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Entrance to Forest Dale Cemetery Malden, Mass Photo by Find-a-Grave user (LMJ) |
The Forest Dale or Forestdale Cemetery in Malden, Massachusetts is picturesque tribute to the city’s former residents. Laid out in 1884 by Boston surveyor, F.R. Page, the cemetery was formally dedicated on Memorial Day of 1885. For many years, the cemetery was also adjacent to property operated by the county alms house and ‘Contagious Hospital’. It was one of the patients at this hospital that gave one passerby quite a fright back in 1915!
It was early in the morning when milk dealer, Isaac Cohen, passed by the cemetery on his route. What he saw, however, shocked him awake. Rushing through the cemetery at break-neck speed was a white figure. After rubbing his eyes and assuring himself that he wasn’t just seeing things, Cohen made a hasty decision to follow the fleeing figure.
As he caught up to the figure, he was probably pretty relieved to see that he hadn’t been chasing a ghost at all. Rather, he had caught up with 14 year old Ivan Clark. Clark was a patient at the nearby Contagious Hospital and had escaped out a second-story window around 3 am when a nurse woke him up to give him some medicine. Cohen turned the kid over to authorities, and he was returned to the hospital to continue treatment for his diphtheria.
Clark has to be commended for his extreme elusive action as he definitely didn’t want to be confined any longer to the hospital, which is completely understandable. However, I think if I was Cohen, I’d have much rather had a run-in with a ghost than a living person with a presumed highly contagious and potentially fatal disease!
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The Sunday Telegram (Clarksburg, WV) 4 July 1915 |
Source: http://theresashauntedhistoryofthetri-state.blogspot.com/2025/09/forest-dale-cemeterys-not-so-ghostly.html
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